"The deregulation of the banking industry during the 1990s provides a natural (public policy) experiment for investigating how firms adjust their executive compensation contracts as the environment in which they operate becomes relatively more competitive. Using the Riegle-Neal Act of 1994 as a...

"We review how deregulation, technological advance, and increased competitive rivalry have affected the size and health of the U.S. community banking sector and the quality and availability of banking products and services. We then develop a simple theoretical framework for analyzing how these...

This book covers themes such as handheld computing for mobile commerce, handheld computing research and technologies, wireless networks and handheld/mobile security, and handheld images and video. It includes research and development results in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and...

A 2D barcode validation system for mobile commerce / David Kuo ... [et al.] -- Threshold-based location-aware access control / Roel Peeters, Dave Singelée, Bart Preneel -- Survivability enhancing techniques for RFID Systems / Yanjun Zuo -- Mobile agent based network defense system in enterprise...

"This book offers a fresh, comprehensive dialogue on issues that occur between the public management and information technology domains, with its focus on political issues and their effects on the larger public sector"--Provided by publisher.

Section I. Mobile Commerce Systems and Handheld Devices -- 1. Fundamentals of Mobile Commerce Systems -- 2. Mobile Commerce Applications -- 3. Mobile Handheld Devices -- 4. Essential Mobile-Commerce Technology --