Tracking a Transformation: E Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Acronyms......Page 12
PART ONE The Enablers: Tools and Markets......Page 18
1 Tools: The Drivers of E-Commerce......Page 20
2 The Construction of Marketplace Architecture......Page 44
PART TWO E-Commerce: A View from the Sectors......Page 68
TASK FORCE COMMENT The Boundary Conditions of Services......Page 70
3 E-Finance: Recent Developments and Policy Implications......Page 81
4 The Future of Retail Financial Services: Transparency, Bypass, and Differential Pricing......Page 109
5 Web Impact on the Air Travel Industry......Page 129
6 Confronting the Digital Era: Thoughts on the Music Sector......Page 145
TASK FORCE COMMENT Standard Modules and Market Flexibility......Page 154
7 The Internet and the Personal Computer Value Chain......Page 168
8 E-volving the Auto Industry: E-Business Effects on Consumer and Supplier Relationships......Page 195
9 E-Commerce and the Changing Terms of Competition in the Semiconductor Industry......Page 231
10 The Old Economy Listening to the New: E-Commerce in Hearing Instruments......Page 246
TASK FORCE COMMENT Making and Moving Stuff......Page 258
11 Electronic Systems in the Food Industry: Entropy, Speed, and Sales......Page 270
12 Lean Information and the Role of the Internet in Food Retailing in the United Kingdom......Page 297
13 E-Commerce in the Textile and Apparel Industries......Page 327
14 E-Commerce and Competitive Change in the Trucking Industry......Page 349
PART THREE What Comes Next? The Evolving Infrastructure......Page 372
TASK FORCE COMMENT What Will the Next Generation of Tools, Networks, and Marketplaces Look Like?......Page 374
15 The Mobile Internet Market: Lessons from Japan's i-Mode System......Page 386
16 E-Commerce and Network Architecture: New Perspectives......Page 406
17 The Political Economy of Open Source Software......Page 423
18 The Next-Generation Internet: Promoting Innovation and User-Experimentation......Page 452
Contributors......Page 492
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