Business Ethics and the Electronic Economy

The internet and the electronic economy are a technological revolution whose secular importance is apparent. The internet eliminates the temporal and spatial constraints on the exchange of information. It changes deeply the world of production and of labour. It transforms the exchange relationships...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Koslowki, Peter (Editor), Hubig, Christoph (Editor), Fischer, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
Series:Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Evolution of the E-Economy: Consequences for Theory Building in Economics and in the Economy
  • 2 Optimizing Individual Communication — Reducing Institutional Communication? The Necessity of a New Form of Business Ethics in the E-Economy Era
  • 3 Changes in the Producer-Consumer Relationship in Electronic Commerce — Examples from Book Publishing and Trade
  • 4 The End of Consumption in Information Society
  • 5 Consumer Profiles in E-Commerce: How Companies Form Identities
  • 6 Virtual Reality as a Problem of the Electronic Economy
  • 7 Tricksters on the Internet: eCommerce , Data Mining and the Parallel Context
  • 8 Power Redistribution and Ethical Challenges in E-Commerce
  • 9 Transcultural Ethics: Beyond the Electronic Economy of MTV
  • 10 Consumers vs. E-Business: Who Should Pay? An Ethical Discourse on the Right to Privacy
  • 11 Ethical Crisis on the Internet: the Case of Licra vs. Yahoo!
  • 12 A Sketch of Consumer Ethics with Particular Emphasis on Virtual Options
  • 13 Building Consumer Trust in Online Markets
  • List of Authors
  • Index of Names