This book covers issues, developments, and influences in technologies and their impact on modern global socioeconomics, including e-commerce, e-services, outsourcing applications, and consumer resources management.

Several studies have been made to determine the effectiveness of information and communication technologies within small business enterprises, but the focus on e-readiness assessments have been very limited. This publication provides insights into the current state of the digital economy and the...

"This book presents detailed studies of e-commerce in multiple regions focusing on business size, sector, market focus, gender of CEO, and education level of CEO as driving forces for e-commerce adoption. Results show that regional SMEs in developed countries have low e-commerce adoption rates,...

This book addresses eCommerce issues in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a global setting. The book aims at addressing issues that are of importance to researchers, to students, and to professionals interested in the eCommerce field in SMEs and hence, interested in addressing issues...

1. Entrepreneurship and innovation in e-business : an integrative perspective / Fang Zhao -- 2. Exploring rhizomic becomings in post dot-com crash networks : a Deleuzian approach to emergent knowledge dynamics / Alexandra Steinberg -- 3. Innovation and B2B e-commerce : explaining what did not...

"This book discusses the progress of e-commerce research in small to medium-sized enterprises in different countries in the world. It points to some of the impending issues concerning e-commerce in SMEs, and highlights the need to do something in order to bridge the existing divide between the...

The Internet has revolutionized the capacity to share information across organizations resulting in radical transformations of organizational practices. Most previous research focused on information systems and technology, e-commerce applications such as Inter-Organizational Systems (IOS's),...

The tremendous growth of the Internet is successfully making a variety of e-services a part of citizens' everyday life. E-services such as: Web-banking, Web shopping, e-learning, e-healthcare, and e-government, are available in most countries around the world. This book provides an overview of...

This book takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers' perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This...

This book focuses on the adoption of e-commerce applications that optimize potential opportunities presented to organizations. With expert international contributions, this advanced publication provides a comprehensive account of developments in the new and exciting area of research and...