E-business strategic management / Francisco J. Martínez-López, editor.

This research handbook provides a comprehensive, integrative, and authoritative resource on the main strategic management issues for companies within the e-business context. It covers an extensive set of topics, dealing with the major issues which articulate the e-business framework from a business...

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Other Authors: Martínez-López, Francisco J., 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, [2014]
Series:Progress in IS.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword I; Foreword II; Foreword III; Preface; Contents; Part IBackground; 1 The Framework and the Big Ideas of e-Business; Abstract; 1 ... Introduction; 2 ... The 5Cs Framework of E-Business; 2.1 Commerce; 2.2 Collaboration; 2.3 Communication; 2.4 Connection and Computation; 3 ... Ten Big Ideas in e-Business; 3.1 Digital Market-Making; 3.2 Recommenders; 3.3 Mass Customization; 3.4 Business Models as Competitive Weapon; 3.5 Monetized Search; 3.6 Social Networks and Virtual Communities; 3.7 Co-creation; 3.8 Context-Specific Commerce; 3.9 Information System as Business Core; 3.10 Cloud Computing.
  • 4 ... ConclusionReferences; 2 Economic Implications of e-Business for Organizations; Abstract; 1 ... Introduction; 2 ... Macroeconomic Impacts; 2.1 The Size of E-Commerce; 2.2 Productivity and Economic Growth; 2.3 International Trade; 2.4 Monetary Policy; 2.4.1 e-Business, Prices, and Menu Costs; 2.4.2 e-Commerce and the Money Supply; 2.5 Fiscal Policy and Taxation; 3 ... Microeconomic Impacts for Business; 3.1 Threat of Entry; 3.1.1 Economies of Scale and Scope; 3.1.2 Network Effects; 3.1.3 Capital Requirements and Sunk Costs; 3.1.4 Unequal Access to Distribution Channels.
  • 3.1.5 Other Advantages of Incumbency3.2 Power of Suppliers; 3.2.1 Concentration of the Supplier Group; 3.2.2 Dependence of the Supplier Group on the Industry; 3.2.3 Switching Costs; 3.2.4 Downstream Integration by the Supplier Group; 3.3 Power of Buyers; 3.3.1 Intermediaries and B2B Hubs; 3.3.2 B2C E-Commerce and Product Differentiation; 3.3.3 B2C e-Commerce and Other Factors; 3.4 Threat of Substitutes; 3.4.1 Good Substitutes Versus Poor Substitutes; 3.4.2 Buyer Switching Costs; 3.5 Rivalry Among Existing Competitors; 3.5.1 General Factors Affecting the Intensity of Rivalry.
  • 3.5.2 Factors Specifically Affecting Price Competition4 ... e-Business and Nonprofit Organizations; A.x(118). Appendix: Summary Table of e-Business Factors and Implications for Strategy; References; 3 Towards a New Understanding of the e-Business Strategic Process: The Rise of a Dynamic Interaction-Based Approach; Abstract; 1 ... Introduction; 2 ... Digital Revolutions: A Look Towards the Challenge; 3 ... What is Strategy?; 4 ... The State of e-Business Strategy; 5 ... The Rise of a Dynamic Interaction-based e-Business Approach; 5.1 Experiential Learning as an e-Business Strategic Engine.
  • 5.2 A Five-step Process of e-Business Strategizing5.3 The Dual Organization as a Platform for e-Business Strategizing; 6 ... Perspectives; References; 4 Value Creation and Value Capture Through Internet Business Models; Abstract; 1 ... Introduction; 2 ... Value Proposition and Internet Business Models; 3 ... Value Capture and Internet Business Models; 4 ... Internet Business Models Typology; 4.1 Internet Malls; 4.2 Content Providers; 4.3 Connectors; 4.4 Merchants; 5 ... Implications of Internet Business Models; 6 ... Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References.