Worlds of E-commerce
Subtitle: economic, geographical and social dimensions
By: edited by Thomas R. Leinbach and Stanley D. Brunn
Contributors: Leinbach, Thomas R., 1941-; Brunn, Stanley D
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chichester, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Electronic commerce -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: A collection of 16 original essays written for this volume by an international group of researchers

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-343) and index
Table of contents: title: E-commerce : definitions, dimensions and constraints / Thomas R. Leinbach and Stanley D. Brunn; title: Emergence of the digital economy and e-commerce / Thomas R. Leinbach; title: Towards an economics of the Internet and e-commerce / Kenneth Button and Samantha Taylor; title: Beyond transaction costs : e-commerce and the power of the Internet dataspace / Martin Kenney and James Curry; title: Towards a location theory of distributed computing and e-commerce / Michael F. Goodchild; title: Maybe the death of distance, but not the end of geography : the Internet as a network / Edward J. Malecki and Sean P. Gorman; title: The information society, Japanese style : corner stores as hubs for e-commerce access / Yuko Aoyama; title: Internet economies and the online recruiting industry / Sharon Cobb; title: Grounding global flows : constructing an e-commerce hub in Singapore / Neil M. Coe and Henry Wai-chung Yeung; title: Finding the source of Amazon.com : examining the store with the "Earth's biggest selection" / Martin Dodge; title: Electronic banking and the city system in the Netherlands / Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp; title: Global electronic spaces : Singapore's role in the foreign exchange market in the Asia-Pacific region / John Langdale; title: The currency of currency : speed, sovereignty, and electronic finance / Barney Warf and Darren Purcell; title: Information and communication technologies and the integration of European derivatives markets / Dominic Power; title: 'Dry counties' in cyberspace : governance and enforcement without geographic borders / Priscilla M. Regan; title: Dot com development : are IT lines better than tractors? / Mark I. Wilson; title: Corporate nations : the emergence of new sovereignties / Thomas M. Edwards