Tracking a Transformation : E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- PART I: The Enablers: Tools and Markets -- Tools: The Drivers of E- Commerce -- The Construction of Marketplace Architecture -- PART II: E- Commerce: A View from the Sectors -- The Boundary Condition of Services -- E-Finance: Recent Developments and Policy Implications -- The Future of Retail Financial Services: Transparency, Bypass, and Differential Pricing -- Web Impact on the Air Travel Industry -- Confronting the Digital Era: Thoughts on the Music Sector -- Standard Modules and Market Flexibility -- The Internet and the Personal Computer Value Chain -- E-volving the Auto Industry: E- Business Effects on Consumer and Supplier Relationships -- E-Commerce and the Changing Terms of Competition in the Semiconductor Industry -- The Old Economy Listening to the New: E- Commerce in Hearing Instruments -- Making and Moving Stuff -- Electronic Systems in the Food Industry: Entropy, Speed, and Sales -- Lean Information and the Role of the Internet in Food Retailing in the United Kingdom -- E-Commerce in the Textile and Apparel Industries -- E-Commerce and Competitive Change in the Trucking Industry -- PART III: What Comes Next? The Evolving Infrastructure -- What Will the Next Generation of Tools, Networks, and Marketplaces Look Like? -- The Mobile Internet Market: Lessons from JapanÌs i- Mode System -- E-Commerce and Network Architecture: New Perspectives -- The Political Economy of Open Source Software -- The Next-Generation Internet: Promoting Innovation and User- Experimentation -- Contributors -- Index.

A Brookings Institution Press, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation publication This book rests on the proposition that the information techology revolution of the last ten years marks the beginning of a fundamental economic transformation. This transformation will affect every activity in which organization, information processing, or communication is important. It may well require changes in ideas about ownership, property, and control--the way in which governments regulate economies in the broadest sense of that term. The e-commerce transformation presents remarkable opportunities for businesses, governments, and other organizations to remake themselves, recreate what it is that they can do, and reconstruct their relationships with customers, citizens, and constituents. A project of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), this volume analyzes the way this transformation will affect market structure and pricing models in several major industries: retail financial services, air travel, music, automobiles, semiconductors, hearing instruments, food, textiles, and trucking.

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