Open e-Business Standard Development and Adoption: An Integrated Perspective Mu Xia {mxia@uiuc.edu } ∗ Kexin Zhao {kzhao@uiuc.edu } Michael J. Shaw {mjshaw@uiuc.edu } Department of Business Administration College of Business University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign February 23, 2003 Abstract The recent growth of e-Business has called for open standards for inter-organizational electronic information sharing. Many firms form consortia to facilitate the development and adoption of open * We would like to thank the Bradley L. Goldberg Endowment Research Assistant Award for supporting Kexin Zhao, as well as the Faculty Research Award for supporting Mu Xia, in summer 2003. Both grants were from the Office of Research, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1