Research Catalog

Title

Readings in electronic commerce / edited by Ravi Kalakota, Andrew B. Whinston.

Publication

Reading, Mass : Addison-Wesley, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Kalakota, Ravi.
• Whinston, Andrew B.
• Organizational Computing, Coordination, and Collaboration Conference (6th : 1995 : Austin, Tex.)

Description

xxviii, 340 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Electronic commerce offers functionality and new ways of doing business that cannot be ignored. Readings in Electronic Commerce is a collection of research papers addressing issues facing academia and industry in the age of electronic commerce. Experts in the field come together with the goal of helping companies better understand the shape, structure, and operation of electronic business in the coming millennium.
• Investments in electronic commerce introduces far-reaching organizational and technological issues. Each of the five parts covers important aspects of the role electronic commerce is playing in the strategy of business.
• Here is a collection of some of the best thinking from researchers who specialize in the various facets of electronic markets - namely economics, finance, marketing, production, and operations management - as well as technology experts in the industry who are creating and specializing in the electronic commerce infrastructure.

Subject

• Electronic commerce > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at the sixth Organizational Computing, Coordination, and Collaboration Conference, held in Austin, Texas in October of 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. An Unaffiliated View of Internet Commerce / David H. Crocker -- Ch. 2. Commercial Scenarios for the Web: Opportunities and Challenges / Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak and Patrali Chatterjee -- Ch. 3. An Evaluation of the World Wide Web as a Platform for Electronic Commerce / Daniel W. Connolly -- Ch. 4. Electronic Commerce: A Washington Perspective / James B. Rapp -- Ch. 5. International Encryption Policy / Dorothy E. Denning -- Ch. 6. The Essential Role of Trusted Third Parties in Electronic Commerce / A. Michael Froomkin -- Ch. 7. Perils and Pitfalls of Practical Internet Commerce: The Lessons of First Virtual's First Year / Nathaniel S. Borenstein, John Ferguson, Gerald Hall, Carlyn Lowery, Richard Mintz, Darren New, Beverly Parenti, Marshall T. Rose, Einar Stefferud, Lee Stein, Carey Storm, Ed Vielmetti, Marc Weiser and Pierre-R. Wolff -- Ch. 8. Economic Issues in Electronic Commerce / Alok Gupta, Dale O. Stahl and Andrew B. Whinston --
• Ch. 9. A Flexible Framework for Network Payment / B. Clifford Neuman -- Ch. 10. Document Management and Electronic Commerce / Larry Masinter -- Ch. 11. Smart Catalogs and Virtual Catalogs / Arthur M. Keller -- Ch. 12. Distributed Decision Support Systems for Real-Time Supply Chain Management Using Agent Technologies / Aimo Hinkkanen, Ravi Kalakota, Porama Saengcharoenrat, Jan Stallaert and Andrew B. Whinston -- Ch. 13. Electronic Markets / R. Preston McAfee and John McMillan -- Ch. 14. Intranets: Looking beyond Internal Corporate Web Servers / Ramnath Chellappa, Anitesh Barua and Andrew B. Whinston -- Ch. 15. Electronic Publishing versus Publishing Electronically / Ramnath Chellappa, Anitesh Barua, Jennifer Oetzel and Andrew B. Whinston.

ISBN

0201880601

LCCN

96027588

OCLC

• 35243398
• ocm35243398

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries