Web Data Management and Electronic Commerce or Managing Change and Innovation with Performance Feedback

Web Data Management and Electronic Commerce

Author: Bhavani Thuraisingham

From recent efforts to develop tools for interoperability and warehousing between scattered sites of information on the web has emerged the new discipline of web data management. The first book of its kind, Web Data Management and Electronic Commerce combines data management and mining, object technology, electronic commerce, Java, and the Internet into a complete overview of the concepts and developments in this new field. Approachable for the beginner and complete enough for the expert, the volume is self-contained and related to the author's other books from CRC. Web Data Management and Eletronic Commerce helps a wide audience of technologists and businesspeople with the urgent need to manage information effectively and efficiently.

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Focusing on managing large quantities of data on the web and applying data management techniques to electronic commerce, Thuraisingham (consultant and scientist in data management for a private corporation) describes technologies in security, multimedia data management, and realtime processing. She also discusses the emerging standards of Java Database Connectivity, XML, metadata, and middleware, and details many electronic commerce systems including payment systems, architectures, and models. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Web Database Systems
Architectures and Models
Functions
Interoperability
Prototypes and Products
Conclusion
Emerging Technologies for Web Database Management
Web Mining
Web Security
Multimedia and Real-Time Processing
Knowledge Management
Digital Libraries
Emerging Standards from Web Data Management
JDBC
XML and Metadata
Middleware and Components
Electronic Commerce
Process of Electronic Commerce
Architectures and Models
Functions
Security
Summary and Directions
References
Appendix A: Data Management
Appendix B: Internet
Appendix C: Security
Appendix D: Object Technology
Appendix E: Other Applications
Index

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Managing Change and Innovation with Performance Feedback: Learning, Behavior, and the Firm

Author: Henrich R Grev

Revisiting Cyert and March's classic 1963 "Behavioral Theory of the Firm", Henrich Greve offers an intriguing analysis of how firms evolve in response to feedback about their own performance. Based on ideas from organizational theory and social psychology and research from many industries, it demonstrates that high-performing organizations quickly lower their rates of market entry, innovations and asset growth, but low-performing organizations only slowly increase those rates. The analysis outlines the consequences of this behavior for organizational survival and performance, and suggests ways to improve organizations with performance feedback.