Tracking a Transformation E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries

by Cohen, Stephen S.; Zysman, John; Cowhey, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780815700678
• ISBN10: 0815700679
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

This book rests on the proposition that the information techology revolution of the last ten years marks the beginning of a fundamental economic transformation. This transformation will affect every activity in which organization, information processing, or communication is important. It may well require changes in ideas about ownership, property, and control--the way in which governments regulate economies in the broadest sense of that term. The e-commerce transformation presents remarkable opportunities for businesses, governments, and other organizations to remake themselves, recreate what it is that they can do, and reconstruct their relationships with customers, citizens, and constituents. A project of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), this volume analyzes the way this transformation will affect market structure and pricing models in several major industries: retail financial services, air travel, music, automobiles, semiconductors, hearing instruments, food, textiles, and trucking.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Acronyms	xi
PART ONE The Enablers: Tools and Markets
Tools: The Drivers of E-Commerce	3	(24)
Stephen S. Cohen
J. Bradford DeLong
Steven Weber
John Zysman
The Construction of Marketplace Architecture	27	(37)
Francois Bar
PART TWO E-Commerce: A View from the Sectors
Task Force Comment The Boundary Conditions of Services	53	(11)
E-Finance: Recent Developments and Policy Implications	64	(28)
Setsuya Sato
John Hawkins
Aleksander Berentsen
The Future of Retail Financial Services: Transparency, Bypass, and Differential Pricing	92	(20)
Eric K. Clemons
Lorin M. Hitt
David C. Croson
Web Impact on the Air Travel Industry	112	(16)
Stefan Klein
Claudia Loebbecke
Confronting the Digital Era: Thoughts on the Music Sector	128	(23)
Jonathan Potter
Task Force Comment Standard Modules and Market Flexibility	137	(14)
The Internet and the Personal Computer Value Chain	151	(27)
Martin Kenney
James Curry
E-volving the Auto Industry: E-Business Effects on Consumer and Supplier Relationships	178	(36)
Susan Helper
John Paul MacDuffie
E-Commerce and the Changing Terms of Competition in the Semiconductor Industry	214	(15)
Robert C. Leachman
Chien H. Leachman
The Old Economy Listening to the New: E-Commerce in Hearing Instruments	229	(24)
Peter Lotz
Task Force Comment Making and Moving Stuff	241	(12)
Electronic Systems in the Food Industry: Entropy, Speed, and Sales	253	(27)
Jean Kinsey
Lean Information and the Role of the Internet in Food Retailing in the United Kingdom	280	(30)
Jennifer Frances
Elizabeth Garnsey
E-Commerce in the Textile and Apparel Industries	310	(22)
Jan Hammond
Kristin Kohler
E-Commerce and Competitive Change in the Trucking Industry	332	(37)
Anuradha Nagarajan
Enrique Canessa
Will Mitchell
C. C. White III
PART THREE What Comes Next? The Evolving Infrastructure
Task Force Comment What Will the Next Generation of Tools, Networks, and Marketplaces Look Like?	357	(12)
The Mobile Internet Market: Lessons from Japan's i-Mode System	369	(20)
Jeffrey L. Funk
E-Commerce and Network Architecture: New Perspectives	389	(17)
Michael J. Kleeman
David Bach
The Political Economy of Open Source Software	406	(29)
Steven Weber
The Next-Generation Internet: Promoting Innovation and User-Experimentation	435	(40)
Francois Bar
Stephen S. Cohen
Peter Cowhey
J. Bradford DeLong
Michael J. Kleeman
John Zysman
Contributors	475	(2)
Index	477