Volume 9, Issue 2

Editorial
Beat F. Schmid, Dorian Selz, Brigette Buchet

Developing an effective e-tailing strategy
Bharat Rao

Electronic Commerce and the Local Merchant: Opportunities for Synergy Between Physical and Web
Charles Steinfield, Alwin Mahler

Preface to the Special Section: Local versus Global Electronic Commerce
Charles Steinfield, Stefan Klein

E-Commerce: Cyber- and Physical Environments
Harry Bouwman

Applicability of Success Factors in US Electronic Commmerce to the German Market
Brigitte Preissl, Christian Rickert, Hansjörg Haas

Rural Development: Communication and Computing Technologies Create a Rapidly Changing Environment
Julie Fesenmaier, John C. VanEs

Special Section: Electronic Commerce in the Americas
Dorian Selz, Beat F. Schmid

Strategic Implications of an Emerging Cashless Society
Salil Mehta

Electronic Commerce as an Enabler of Efficient Health-care Decision-Making
Guisseppi A. Forgionne, Aryya Gangopadhyay, Jo Ann Klein, Robert Eckhardt

Electronic Commerce in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Jan Damsgaard, Ali Farhoomand

Strategies for Internet Middlemen in the Intermediation/Disintermediation/Reintermediation Cycle 
Alina M. Chircu, Robert J. Kauffman

Distribution Channels in Electronic Markets: A Functional Analysis of the 'Disintermediation' Hypothesis
Shailendra C. Palvia, Vijay K. Vemuri

Electronic Commerce: Aspects of the Brazilian Experience
Maria I. Lima, Ivan Alcoforado

Business Implications of Web Technology: An Insight into Usage of the World Wide Web by U.S. Companies
Debabroto (Dave) Chatterjee, V.  Sambammurthy