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This book examines cyberlaw discussions worldwide on topics such as cybercrime and risk management, comparative electronic trading systems of securities, digital currency regulation, jurisdiction and consumer protection in cross-border markets, and case law on international bank transfers. An...

This book aims at tying trust to knowledge management (KM). It highlights the complexity of the invisible phenomenon of trust challenged by the global economy. Fresh insights, novel theoretical frameworks, and empirical results and ideas for future research are presented that differ from those...

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1. Innovation through virtual technologies / N. Raghavendra Rao -- 2. Soft-touch Haptics modeling of dynamic surfaces / Hanqiu Sun, Hui Chen -- 3. Collision detection / Gabriel Zachmann -- 4. Virtual environment visualisation of executable business process models / Ross Brown, Rune Rasmussen --...

"This book outlines different tools and technologies that can be applied depending on the type of innovation an organization desires, providing concrete advice on the different types of innovation, situations in which innovation may be useful and the role of knowledge and different tools and...

1. Universities as knowledge-intensive learning organizations / Constantin Bratianu -- 2. Key characteristics relevant for selecting knowledge management software tools / Hanlie Smuts, Alta van der Merwe, Marianne Loock -- 3. Knowledge-based diffusion in practice / Hilary Berger, Paul...

1. Designing digital marketplaces for competitive advantage / Dinesh Rathi, Lisa Given -- 2. E-commerce systems for software agents / Emmanuel Tadjouddine -- 3. Enhancing the preparedness of SMEs for E-business opportunities by collaborative networks / Heiko Duin, Klaus-Dieter Thoben -- 4....