Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases

by Allan Afuah and Christopher L. Tucci

Book Overview

Afuah and Tucci'?"s Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases, 2e draws on research to develop and integrate a framework to help students understand factors that surround a firms... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072397241
• ISBN13: 9780072397246
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

what an intellect book

this book is definitely for them who are pretty smart. actually this book is a little bit hard for me to understood. but still this book is comprehensive, helpful, resourceful, and interesting eventhough this book is diffcult enough. personally, this book will guide me all the way through my study.

Second edition a significant improvement

This is one of the few texts on E-commerce that is both comprehensible and relevant, and useful both to academics and practitioners. In their second edition, the authors have fleshed out several chapters that were rather sketchy in the first edition, and have updated the cases. The study of Microsoft's Xbox is especially interesting, and the Beyond Interactive case, focusing on the firm's efforts to deal with the rapid decline of advertising revenue, is poignant. Like any text, parts of the book could be improved. I find the treatment of valuation (Ch 8) superficial, despite the inclusion of several equasions, and the authors should have validated the component measures approach recommended in Chapter 9 before presenting it again in this edition. Also, I'm not sure the Porter model recommended in Chapter 11 really fits the dynamic context of the network-based firm. But these flaws are minor compared to the high level of clarity and structure the authors bring to the subject. Highly recommended for MBA classes in e-commerce and seminars in strategy.

Grounded in the Hype

This book uses proven business models and applies them to e-commerce. The e-hype many books adopt is avoided here. This book provides good information for making intelligent business decisions.

Internet Busines Models and Strategies Review

In June I requested an Advanced copy of Internet Business Models and Strategies by Afuah and Tucci (McGraw-Hill) in order to review it for my E-Commerce and Entrepreneurship class. After having read many books on the subject matter, I was delighted to find this book and have decided to adopt it for my course. The book provides models and frameworks for understanding e-commerce and e-commerce strategies. It incorporates many concepts from basic marketing and management classes as well as one chapter on financing a start-up. This text is particularly appropriate for my class because it not only provides an overview of e-commerce, it also provides information for entrepreneurs on some of the important matters that need to be taken into consideration when starting a company on-line. The authors discuss the problems, opportunities and strategies that can be used for a clicks-and-mortar firm as well as for a strictly dot.com firm. The text provides the reader with basic information on the infrastructure of e-commerce and its associated technology. The text is written in understandable language which will make it easier for readers who have no knowledge of e-commerce technology to grasp the concepts. In addition to providing multiple models in the text to give readers the "big picture", the text also provides multiple cases on some of the major players in e-commerce including: Red Hat, eBay, Netscape, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Hotmail and more. Additionally, the authors provide thought-provoking discussion questions at the end of each chapter. There are many things about this book that I like, but I'll highlight two that I find most interesting and/or relevant. First, the book takes a broad perspective on e-commerce. It does not just focus on a marketing or financial perspective. While there are many good books that consumers/businesses can get their hands on at Barnes and Noble and Borders that are very good at telling individuals "how to", this text gives the reader the big picture for staying competitive in e-commerce in the long run. The second highlight for me (which I'm sure is impacted by the fact that I teach Marketing and Management classes) is the authors inclusion of the 5-Cs (coordination, commerce, community, content and communication) throughout the text. I was at an e-business expo in Minneapolis June 7 and 8 and listened to many speakers. One comment about e-commerce from Tom Kieffer, President and CEO of Agiliti, stood out to me, "it's about communications, not computing". I am not a tech-head, and I was thrilled to hear the president of an ASP emphasize the importance of communication in e-commerce. Technology gives us the foundation for e-commerce, but people must manage the information that is being presented. Afuah and Tucci affirm this idea throughout their book.

Internet Business Models and Strategies Review

In late June I requested an advanced copy of Internet Business Models and Strategies by Afuah and Tucci (McGraw-Hill) to review for my E-Commerce and Entrepreneurship course at Concordia University - St. Paul. I had read many books on the subject, but after reading this one, I decided to adopt it for my class. The book provides models and frameworks for understanding e-commerce and e-commerce strategies. It incorporates many concepts from basic marketing and management classes as well as one chapter on financing a start-up. This text is particularly appropriate for my class because it not only provides an overview of e-commerce, it also provides information for entrepreneurs on some of the important matters that need to be taken into consideration when starting a company on-line. The authors discuss the problems, opportunities and strategies that can be used for a clicks-and-mortar firm as well as for a strictly dot.com firm. The text provides the reader with basic information on the infrastructure of e-commerce and its associated technology. The text is written in understandable language which will make it easier for readers who have no knowledge of e-commerce technology to grasp the concepts. In addition to providing multiple models in the text to give readers the "big picture", the text also provides multiple cases on some of the major players in e-commerce including: Red Hat, eBay, Netscape, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Hotmail and more. Additionally, the authors provide thought-provoking discussion questions at the end of each chapter. There are many things about this book that I like, but I'll highlight two that I find most interesting and/or relevant. First, the book takes a broad perspective on e-commerce. It does not just focus on a marketing or financial perspective. While there are many good books that consumers/businesses can get their hands on at Barnes and Noble and Borders that are very good at telling individuals "how to", this text gives the reader the big picture for staying competitive in e-commerce in the long run. The second highlight for me (which I'm sure is impacted by the fact that I teach Marketing and Management classes) is the authors inclusion of the 5-Cs (coordination, commerce, community, content and communication) throughout the text. I was at an e-business expo in Minneapolis June 7 and 8 and listened to many speakers. One comment about e-commerce from Tom Kieffer, President and CEO of Agiliti, stood out to me, "it's about communications, not computing". I am not a tech-head, and I was thrilled to hear the president of an ASP emphasize the importance of communication in e-commerce. Technology gives us the foundation for e-commerce, but people must manage the information that is being presented. Afuah and Tucci affirmthis idea throughout their book.