  Since the strategies and plans for e-commerce development are different for
different industries and since the oil industry is one of the most important
industries in Iran, the scope of this research is thus confined to that of the
oil industry in Iran. The main aim of this study is to identify and classify
the different features of e-commerce development stages and features based on
the different business types present in companies in the oil industry in Iran.
In order to achieve both of these objectives a questionnaire was developed and
administered online. The questionnaire was distributed to forty representatives
working in different companies. The collected data was classified and sorted
and the priority e-commerce features was classified and displayed as triangles
for each business type. Furthermore, the experts were asked to indicate the
features which they implemented in their companies in order to know the most
used features in each stage. The results of this study give an insight to the
practice of e-commerce for Iranian oil companies and can be used to strategize
future directions for the industry in terms of e- commerce.
