E-Work and E-Commerce

In compiling this book the editors invited researchers, operating in the frontiers of new Internet technologies for the Information Society, to describe their work and explain its significance. They selected over 170 contributions providing a cross section of objectives and experiences and categorised the papers into nineteen sections. There are two volumes; the first dealing with human factors affecting people and organisations: management, work, learning, legal issues and trust. The second volume looks at the business factors of the supply chain, the emerging technologies such as mobility and knowledge management and the increasing number of industrial applications. The ideas, aims, progress and experience in this book should provide the inspiration to take on the new technologies in order to improve business or to initiate one's own research. Business managers should benefit from learning about the coming technologies and the attitudes of those that are uncovering them. It is vitally important to discover what the Internet revolution means for business but it could be profitable also, to uncover any opportunities for offering services and products in this area. In addition, the first volume opens with strategic wisdom and examples from leading companies and organisations that are involved in the new technologies: Cisco, Canon, Telecom Italia, IBM, Buyonet, George Mason University (USA) and the European Commission. This book was encouraged and supported by the European Commission. Contents Volume one: Human considerations: Strategy and Policy, Organisational issues, Learning and Linguistic Support, Work and Mobility, Work and Sustainable Development, Intelligent services and products, Advanced Research in e-market places, Law, Security, Trust, and Confidence Volume two: Business issues: Mobile Applications for Business and Work, Intelligent Supply Chain, Corporate Knowledge Management, Intelligent Networked Organisations, E-Business for Manufacturing, E-Business for the Construction Industry, Further Industrial Applications, Media and Entertainment Applications, Government and Regional Developments, Technologies and Infrastructures, Platforms and StandardsStanford-Smith, B. is the author of 'E-Work and E-Commerce' with ISBN 9781586032050 and ISBN 1586032054.