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Digital economy impacts, influences, and challenges
Title:
Digital economy impacts, influences, and challenges
Author:
Kehal, Harbhajan S., 1942-
ISBN:
9781591403654
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xxvi, 395 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
Socio-economic impacts and influences of e-commerce in a digital economy -- Re-intermediation and deferment through e-commerce: neo-Austrian interpretation of capital and time -- Risk and investment in the global telecommunications industry -- Reduction of transaction costs by using electronic commerce in financial services: an institutional and empirical approach -- The spreading use of digital cash and its problems -- Electronic signature: the core legislation category in digital economy -- Impacts of the digital economy: the shift to consumer-driven competition and life-span products -- Digital products on the web: pricing issues and revenue models -- On software piracy -- An e-classification of the world's capital cities: URL references to web sites -- Online services and regional web portals: exploring the social and economic impacts -- ICT growth and diffusion: concepts, impacts and policy issues in the Indian experience with reference to the international digital divide -- Digital technologies and the cross-border expansion of South African banks -- Technology and culture: e-commerce in China -- Internet economy of the online game business in South Korea: the case of NCsoft's Lineage -- Opportunities and challenges of the new economy for East Asia -- Digital engineering campus: economics, acceptance, and impact -- Corporate strategies in a digital world: supply chain management and customer relationship management: development and integration-focus.
Abstract:
This publication provides information about the socioeconomic aspects of the digital economy. The set of 18 essays covers the effects of digital economy on business transactions, technology and culture, as well as on education. It also covers various aspects of global production, trade, and investment and the effects of Internet. The chapters review best practices from concept to development, through implementation and evaluation. The book looks at the digital economy from a socioeconomic angle, offering perspectives from scholars and practitioners of digital economics around the world.
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