E-Commerce: Sorting Out the Environmental Consequences

Sorting Out the Environmental Consequences

E-commerce and Logistical Consequences

aim, method, results) The aim is to study the logistics consequences of the development of E-commerce for physical products. This will be studied with a Supply Chain view from three different but interconnected perspectives. The shipper perspective concerns the development and organisation of logistics platforms, which will be described and analysed in terms of their effectiveness in electronic...

Sorting Out the Genome

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Are You Out of Your Depth with E-Commerce?

Why is Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) not the runaway success it was supposed to be? Instead of hearing or reading about wonderful achievements we appear to be finding an increasing number of stories ranging from disappointment to despair. In this paper it will be argued that the term e-commerce means too many things to too many different people, and it will be shown that a number of variants...

Environmental impacts of the emerging digital economy: the e-for-environment e-commerce?

The Internet-led digital economy is changing both the production and consumption patterns at the global scale. Although great potential exists to harness information technology in general and the Internet in particular and improve the environment, possible negative impacts of e-commerce on the environment should also be considered and dealt with. In this forum, we discuss both the potential pos...