| Description |
xviii, 294 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Diamonds are forever, computers are not -- 2. A birthday even a curmudgeon could love -- 3. It has bugs, but the games are out of this world -- 4. The biology of technology -- 5. Virulent word of mouse -- 6. An earful about Zvi's e-mail -- 7. Repetitive stress injuries -- 8. To have and to have not -- 9. Uncertainty, prediction, and the unexpected -- 10. When technologies converge -- 11. Forecasting commercial change -- 12. The tape story tapestry : historical research with inaccessible digital information technologies -- 13. The salad days of on-line shopping -- 14. Don't call it a highway! -- 15. Commercializing the Internet -- 16. Building the virtual world -- 17. A revolution? : how do you know? -- 18. PCs, the Internet, and you -- 19. An era of impatience -- 20. Shortfalls, downturns and recessions -- 21. Explaining booms, busts and errors -- 22. An inside scoop on the high-tech stock market bust -- 23. The crash in competitive telephony -- 24. Too much Internet backbone? -- 25. Debunking the productivity paradox -- 26. Banking on the information age -- 27. Measure for measure in the new economy -- 28. Pricing Internet access -- 29. E-business infrastructure -- 30. The price is not right -- 31. Client-server demand and legacy systems -- 32. Upgrading, catching up and shooting for par -- 33. How co-invention shapes our market -- 34. Which industries use the Internet? -- 35. Where did the Internet go? -- 36. Not a young and restless market -- 37. Return of the jaded -- 38. Bill, act like a mensch! -- 39. Aggressive business tactics : are there limits? -- 40. Hung up on AT&T -- 41. Falling through the cracks at Microsoft -- 42. Markets, standards and information infrastructure -- 43. Industrial economics and strategy : computing platforms |
| Summary |
"This is a collection of 43 essays about the economics and management of information technology markets. The first part of the book focuses on events, notable birth dates and longstanding trends." "The next part contains writing about the Internet. It discusses the development of the online commercial world, and analyzes the macroeconomic side of the investment boom and bust related to Internet activities. It also focuses on the measurement of economic activity in the digital economy." "In addition, the book deals with how computers get used in organizations and discusses the Microsoft antitrust case. Finally, there are two long essays about economic constraints on strategic behavior in markets where standards and platforms matter."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to ECHO (Ebrary) |
| Subject |
Electronic commerce.
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Computer industry.
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Internet industry.
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
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| Author |
Greenstein, Shane M.
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2004041991 |
| ISBN |
1860944515 alkaline paper |
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