With electronic commerce growing exponentially, staying competitive through an effective e-business strategy is a tough challenge. Electronic Commerce: Opportunity and Challenges looks at the critical elements that could impact a user's perception of business-to-business and business-to-consumer electronic commerce. It presents a study of key components and concepts of e-commerce, evaluating the critical success factors for global e-commerce, the economics of e-commerce and the practical issues involved with e-commerce in various applications.
| Preface | p. i |
| Electric Commerce Opportunities, Policies and Case Studies | |
| Electronic Commerce at the Dawn of the Third Millennium | p. 1 |
| Building E-Commerce From Ground Up: A Study Of The Retail Industry | p. 21 |
| Principles of Digitally Mediated Replenishment of Goods: Electronic Commerce and Supply Chain Reform | p. 41 |
| Electronic Trade Scenario for Global Supply Chains | p. 65 |
| Promoting Electronic Commerce in the Defense Industry | p. 85 |
| Diffusion of Electronic Commerce in Australia: A Preliminary Investigation | p. 102 |
| Planning E-Strategies for New Zealand Firms: A CSF Framework for Investing in E-Commerce Projects | p. 115 |
| EDI Applications | |
| Electronic Commerce Contracting for Open EDI | p. 126 |
| EDI and Small/Medium Enterprises | p. 142 |
| Economics of EDI Investments | p. 152 |
| Internet-Based Electronic Commerce and Payment Systems | |
| Internet Business Models For Government Agencies | p. 171 |
| A Model Of Internet Commerce Adoption (Mica) | p. 189 |
| E-Retailing: New Opportunities In Internet Commerce | p. 202 |
| Consumer Motivations for Commercial Web Site Use: Antecedents to Electronic Commerce | p. 218 |
| The Retail Payments System and Internet Commerce | p. 233 |
| Agent Applications for Automated Transactions | |
| Internet-enabled Smart Card Agent Environment and Applications | p. 246 |
| Supporting Innovative Competitive Strategies as Mass Customization by Pairing E-Commerce Techniques with Agent Technology | p. 261 |
| Electronic Commerce Based on Software Agent | p. 279 |
| A Mobile Agent Computation Model for Best Buy Searching | p. 303 |
| The Design and Architecture of a Secure Agent Transport Protocol for E-Commerce | p. 321 |
| The Evolving Future of Agent-Based Electronic Commerce | p. 337 |
| Attacks and Legal Aspect of Electronic Commerce | |
| The Use of the Internet by Terrorists and Its Impact Upon Electronic Commerce | p. 352 |
| The Law vis-a-vis Electronic Commerce | p. 362 |
| The Challenge of the Law to Electronic Commerce: The European Union Initiatives | p. 383 |
| About the Authors | p. 411 |
| Index | p. 419 |
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ISBN: 9781878289766
ISBN-10: 1878289764
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 432
Published: 2000
Publisher: IGI Global
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 17.8
x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.963