Encyclopedia of E-business Development and Management in the Global Economy

Title\n......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
List of Contributors......Page 10
Contents......Page 16
Preface......Page 25
Acknowledgment......Page 37
About the Editor......Page 38
The Macroeconomic Impacts of E-Business on the Economy......Page 40
The Microeconomic Impacts of E-Business on the Economy......Page 51
The Power Laws of Enterprise 2.0......Page 62
Prices on the Internet......Page 75
Price Dispersion on the Internet: A Further Review and Discussion......Page 85
The Electronic Law of One Price (eLOP)......Page 94
Trust in Electronic Commerce: Definitions, Sources, and Effects......Page 104
Avatar Theory......Page 114
Relationship between Second Life and the U.S. Economy......Page 121
E-Business Adoption and its Impact on Performance......Page 134
B2B Website Benefits Realization in Australian SMEs......Page 145
Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Economy: An Empirical Analysis of E-Learning Adoption at Firm-Level......Page 154
Measuring the Quality of E-Business Services......Page 164
Measuring B2C Quality of Electronic Service: Towards a Common Consensus......Page 174
The Business Value of E-Collaboration: A Conceptual Framework......Page 183
A Model of the Antecedents and Consequences of E-Procurement......Page 194
Global Online Performance and Service Orientation......Page 205
Electronic Funds Transfer Systems and the Landscapes of Global Finance......Page 217
Intermediaries in E-Commerce: Value Creation Roles......Page 227
Identifying the Factors that Lead to a Successful Intermediary in Electronic Commerce......Page 237
A Framework for Identifying B2B E-Marketplace Strategies......Page 246
Electronic Logistics Marketplaces......Page 257
An Agent-Based B2C Electronic Market in the Next-Generation Internet......Page 266
Concept of an Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace......Page 278
Concept of Mobile Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace Safety Measures......Page 291
Time Constraints for Sellers in Electronic Markets......Page 304
Towards Efficient Trust Aware E-Marketplace Frameworks......Page 312
Assessing Relational E-Strategy Supporting Business Relationships......Page 323
Leading the Organizational Dynamics of E-Business Firms......Page 335
Adoption of e-Commerce by Canadian SMEs: Defining Organizational, Environmental and Innovation Characteristics......Page 344
E-Business Strategy in Franchising......Page 355
Exploring the Impact of Government Policies and Corporate Strategies on the Diffusion of Mobile Data Services: Case of Economies at Different Stages of Transition......Page 364
E-Business and the Resource-Based View: Towards a Research Agenda......Page 375
E-Commerce Business Models: Part 1......Page 386
E-Commerce Business Models: Part 2......Page 398
Creating Business Opportunities Based on Use of Electronic Knowledge Business Models......Page 409
Online Private Sales Clubs: An Emerging Model of Fashionable E-Commerce at Promotional Prices......Page 419
Business Model Renewal: The TIA-MARIA Framework for Enterprise Realignment......Page 427
Architectural Model for Supply Chain Orchestration and Management......Page 438
Ambient E-Service: A Bottom-up Collaborative Business Model......Page 447
Online Auctions: Pragmatic Survey and Market Analysis......Page 457
Configurators/Choiceboards: Uses, Benefits, and Analysis of Data......Page 467
E-CRM: A Key Issue in Today’s Competitive Environment......Page 475
Effective Virtual Project Management Using Multiple E-Leadership Styles......Page 484
On-Line Credit Card Payment Processing and Fraud Prevention for E-Business......Page 494
Virtual Stock Markets as a Research Tool in Marketing and Management......Page 513
Potential Benefits of Analyzing Website Analytic Data......Page 520
Teams of Leaders Concept (ToL) and E-Business Operations......Page 527
Customer Relationship Management (CRM): A Dichotomy of Online and Offline Activities......Page 543
Understanding E-Payment Services in Traditionally Cash-Based Economies: The Case of China......Page 553
Scenario Driven Decision Support......Page 560
E-HRM in Turkey: A Case Study......Page 569
ARIBA: A Successful Story in E-Commerce......Page 580
Integrated Optimal Procedure of Internet Marketing......Page 591
Managerial Succession and E-Business......Page 599
E-Business and Web Accessibility......Page 609
Understanding the Use of Business-to-Employee (B2E) Portals in an Australian University though the Management Lens: A Qualitative Approach......Page 617
Understanding the Use of Business-to-Employee (B2E) Portals in an Australian University through the Employee Lens: A Quantitative Approach......Page 628
An Exploratory Study on the User Adoption of Central Cyber Government Office of the Hong Kong Government......Page 642
An Exploratory Study on the Information Quality Satisfaction of Central Cyber Government Office of the Hong Kong Government......Page 654
Visual Merchandising in Online Retailing Based on Physical Retailing Design Principles......Page 667
Internet Consumer Behavior: Flow and Emotions......Page 676
Internet Consumer Behavior: Web Atmospherics......Page 686
Internet Consumer Behavior: Behavioral Variables......Page 695
