Interoperability is a topic of considerable interest for business entities, as the exchange and use of data is important to their success and sustainability. Electronic Business Interoperability: Concepts, Opportunities and Challenges analyzes obstacles, provides critical assessment of existing approaches, and reviews recent research efforts to overcome interoperability problems in electronic business. It serves as a source of knowledge for researchers, educators, students, and industry practitioners to share and exchange their most current research findings, ideas, practices, challenges, and opportunities concerning electronic business interoperability.

Education and research in the field of electronic commerce technology can prove problematic without the proper resources and tools on the most relevant issues, trends, and advancements. Selected Readings on Electronic Commerce Technologies: Contemporary Applications supplements course instruction and student research with quality articles focused on key issues concerning the technologies and applications of electronic commerce. Containing over 30 chapters from authors across the globe, these selected readings in areas such as e-marketing, IT business, and mobile commerce depict the most relevant and important areas of classroom discussion within the categories of fundamental concepts and theories; development and design methodologies; tools and technologies; application and utilization; critical issues; and emerging trends.

Rapid technological advancements have the ability to positively or negatively impact corporate growth and success. Professional leaders and decision makers must consider such advancements when designing and implementing new policies in preparation for the sustainable future of the business environment. Multi-Sided Platforms (MSPs) and Sharing Strategies in the Digital Economy: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that examines platform strategies and business models with a focus on multi-sided platform business models. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as digital collaboration, business ecosystem, and platform value chain, this book is an ideal resource for managers, researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in recent trends in business models in the digital age.

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From Marcus Collins, strategist to Apple, Nike and Beyoncé, discover how you can harness the most powerful vehicle for influencing behaviour: true cultural engagement.

'Compelling and vivid' – Robert Cialdini, author of Pre-Suasian

We all try to influence others in our daily lives. We are all marketers, whether you are a manager motivating your team, an employee making a big presentation, an activist staging a protest or a company executive selling the next big thing. In For the Culture, Marcus Collins argues that to inspire communities, we first need to think hard about how we appeal to their values and what we will contribute to their culture.

With a deep perspective based on a century’s worth of data, Collins breaks down the many ways in which culture influences behaviour. Using captivating stories from his own life as a top marketer – including spearheading digital strategy for Beyoncé, working with iTunes and Nike+ on their collaboration, and designing ads for McDonalds – he shows how you can do the same.

Full of memorable examples, from 1960s hippy culture to the enduring success of Patagonia, For the Culture offers the essential tools for creating lasting engagement and influence.

Mobile computing facilitates data transmission without needing to be connected to a fixed physical link. Mobile voice communication is widely established throughout the world and the number of subscribers to various cellular networks has increased considerably over the last few years. An extension of this technology is the ability to send and receive data across these cellular networks. Mobile data communication has become a very important and rapidly evolving technology as it allows users to transmit data from remote locations to other remote or fixed locations. This proves to be the solution to the biggest problem for business people on the move. Mobile Computing Techniques in Emerging Markets: Systems, Applications and Services provides the latest research and best practices in the field of mobile computing. Theoretical and pragmatic viewpoints on mobile computing offer guidance for professionals using this book to inform their practices. A solid foundation on mobile computing and an expansive vision of its possibilities combine to promote understanding and the successful implementation of mobile computing techniques in emerging markets.

The range of topics covered in ""Emerging E-Collaboration Concepts and Applications"" are broad and representative of the state-of-the-art discussion of conceptual and applied ecollaboration issues. Business organizations in the last 10 years have increasingly relied on distributed collaborative processes to maintain their competitiveness. E-collaboration technologies are at the source of something that underlies most business, political, and even societal developments - intense human collaboration. ""Emerging E-Collaboration Concepts and Applications"" is organized in three main parts: conceptual and methodological issues, applied research and challenges, and research syntheses and debate.

To develop and sustain competitive advantage in the marketplace, organizations depend critically on competence and resources, knowledge and information exchanged both within and across partner organizations, and on process integration and management. ""Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"" presents research related to the application of semantic Web technologies, including semantic service-oriented architecture, semantic content management, and semantic knowledge sharing in e-business processes. ""Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"" compiles research from experts around the globe, bringing business, managerial, technological, and implementation issues surrounding the application of semantic Web technologies in e-business to the forefront.