@article{Montealegre:8168, recid = {8168}, author = {Montealegre, Fernando and Thompson, Sarahelen R. and Eales, James S.}, title = {An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Success of Food and Agribusiness E-Commerce Firms}, journal = {International Food and Agribusiness Management Review}, address = {2007}, number = {1030-2016-82496}, pages = {21}, year = {2007}, abstract = {E-commerce's value creation in agricultural and food markets will only occur to the extent that e-commerce firms exist throughout the supply chain. The problem is that e-commerce firms throughout the agricultural and food supply chain have faced a serious challenge in staying in business. Many have been forced to exit the market, and only a few have survived to develop into functional web-based businesses. The objective of this research study is to identify characteristics that are associated with successful e-commerce firms throughout the agricultural and food supply chain. Relevant e-commerce and agricultural e-commerce literature suggests several characteristics that influence the success for agricultural and food e-commerce firms. A limited-dependent variable technique, logistic regression, is used to relate websites' characteristics to their probability of survival.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/8168}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.8168}, }