Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet or Pissing on Demand

Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet

Author: Henry C Lucas

This book offers a novel approach for analyzing and developing business strategies for the Internet and electronic commerce. The topics addressed include how to predict which firms will be successful, how a manager should respond to competitors who adopt the Internet and electronic commerce, and how a company can obtain a competitive advantage in times of intense competition and proliferating information technology. The book uses case studies (including Dell Computer, Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab, and Merrill Lynch) and develops a dynamic resource-based model of strategy.

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Lucas (information systems, Univ. of Maryland; The T-Form Organization) effectively reinforces what others have said before: the Internet and e-commerce have allowed new markets to emerge. For example, many companies have become "virtual manufacturers," with activities such as the design and marketing of products occurring in numerous locations. According to Lucas, this new economy has created a need for new business models, and his book places a strong emphasis on developing such models by providing an in-depth look at "resource analysis" tables and case studies of successful companies that have experienced these changes, among them Dell Computer, Cisco Systems, and Charles Schwab. Aiming to help managers of traditional companies supplement their understanding of electronic commerce, he also addresses how companies can keep up with the competition once they decide to transform their business and outlines a concise plan of action. Another book on this topic is Craig Fellenstein and Ron Wood's Exploring E-Commerce, Global E-Business, and E-Societies (Prentice-Hall, 1999), which takes a broader view, covering the impact of e-commerce on the global economy. Recommended for business collections in academic libraries. Bellinda Wise, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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Pissing on Demand: Workplace Drug Testing and the Rise of the Detox Industry

Author: Ken D Tunnell

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"Offers a critical view of both the detox titans, who Tunnell sees as snake-oil purveyors, and the drug testers themselves."
—The Chronicle

Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the "detox industry," that works to beat these tests. Strategies include over-the-counter products like "body flushers" that sound innocent but are really designed to mask the presence of illegal drugs to kits advertised in pro-drug publications like High Times that make no bones about their real purpose. The first exposé of the detox industry in all its manifestations, this book is required reading for anyone concerned with social control, privacy, and workers' rights.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	The Emergence of Drug Testing	1
2	The Drug-Testing Industry	21
3	The Detox Industry	56
4	Drug Testing as Social Monitoring and Control	98
5	The Politics of Resistance	115
	Appendix	156
	Notes	161
	References	165
	Index	173
	About the Author	179