Pushing the Digital Frontier: Insights into the Changing Landscape of E-Business

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The pace of change in the "e" environment is so fast and multifaceted that it's hard for a single book to cover all the frontiers. However, this ambitious volume does.

Created under the auspices of the prestigious eBusiness Research Center (eBRC) at The Pennsylvania State University, it contains in-depth analysis by renowned thought leaders from the corporate and academic worlds. The result is a storehouse of e-knowledge that will help readers get their bearings and advance their organizations in the new economy.

Cutting-edge yet practical, Pushing the Digital Frontier addresses all the current and emerging e-business issues that executives and managers cannot afford to overlook. Using the innovative eBRC New Economy Pyramid as a unifying framework, the book offers the latest research findings along with illuminating examples of what organizations are doing to transform themselves from traditional firms to successful e-businesses. It provides guidance on how to:

* Go from being market-driven to being the market-driver
* Manage technology for scalability, responsiveness, and security
* Provide value-added customer service
* Restructure the organization for e-responsiveness
* E-valuate more accurately through new metrics
* Deal with e-nvironmental concerns, such as taxation, privacy, and security
* Leverage old economy fundamentals in the new world
* Investigate Web-enabled collaborative commerce, and more.

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Highly Recommended!.......2001-09-26

The Wild West days of the dot-com craze are behind us, but e-business strategy remains a largely uncharted frontier. In fact, e-commerce seems more bewildering than ever, now that many of the strategic maxims that the Internet bubble was built on have been proved false. To help you get a handle on the revolutionary technology that has survived the collapse, Nirmal Pal and Judith M. Ray have collected articles by researchers and executives, including many from their home base, the e-Business Research Center at Pennsylvania State University. This anthology constitutes a solid and well-researched book, which has sufficient gravitas (and jargon) for an academic and enough practical information for an entrepreneur. The multiple authors sometimes overlap as they dissect various e-business approaches, but all offer worthwhile ideas. We [...] recommend this book to executives at any company, since Internet technology is now ubiquitous, and distinctions between old economy and New Economy are fast falling by the wayside.

Explorations of an Unfamiliar and Volatile "Landscape".......2001-07-26

The various authors examine "key themes" that intersect all manner of changes now occurring during what they characterize as an "information revolution": free agency, compressed supply chains, co-opetition, obliteration of boundaries, e-leadership, the elimination of hierarchies, emergence of electronic marketplaces ("bazaars"), club membership, and finally, "trust brokers" who serve as "an incentive and penalty mechanism to uphold the `digital order' in global, real-time electronic markets." The material is presented and then developed by within 14 chapters. In Chapter 1, for example, Ghadar and Leonard "deliberate on how the digital economy is forcing a fundamental and permanent shift in the way enterprise strategies are developed, and in the process raise significant new challenges for managers. In Chapter 7, Bhargava and Lee "provide valuable insights about emerging technologies and practices that will help organizations remain open and flexible in response to the changing technological environment so that past information technology investments remain useful and valuable in the future." And in the final chapter, Loomis and Gerhard "identify several strategic issues facing executives who must lead or interact within the e-government environment." All manner of forces are driving the expansion and consequent complexity of the "digital frontier" and at an ever-increasing velocity. Here in a single source are a range and diversity of perspectives on this process. The editors are to be commended on the selection and presentation of the 14 separate but inter-related essays. I also appreciate the "About the Contributors" section which identifies dozens of supplementary sources to consult for those to wish to explore specific issues in much greater depth. Those who share my regard for this book are urged to check out Profit from the Core, written by Chris Zook with James Allen, which suggests a number of growth strategies which are also worthy of careful consideration.

A must-read for business and IT executives.......2001-06-26

This is a wonderful collection of leading edge research and practical advice from experts in the field of e-business, e-commerce, and e-"anything". The authors and editors have created a very timely set of e-business thinking, imperatives, and recommendations, as well as practical and real life examples to cement the concepts. I highly recommend this book!

Excellent E-business Insights.......2001-06-14

This is an excellent book on diverse aspects of e-business. The book offers great insights from a collection of experts. There are important nuggets from various topics ranging from e-business metrics to personalization to collaborative commerce to regulatory issues. The book provides useful frameworks for analysing e-business issues. I personally liked the fact that this book is applicable to both old economy and new economy companies. Despite the challenge of synthesizing a wide array of topics, the authors have done a commendable job of integrating the chapters. I highly recommend this book for all managers.

