Business In The Electronic Economy

Business in the Electronic Economy

GSB 383-85

Professor Marvin Zonis

Office hours by appointment:

773-702-8753

Assistant: Maureen Loughnane

TOPIC: THE NEW ECONOMY?

(1) "Technology and the Economy" (Remarks Before the Economic Club of New York, January 13, 2000)

Allan Greenspan

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2000/200001132.htm

(2) “Americanization, Globalization and the Disruption of Traditional Cultures: Should Business Care?” (October 25, 1999)

Marvin Zonis

http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/marvin.zonis/teaching/ (See 383 directory)

(3) “Globalization and Its Discontents: The Digital Transformation Ahead” (February 8, 2000)

Marvin Zonis

http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/marvin.zonis/teaching/ (See 383 directory)

(4) “A New Decade for Business: Twenty-four Principles of Globalization” (March 20, 2000)

Marvin Zonis

http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/marvin.zonis/teaching/ (See 383 directory)

(5) “The New Economy: It works in America. Will it go global?"

(BusinessWeek online, Special Report, January 31, 2000)

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_05/b3666001.htm

(6) Recommended but not required.

"The effect of the Internet on International Trade"

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2000/693/ifdp693.pdf

TOPIC: WHAT IS THE ELECTRONIC ECONOMY?

(1) Unleashing the Killer App (Introduction and Chapter 1, pp. 1-34.)

Larry Downes and Chunka Mui

www.killer-apps.com

(2) "Law and Disorder" (Paul Carroll interviews Gordon Moore, Bob Metcalfe, and Ronald Coase, Context Magazine, Fall 1998)

http://www.contextmag.com/magazine/setMagazineMain.asp

(Note: On the Left of this page, click the archive button, and then click the Fall 1998 magazine)

(3) "A Revolution in Interaction" (McKinsey Quarterly, 1997. No 1, pp. 4-23.)

Butler, Hall, Hanna, Mendonca, Auguste, Manyika, and Sahay

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/pdf\rein97.pdf?tk=:192:

(Note,, you must register at mckinseyquarterly.com to gain access to the quarterly)

TOPIC: THE GOVERNMENT AND eCOMMERCE

(1) "The Emerging Digital Economy" (Report Only [60 pgs]) www.ecommerce.gov/emerging.htm

(2) "Leadership for the New Millennium: Delivering on Digital Progress and Prosperity" (US Government Working Group on Electronic Commerce, Third Annual Report, 2000)

http://www.ecommerce.gov/ecomnews/ecommerce2000annual.pdf

(Read pages 1-9 for the current data, then read Section B "E-Society," Section C "E-Government, and Part III, Section B "Legal and Regulatory Environment.")

TOPIC: ECONOMICS IN THE ELECTRONIC ECONOMY

(1) Unleashing the Killer App (pp. 35-72)

Larry Downes and Chunka Mui

www.killer-apps.com

(2) "Weapon of Math Destruction" (Context Magazine, Spring 1999)

David Reed

http://www.contextmag.com/search.asp

(Note, to find this article quickly, go to the "Table of Contents" of the Spring 1999 issue.)

(3) "Measuring the Internet Economy" (January 2001)

Study supported by Cisco Systems and the University of Texas

http://www.InternetIndicators.com/jan_2001.pdf

(4) "Some Economics of the Internet" (History, technology and cost structure of the Internet, February 1994)

Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Hal R. Varian

http://personal.www.umich.edu/~jmm/papers/Economics_of_Internet.pdf

(5) "Speculative Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy" (Originally: "The Next Economy?")

J Bradford Delong and A. Michael Froomkin

http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/spec.htm

TOPIC: STRATEGY

(1) "Shift Happens: The industrial revolution isn't over. It's just starting" (The Standard, March 5, 2001)

Larry Downes

http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,22506,00.html

(2) Unleashing the Killer App (Part 3)

Larry Downes and Chunka Mui

www.killer-apps.com

TOPIC: WHAT DOES THE INTERNET DO?

