e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations [Paperback]

Michael P. Papazoglou (Author), Pieter Ribbers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0470843764 | ISBN-13: 978-0470843765 | Edition: 1

e-business inextricably aligns technological advances with business models, business repurposing efforts and organizational structures in order to support end-to-end business processes that span the boundaries of the extended enterprise value chain.

• Using lots of real-world examples, this incisive guide helps people understand the theory and practice of e-business today
• Offers a thorough examination of the relationship of e-business to business strategy, from business models, supply chains and integrated value chains to governance structures
• Covers key topics that businesses need to consider with designing an e-business strategy, from XML and business processes to electronic intermediaries and markets, e-procurement and e-business networks
• Provides a complete overview of the technical foundations of e-business, with discussions of security, middleware, component-based development, legacy applications, enterprise application integration, web services and business protocols

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From the Back Cover

"… a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to business-to-business commerce in the new millennium."
—John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto.

Two significant factors combine to drive the phenomenon of e-Business. Competition constantly motivates companies in their marketplaces, while rapidly developing information technologies offer new opportunities and challenges.

For Mike Papazoglou and Piet Ribbers, both business and technology are integral to e-Business. They demonstrate here how a solid understanding of business, organization, management and technology is crucial to an understanding of what e-Business is today and how it is going to be shaped in the future.

e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations focuses on the development of e-Business between and within enterprises. In particular it addresses how enterprises collaborate, what coordination mechanisms are necessary and how this is reflected at the technical infrastructure level.

It includes

• abundant real-world examples to encourage readers to understand and appreciate real-life e-Business
• an analytical and critical approach to understanding business issues, decision-making and technology use and development.
• extensive end of chapter discussion questions and assignments for students
• a companion website at www.wiley.com/go/ebusiness with additional exercises for students and PowerPoint slides and solutions for lecturers

Aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Information Systems, Information Management and Computer Science, this book will also be of use to business and management students, researchers and practitioners.

"This book represents a shift in our thinking of e-business away from purely technical considerations to a view that embraces business and technical perspectives. The international examples of business applications and technical exercises will be of great value to students."
—Professor Christopher P. Holland, Manchester Business School

About the Author

Michael P. Papazoglou holds the chair of Computer Science and is director of the INFOLAB at the Univ. of Tilburg in the Netherlands. he is also a honorary professor at the University of Trento in Italy. Prior to this (1991-6), he was full Professor and head of School of Information Systems at the Queensland University of Technology (QUR) in Brisbane, Australia. he also held senior academic positions at the Australian National University, the University of Koblenz, Germany, Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany, and was principal research scientist at the National German research centre for Computer Science (GMD) in St. Augustin from 1983-9.
Papazoglou serves on several international committees and on the editorial board of nine international scientific journals and is co-editor in charge of the MIT book series on Information Systems. He has chaired numerous well-known international scientific conferences in Computer Science. These include the International Conference on data Engineering (ICDE), International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL), International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), International Conference on Entity/Relationship Modelling and others. He is the founder of the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) and more recently of the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC).
Papazoglou has authored or edited 15 books and approximately 150 scientific journal articles and refereed conference papers. His research was/is funded by the European commission, the Australian Research council, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, and Departments of Science and Technology in Europe and Australia. He is a golden core member and a distinguished visitor of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Science section.

Pieter M. Ribbers holds the chair of Information Management at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, where he also is head of the Department of Information Systems and Management . From 1991 till 1994 he held a position as affiliated Professor Information Management at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. His interests span management of information technology (in particular question related to alignment and information economics), inter-organizational Systems (in particular electronic commerce), and the strategic and organization consequences of the use of information technology. He is active as researcher, lecturer and consultant. he has supervised more than 20 PhD theses and has contributed articles in this field to national and international professional journals and has (co)authored several books. He is active at international conferences in information systems (ECIS, HICSS, ICIS) and is a member of the editorial board of Information and Management - The International Journal of Information Systems Applications. He has also participated in research programs of the European Commission. As a consultant he has worked with companies such as Brunel, Nolan, Norton & Co., and ING Group especially in outsourcing, scenario development and information economics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 750 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470843764
• ISBN-13: 978-0470843765
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.7 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Very good academic work but..., June 2, 2009

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This review is from: e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations (Paperback)

If you are new to e-business don't start with this book. The book present a very good investigation and strong academic work in general. The issue I have with it is that it's not practical and not written in a way that helps to understand and learn the concepts; it's like reading a dictionary or specifications documents. The case study material is minimun and no actual implementations are covered.
I guess it makes great reference material for someone who is developing/modifying e-Business tools.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for Master Degree, October 11, 2008

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This review is from: e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations (Paperback)

The book is very to study and to know about e-business, it is an excellent referent to study.