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This impressive collection of leading, interdisciplinary experts explores various dimensions of globalization, and their relationship to development processes in the region. Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific provides diverse accounts of how globalization is being experienced, understood, managed and resisted at various scales in relation to development processes in the Asia-Pacific. This radical new perspective provides an invaluable analysis for political scientists, as well as those involved in human geography, sociology, international political economy, development studies, asian studies and economics.

GLOBALISATION AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC.(Review) (book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs

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GLOBALISATION AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC.(Review) (book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Clare Mochrie
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Title: GLOBALISATION AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC.(Review) (book review)
Author: Clare Mochrie
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: University of British Columbia
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GLOBALISATION AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC: CONTESTED TERRITORIES.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Contemporary Asia

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GLOBALISATION AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC: CONTESTED TERRITORIES.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Contemporary Asia
Ray Petridis
Manufacturer: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Contemporary Asia, published by Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers on May 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1107 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: GLOBALISATION AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC: CONTESTED TERRITORIES.(Review) (book review)
Author: Ray Petridis
Publication: Journal of Contemporary Asia (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2001
Publisher: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers
Volume: 31 Issue: 2 Page: 282

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The authors consider how the Asia-Pacific economies have developed since the financial crises and highlight two inter-related themes: the effect of global forces on the national Asian economies and the different development paths of these economies as they jointly enter this new phase.

The End of the 'Asian Model'? (Advances in Organization Studies)

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The End of the 'Asian Model'? (Advances in Organization Studies)

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With the economic crisis in Asia, which unfolded in recent years, the development 'model' on which the phenomenal earlier success of several countries in the region was built requires increasing scrutiny. This anthology questions the validity of the notion promoted by some observers and international financial organizations that there is a universally applicable model of industrialization common to Asian countries. A number of senior and highly regarded Asia specialists are taking a critical look at the various development experiences of several (and some often neglected) Asian countries and evaluate their experiences in a comparative perspective. Comparing the analyses of countries such as Mongolia, the Pacific Islands, or Sri Lanka with Singapore, South Korea and other countries of the region leads the editors of this volume to the conclusion that the fashionable talk about a 'model' is not justified and that the picture is much more complex. Contributions by: H. Houweling; P. Rgnier; W.G. Huff; J. Remenyi; P. Mendis; K. Jayasuriya; P. Bustelo; M. Goldsmith; H. Henke and I. Boxill.

The end of the developmental state?: A general equilibrium investigation on the sources of the Asian crisis within a multi-region, inter-temporal CGE model* ... University of California at Berkeley)

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The end of the developmental state?: A general equilibrium investigation on the sources of the Asian crisis within a multi-region, inter-temporal CGE model* ... University of California at Berkeley)
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TheStreet.com is the exciting financial news Internet Web site cofounded by James J. Cramer that has become one of the most trusted news sources-and the go-to investment site-in the world of finance. With more than three million unique visitors a month, and the company's up-to-the-minute news featured at NYTimes.com, AOL, and Yahoo!, TheStreet.com has become the way informed investors discover what's hot and what's not in the stock market and on Wall Street.

Now, drawing on its unparalleled expertise, TheStreet.com has laid bare the fundamentals to investing in the stock market with their comprehensive investment guide, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era. Written with refreshing clarity and an irresistible touch of attitude by Editor-in-Chief Dave Kansas, and featuring contributions from TheStreet.com's premier columnists and specialists, the book reveals the ins and outs of investing in stocks offers a crash course in how revolutionary long-term changes to the New Economy will affect stocks' value and future growth.

Among the issues the book tackles are:

*How to navigate the risk and uncertainty of today's volatile market

*How interest rate changes, buy backs and splits, and earnings reports can affect the price of a stock.

*How to use the resources of the Internet to find, research and screen stocks.

*How to build a portfolio fitting for the New Economy

*How to identify the stocks TheStreet.com describes as "High Octane" (stocks that hold out the promise of both great reward and hefty risk), "Core Performers" (solid investment opportunities in various sectors of the economy), and "Income Engines" (safer stocks with a dividend kick)

Beyond these basics, the book offers informed advice on when to buy and when to sell, how to tell when a company's story has changed, how to find and research great stock ideas, how to figure out a stock's financials, how to read a stock chart, the ins and outs of IPOs and options, and penetrating insights into how the economy has changed and what that means in terms of future stock performance.

