Worlds of E-Commerce:

Including contributions from leading international scholars from geography, economics, and public policy, it addresses theoretical and conceptual issues and presents case studies on how retailing, job searches, banking and finance, telecommunications, and government regulation are changing with the introduction and diffusion of the Internet and various electronic services. References to rapid developments in these fields are drawn from the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Russia, and the developing world. The implications of these developments on consumer behaviour, existing and new firms, regulatory agencies, and interstate economic development are also discussed.

Contents

• Ecommerce in the New Economy (Leinbach, USA)
• Towards an economics of the Internet and E-commerce (Button, USA)
• Beyond Transaction Costs: E-Commerce and the Power of Internet Dataspace (Kenney and Curry, USA/Mexico)
• The Geography of E-Commerce: Towards a Location Theory of Distributed Computing (Goodchild, USA)
• Maybe the Death of Distance, but Not the End of Geography: The Internet as a Network (Malecki and Gorman, USA)
• The Information Society, Japanese style: Corner Stores as Hubs for E-Commerce Access (Aoyama, USA)
• Internet Economies and the Online Recruiting Industry (Cobb, USA)
• Grounding Global Flows: Constructing An Ecommerce Hub in Singapore (Coe and Yeung, Singapore)
• Finding the Source of Amazon.com: Examining the Store the "Earth's Biggest Selection (Dodge, UK)
• Electronic banking and City-Systems in the Netherlands (Van Geenhuizen and Nijkamp, Amsterdam)
• Global Electronic Spaces: Singapore's Role in the Foreign Exchange Market in the Asia-Pacific Region (Langdale, Sydney)
• The Currency of Currency: Speed, Sovereignty and Electronic Finance (Warf and Purcell, USA)
• Information Communication Technologies and the Integration of European Derivatives Markets (Power, Sweden)
• Dry Countries in Cyberspace: Governance and Enforcement without Geographic Borders (Regan, USA)
• Dot com Development: Are ITLines Better than Tractors (Wilson, USA)
• Corporate Nations: The Emergence of New Sovereignties (Edwards, Microsoft Corporation, USA)