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Book SynopsisThis text tackles the economic, social, and political issues that electronic commerce raises from interdisciplinary and international perspectives. It presents information for those wanting the background of e-commerce, and gives case studies related to specific services making use of e-commerce.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Introduction E-Commerce Definition, Dimensions and Constraints xi
Thomas R. Leinbach and Stanley D. Brunn
Part 1 E-commerce: Meaning, Theory, and Impacts
Chapter 1 Emergence of the Digital Economy and E-Commerce 3
Thomas R. Leinbach
Chapter 2 Towards an Economics of the Internet and E-Commerce 27
Kenneth Button and Samantha Taylor
Chapter 3 Beyond Transaction Costs: E-Commerce and the Power of the Internet Dataspace 45
Martin Kenney and James Curry
Chapter 4 Towards a Location Theory of Distributed Computing and E-Commerce 67
Michael F. Goodchild
Chapter 5 Maybe the Death of Distance, but not the End of Geography: the Internet as a Network 87
Edward J. Malecki and Sean P. Gorman
Part II E-Commerce in Firm, Regional, and International Context
Chapter 6 The Information Society, Japanese Style: Corner Stores as Hubs for E-Commerce Access 109
Yuko Aoyama
Chapter 7 Internet Economics and the Outline Recruiting Industry 129
Sharon Cobb
Chapter 8 Grounding Global Flows: Constructing an E-Commerce Hub in Singapore 145
Neil M. Coe and Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Chapter 9 Finding the Source of Amazon.com: Examining the Store with the ‘Earth’s Biggest Selection’
Martin Dodge
Chapter 10 Electronic Banking and the City System in the Netherlands 181
Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp
Chapter 11 Global Electronic Spaces: Singapore’s Role in the Foreign Exchange Market in the Asia Pacific Region 203
John Langdale
Part III E-commerce: Financial, Legal, and State Dimensions
Chapter 12 The Currency of Currency: Speed, Sovereignty, and Electronic Finance 223
Barney Warf and Darren Purcell
Chapter 13 Information and Communication Technologies and the Integration of European Derivatives Markets 241
Dominic Power
Chapter 14 ‘Dry Counties’ in Cyberspace: Governance and Enforcement without Geographic Borders 257
Priscilla M. Regan
Chapter 15 Dot com Development: Are IT Lines Better than Tractors? 277
Mark I. Wilson
Chapter 16 Corporate Nations: The Emergence of New sovereignties 293
Thomas M. Edwards
References 315
Index 345
