"This book presents various opinions, judgments, and ideas on how the use of digitally created worlds is changing the face of e-commerce and extending the use of Internet technologies to create a more immersive experience for customers"--Provided by publisher.

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.

For more than ten years there has been an obvious trend of globalization of leading companies, as they have moved from multinational to global operations. Recently there has also been increased demand for combining locally-customized services to the economies of the scale of worldwide...

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 identifies the multidimensional impact of e-adoption and provides theoretical and practical solutions for policy makers, managers, and researchers in government, industry, and academia"--Provided by publisher.

1. Disruptions and value in the interactive digital media marketplace / Omar El-Sawy and Francis Pereira -- 2. A comparison of pricing strategies for digital goods / Peng Lei, Kristy Shi and Tahani Iqbal -- 3. The case for variable pricing of IDM / Ankit Bansal, Desai Mayura Manohar and S....

"This book aims to assist researchers in both understanding and utilizing online data collection by providing methodological knowledge related to online research, and by presenting information about the empirical quality, the availability, and the location of specific online...

"This book highlights the main concepts of e-business as well as the advanced methods, technologies, and aspects that focus on technical support for professors, students, researchers, developers, and other industry experts in order to provide a vast amount of specialized knowledge sources for...

The primary mission of Cases on Worldwide E-Commerce: Theory in Action is to provide detailed case studies of opportunities and challenges in worldwide e-commerce as the Internet economy and globalization trends erase the traditional IT and geographical boundaries. Cases included in this...