Prof. Hannes Werthner
a.a. 2000/2001
Objective
The course explores the importance of Internet based e-commerce and
the role of information systems. The participants should be able to look
at the strategic positioning of such systems, to know the mechanism for
doing on-line transctions, to describe the functionality of online catalogues
and e markets, to explain the economics of such applications. The course
will contain theoretical explanations as well as practical cases.
Content
Introduction to e-commerce
Internet, Protocols, TCP/IP, Internet Services, World Wide Web
Cryptography, digital sigantures
Payment
DB connections
Multilayered architectures and DB connectivity
Online Auctions
Standards - EDI, UN/EDIFACT, XML based EDI
Principles of Information systems, internal and external effetcs
Electronic market and phases of transactions (hierarchies versus markets)
Interorganisational systems
Organisational networks
Internet Marketing
Modalità d’esame
The students should do little projects during the course, this will
be presented and discussed (depends on the nukber of participants)
Testi Consigliati
Kalakota, Ravi and Andrew B. Whinston, Electronic Commerce: A Manager’s
Guide, Addison-Wesley, 1996.
Shaw, Michael, Robert Blanning, Troy Strader and Andrew B. Whinston
(Editors), Handbook on Electronic Commerce, Springer Verlag, 2000
Timmers, Paul, Electronic Commerce: Strategies and Models for Business-to-Business
Trading, John Wiley, 1999