Providing the tools and information the individual investor needs to secure a competitive advantage against the big Wall Street firms, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era is destined to be the investment bible for the new millennium.

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Insightful!.......2002-06-05

If you can make it past the typical James Cramer stock-market cheerleading, The Street.com's guide to investing is well worth a look for novices. Skip over the dated, New Economy hype and get right to the overview of global equity markets, including risk factors, economic indicators and corporate performance measures. Author Dave Kansas does a great job of summarizing these voluminous concepts in a way that's easy to digest and remember. This book reads much better than most of those in the investment field, perhaps because it was written by actual writers, not economic experts fumbling their way through the writing process, or ghostwriters churning out personality-free prose. We from getAbstract highly recommend this book to beginning investors, with a word of warning: The tone of this book is still very much of the optimistic `90s era, and does not seem to reflect the subsequent market retreat.

Street Smarts.......2002-01-02

"It truly is a brave new world for investors," writes Dave Kansas at the conclusion of this book. The phrase "brave new world" comes from Shakespeare via Aldous Huxley, who of course used it ironically. It will be the rare investor who can read those words today without a twinge of pain: most of the last two years have been a bad trip for stock owners. Many people with money in the stock market have seen their gains evaporate like snow in Tucson.

The more you know about how the market works, presumably, the less you are likely to succumb to the investor's perennial traps - fear and greed - or pay the price for naiveté. TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era has a splendid pedigree, namely the web site TheStreet.com (and its sister site, RealMoney.com), and Kansas has called on a number of its shrewd writers to contribute sections in their own areas of expertise.

The book benefits from most of its writers having been "in the trenches," that is, actually having spent years trying to make money on Wall Street. They are not just journalists or academic theorists. The book, like the site that spawned it, has a pleasingly pragmatic quality.

It is also easy to read, insofar as a subject with as many complexities as equity investing can be easy. Even the through-the-looking-glass world of options almost seems to make sense in these pages. (But although the discussion includes shorting stocks and buying and selling puts, there is, curiously, no section about selling covered calls - the only form of options trading that is appropriate for many nonprofessional investors. The book's other major gap is that there is nothing about the strategy of indexing, which deserves consideration.)

It is evident that care went into this guide. It has been editorially polished, unlike so many quick-and-dirty productions from even supposedly reputable publishers today that appear to have gone directly from the author's word processor to type.

Just about all the important topics are covered in enough detail to be useful but not so much as to be esoteric. Also included are two worthwhile features that I have not seen in any other investment guide: a table, based on specific quantitative and qualitative criteria, of the best stock analysts in a variety of sectors; and another table ranking online brokers, based on a reader survey by TheStreet.com.

But while TheStreet.com Guide does many things well, and there is nothing particularly wrong with it, I have to confess to being mildly disappointed. The problem is style - or rather, the lack of it - rather than substance.

If you are familiar with TheStreet.com or RealMoney.com web sites (which I expect most of those who buy the book will be), you know that James Cramer, the sites' co-founder and frequent contributor, is that rare bird who can write about stocks with color, flair and wit. Many of the sites' other writers have something of the same ability. The web sites flash lightning; they're a gas to read as well as timely and informative. The book goes down smoothly, but it's rather bland. To see what I mean, compare its prose with that of the glossary, which is written by Cramer himself. (Sample Cramer-isms: "Dumb money: Slow money, usually mutual-fund or pension money." "Flip: When you get a hot stock and you blow it out immediately. The brokerages try to discourage flipping, but in this crazy market where only small bits of stock get floated at the beginning, there are a ton of flippers on these pops.")

If TheStreet.com Guide to Investing in the Internet Era as a whole had been written with this kind of sass, which appears regularly on the web site, it would have been more memorable. Nevertheless, the book is less work to read than most of its ilk, and will teach you things you don't know or encourage you to think freshly about things you do. For this "brave new world" of online investing, TheStreet.com Guide is worth its weight in armor plating.

