@article{2594, author = {Noor Sembiring, Fahmi Rizani}, title = {E-business and its Competitive Advantages: A Case of a Motorcycle Industry in Indonesia}, journal = {Progress in Machines and Systems}, year = {2018}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.6025/pms/2018/7/2/72-81}, url = {http://www.dline.info/pms/fulltext/v7n2/pmsv7n2_3.pdf}, abstract = {This study seeks to determine and analyze the effect of e-business technologies on competitive advantage; Supply Chain Management integration and its collaboration with competitive advantage; integration and collaboration of e-business technologies in Supply Chain Management; and determining and analyzing the effect of e-business technologies on marketing performance. The study further seeks to determine and analyze: the effect of Supply Chain Management integration and collaboration on marketing performance; the effect of competitive advantage on marketing performance; and the collective effect of e-business technologies, Supply Chain Management integration and collaboration, and competitive advantage on marketing performance. The study uses a descriptive survey method with a sample size of 275 respondents, and the data analysis method used is Structural Equation Modeling. Findings indicate that e-business technologies have a positive and significant impact on competitive advantage. The integration of Supply Chain Management proved positive with a significant impact on competitive advantage. However, when seen partially, it turns out that e-business technologies effects competitive advantage but proves to have no effect on marketing performance. It also turns out that the most dominant collaboration of Supply Chain Management affects marketing performance.}, }