e-Economy
Rhetoric or Business Reality?
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2004
248 pages
978-1-134-30054-9 (ISBN)
Description
As dot.com became dot.bomb, the hype that surrounded the meteoric growth of the network economy has given way to realism, or even scepticism, about the potential of ICT as a source of new business models. It is now appropriate to reflect critically on the e-economy hype, and to use this as a way of looking forward to new, more realistic possibiliti
Reviews / Votes
'In demystifying and making sense, as the chapters in this book do, of what we mean by the so-called 'new' and 'e-economy', it is the underlying continuities that emerge as more enlightening than the breathless assertions of change...'From the Foreword by Simon Caulkin, Management Correspondent of The Observer
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
6 s/w Zeichnungen
6 line drawings
ISBN-13
978-1-134-30054-9 (9781134300549)
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Persons
Lisa Harris is a Chartered Marketer and Lecturer in Marketing at Brunel University. She is founder of the university's e-commerce research group and is Course Director for the BSc in e-commerce. She is the author of Marketing the e-Business (Routledge 2002) and co-editor of the Routledge e-business series.
Leslie Budd is a Lecturer at the Open University Business School where he teaches in Accounting & Finance and Non-profit management.
Leslie Budd is a Lecturer at the Open University Business School where he teaches in Accounting & Finance and Non-profit management.
Content
1. Death of the 'New'? Re-Materialising the Economy 2. Entrepreneurial Chaos, Entrepreneurial Order and the Dotcom Bubble 3. Social Shaping of Government: What Can be Learned from the Adoption of Mobile-Mediated Communications? 4. e-Leadership: Challenges of New Governance Models 5. e-Management and Workforce Diversity 6. ICT and Institutional Change at the British Library 7. Coerced Evolution:A Study of the Integration of e-Mediated Learning into a Traditional University 8. e-Government: From Utopian Rhetoric to Practical Realism 9. e-Retail: Paradoxes for Suppliers and Consumers and 10. e-Business Processes: Information and Operations for Competitive Advantage 11. Building Trust in Stakeholder Relationships: Are Call Centres Sweat Shops or Massage Parlours?