Not what I expected from JJC.......2001-11-24

[...] The book is a good primer on fudamental and technical analysis, but that is about it. I suppose that my expectations were too high. I subscribe to the website spin-off of thestreet.com, and find the commentary, reporting, and trading tips well worth the money. This is the sort of hard hitting writing that I expected in the book. My opinion, save your money on the book and just use the website daily.

Good for the beginner, not sure about more than that.......2001-02-27

I was looking for something a bit more adept -- this is "investing for dummies" -- which has its place, but the title makes it look like it has some new ideas when, in fact, it's mostly advice you've read on thestreet.com and elsewhere, in one book. Valuable to a novice, a nice but unnecessary compendium for more experienced investors. While this book wasn't what I was looking for, I also think the rips on Cramer and thestreet.com are unwarranted and childish and the reviews based on those criticisms are off the mark.

Well written, fundamental advice.......2001-02-27

The information in this book is by no means ground breaking. However, it is a well written book that provides solid all around advice for the new investor.

The book touches on many aspects of investing without being biased toward any particular one. It basically gives an overviews of many of the tools available to make investing decisions and leaves it to the reader to choose and learn more. For example, it starts out with an overview of economic factors and then moves into fundamental analysis, charting and buy/sell guidelines. It then touches on options, IPO's and tax issues.

Compared to other "newbie" books such as those by the Motley Fool, I think this offers a much more rounded approach. These books (and others) tend to present a biased view of the "correct" way to invest. This book gives a broader view that gives the reader more starting points to continue their learning and ultimately make better investing decisions.

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The first year of the new millennium has brought profound changes to the landscape of America’s financial markets. Understandably, investors are feeling increasingly wary when it comes to choosing stocks. Now more than ever, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing is the guide no investor can do without–an invaluable resource to help you regain your confidence and ride out today's difficult market. TheStreet.com, the exciting on-line financial news center, has become one of the most trusted news sources–and the go-to investment site–in the world of finance. Featuring contributions from TheStreet.com’s premier columnists and specialists, the book discusses how to research stocks; how to use the extraordinary resources of the Internet in screening stocks and deciding which stocks to invest in; how to build a portfolio; what the effect is on a stock in the case of a merger, management change, acquisition, or change in the company’s profile; and penetrating insights into how the economy has changed and what that means in terms of future stock performance.
Written with clarity, verve, and attitude, and drawing on unparalleled expertise, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing is destined to be the investment bible for anyone weathering today’s New Economy.

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A New Economy?.......2006-07-24

This book was written in 2000 and it reflects all the "irrational exuberance" of the late 90s. The authors proclaim a "new economy" in which traditional rules of valuation are no longer applicable! "Expansions have grown longer and deeper, while recessions have become narrower and shorter. The resulting long-run growth has created a New Economy, an economy that's forcing stock market analysts to redefine how they view investments and long-term earnings" (3). "Technology has played a starring role in the New Economy's emergence. . . . Given the backdrop of benign inflation, a technology-driven productivity revolution, and sound fiscal policy, it becomes easier to see why a number of high growth companies receive mind-boggling valuations" (4) As a result of these miraculous new conditions, "the economy can grow faster and longer without the kind of inflationary and financial dislocations that have felled previous expansions" (8). How naive this book sounds after the terrible market crash of 2000-2003! My favorite example is the author's discussion of Cisco, which enjoyed a P/E of 186 in August 2000. The author states, "Does that kind of sky-high P/E ratio mean that you shouldn't own the stock? Not necessarily. The fact of the matter is that some companies deserve to have lofty P/E ratios because their earnings potential really is that tremendous" (179). Cisco fell from $80 in 2000 to $8 in 2002. It's currently (July 2006) trading at around $18 with a P/E of 20. Many tech stocks fared far worse.

OK, it's not all bad. When the author gets off his soap box, he does provide some good insight into how the stock market works, and how to evaluate a stock. His discussion of the value and limitations of PEG ratio is quite helpful. And the section on options is absolutely the best introduction to this complicated subject that I have found anywhere. His discussion of larger market forces such as inflation and interest rates is also very good. Worth reading, but don't believe the hype about the "New Economy" and tech stocks.

Kansas Investment and Business Guide (US Business and Investment Library)

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Kansas Investment and Business Guide (US Business and Investment Library)

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Ultimate investment and business guide for conducting business in the state. Business, investment and export-import opportunities. State economy, government structure, mineral resources, technology, government, political and business contacts and more...

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