TY - JOUR N2 - E-commerce (EC) embraces opportunities for the business growth. However, it brings many challenges for the usage and implementation of this technology. These challenges have a significant impact on EC success. By analysing the drivers of business performance in EC from a firm's resource perspective, the author proposed three attributes of firm's human resources that are vital for business performance in EC-based business: managerial expertise, top management support and learning capability. Defining EC capability by firm's human resources it is expected that EC contributes significantly to the firms' business performance. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to find out the human resource attributes and its contribution in developing firm's EC capability which lead to better business performance. In effect, this research provides a checklist for managers and decision-makers of the organisations to utilise the human resources and redesign their strategies for the successful EC technology. Copyright © 2012 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. IS - 4 ID - scholars3184 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84862583365&doi=10.1504%2fIJBIR.2012.047272&partnerID=40&md5=942b293ae3988327c1aeb7b4dbe5aed0 JF - International Journal of Business Innovation and Research A1 - Jehangir, M. A1 - Dominic, P.D.D. A1 - Langove, N. A1 - Khan, A. VL - 6 Y1 - 2012/// N1 - cited By 10 SP - 379 TI - Managerial expertise, top management support and learning capacity impact on e-commerce capability and business performance AV - none EP - 390 SN - 17510252 PB - Inderscience Publishers ER -