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Electronic Commerce: Opening Up New Opportunities for Business Edited by Paul Timmers, Brian Stanford Smith & Paul T. Kidd 2001, ISBN 1-901864-04-9   Contents

Foreword	iii
Preface	v
Part I: Business and Policy Issues
Challenges of the electronic marketplace Uros Janko	3
Electronic commerce in the context of an overall global business strategy Gordon Styles	11
Opportunity sets for SMEs and Electronic Commerce Phil Shakeshaft	15
Business on the internet: new models of engagement? Jonathan Reynolds	21
Electronic Commerce and Urban Regeneration - Cities as Multimedia Growth Centres Dave Carter	29
Regional development and the information society David Fitzpatrick	37
Global policy responses in the field of electronic commerce James Johnson	45

Part II: Legal and Security Issues
Superhighway code - avoiding legal liability for internet content Sallie Spilsbury	55
Proposal for a directive establishing a common legal framework for electronic signatures: an overview Rosa Julia-Barcelo	63
The role of security in electronic commerce Nigel Hickson	71
Electronic trade of intangible commodities: a technological and legal challenge Farid Meinköhn	81
The United Nations secure electronic authenticated link infrastructure for electronic commerce Carlos Moreira	87

Part III: Electronic Commerce in Developing Countries
Cultural barriers for electronic commerce in the Mediterranean area Juan Carlos M. Coll	97
Electronic commerce in the south Mediterranean countries: past, present and future Adel Danish	105
The evolution of internet services in Egypt: towards empowering electronic commerce Sherif Hashem and Magda Ismail	115
Will the central and eastern European countries join the information society?: the case of Poland Andrzej J. Piotrowski	123
An infrastructure for regional electronic commerce support Viatcheslav Britchkovski and Alexander Soukhodolski	133
Russian SMEs on the way to electronic commerce Arkadi Kremer	143

Part IV: Applications and Awareness
Increasing commercial opportunities through successful e-business applications: an Italian experience Stefano Mantegazza, Vittorio Patera and Emanuele Pessi	149
Electronic commerce in support of domestic and international trade Martin Parfett	161
Internet electronic commerce: solutions for Manchester SMEs Denise Eccles	171
Digital recruitment in a global village Robert M. van Zoelen	181
Electronic commerce in public administrations: issues, opportunities and realities Alfonso H. Molina	189
Using electronic commerce to speed up and rationalise transactions on digging by utilities in Rome Mirta Michilli and Francesco Loriga	201
Electronic commerce in the city of Tampere Jari Seppälä and Petri Kyrönviita	213
Going global: developing electronic commerce in SMEs Clive Smithers	219
Electronic commerce: business models for SMEs Georges Fischer	229
Electronic commerce: business opportunities and case studies Roger Till	237
The delivery of teleservices to small businesses Gérard Courtieux	245
WeCAN: wide electronic commerce awareness network Christian H. Leeb	255
GECOMNET - global electronic commerce master network Augusto G. Medina and Niels Bjorn-Andersen	261
Internet business and SMEs: catalysts for the new network economy Karel Uyttendaele	267

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