Ernie Jordan is Professor of Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia where he is the Director of the Electronic Commerce Programs and board member of the Macquarie Risk Competence Centre. Ernie was born and educated in the UK, completed his PhD in Hong Kong, and has spent most of his working life in Australia. His major research interests are in electronic com...

Building a successful e-business requires such enterprise capabilities as global networking, integrated business processes, sharing information with supplychain partners, agility in responding to the market, and intelligent decisionmaking. At the same time enterprise systems have extended beyond the traditional business functions and include features to support supply-chain management, customer...

There has been an enormous increase of transactions and cooperative-computing services on the Internet. This is both a technical and a social phenomenon. Transactions and services over the Internet have global reach and users, known or unknown to the service provider, might be interested in availing the access or participate in the cooperative transaction in a distributed manner. Thus, it is ve...

Use of information and communication technology is becoming popular with time as this technology is coming with a lot of lavishness so people are demanding more of it. Electronic items have taken a status symbol in our lives. In India rich class is using up to date devices like cell phones, laptops, computers, microwave ovens, fridge, televisions etc and then pass it on to the poor class. There...

Based on the observation of the E-commerce management practice in other countries in the world, this essay intends to discuss the general principles of E-commerce management, including market orientation, government facilitation, international coordination, establishment of focal points of development, consistency and cultivation of talented personnel. It also attempts to analyze the challenges...

Management of e-waste is becoming a challengeable issue in today’s world. The increase of waste and the need for saving the environment are two global debates in the world. These managerial problems come as a result of technological advancements and globalization as global forces toward complexity. These global forces made e-waste management become a world’s priority issue followed by cleaning ...

E-learning markets have been expanding very rapidly. As a result, the involved senior managers are increasingly being confronted with the need to make significant investment decisions related to the e-learning business activities. Real options applications to risk management and investment evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have mainly focused on a single and a-prior...

The rise of the Internet has revolutionized the manner in which retailers operate. The early stages of the dot com era allowed businesses to experiment with different business models. Internet retailers focused on front-end activities, overlooking the importance of back-end operations such as supply chain management. Retailers have the option to distribute their products via the traditional met...

All human interaction is based on trust, meaning that we choose interaction partners and make commitment decisions based on how much we trust the other party. This applies to commerce as well as to ecommerce. In normal commerce, established frameworks, legal and other, provide protection and assurance upon which trust is built. Because e-commerce is largely based on information technology, IT s...