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.

"This book focuses on the development of innovative techniques and tools that answer urgent questions in the global trend of sustainable economic development, providing researchers and business managers with a valuable resource for the development of green business and application of low carbon...

"This book focuses on various trust issues that emerge from deployment of various e-commerce technologies in inter-organizational relationships, including security, privacy, authentication, non-repudiation, quality of web interface, system performance and infrastructure, environmental...

"This book provides comprehensive coverage of automated supply chain management offering research, methodologies, and frameworks for researchers, graduate students, and management professionals interested in the incorporation of information systems to better support supply chain...

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),...