Mgmt. 298D – Electronic Commerce
Fall ’98
Prof. A. Geoffrion
 
Course Reader Table of Contents
 
NOTE: Additional items may be added during the quarter. Some items are required reading, some are optional reading (marked [O]), and others are for reference only. Optional readings are packaged separately for full-time students.  
"Advice From the Web," R.V. Dragan, PC Magazine, Sept. 9, 1997, 133-144, http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/advice/_open.htm.

"An Appreciation of Doing Business on the Internet, by Mary Cronin, VNR, 1994," A. Geoffrion, 9/98.

"A Beginner’s Guide to HTML," NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998, http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html.

"Business Models for Electronic Commerce," A. Geoffrion, 9/98, linked to the course home page. *** In Syllabus section of binder. ***

"Computers, Networks and the Corporation," T.W. Malone and J.F. Rockart, Scientific American, 265:3 (September 1991), 128-136.

"Content of Corporate Web Pages as Advertising Media," A.F. Salam, H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels, Communications of the ACM, 41:3 (March 1998), 76-77, http://acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1998-41-3/p76-salam/ (PDF).

"Crosswalk Between Unix, DOS, and Mac Commands," A. Geoffrion, 9/98.

"Electronic Commerce Survey," The Economist, May 10, 1997, http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/14-9-97/index_survey.html (after free registration).

"E-Mail Lists: Quick Reference," A. Geoffrion, 9/98, linked to course home page.

"The Emerging Digital Economy," U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C., April 1998, http://www.ecommerce.gov/emerging.htm. *** Packaged separately. ***

"Encryption and Strong Authentication for Electronic Commerce," C. Särs, 12/96, Proceedings of Helsinki University of Technology Seminar on Network Security 1996, http://www.iki.fi/ged/NetSec/. [O]

"Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms," J.K. MacKie-Mason and K. White, in G. Rosston and D. Waterman (eds.), Interconnection and the Internet, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997, 113-134, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm/papers.html#esd (PDF). [O]

"Ganging up on Information Overload," A. Borchers, J. Herlocker, J. Konstan, and J. Riedl, Computer, 31:4 (April 1998), 106-108, http://dlib.computer.org/dynaweb/co/co1998/@ebt-link;hf=0?target=if(eq(query(%27%3CFNO%3E+cont+r4106%27),0), 1,ancestor(ARTICLE,query(%27%3CFNO%3E+cont+r4106%27))). [O]

"Good-Bye to Fixed Pricing," Special Report, Business Week, 4 May 1998, 71-84, http://www.businessweek.com/1998/18/b3576023.htm. [O]

"Increasing Returns and the New World of Business," W. Brian Arthur, HBR, July-August 1996, 100-109. [O]

"Intellectual Property on the Net," E. Dyson, Educators' Tech Exchange, Spring/Summer 1995, 12-13. A much longer version of this paper is on-line at http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Esther_Dyson/ip_on_the_net.article.

"Internet Communities," Cover Story, Business Week, 5 May 97, www.businessweek.com/1997/18/b35251.htm.

"Internet Discussion Groups: Soul of a Wired Global Business Community," from DejaNews. Portions are still on-line at http://www.dejanews.com/emarket/about/idgs/.

"Learning to Build Loyal Customer Relations -- That Last," W. Rosenblatt, SunWorld Online, 1997, http://www.sunworld.com/swol-03-1997/swol-03-bookshelf.html. [O]

"Liven Up Your Site with Chats and Conferences," J. Heid, MacWorld, March 1998, 115-118, http://macworld.zdnet.com/pages/march.98/Column.4187.html. [O]

"Making Waves with Streaming Audio," J. Heid, Macworld, February 1998, 125-129, http://macworld.zdnet.com/pages/february.98/Column.4140.html.

"A Merry Christmas for Online Retailers, but Questions Remain," D.S. Williamson, Industry Standard, 12 January 1998, http://www.thestandard.net/articles/issue_display/0,1261,88,00.html. [O]

"A Mini-Review of Net Gain," A. Geoffrion, 6 pages, 9/98, linked to the course home page.

"My Ideal Virtual Professional Community: A Personal Checklist," A. Geoffrion, 7 pages, 9/98, linked to the course home page.

"The Next Fifty Years: Some Likely Impacts of Solid-State Technology," A.A. Penzias, Bell Labs Technical Journal, 2:4 (Autumn 1997), 155-168, http://www.lucent.com/ideas2/perspectives/bltj/autumn_97/autumn_97.html.

"On the Road of Electronic Commerce - A Business Value Framework, Gaining Competitive Advantage and Some Research Issues," M. Bloch, Y. Pigneur, A. Segev, March 1996, 19 pages, http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~mbloch/docs/roadtoec/ec.htm.

"Open for Business: Web Storefront Creation Software," D.S. Linthicum, PC Magazine, Nov. 18, 1997, 143-181, http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/e-comm_prod/_open.htm. [O]

"Opportunity Walks," B.E. Taptich, Red Herring, February 1998, 98-100, http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue51/walks.html (although the exhibits are incomplete).

"Promises, Promises," N.G. Itoi, Red Herring, Feb. 1998, 78-81, http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue51/promises.html (but without the main figure). [O]

"Publishing Models for Internet Commerce," T. O’Reilly, Communications of the ACM, 39:6 (June 1996), 79-86, http://acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1996-39-6/p79-o_reilly/ (PDF, 1733 KB). [O]

"Pushing the Envelope," M.V. Rafter, LA Times, February 9, 1998.

"The Results Are In," N. Randall, PC Magazine, Mar. 10, 1998, http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/webanalysis2/index.html.

"A Review of Webonomics, by Evan Schwartz, Broadway Books, 1997," A. Geoffrion, 9/98, linked to the course home page.

"The Rise of the Electronic Community," J.C. Champy, R. Buday, and N. Nohria, Information Week Online, 17 June 97, http://techweb.cmp.com/iw/583/csc.htm.

"Searching the Net," D. Lidsky and R. Kwon, PC Magazine, 2 December 1997, 227-258, http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/websearch/_open.htm.

"Searching the World Wide Web," S. Lawrence and C.L. Giles, Science, Vol. 280 (3 April 1998), 98-100, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol280/issue5360/ (but access requires a member subscription to SCIENCE Online). [O]

"Spring Internet World 98: CD-ROM Transcript Table of Contents," Mecklermedia, June 1998.

"The Top 100 Web Sites," T. Kerievsky, PC Magazine, February 10, 1998, 100-130, http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/special/web100/index.html. [O]

"Uncompressing/Decoding/Unpacking Archives: Quick Reference," A. Geoffrion, 9/98, linked to the course home page.

"Web Ads Start to Click," Special Report in Business Week, October 6, 1997, www.businessweek.com/1997/40/b3547018.htm.

"Web Authoring Tools," E. Mendelson, PC Magazine, 17:2 (Jan. 20, 1998), http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/htmlauthor/_open.htm.

"Web-Based Customer Decision Support Systems," R.M. O’Keefe and T. McEachern, Communications of the ACM, 41:3 (March 1998), 71-78, http://acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1998-41-3/p71-o_keefe/ (PDF, 211 KB). [O]

"What is a Digital Signature," D. Youd, http://www. youdzone.com/signature.html.

"The Wired Enterprise: Here Come the Intranets," L.M. Fisher, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, first quarter 1997, www.strategy-business.com/technology/97109/.