Introduction As the 21st century begins to unfold, globalization has become more than just another piece of fancy jargon of the business lexicon. In fact, globalization in the sense of firms from all over the world interacting and dealing with each other is expected to be the normal state of affairs for the majority of businesses [1]. In the industrial or business to business sector, this pattern may be even more pronounced because advanced communications and transportation technologies have potential for enabling the laws of comparative advantage to be realized to a very high degree . Thus, businesses that were used to dealing with other business from all over the country will now seek relationships from all over the world. Internet-based B2B E-commerce,has, of course, been at the vanguard of the expected revolution in the way global business will be conducted in the future and has led to uncounted predictions of a worldwide e-business revolution where virtually all industrial firms will be links together in a gigantic electronic global network [2,3]