What is e-business? How the Internet Transforms Organizations

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-11
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

What Is E-Business? provides a thorough and reflective introduction to business strategies for the Internet world. Based on fifteen yearsrs" experience teaching e-Business modules, Feng Li takes the reader through the vast range of topics and issues surrounding e-Business such as: bull; bull;New technologies and new business environment as the context for e-Business. bull;New strategies and business models developed in response to the internet and related technologies. bull;Organizational innovations necessary in order to implement and manage e-Business strategies. The book will also explore the transformation of various industries, including banking, the music industry, e-tailing, the telecoms industry, and e-public services; and emerging issues such as privacy, security, identity and presence in the cyber world, Internet marketing, legal, regulatory, social and political issues. Students and teachers alike will welcome this coherent, well-tested text, with its student-friendly case examples, questions and summaries. What Is E-Business? is supported by online lecturer and student resources, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/fengli.

Author Biography

Feng Li is Chair of E-Business Development at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Business School.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
What Is E-Business and Does It Still Matter?
The New E-Business Environment: The'ICT Revolution' and the Information Economy
The Network Economy: New Rules of the Game
How the Internet Redefines Organizational Boundaries: A Transaction Cost Analysis
Emerging Strategies and Business Models in the Network Economy
New Strategies for the Network Economy: Web Strategy, Business Unbundling and Virtual Organizations
Managing Disruptive Strategic Innovations in the New Economy
Strategic Reorientations in the Network Economy: From Products and Services to Solutions and Experiences
Emerging E-Business Models in the Network Economy
Organizational Innovations through Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)
Structural Innovations and Emerging Forms of Organizations
Process Innovations: Beyond Business Process Reengineering
New Work Organization and New Ways of Working: From Teleworking to Virtual Teams
Inter-Organizational Innovations through Inter-Organizational Information Systems
Conclusions and Emerging Issues
Developing a Launch-Ready E-Business Plan: Putting Theory into Practice (Assignment I)
Developing an Online E-Business Resource Portal: Who is Who in E-Business (Assignment 2)
Developing an E-Business Resource Portal and Online Forum: E-Business Wikipedia (Assignment 3)
Bibliography
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