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This paper studies the factors that impact how companies evaluate their e\u2010business projects.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>Paper starts with conceptualization of factors that affect the usage of e\u2010business evaluation. The empirical part is based on representative telephone survey (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>=755) among Slovenian companies in 2003. The causal model (LISREL) was applied on this data.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>Only about one tenth of the companies with sizeable e\u2010business projects employs some type of formal e\u2010business evaluation. One reason for that might be high satisfaction with e\u2010business. Among formal methods return on investments and cost benefit analysis dominate. 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