Designing E-Business Systems. Markets Services and Networks

The 7th Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2008) was held on December 13 2008 in Paris. As a pre-ICIS workshop it provided an open forum for e-business - searchersandpractitionerstoshareresearch?ndings explorenovelideas discuss success stories and lessons learned and map out major challenges with regard to the design of e-business systems. The workshop theme was Designing e-Business Systems: Markets Services and Networks. With WeB 2008 having been located in Europe we wanted to highlight the increasing importance of the design science approach for infor- tionsystemsresearch which hasa longtraditionin theEuropeanIS community. We received a large number of submissions that addressed key issues speci?c to the workshop theme as well as e-business in general. Based on a rigorous review process a total of 31 full papers and 30 research-in-progresspapers were accepted for presentation at the workshop covering a broad range of technical empirical managerial and economic aspects of e-business. Of the 31 full papers 17 selected papers are contained in this volume of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. We hope that you will ?nd them an interesting read and that you will benet from the authors ?ne contributions.