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Preparing for Electronic Commerce in Asia, by Douglas Bullis Westport, CT, Quorum Books, 1999, 288 pp., US$65.00, ISBN 1567202063
Contents: Asia's electronic commerce era; Meet your new market I; Asia needs more information not more money; The changing nature of Asia's capitalisms; Three critiques of Asian capitalism; Reconstructing Asian values; Information in a time of great change;Delivery systems SingaporeONE; Meet your new market II; Malaysia's MSC and SingaporeONE: and pitfalls; SingaporeONE; SingONE's public access;Databases; SingONE in government; SingONE and economic competitiveness; Evolving a national information infrastructure; Information technology and practical applications; Beta testing for Asia: Singapore's "Intelligent Island" concept;Singapore anxiety, Singapore ferocity; delivery systems Malaysia's multimedia super corridor; Malaysia's multimedia super corridor; The thinking of Malaysia's IT players; The MSC as viewed by international managers, investors,and consultancies; The MSC as KFC; E-commerce's sociological complexities; Meet your new market III; Asia's dissemination structures; Chinese psychology and business style.
