Doing Business on the Internet

1. Introduction.- Joining the Internet Revolution.- 2. Internet Commerce - Hot Cakes and Dead Ducks.- 3. When Does Virtual Have Value?.- 4. Will You Use Animation on Your Web Pages? Experiments of Animation Effects and Implications for Web User Interface Design and Online Advertising.- 5. Evolution of Web Information Systems: Exploring the Methodological Shift in the Context of Dynamic Business Ecosystems.- Managing the Internet Revolution.- 6. Financial Institutions and the Internet: Issues and Trends.- 7. Protecting Sensitive Information in Electronic Commerce.- 8. Towards Business Oriented Intranets: Knowledge Management in Organisations.- 9. Ensuring Security and Trust in Electronic Commerce.- III: Benefitting from the Internet Revolution.- 10. Small Business and Internet Commerce: What are the Lessons Learned?.- 11. Towards Culturally Aware Information Systems.- 12. The Online Stock Broker: An Investigation of Electronic Contracting on the Web.- 13. Consumer Information Search and Decision Making in the Electronic Commerce Environment.- 14. Fiddlers on the Wire: Music, Electronic Commerce and Local Economic Development on a Virtual Cape Breton Island, Canada - A Case Study.- Global Perspectives of the Internet Revolution.- 15. Consumer Adoption of Electronic Commerce: The US Perspective.- 16. Electronic Commerce in Israel.- 17. Electronic Commerce in China.- 18. An Action Research Report of an E-Commerce Firm in South Korea.- About the Contributors.