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.

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.

In the world of internet, wide adoption of computing devices dramatically reduces storage costs with easy access to huge amount of data, thus posing benefits and challenges to e-business amongst organizations.This unique compendium covers current status and practices of e-business among organizations, their challenges and future directions. It also includes studies of different perspectives and markets of e-business.The must-have volume will be a good reference text for professionals and organizations who are updating their e-business knowledge/skills and planning their e-business initiatives.

A guide that shows how to : understand how email works; write effective business messages; prevent viruses; develop an email policy; send secure messages; create online newsletters and discussion groups; build your emailing list; use email to promote your business; manage your email system and reduce email overload.

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.

The examining team reviewed P3 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P3 syllabus topics. It explores the theories behind the key areas of Business Analysis and demonstrates how these theories are put in to practice. Detailed examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, WES 2002, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2002 in conjunction with CAiSE 2002. The 18 revised full papers presented together with two keynote papers were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on web services, e-business, and e-services and the semantic web.