TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cruz-Cunha,Maria Manuela
AU  - Varajao,Joao
ED  - IGI eBooks.
ED  - IGI Global.
TI  - E-business issues, challenges and opportunities for SMEs: driving competitiveness 
SN  - 9781616928827 (ebook)
AV  - HD2341 .E22 2011e
U1  - 658.8/72 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Hershey, Pa.
PB  - IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA)
KW  - Small business
KW  - Electronic commerce
KW  - Development of e-commerce
KW  - Development of e-procurement
KW  - Enterprise engineering and integration
KW  - Information and application integration
KW  - Level of preparedness of SMEs
KW  - New business models
KW  - Ontologies and taxonomies
KW  - Privacy and security
KW  - Protection against knowledge loss
KW  - Regulatory aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Designing digital marketplaces for competitive advantage / Dinesh Rathi, Lisa Given -- 2. E-commerce systems for software agents / Emmanuel Tadjouddine -- 3. Enhancing the preparedness of SMEs for E-business opportunities by collaborative networks / Heiko Duin, Klaus-Dieter Thoben -- 4. E-learning for SMEs / Asbjorn Rolstadas, Bjorn Andersen, Manuel Fradinho -- 5. 21st century learning opportunities for SME success / Kathleen King, John Foley -- 6. Open innovation / Hakikur Rahman -- 7. Organizational readiness/preparedness / B. Lalic, U. Marjanovic -- 8. Digital marketplaces as a viable model for SME networking / Valentina Ndou, Nezha Sadguy -- 9. What is new with organization of E-business / Vojko Potocan, Zlatko Nedelko, Matja �z Mulej -- 10. Knowledge supply for SME networks / Anders Carstensen, Tatiana Levashova, Kurt Sandkuhl, Nikolay Shilov, Alexander Smirnov -- 11. SME as a service / Jos�e Delgado -- 12. Reflecting on new businesses models for SMEs through technological application / George Jamil, Antonio Balloni, Rodrigo Baroni de Carvalho -- 13. E-health business models prototyping by incremental design / Josep Monguet, Eduardo Huerta, Joaqu�in Fern�andez, Marco Ferruzca, Susana Badillo -- 14. Specifications for a website audit tool for small businesses / Stephen Burgess --; 15. An approach to efficient waste management for SMEs via RBVOs / Stamatia-Ann Katriou, Ioannis Ignatiadis, Garyfallos Fragidis, Evangelos Tolias, Adamantios Koumpis -- 16. Retail 2.0 / Jos�e Porf�irio, Lu�is Ganh�nao -- 17. A unified view of enablers, barriers, and readiness of small to medium enterprises for e-business adoption / Ritesh Chugh, Pramila Gupta -- 18. Issues influencing electronic commerce activities of SMEs / Muammer Zerenler, Sitki G�ozl�u -- 19. Constrains associated to E-business evolution / Jos�e Pires, Ramiro Gon�calves -- 20. An integrative framework on the psychological variables explaining the consumers' use of E-commerce-based recommendation systems / Francisco Mart�nez-L�opez, Juan G�azquez-Abad, Inma Rodr�iguez-Ardura, Claudia Cabal-Cruz -- 21. Fairness in virtual teams / Constant Beugr�e -- 22. Open innovation in SMEs / Hakikur Rahman; Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers; Also available in print
N2  - "This book discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and solutions related to electronic business adoption, with a special focus on SMEs"--Provided by publisher
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