Craig Van Slyke is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Central Florida.
He was formerly a member of the Management Information Systems faculty at Ohio University. In addition to his academic
experience, Dr. Van Slyke spent ten years in the information technology industry in a number of technical, managerial,
and marketing positions.
Dr. Van Slyke's current research interests are in electronic commerce, and information technology and education.
Issues in electronic commerce of particular interest include factors relating to its adoption by individuals (especially
the role of trust in adoption decisions), its adoption by small businesses, and differences in its adoption across
cultures and across genders. Information technology and education topics researched are skills required of IT professionals,
teams and teamwork, and technology mediation of distance learning.
Dr. Van Slyke has published in a number of journals, including the Communications of the Association of Computing
Machinery, Information Resource Management Journal, Annals of Cases on Information Technology Applications, Industrial
Management & Data Systems, Journal of Information System Education, Journal of Information Technology Theory
and Application, and Information Technology, Learning and Performance Journal. In addition, he has contributed
chapters to several edited research compilations.
Dr. Van Slyke has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate information technology courses, including Electronic
Commerce, Database Administration, Systems Analysis and Design, and the Management of Information Systems. He has
also lectured internationally on a variety of topics related to electronic business. In 2001, Dr. Van Slyke received
the Galloway Award for Undergraduate teaching.
Dr. Van Slyke received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of South Florida. He also holds a Masters
in Business Administration from thre University of Central Florida.
Belanger, France : Virginia Tech
France Belanger is the Director of the Center for Global E-Commerce and an associate professor of information
systems in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech. Prior to her academic career,
she held various technical, marketing, and managerial positions in large information systems and telecommunications
corporations in Canada. She has also provided consulting services to corporations In Florida.
Dr. Belanger's research interests focus on the use of telecommunication technologies in organizations, in particular
for distributed work arrangements, electronic commerce, and distance learning. She has published in numerous Information
Systems journals, including Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transaction on Professional
Communication, Information & Management, The Information Society, Information Resources Management Journal,
Database, Office Systems Research Journal e-Service Journal and the Journal of Information Systems Education. Her
first book, for managers, entitled Evaluation and Implementation of Distance Learning: Technologies, Tools and
Techniques (Idea Group Publishing, 2000), was co-authored with Dr. Dianne H. Jordan. Dr.
Summary
Allows the reader to be an active participant in the planning, analysis, development, and implementation of
e-business environments as they enter the job market.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Electronic Commerce.
Chapter 2: Impacts of Electronic Business.
Chapter 3: Barriers to Electronic Business.
Chapter 4: Overview of Electronic Business Technologies.
Chapter 5: The Internet and World Wide Web for E-Business.
Chapter 6: Electronic Business Applications Development.
Chapter 7: Telecommunication Technologies for E-Business.
Chapter 8: Client/Server Technologies for E-Business.
Chapter 9: Integrating Back-Office Operations.
Chapter 10: Providing Content for Electronic Business.
Chapter 11: Privacy and Security in E-Business.
Chapter 12: Electronic Payment Systems in E-Business.
Chapter 13: Electronic Business Architecture.
Appendix A: Introduction to HyperText Markup Language.