(1) "The Emerging Digital Economy," Appendix 3: "Electronic Commerce Between Businesses: Analysis and Case Studies" www.ecommerce.gov/emerging.htm

(Read these case studies carefully. We will refer to them in the various remaining topics of the course.)

TOPIC: KILLS GEOGRAPHY

(1) "Leaving the Physical World" (Conference on HyperNetworking, Oita, Japan)

John Perry Barlow

http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/leaving_the_physical_world.html

(2) "Like It or Not, Every Startup Is Now Global" (Fortune, June 13, 2000)

William Gurley

http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=47267

(3) "Internet2 Crosses the Border" (Wired News, March 21, 2001)

Katie Dean

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42507,00.html

(4) "Face Value: From Rwanda to the former Yugoslavia, child-tracing programs are reuniting orphans of war with their families." (Wired Magazine, January 1999)

Marie de la Soudière

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/mustread.html?pg=14

(5) "The Communications Paradox" (The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

by Hamid Mowlana

http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1995/ja95/ja95.mowlana.html

(6) "The Big Ecommerce Bang" (September 2, 1999)

Jesse Berst, ZDNet Anchor Desk

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3807.html

TOPIC: KILLS TIME

(1) "When Bandwidth Is Free" (WIRED Online, Interview, 1993)

George Gilder

http://www.eff.org/pub/Infrastructure/darkfiber.article

(2) " Globalization of Communication"

Victor Mayer-Schonberger and Deborah Hurley

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/iip/governance/GlobCommDHVMS.PDF

TOPIC: ALLOWS NEW ENTRANTS

(1) "DisinteREmediation: Longer, Not Shorter, Value Chains Are Coming"

By Paul Saffo

http://www.saffo.org/disinteremediation.html

(2) " E-Commerce for Development: Prospects and Policy Issues"

(OECD Development Center)

Andrea Goldstein and David O'Connor

http://www.oecd.org/dev/ENGLISH/NEW/documents/tokyo2.pdf

(3) "Dot-coms: What Have We Learned? Dot-coms soared. Dot-coms crashed"

Fortune (October 30, 2000)

Jerry Useem Reporter Associate Grainger David

http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=00000297

TOPIC: SHIFTS POWER FROM BUYERS TO SELLERS

(1) "Electronic commerce: Three emerging strategies" (McKinsey Quarterly, 1998, No. 1, pp. 152—159)

Berryman, Harrington, Layton-Rodin, and Rerolle

http://marriottschool.byu.edu/teacher/mba693r/clarke/BSNE%202000/BSNE%201/Primary%20interest/McKinsey%20Quarterly%20Current%20Research%20Electronic%20commerce%20Three%20emerging%20strategies.htm

(2) "Shifting Power from Sellers to Buyers"

Glenn Ramsdell and Kristina Roegner

http://www.mckinsey.com.tw/Shifting_Power_from_Sellers_to_Buyers.pdf

(3) "Moving Targets"

http://www.contextmag.com/search.asp

(4) "Theory and Behavior of Virtual Market Places"

Walid Mougayar President, CYBERManagement Inc.,

http://www.cyberm.com/art3.htm

(5) "Distribution in a B2B World" (ISSA Today, June 2000)

Bruce Merrifield

http://www.issa.com/today/2000/june/01.html

TOPIC: KILLS TRANSACTION COSTS

(1) "The Industrial-Age Corporation is Toast" (Forbes ASAP, 10.02.00)

Don Tapscott

http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1002/073.html

(2) "The Economics of Information" (Professional Graphics World)

Martin Butler

http://www.prographworld.com/contra/theecono.htm

(3) "Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers"

http://ecommerce.mit.edu/papers/friction/friction.pdf

(4) "Getting Down to Business" (Automotive Marketing)

Edward Kaufman and Bridget Ryan-Snell

http://www.automotivemarketing.com/1199btb.htm