Collaborative innovation Subject

This book is an international collaborative effort, with authors from Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. It is not possible to cover all aspects of this subject in a single volume, but the contributions here are broadly representative of innovative work in the field. The order of the chapters is developed from the relationship of the topics and is not necessarily related to the sequence of contributions at the two symposia from which much of the initial material was derived. 

The research community has responded to the E-Business challenge. Despite the infamous dot-com bust in the early 2000 s, scores of research initiatives, workshops, technical papers, and special journal issues have been devoted to the subject. E-Business remains a critical subject not only in the research community, but also in corporate boardrooms. Instead of the revolution that would replace every facet of business, the rise of E-Business might be viewed as the emergence of new economic intermediaries that offer opportunities for innovation. These new intermediaries offer different means to respond to market demands (e.g., Internet vs. traditional channels), to facilitate sourcing, procurement, and price discovery (e.g., electronic auctions), and to develop new mechanisms for coordination and execution (e.g., dynamic pricing, revenue management, and collaborative forecasting). 

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