Kenneth L. Kraemer is a Professor at the Paul Merage School of Business and at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine. He is also Director of the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) and Director of the Personal Computing Industry Center (PCIC).
Jason Dedrick is Co-Director of the Personal Computing Industry Center and Senior Research Fellow at CRITO, University of California, Irvine.
Nigel P. Melville is Assistant Professor of Business Information Technology at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Kevin Zhu is Assistant Professor at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine.
Preface; 1. Globalization and national diversity: e-commerce diffusion and
impacts across nations Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick and Nigel
Melville; 2. The United States: adaptive integration versus the Silicon
Valley Model Jason Dedrick, Kenneth L. Kraemer, John L. King and Kalle
Lyytinen; 3. France: an alternative path to internet-based e-commerce Eric
Brousseau and Bruno Chaves; 4. Germany: a 'fast follower' of e-commerce
technologies and practices Wolfgang Konig, Rolf Wigand and Roman Beck; 5.
Japan: local innovation and diversity in e-commerce Dennis Tachiki, Satoshi
Hamaya and Kou Yukawa; 6. China: overcoming institutional barriers to
e-commerce Zixiang (Alex) Tan and Ouyang Wu; 7. Taiwan: diffusion and
impacts of the internet and e-commerce in a hybrid economy Tain-Jy Chen; 8.
Brazil: e-commerce shaped by local forces Paulo Bastos Tigre; 9. Mexico:
global engagement driving e-commerce adoption and impacts Juan J. Palacios;
10. Global diffusion and convergence of e-commerce: cross-country analyses
Kevin Zhu, Sean Xu, Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick; Appendix I. Data
collection and survey instrument; Appendix II. GEC survey measures by
industry sector and firm size; Appendix III. GEC survey measures by
country; Index.
