Over the course of a few short years, electronic business has advanced from a buzzword to a thriving new channel for the delivery of goods and services and the mediation of financial transactions, shaping the destiny of numerous contemporary enterprises and significantly affecting entire economies worldwide. The rapid pace of advancement and change driven by e-commerce technologies, and the larger fiscal, economic, and sociological implications, have created a need for authoritative research to enhance the grasp of the academic, commercial, and consumer sectors on the full range of opportunities, issues, and challenges.

Electronic Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications enhances libraries worldwide through top research compilations from over 250 international authors in the field of e-business. This indispensable, 4-volume set contains over 200 crucial articles in topic areas such as e-commerce technologies, online marketing, social networking, and virtual business communities. Electronic Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides libraries with unsurpassed explorations, theories, and applications of e-business as a necessary addition to any library collection.

Authoritative contributions by over 250 of the world’s leading experts in electronic business

Comprehensive coverage of each specific topic, highlighting recent trends and the latest advances in e-business

Organized by topic and indexed, making it a convenient method of reference for all IT/IS scholars and professionals

Cross referencing of key terms, figures and information pertinent to electronic business

In-depth description of key issues, terms, and concepts

Over 5,000 references to existing literature and research

More than 200 chapters covering the most incisive and critical research issues in e-business