PRELIMINARY STUDY: KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN COLLABORATIVE E-COMMERCE

Abstract

Recent technological advancement in internet speed has contributed to the growing number of collaborative e-commerce. Interaction between businesses cause intensive information sharing via knowledge transfer and collaboration. Thus, protection of information in e-commerce requires significant measures to adequately mitigate the impact to business, customer and society. This paper reviews the elements related to knowledge sharing in collaborative e-commerce. Intensive literature reviews are discussed and analyzed to discover issues and challenges face by e-commerce collaborators in sharing knowledge. The result shows trade secret is applicable in developing and maintaining trust partnership in collaborative e-commerce. Next future work is to measure knowledge sharing awareness among collaborators of e-commerce. There is an opportunity to investigate this paper further in the legal perspective