Entrepreneurship and Innovations in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective

Entrepreneurship and Innovations in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective

Copyright: © 2006 |Pages: 304

ISBN13: 9781591409205|ISBN10: 1591409209|EISBN13: 9781591409229|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781591409212

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-920-5

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Drawing upon the outcomes of the principal studies of entrepreneurship and innovation, Entrepreneurship and Innovations in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective opens up a new field of debate and research about the role of these two areas in the e-world.

This book develops and explores theoretical constructs and the working concepts of e-entrepreneurship and e-innovation through comprehensive and collective studies conducted by a number of researchers and practitioners with e-business and management expertise.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapters

Chapter 1

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective (pages 1-17)

Fang Zhao

This chapter argues that a combination of entrepreneurship and innovation is a crucial factor to the long-term sustainability of e-commerce and e-businesses. Entrepreneurship and innovation are positively related to each other and...

Chapter 2

Exploreing Rhizomic Becomings in Post Dot-Com Crash Networks: A Deleuzian Approach to Emergent Knowledge Dynamics (pages 18-40)

Alexandra Steinberg

This chapter introduces the work of Deleuze and Guattari, particularly their notion of rhizomic becomings to the study of emergent knowledge dynamics in contexts of innovation. It shows how an analysis of rhizomic becomings can...

Chapter 3

Innovation and B2B E-Commerce: Explaining What Did Not Happen (pages 41-61)

Steve New

The massive wave of enthusiasm for B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce generated with the “dot-com” boom led many to believe that a fundamental transformation of how firms bought and sold products was just around the corner. The...

Chapter 4

How E-Entrepreneurs Operate in the Context of open Source Software (pages 62-88)

Ambika Zutshi, Samar Zutshi, Amrik Sohal

The Internet has become an integral part of our everyday lives and it is often difficult to imagine how we ever functioned without it. This chapter presents experiences of two entrepreneurial companies, one of which has survived the...

Chapter 5

Personalized Relationship E-Marketing and the Small Medium-Sized Enterprise (pages 89-106)

Clare Brindley, Diane Wright

Many small businesses are beginning to adopt at least tactical solutions to enhance relationships between themselves and their customers. This chapter focuses on a UK-based marketing communications company which has developed an...

Chapter 6

Strategies for Virtual Learning and E-Entrepreneurship in Higher Education (pages 107-123)

J. Kettunen

This chapter presents the strategies of higher education institutions and how they can be described using the balanced scorecard approach. The pedagogical ICT strategy describes the virtual learning and e-entrepreneurship in higher...

Chapter 7

The Beginnings of a Postal E-Marketplace: Innovation or Natural Evolution? The Corprocure Story (pages 124-147)

Kim Hassall, Karyn Welsh

This e-business case study of the corProcure enterprise is instructive as it reflects three recurrent themes of the dot-com period: 1. First, the seemingly powerful but unstable corProcure’s business model was created between a...

Chapter 8

Sensis.Com.Au: An Uprising Star of E-Innovation and E-Entrepreneurship (pages 148-158)

Fang Zhao

Sensis Search, a young entrepreneurial dot-com launched in 2004, is the first mover in redefining the Australian search market and creates a new paradigm for Internet searches that delivers relevant, quality local, and global...

Chapter 9

Using E- and M-Business Components in Business: Approaches, Cases, and Rules of Thumb (pages 159-178)

Mikael Collan, Anna Sell, Ville Harkke, Bill Anckar

This chapter discusses using e- and m-business components in supporting and enhancing existing businesses and in creating new business innovations. A framework illustrating two different approaches companies have to adoption of e-...

Chapter 10

Entrepreneurial Opportunities On the Internet (pages 179-199)

Di Waddel, Mohini Singh, Ambareen Musa

This chapter highlights and discusses entrepreneurial opportunities on the Internet. It provides a brief introduction to entrepreneurship, examines the characteristics of entrepreneurs, and talks about cyber entrepreneurs. It...

Chapter 11

Online Information Privacy and Its Implications for E-Entrepreneurship and E-Busines Ethics (pages 200-222)

Carmen Gould, Fang Zhao

This chapter reports the results of a national survey which investigated Australian Internet users’ attitudes and behaviours toward online information privacy using a typology that combines specific demographic and attitudinal...

Chapter 12

E-Organisation and Its Future Implication for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (pages 223-237)

Gideon Azumah, S. C. Lenny Koh, Stuart Maguire

E-organisations are expected to be one of the promising organisational forms in this Internet cultural era (ICE). E-organisations are different from traditional organisations; and most traditional organisations are evolving toward...

Chapter 13

A Prototype E-Business Model to Create a Competitive Advantage in SMEs (pages 238-260)

S. Pavic, M. Simpson, S. C.L. Koh

This study explores new ways for SMEs to create a competitive advantage through the use of e-business. It examines the level of ICT use in SMEs and identifies the drivers and barriers which owners/managers face in adopting...

Chapter 14

Impact of E-Innovation on Corporate Procurement Control: Electronic Marketplaces and Broad Spectrum Changes (pages 261-287)

J. Doug Thomson

This research addresses the very important question of the impact of e-innovation, namely, Web-based global electronic procurement systems and marketplace on corporate governance in relation to organizational purchasing — the...

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