Information and communication technologies (ICT), and in particular, the internet have created a new environment with different rules from traditional markets. For this reason, one of the research lines of the center focuses on detecting new organizational designs and new strategic opportunities – costs of change and lock-in strategies; growing performance of scale; the decrease of transaction costs; network externalities; dynamic prices; price policy and competitive strategy; Moreover, the center seeks to investigate the reconfiguration of sectors which is taking place, due primarily to the on-line impact on valuation systems and the distribution of information.

The impact of e-business on the activities of businesses and their suppliers: B2B. The internet and the ITCs have had a profound impact on relations between companies, as well as their internal functioning. The e-Business Center PwC&IESE studies how ITCs improve the efficiency of companies through market transparency; reduced transaction costs, increased supplier and client potential; expanded offer of products – and how they influence the supply chain, bringing about e-SCM. At the same time, new forms of relationships among companies have appeared – many-to-many, inter-company collaboration; price-fixing policies; dynamic prices; auctions; aggregation of prices and volumes.