chapter 1 Building Information Age Businesses for the 21st Century* -- chapter 2 The Embedding Stage of Electronic Commerce -- chapter 3 Web Evaluation -- chapter 4 Role of Information Technology in Supply Chain Management -- chapter 5 Online Auctions: A Closer Look -- chapter 6 Bid Together, BuyTogether: On the Efficacy of Group-Buying Business Models in Internet-Based Selling -- chapter 7 The Great Experiment: Pricing on the Internet -- chapter 8 Virtual Trade Fairs: An Emerging Internet Application -- chapter 9 Planning Business-to-Business E-Procurement Marketplaces -- chapter 10 Internet Evolution and Social Impact* -- chapter 11 Designing a Curriculum for the Deathof E-Business: Five Principles -- chapter 12 Electronic Commerce Partnerships Between Business and Academia -- chapter 13 The Covered Bazaar on the Internet: Culturally Specific Alternatives to “Web-Marts” -- chapter 14 Electronic Government -- chapter 15 E-Business Goes Global: Institutional Environments and Governance of Global Internet Firms -- chapter 16 Paradigm for Financial Modernization in E-Commerce -- chapter 17 Knowledge Management in E-Services: From Mass Customization to Service Individualization -- chapter 18 Preventing and Detecting Fraud in Electronic Commerce Systems -- chapter 19 Protecting a Borderless World: Recognizing and Understanding Security Threats to E-Commerce -- chapter 20 The Critical Role of Independent Security Audits -- chapter 21 Trusted Electronic Market Transactions: A Macro- and Micro-Level View -- chapter 22 Development of Reliable E-Commerce Applications in Large Open Distributed Systems* -- chapter 23 Distributed Software Component Integration: A Framework for a Rule-Based Approach -- chapter 24 Collaborative Architectures that Support Electronic Business -- chapter 25 A Business Component-Based Approach to E-Business Process Design -- chapter 26 Reducing Distance in Electronic Commerce Using Virtual Reality -- chapter 27 XML, A Collaborative Enabler of E-Business through the Mediation of Heterogeneous Data between Trading Partners.