This book highlights the new urban–rural relationship that has emerged under the influence of e-commerce in China. In this regard, it presents case studies on the Suichang rural e-commerce model and Alibaba’s rural strategy, together with analyses of online service in China. Furthermore, by means of a brief review of the urban–rural relationship throughout China’s history, and of academ…
SectionI: Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Literature review -- Chapter3: Methodology and Data -- SectionII: Trade Performance of CGFT: Chapter4: Trade Performance of CFGT in Asia -- Chapter5: Comparative Advantage -- Chapter6: Competitiveness of CFGT -- SectionIII: Regional Orientation: Chapter7: Regional Orientation Index -- SectionIV: Analysis: Chapter8: Potential Business of Climate Frie…
1 Shipping and the Law on Bills of Lading and Charter Parties -- 2 The Carrier’s Obligations over the Cargo under the Hague-Visby Rules and the Rotterdam Rules -- 3 The FIOS(T) Clause -- 4 The Carrier’s Obligations over Deck Cargo -- 5 The Carrier’s Obligations over Containerized Cargo -- 6 Conclusion.This book addresses the legal and contractual obligations of sea carriers regarding due …
1 Introduction: Trade policies in the post-TPP era (Julien Chaisse, Henry Gao, Chang fa Lo) -- Part 1 The Impact of TPP on International Economic Law Rule-Making -- 2 The Coherent Fragmentation of International Economic Law: Lessons from the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (Colin B. Picker) -- 3 On Creating Negotiation Rounds Similar to Multilateral Regimes for the TPP for its Furthe…
Local Communities -- Does the Internet Enhance the Capacity of Community Associations? -- Information Technology in Support of Public Deliberation -- Local Communities: Relationships between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ social capital -- Extending Social Constructivism with Institutional Theory: A Broadband Civic Networking Case -- Minimalist Design for Informal Learning in Community Computing …
Innovative Business Models -- Value Process and Business Process in E-Business Modelling -- VA3: Governance Selection in Value Webs -- From an E-Business Revenue Model to Its Software Reference Architecture -- e-Collaboration and e-Services -- Selecting Supply Partners for E-Collaboration in Supply Chains -- E-Collaboration Architecture for Customer-Driven Business Processes in Inter-Organizati…
Authentication, Encryption, Certification and Traceability in E-Services -- Safeguards, Interception, Tracking and Firewall Technology -- Administration, Management, Risk Analysis and Organizational Issues -- Mobile Access, Network Protocol and Multilateral Security -- Certification Authorities -- Public Key Infrastructures.International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series pub…
Ontologies in E-Commerce -- Architecture of a Semantic XPath Processor. Application to Digital Rights Management -- Conceptual and Formal Ontology Model of e-Catalogs -- Automatic Ontology Mapping for Agent Communication in an e-Commerce Environment -- An Ontology-Based Two-Level Clustering for Supporting E-Commerce Agents’ Activities -- Process Modelling in E-Commerce -- Specifying Workflow …
Introduction -- New Products and Services -- Process Efficiency through Customer Integration -- Data Format Standards -- PDF/X-3 -- JDF -- XML -- Process Efficiency through Self Service: Self-Directed Customers -- Online Calculation -- Placing Orders Online -- Remote Preflight -- Web Printing -- Order Tracking -- Archiving Orders and Offerings -- Stock Reporting Systems -- Online Ordering Syste…
Socio-Technical Studies of Mobility and Ubiquity -- Keynotes -- The Future of Work -- Its the Experience, Not the Price -- The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and Representations of Reality -- Individual Consequences -- Friend or Foe? The Ambivalent Relationship between Mobile Technology and its Users -- The Role of Ubiquitous Computing in Maintaining Work-Life Balance: Perspective…