Information Technology and Industrial Competitiveness How IT Shapes Competition

Information Technology (IT) - the field that links computer and communications equipment and software - is transforming the way modern business is done. Examples of factors leading these changes are: rapidly decreasing costs of computer hardware, government de-regulation, accelerating global competi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kemerer, Chris F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Future Markets: Information Technology’s Impact on Market Structure
  • I. Future Markets
  • 2. Elements of Market Structure for On-Line Commerce
  • 3. Marketspace Markets: Factors for Success and Failure
  • 4. Organizational Partnerships and the Virtual Corporation
  • II. Inter-Organizational Systems
  • 5. Inter-organizational Information Systems and the Role of Intermediaries in Marketing Channels: A Study of Two Industries
  • 6. How to win with Electronic Data Interchange
  • 7. Sharing Logistics Information Across Organizations: Technology, Competition and Contracting
  • III. Focused Applications
  • 8. Technology’s Impact on the Equity Markets
  • 9. Information Technology in Japan: Are there Lessons for the West?
  • IV. Future Strategies
  • 10. Rectifying Yesterday Versus Creating Tomorrow: Leadership Challenges In Balancing a Portfolio of Processes
  • 11. Creating the Forgetting Organization: Using the Scenario Process to Facilitate Learning During Rapid Technology-Driven Environmental Change