Mehdi Khosrow-Pour – Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce, Volume 1

The Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce Series provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, human, and cognitive impacts of the EC technologies and advances on organizations around the world. These impacts include those of EC on consumer behavior as well as on organizational behavior, development, and management in organizations. Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce, Volume 1 is the first release in this series.

In our present era, electronic commerce has taken the stage as a necessary ingredient in education, manufacturing, and even research. Individuals involved in researching, improving, and using e-commerce need a strong resource to provide ideas and information on the utilization of these new technologies and what possibilities e-commerce offers.

Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce, Volume 1 presents a wide range of the most current research in the adoption of e-commerce, e-business, and e-government. This inaugural volume will assist researchers, educators, and professionals in understanding the necessary components for e-technologies and how to best adopt these elements into their own classrooms, workplaces, and organizations throughout the world.

• Chapter 1: Role of Small-Business Strategic Alliances in the Perception of Benefits and Disadvantages of E-Commerce Adoption in SMEs (pages 1-27)
• Chapter 2: The Effects of Animated Banner and Pop-Up Ads on Commercial Websites (pages 28-50)
• Chapter 3: Managing Security Vulnerabilities in a Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Organization (pages 51-75)
• Chapter 4: Government-to-Government Enterprises: A RoadMap for Success.. (pages 76-98)
• Chapter 5: Effective Web Site Design: Insight from Information Processing (pages 99-120)
• Chapter 6: Personalization of E-Commerce Applications in SMEs: Conclusions from an Empirical Study in Switzerland (pages 121-141)
• Chapter 7: An Interventionist Approach to E-Commerce Implementation in SMEs (pages 142-152)
• Chapter 8: E-Government Evolution in Ireland: A Framework for Successful Implementation (pages 153-172)
• Chapter 9: E-Taxation: An Introduction to the Use of Tax XML for Corporate Tax Reporting (pages 173-187)
• Chapter 10: Online Consumer Trust: A Multi-Dimensional Model (pages 188-208)
• Chapter 11: A Customer Relationship Management System to Target Customers at Cisco (pages 209-221)
• Chapter 12: E-Government and Social Exclusion: An Empirical Study (pages 222-239)
• Chapter 13: From Seeking Information to Transacting: The Impact of Web Site Quality on E-Taxation (pages 240-265)
• Chapter 14: The Strategic Importance of E-Commerce in Modern Supply Chains (pages 266-286)
• Chapter 15: On E-Markets in Emerging Economy: An Indian Experience (pages 287-299)
• Chapter 16: An E-Government Model (pages 300-311)
• Chapter 17 :Beauty is More than Skin Deep: Organisational Strategies for Online Consumer Risk Mitigation in Apparel Retailing (pages 312-340)
• About the Authors
• Index

About Author

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the Nova Southeastern University (Florida, USA). Dr. Khosrow-Pour taught undergraduate and graduate information system courses at the Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg for almost 20 years. He is currently Executive Editor at IGI Global (www.igi-global.com). He also serves as Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) (www.irma-international.org) and Executive Director of the World Forgotten Children’s Foundation (www.world-forgotten-children.org). He is the author/editor of more than 100 books in information technology management. He is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Green Computing, International Journal of Library and Information Services, International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and International Journal of Natural Computing Research, and is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Journal of Cases on Information Technology, and the Journal of Information Technology Research, and has authored more than 50 articles published in various conference proceedings and scholarly journals.