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Agents for electronic document supply: who are the likely players?

Dorothy Day, Geoff McKim, Douglas Orchard, April Purcell, David Wachsmann, Elisabeth Davenport

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 July 1993

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Abstract

The authors consider a group of commercial vendors who may be potential agents or players in electronic document supply. The group examines five potential providers of products/services: Dow Jones, Geac, OCLC, Faxon, RLG using Malone's 1989 comments on electronic markets as a framework, and using Porter's analytics to describe competition, and the role of technology in conferring advantage. The authors suggest that electronic document supply has produced an observable shift in exchange relationships between suppliers and buyers: the former are regrouping into partnerships which offer a confusing range of options to clients.

Citation

Day, D., McKim, G., Orchard, D., Purcell, A., Wachsmann, D. and Davenport, E. (1993), "Agents for electronic document supply: who are the likely players?", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 45 No. 7/8, pp. 189-199. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051323

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MCB UP Ltd

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