This volume presents a global perspective on the major areas of electronic commerce, including (but not limited to) those related to the World Wide Web. It does not focus on technical issues, but instead examines the commercial, social and cultural aspects of electronic commerce, including buyer-seller relationships, consumer decision making, information strategy, EDI, electronic banking, information systems for electronic banking, and channel integration.

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Springer Verlag GmbH
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Introduction.- Part 1: General Issues in Electronic Commerce.- The impact of electronic commerce on buyer-seller relationships.- The link between information strategy and electronic commerce.- The diffusion of auctions on the Web.- Leveraging security policy for competitive business advantage in electronic commerce.- Part 2: Commerce on the WWW.- The dynamics of establishing organizational web sites: Some puzzling findings.- Influence of choice context on consumer decision making in electronic commerce.- Electronic public procurement: from the international experience to the reality of the Mediterranean region.- ELPRO: Electronic procurement in Europe.- Part 3: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).- EDI Maturity: A business opportunity.- Design of electronic data interchange systems for small/medium enterprises: are our information technology design assumptions correct?- Using the public sector as a locomotive for electronic commerce: The case of Denmark.- Part 4: Electronic Banking.- Paying for goods and services in the information age: Implications for electronic commerce.- Channel Integration: A new focus in electronic banking.- Part 5: Industry Case Studies.- Information systems for electronic banking: The case of the central bank of Indonesia. The use of EDI at BHP steel group: An industry perspective.