2nd Edition

E-Commerce and V-Business

By Stuart Barnes Copyright 2007
    402 Pages
    by Routledge

    402 Pages
    by Routledge

    E-commerce and V-business examines the impact of the Internet and associated technologies on two related aspects of business: electronic commerce and virtual organization. Using a combination of recent theory and empirical evidence it demonstrates how forward thinking organizations are reaping considerable advantages from exciting new business models in these areas. Such models require radical rethinking of many aspects of traditional business. The book covers many of the critical and contemporary issues stemming from these important new developments. The collected papers in this book illustrate the wide variety of business opportunities afforded by e-commerce and virtual business. They describe and discuss the important issues that follow in the wake of an organization deciding to pursue consumers electronically and organize its operations virtually. It brings a good balance of theory and practical issues from different perspectives from different parts of the globe

    Section One: Recognizing the Potential of E-Business

    The relativity of disruption: e-banking as a sustaining innovation in the banking industry
    Albrecht Enders, Tawfik Jelassi, Andreas Koening and Harald Hungenberg

    Online delivered content: concept and business potential
    Claudia Loebbecke and Claudio Huyskens

    Beyond the “eBay of blank”: next stage digital intermediation in electronic commerce
    Alina N. Chircu, Robert J. Kauffman and Bin Wang

    E-business and the intermediary role of virtual communities
    P. K. Kannan, Ai-Mei Chang and Andrew B. Whinston

    Assessing e-commerce quality
    Stuart J. Barnes, Eduard Cristóbal, Frederic Marimon and Richard Vidgen

    The value of Internet technologies and e-business solutions to microenterprises in Atlantic Canada
    Charles H. Davis and Florin Vladica

    The emergence of mobile commerce
    Stuart J. Barnes and Eusebio Scornavacca


    Section Two: Shaping the Virtual Organization

    Defining the virtual organization
    Lucas D. Introna and Dimitra Petrakaki

    Inter-organisational innovations through inter-organisational information systems
    Feng Li and Howard Williams

    Structure, strategy and success factors for the virtual organization
    Peter Marshall, Judy McKay and Judy Young

    Web services as an enabler for virtual organisations
    Oliver Prokein, Titus Faupel and Daniel Gille

    Cross-cultural knowledge management at virtual interfaces
    David J. Pauleen and Nigel Holden

    Achieving advanced supply chain management through Internet-based electronic commerce
    Robert B. Johnston, Horace Cheok Mak and Sherah Kurnia

    Collaboration and conflict in the electronic integration of supply networks
    Akos Nagy

    Recognising the limits of virtual organizations
    Lucas D. Introna and Dimitra Petrakaki

    Biography

    Harry Stack Sullivan, HELEN SWICK PERRY, MARY LADD GAWEL, M.D. MABEL BLAKE COHEN