Table of contents: 1. Preface; 2. Socio-economic impacts and influences of e-commerce in a digital economy; 3. Re-intermediation and deferment through e-commerce: Neo-austrian interpretation of capital and time; 4. Risk and investment in the global telecommunications industry; 5. Reduction of transaction costs by using electronic commerce in financial services: An institutional and empirical approach; 6. The spreading use of digital cash and its problems; 7. Electronic signature: The core legislation category in digital economy; 8. Impacts of the digital economy: The shift to consumer-driven competition and life-span products; 9. Digital products on the web: Pricing issues and revenue models; 10. On software piracy; 11. An e-classification of the world’s capital cities: URL references to web sites; 12. Online services and regional web portals: Exploring the social and economic impacts; 13. ICT growth and diffusion: Concepts, impacts and policy issues in the indian experience with reference to the international digital divide; 14. Digital technologies and the cross-border expansion of south african banks; 15. Technology and culture: E-commerce in China; 16. Internet economy of the online game business in South Korea: The case of NCsoft’s lineage; 17. Opportunities and challenges of the new economy for east asia; 18. Digital engineering campus: Economics, acceptance, and impact; 19. Corporate strategies in a digital world: Supply chain management and customer relationship management – Development and integration-focus; 20. About the editors; 21. About the authors; 22. Index.
