Tracking a transformation [[electronic resource] ] : e-commerce and the terms of competition in industries / / BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455481003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2001
• ISBN: 0-8157-9840-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Disciplina: 381/.1
• Soggetti: Electronic commerce - United States; Competition - United States; Industrial relations - Effect of technological innovations on - United States; Electronic commerce - Europe; Competition - Europe; Industrial relations - Effect of technological innovations on - Europe; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Acronyms""; ""PART I: The Enablers: Tools and Markets""; ""Tools: The Drivers of E- Commerce""; ""The Construction of Marketplace Architecture""; ""PART II: E- Commerce: A View from the Sectors""; ""The Boundary Condition of Services""; ""E-Finance: Recent Developments and Policy Implications""; ""The Future of Retail Financial Services: Transparency, Bypass, and Differential Pricing""; ""Web Impact on the Air Travel Industry""; ""Confronting the Digital Era: Thoughts on the Music Sector""; ""Standard Modules and Market Flexibility""; ""The Internet and the Personal Computer Value Chain""""E-volving the Auto Industry: E- Business Effects on Consumer and Supplier Relationships""; ""E-Commerce and the Changing Terms of Competition in the Semiconductor Industry""; ""The Old Economy Listening to the New: E- Commerce in Hearing Instruments""; ""Making and Moving Stuff""; ""Electronic Systems in the Food Industry: Entropy, Speed, and Sales""; ""Lean Information and the Role of the Internet in Food Retailing ; in the United Kingdom""; ""E-Commerce in the Textile and Apparel Industries""; ""E-Commerce and Competitive Change in the Trucking Industry""""PART III: What Comes Next? The Evolving Infrastructure""; ""What Will the Next Generation of Tools, Networks, and Marketplaces Look Like?""; ""The Mobile Internet Market: Lessons from JapanÃŒs i- Mode System""; ""E-Commerce and Network Architecture: New Perspectives""; ""The Political Economy of Open Source Software""; ""The Next-Generation Internet: Promoting Innovation and User- Experimentation""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""