The International Handbook of Electronic Commerce

While there is little in the way of truly international content in this work it does provide a useful backdrop to a rapidly emerging subject. The authors take North America to be the home of electronic commerce and as a result the vast majority of the text is related to US law, US taxation, US banking and I suppose US commerce. This approach is slightly disappointing because one of the issues fundamental to electronic commerce is the global nature of its marketplace and its manufacturing base. The ethical and political difficulties faced by any one government to control or influence...