This handbook begins by comparing e-business with e-commerce. It provides guidance and advice on creating or turning your business into an e-business with chapters on resources, keeping your customers, selling online and improving your business.

Based on the authors' market-leading E-Commerce. Business. Technology. Society., this brief book offers the same thought-provoking and current content but in a brief format. E-Commerce Essentials emphasizes the three major driving forces behind E-commerce--technology change, business development, and social issues--to provide a coherent conceptual framework for understanding the field.

eBusiness is growing rapidly and new issues are emerging in this global and real-time activity. This new edition to the hugely successful eBusiness Essentials explores the increasingly important area of mobile data access. In addition, it shows how eBusiness is evolving and how technology can be progressively used to build more sophisticated solutions. Balancing its technical depth with a clear and practical analysis of market models it enables the reader to deploy the available and emerging technology effectively and appropriately. In addition to the established yet equally important features such as security, payment and trust, supply chain integration and customer to supplier trade it includes: * mBusiness covering key issues such as roving and roaming access and the technologies GPRS, UMTS and WAP * Help for the reader to formulate their own eBusiness strategy by drawing out some general principles * Virtual mobile network operators: data extensions to the mobile switch, home and visitor location * Analysis and real world examples of mobile services * The technical options,impact, integration, mechanics and implications of evolving eBusiness Primarily aimed at planners, engineers, managers and developers in the IT, multimedia and on-line industries. Recommended reading for students in computer science, electrical and electronic engineering, IT and telecommunications.

Consequently, Digital Transformation offers executives an opportunity to learn directly from "the source" how to become a fully Internet-enabled organization."--BOOK JACKET.

This special issue of QJEC marks the final instalment of the journal. The QJEC has had a long-standing history of international scholarship focused on the emerging field of electronic commerce with a broad, interdisciplinary approach. It has established the field’s intellectual foundation with state-of-the-art research from business, computer science, engineering, law, psychology, and sociology. This particular issue focuses on an eclectic group of papers that are international in scope with authors from Canada, Australia, France, Germany, South Africa and Italy. The papers range in topics from valuing dot com companies, to mobile health and portals, to supply chain management.

A broad overview of key e-Business issues from both managerial and technical perspectives, introducing issues of marketing, human resource management, ethics, operations management, law, the e-Business environment, website design and computing.