1. Designing digital marketplaces for competitive advantage / Dinesh Rathi, Lisa Given -- 2. E-commerce systems for software agents / Emmanuel Tadjouddine -- 3. Enhancing the preparedness of SMEs for E-business opportunities by collaborative networks / Heiko Duin, Klaus-Dieter Thoben -- 4....

1. SMEs and e-business / Mário Ferreira -- 2. Strategic e-business/IT alignment for SME competitiveness / Eduardo Escofet, María Rodríguez-Fórtiz, José Garrido -- 3. SME managers' required entrepreneurship and business competences / George Velegrakis ... et al. -- 4. Preparing for change /...

"This book discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities and solutions related to electronic business adoption with a special focus on SMEs, providing researchers, scholars, and professionals with some of the most advanced research developments, solutions and discussions of E-Business...

"This book provides a discussion of the managerial aspects, solutions and case studies related to e-business, disseminating current achievements and practical solutions and applications"--Provided by publisher

"This book discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities and solutions related to electronic business adoption with a special focus on SMEs, providing researchers, scholars, and professionals with some of the most advanced research developments, solutions and discussions of E-Business...

"This book discusses the progress of e-commerce research in small to medium-sized enterprises in different countries in the world. It points to some of the impending issues concerning e-commerce in SMEs, and highlights the need to do something in order to bridge the existing divide between the...

"This book provides a complete set of in-depth research investigations on global m-commerce strategies and technological standards, as well as case studies on the subject that elucidate the research through real-world examples. It will prove to be a valuable reference to drive the current and...

In the healthcare field, there is limited literature published on the subject of global deployment, diffusion, adoption, use, and impact of information communication technologies in the context of health informatics and electronic healthcare applications. Due to a lack of such literature, those...