The adoption of EDI in Singapore was extremely successful due to the government’s control of IT developments
and by launching a major educational program exposing
the business community to EDI; there are similar success
stories from other nations [10,58]. Wang [67] used longitudinal data over a 16-year period to conclude that building
national ICT infrastructure and regulatory reform were
policy choices supporting IT adoption in Taiwan and other
newly industrialized economies. However, the potential
negative impact of transparent transactions on the complex
bargaining relationship between government entities and a
firm may actually discourage implementation of B2B commerce [9]. For example, Foster, Goodman and Tan [26]