The rapid growth in the adoption and diffusion of information technologies has important implications for practitioners, academics and policy-makers. The widespread use of information technologies is challenging traditional business models and reshaping socio-economic paradigms, as well as promoting new social relations, jobs and working structures.

By synthesizing prior research and providing a strong foundation for future research, the aim of this book is to contribute to our practical and conceptual understanding of the technological, behavioral, organizational, social and economic issues and their inter-relationship in organizations and electronic markets.

The book covers five broad aspects: technological innovations and trends; organizational change and knowledge management; strategic transformation; and social and economic transformation. Contributions include works by scholars from recognized international communities of academics, practitioners and policy-makers.

Contents:

• Information Integration: A Review of Emerging E-Business Technologies
• ICTs, Organizational Change and New Modes of Organizing
• Exploring the Virtual Work Environment: A Process Perspective
• Organizational Implementation and Integration of Information Technology
• Implementing Enterprise Systems: A Review of Critical Success Factors
• An Interdisciplinary Research Framework to Investigate Electronic Business Models
• Emerging Virtual Infrastructures in Service Delivery: Scenarios for Health Care
• Knowledge Transfer in Global Organizations: The Case of Siemens
• Organizational Transformation by Activating Knowledge: The Mediating Role of Collaboration Technologies
• Ecological Models of Inter-Organizational Routines in Electronic Commerce
• Alliance Networks, Inter-Firm Learning and Communication: A Search for New Insights
• Strategic Planning and Outsourcing
• IT-Enabled Innovation in the Multinational Company
• The Impact of Internet on Market Structure
• Strategic Transformations in Selected Productive Sectors
• The Evolution of New Social Relations and Structures
• Knowledge Management, Technology and Organization
• Knowledge and Labor-Theories of Value: Can They be Reconciled?
• Information Technology-Enabled Innovation: A Critical Overview and Research Agenda