Strategies for e-Business

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This is the fourth edition of a unique textbook that provides extensive coverage of the evolution, the current state, and the practice of e-business strategies. It provides a solid introduction to understanding e-business and e-commerce by combining fundamental concepts and application models with practice-based case studies. An ideal classroom companion for business schools, the authors use their extensive knowledge to show how corporate strategy can imbibe and thrive by adopting vibrant e-business frameworks with proper tools. Students will gain a thorough knowledge of developing electronic and mobile commerce strategies and the methods to deal with these issues and challenges.

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Keywords

• Electronic commerce strategy
• Case studies in e-business
• Mobile e-commerce
• E-business and e-commerce textbook
• Evolution of e-business
• e-business strategy formulation
• Market segmentation
• Core competencies
• Differerentiation strategies in e-business
• E-Business models
• Strategic gameboard framework
• Digital business transformation

Table of contents (31 chapters)

Front Matter

I

Front Matter

Key Terminology and Evolution of e-Business

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

II

Front Matter

Overview of the e-Business Strategy Framework

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

External Analysis: The Impact of the Internet on the Macro-environment and on the Industry Structure of e-Business Companies

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Internal Analysis: e-Business Competencies as Sources of Strengths and Weaknesses

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Strategy Options in e-Business Markets

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Creating and Sustaining a Competitive Advantage over Time

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Exploiting Opportunities of New Market Spaces in e-Business

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Creating and Capturing Value Through e-Business Strategies

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Choosing the Appropriate Strategy for the Internal Organization of e-Business Activities

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Interaction with Suppliers: e-Procurement

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Choosing the Appropriate e-Business Strategy for Interacting with Users

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Moving from Wired e-Commerce to Mobile e-Commerce and U-Commerce

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Strategies for Mobile Commerce

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Strategies for Social Commerce

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Unifying Channels to Reach Customers: Omni-Channel Strategies

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

The Strategic Approach of the World’s Biggest e-Tailing Companies: Amazon and Alibaba

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Strategic Trends for e-Business

• Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Authors and Affiliations

IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

Department of Business Administration 1, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

About the authors

Tawfik Jelassi is Professor of Strategy and Technology Management at IMD Business School in Lausanne (Switzerland). He is also Director of the OWP program in Lausanne and Singapore, which is IMD’s largest executive education program. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of digital business transformation and leadership in turbulent times. His publications have appeared in leading conference proceedings and refereed academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS and Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, as well as in practitioner-oriented publications such as Harvard Business Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, and the European Management Journal.

Francisco J. Martínez-López is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Granada. Dr. Martínez-López is the Associate Editor of European Journal of Marketing and is member of the Editorial Board of Industrial Marketing Management. He has co-edited several international journals’ special issues and research books for leading publishers like Springer and Elsevier. One of his major contributions has been the editorship is a research handbook of e-business strategic management (Springer, 2014).

Bibliographic Information

• Book Title : Strategies for e-Business
• Book Subtitle : Concepts and Cases on Value Creation and Digital Business Transformation
• Authors : Tawfik Jelassi, Francisco J. Martínez-López
• Series Title : Classroom Companion: Business
• DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48950-2
• Publisher : Springer Cham
• eBook Packages : Business and Management , Business and Management (R0)
• Copyright Information : Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
• Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-030-48949-6 Published: 29 June 2020
• Softcover ISBN : 978-3-030-48952-6 Published: 29 June 2021
• eBook ISBN : 978-3-030-48950-2 Published: 28 June 2020
• Series ISSN : 2662-2866
• Series E-ISSN : 2662-2874
• Edition Number : 4
• Number of Pages : XIII, 795
• Number of Illustrations : 20 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour
• Additional Information : Pearson Education Limited, London, 2014
• Topics : e-Business/e-Commerce , Business Strategy/Leadership , Information Systems and Communication Service , Sales/Distribution