E-Commerce and V-Business Digital Enterprise in the Twenty-first Century

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-BusinessThe relativity of disruption: e-banking as a sustaining innovation in the banking industryAlbrecht Enders, Tawfik Jelassi, Andreas Koening and Harald HungenbergOnline delivered content: concept and business potentialClaudia Loebbecke and Claudio HuyskensBeyond the “eBay of blank”: next stage digital intermediation in electronic commerceAlina N. Chircu, Robert J. Kauffman and Bin WangE-business and the intermediary role of virtual communitiesP. K. Kannan, Ai-Mei Chang and Andrew B. WhinstonAssessing e-commerce qualityStuart J. Barnes, Eduard Cristóbal, Frederic Marimon and Richard VidgenThe value of Internet technologies and e-business solutions to microenterprises in Atlantic CanadaCharles H. Davis and Florin VladicaThe emergence of mobile commerceStuart J. Barnes and Eusebio ScornavaccaSection Two: Shaping the Virtual OrganizationDefining the virtual organizationLucas D. Introna and Dimitra PetrakakiInter-organisational innovations through inter-organisational information systemsFeng Li and Howard WilliamsStructure, strategy and success factors for the virtual organizationPeter Marshall, Judy McKay and Judy YoungWeb services as an enabler for virtual organisationsOliver Prokein, Titus Faupel and Daniel GilleCross-cultural knowledge management at virtual interfacesDavid J. Pauleen and Nigel HoldenAchieving advanced supply chain management through Internet-based electronic commerceRobert B. Johnston, Horace Cheok Mak and Sherah KurniaCollaboration and conflict in the electronic integration of supply networksAkos NagyRecognising the limits of virtual organizationsLucas D. Introna and Dimitra Petrakaki

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