Digital Economy: Impacts, Influences and Challenges

By: Harbhajan Kehal (University of Western Sydney, Australia) and Varinder Singh (IT Consultant, Australia)

Publisher: Idea Group Publishing (2005)

Pages: 424

Format: Ebook (PDF)

Description

Digital Economy: Impacts, Influences and Challenges provides information about the socioeconomic aspects of the Digital Economy. This set of 18 essays covers the effects of Digital Economy on business transactions, technology and culture, as well as on education. It also covers various aspects of global production, trade, and investment and the effects of Internet. The chapters review best practices from concept to development, through implementation and evaluation. This book is one of the few books that looks at the digital economy from a socio economic angle, offering perspectives from scholars and practitioners of digital economics around the world.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Socio-Economic Impacts and Influences of E-Commerce in a Digital Economy (pages 1-20)
• Chapter 2: Re-Intermediation and Deferment through E-Commerce: Neo-Austrian Interpretation of Capital and Time (pages 21-38)
• Chapter 3: Risk and Investment in the Global Telecommunications Industry (pages 39-61)
• Chapter 4: Reduction of Transaction Costs by Using Electronic Commerce in Financial Services: An Institutional Empirical Approach (pages 62-83)
• Chapter 5: The Spreading Use of Digital Cash and Its Problems (pages 84-97)
• Chapter 6: Electronic Signature: The Core Legislation Category in Digital Economy (pages 98-135)
• Chapter 7: Impacts of the Digital Economy: The Shift to Consumer-Driven Competition and Life-Span Products (pages 136-153)
• Chapter 8: Digital Products on the Web: Pricing Issues and Revenue Models (pages 154-174)
• Chapter 9: On Software Piracy (pages 175-199)
• Chapter 10: An E-Classification of the World's Capital Cities: URL References to Web Sites (pages 200-216)
• Chapter 11: Online Services and Regional Web Portals: Exploring the Social and Economic Impacts (pages 217-235)
• Chapter 12: ICT Growth and Diffusion: Concepts, Impacts and Policy Issues in the Indian Experience with Reference to the International Digital Divide (pages 236-251)
• Chapter 13: Digital Technologies and the Cross-Border Expansion of South African Banks (pages 252-272)
• Chapter 14: Technology and culture: E-Commerce in China (pages 273-285)
• Chapter 15: Internet Economy of the Online Game Business in South Korea: The Case of NCsoft's Lineage (pages 286-312)
• Chapter 16: Opportunities and Challenges of the New Economy for East Asia (pages 313-343)
• Chapter 17: Digital Engineering Campus: Economics, Acceptance, and Impact (pages 344-358)
• Chapter 18: Corporate Strategies in a Digital World: Supply Chain Management and Customer Relationship Management- Development and Integration-Focus (pages 359-380)

About Authors

Dr. Harbhajan S Kehal is a senior lecturer in Economics at the University of Western Sydney, Blacktown Campus, New South Wales, and Australia. Previously, he completed his Ph D at the University of Western Australia, Perth. His research interests center around foreign investment in developing countries, international trade, and economic relationships of Australia with Japan, South Asian Countries and South Africa. He is the Eminent Fellow of the American Biographical Association, is a member of a vast number of Economic Societies and is well known in the contemporary economic world for his leadership and active participation in international conferences.

Mr. Varinder Pal Singh achieved his degree of Masters in Commerce, specializing in Information Systems from the Faculty of Management, University of Western Sydney, Australia in 2002. Earlier he has passed his B.Sc (Hons.) and M.Sc (Hons.) in Biochemistry from Panjab University Chandigarh, India.