ABSTRACT

e-Business – business collaborations enabled through information and communication technologies – is an essential activity for any business organization and constitutes a significant and growing sector. This textbook presents an innovative teaching framework to help students gain a thorough understanding of the principles of this vital aspect of business and management.

 

Casting aside the over-complicated and narrow introductions of other textbooks, Grefen presents, analyzes and explains the principles of e-Business with refreshing clarity. The book covers both the business and technology aspects of this topic, using a unique framework integrating:

 

  • Business – focuses on why a specific e-Business scenario exists and how an organization can profit from it
  • Organization – analyzes how organizations and their processes are structured to achieve strategic goals
  • Architecture – explains the high level design of advanced information systems to describe how e-Business functions
  • Technology – examines the technological implementation of e-Business scenarios using a wide variety of ingredients from IT

 

Mastering e-Business offers a well-structured overview of all aspects of e-Business and is an essential read for all students and professionals interested in this central aspect of modern, global business.

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|17 pages

An e-business classification space

chapter 3|9 pages

The BOAT framework

chapter 4|27 pages

Business aspect

chapter 5|33 pages

Organization aspect

chapter 6|24 pages

Architecture aspect

chapter 7|40 pages

Technology aspect

chapter 8|8 pages

BOAT as an analysis instrument

chapter 9|3 pages

Concluding remarks