Feng Li is Chair of E-Business Development at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Business School.

"This book provides a comprehensive roadmap that helps to understand the complicated and multi-faceted phenomenon of E-Business. It bridges real examples of the many ways E-Business is used to augment, substitute, disrupt, and dis-intermediate the normal practices of business with the relevant academic views of the same. The result is a powerful tool for practitioners and academics that allows the reader to drill down on these issues in whatever depth is desired." Thomas H. Brush, Purdue University"This book is refreshingly well-written and thought provoking. Grounded in appropriate theory and literature, it provides a most welcome addition to the e-business literature." Professor Michael D Williams, Swansea University

• Preface xiiiAcknowledgements xvii1 Introduction 12 What Is E-Business and Does It Still Matter? 8Part I The New E-Business Environment 253 The ‘ICT Revolution’ and the Information Economy 294 The Network Economy: New Rules of the Game 525 How the Internet Redefines Organizational Boundaries: A Transaction Cost Analysis 66Part II Emerging Strategies and Business Models in the Network Economy 796 New Strategies for the Network Economy: Web Strategy, Business Unbundling and Virtual Organizations 837 Managing Disruptive Strategic Innovations in the New Economy 1028 Strategic Reorientations in the Network Economy: From Products and Services to Solutions and Experiences 1199 Emerging E-Business Models in the Network Economy 133Part III Organizational Innovations through Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) 14710 Structural Innovations and Emerging Forms of Organization 15111 Process Innovations: Beyond Business Process Reengineering 17112 New Work Organization and New Ways of Working: From Teleworking to Virtual Teams 18313 Inter-Organizational Innovations through Inter-Organizational Information Systems 19714 Conclusions and Emerging Issues 212Appendix I Developing a Launch-Ready E-Business Plan: Putting Theory into Practice (Assignment I) 225Appendix II Developing an Online E-Business Resource Portal: Who is Who in E-Business (Assignment 2) 228Appendix III Developing an E-Business Resource Portal and Online Forum: E-Business Wikipedia (Assignment 3) 231Bibliography 233Index 241