INFRASTRUCTURES FOR IMPLEMENTING VIRTUAL OFFICES & ORGANIZATIONS, AS FACILITATORS OF E-COMMERCE. (CASE STUDY: IRAN’S EXPORT)

New Information Technologies could facilitate different aspects of business and even could change human life style. Virtual Offices & Organizations are such new IT models which are well considered in last decades in developed countries and are flourishing in developing countries too. On the other hand, export as the main country’s economic criteria can be well influenced and facilitated by profiting virtual co-operations. It would be due to more comprehensive and better communications of business partners over cyber space. The infrastructures which are required to reach this goal, is the main purpose of this article. So, after briefly considering e-commerce, export(from traditional methods to Single Window portal systems), and virtual offices & organizations' concepts, virtual export communities are proposed to be used in Iran. Then we focus on Iran, as our developing country case study and categorize the most common and suitable infrastructures which can be used for virtual offices and organizations in this country.

Keywords:

Infrastructure , e-commerce , export , single window , virtual co-operation , virtual offices & organizations