Internet Consumer Behavior: Major Moderating Variables......Page 705
Consumer Information Sharing......Page 715
B2C E-Commerce Acceptance Models Based on Consumers’ Attitudes and Beliefs: Integrating Alternative Frameworks......Page 722
Effect of Perceived Risk on e-Commerce Acceptance: State of the Art and Future Research Directions......Page 732
Third Party Internet Seals: Reviewing the Effects on Online Consumer Trust......Page 740
The Importance of Gender, IT Experience, and Media-Rich Social Cues on Initial Trustin E-Commerce Websites......Page 748
Using the Internet to Study Human Universals......Page 758
The Neurocognitive and Evolutionary Bases of Sex Differences in Website Design Preferences: Recommendations for Marketing Managers......Page 764
Exploring Video Games from an Evolutionary Psychological Perspective......Page 773
An Integrated Model for E-CRM in Internet Shopping: Evaluating the Relationship between Perceived Value, Satisfaction and Trust......Page 782
Mobile Communications/Mobile Marketing......Page 791
C2C Mobile Commerce: Acceptance Factors......Page 798
Exploring the Mobile Consumer......Page 807
The Personalization Privacy Paradox: Mobile Customers’ Perceptions of Push-Based vs. Pull-Based Location Commerce......Page 818
Mobile Gaming: Perspectives and Issues......Page 828
Role of Personal Innovativeness in Intentions to Adopt Mobile Services: Cross-Service Approach......Page 840
Service Discovery Techniques in Mobile E-Commerce......Page 851
Perspectives on the Viable Mobile Virtual Community for Telemedicine......Page 863
Socio-Economic Effects on Mobile Phone Adoption Behavior among Older Consumers......Page 875
Mobile Agents in E-Commerce......Page 885
Mobile Telephony as a Universal Service......Page 893
Web Service Discovery, Composition, and Interoperability......Page 900
Case Based Web Services......Page 910
Web Services E-Contract and Reuse......Page 922
Situational Enterprise Services......Page 931
Social Networks and Web Services-Based Systems......Page 941
Interoperability Issues of Business Processes: Key Issues and Technological Drivers......Page 947
Integrated Business Process Designs and Current Applications of Workflow Systems in e-Business......Page 957
Facilitating Interaction between Virtual Agents by Changing Ontological Representation......Page 973
Modeling Collaborative Design Competence with Ontologies......Page 981
Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures for E-Business......Page 991
Speeding up the Internet: Exploiting Historical User Request Patterns for Web Caching......Page 1002
The Effect of User Location and Time of Access on Ecommerce: A Long Tail Study of Website Requests......Page 1008
Incorporating Knowledge Management into E-Commerce Applications......Page 1014
Application of Semantic Web Technology in E-Business: Case Studies in Public Domain Data Knowledge Representation......Page 1022
Design Elements and Principles for Maintaining Visual Identity on Websites......Page 1034
Designing e-Business Applications with Patterns for Computer-Mediated Interaction......Page 1041
A SOA-Based Framework for Internet-Enabled CRM......Page 1050
Building Context-Aware E-Commerce Systems: A Data Mining Approach......Page 1060
Efficient Service Task Assignment in Grid Computing Environments......Page 1069
Policy Driven Negotiation to Improve the QoS in Data Grid......Page 1080
Understanding the Dimensions of the Broadband Gap: More than a Penetration Divide......Page 1096
E-Inclusion: European Perspectives Beyond the Digital Divide......Page 1107
Importance of Electronic Record Preservation in E-Business......Page 1115
Electronic Commerce Prospects in Emerging Economies: Lessons from Egypt......Page 1125
Using Assistive Technology to Ensure Access to E-Learning for Individuals with Disabilities......Page 1137
A Holistic View of the Challenges and Social Implications of Online Distribution: The Case of Pensions......Page 1146
The Global Telecommunications Industry Facing the IP Revolution: Technological and Regulatory Challenges......Page 1156
Evolving e-Business Systems: Transgenic Forces in International Realpolitik Space in 2050......Page 1164
E-Recruiting: Sources, Opportunities, and Challenges......Page 1177
Emerging Trends of E-Business......Page 1186
Virtual Commerce......Page 1199
The Web 2.0 Trend: Implications for the Modern Business......Page 1206
Web 2.0: The Era of User Generated Content on Web Sites......Page 1215
Web 2.0 Concepts, Social Software and Business Models......Page 1222
Grounding Principles for Governing Web 2.0 Investments......Page 1232
Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0: The Development of E-Business......Page 1242
The New Generation of Knowledge Management for the Web 2.0 Age: KM 2.0......Page 1250
Recommender Systems: An Overview......Page 1260
A Linguistic Recommender System for Academic Orientation......Page 1270
Wireless Technologies: Shifting into the Next Gear?......Page 1283
Search Engines: Past, Present and Future......Page 1295
E-Government: Status Quo and Future Trends......Page 1305
Blog Marketing: Potential and Limits......Page 1314
RFID Enabled B2B E-Commerce Technologies and Applications......Page 1323
Index......Page 1336