Business Ethics and the Electronic Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Understanding the Internet-Revolution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Evolution of the E-Economy: Consequences for Theory Building in Economics and in the Economy

      • Michael Ehret, Michaela Haase, Martin Kaluza

      Pages 3-33

   3. Optimizing Individual Communication — Reducing Institutional Communication? The Necessity of a New Form of Business Ethics in the E-Economy Era

      • Christoph Hubig

      Pages 34-43

   4. Changes in the Producer-Consumer Relationship in Electronic Commerce — Examples from Book Publishing and Trade

      • Ulrich Riehm

      Pages 44-58

   5. The End of Consumption in Information Society

      • Uli Zappe

      Pages 59-76

   6. Consumer Profiles in E-Commerce: How Companies Form Identities

      • Andreas Greis

      Pages 77-85

   7. Virtual Reality as a Problem of the Electronic Economy

      • Peter Koslowski

      Pages 86-102

3. Ethical Challenges of the Economic Economy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Tricksters on the Internet: eCommerce, Data Mining and the Parallel Context

      • Dieter Klumpp

      Pages 105-124

   3. Power Redistribution and Ethical Challenges in E-Commerce

      • Paul Whysall

      Pages 125-143

   4. Transcultural Ethics: Beyond the Electronic Economy of MTV

      • Robert van Es

      Pages 144-158

   5. Consumers v. E-Business: Who Should Pay? An Ethical Discourse on the Right to Privacy

      • Anastasia H. Cortes

      Pages 159-176

   6. Ethical Crisis on the Internet: the Case of Licra vs. Yahoo!

      • Mark Hunter, Marc Le Menestrel, Henri-Claude de Bettignies

      Pages 177-208

   7. A Sketch of Consumer Ethics with Particular Emphasis on Virtual Options

      • Michael Neuner

      Pages 209-222

   8. Building Consumer Trust in Online Markets

      • Sonja Grabner-Kräuter

      Pages 223-236

4. Back Matter

   Pages 237-250

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The internet and the electronic economy are a technological revolution whose secular importance is apparent. The internet eliminates the temporal and spatial constraints on the exchange of information. It changes deeply the world of production and of labour. It transforms the exchange relationships between producers and consumers as well as between the suppliers within the supply-chain. The electronic economy is able to generate more accurate con­ sumer profiles and, therefore, a more powerful and effective marketing di­ rected to the individual consumer. There is no industry that is not undergoing thorough changes caused by the internet. The volume at hand gives an analysis of the internet revolution. It covers questions reaching form the highly controversial thesis of the end of property rights in the internet caused by the non-rivalry of the "consumption" of in­ formation to questions regarding the repercussions of the internet on our understanding of the human person. Technological changes like the introduction of the electronic economy pose the question of how to handle it and how to manage reasonably its ethi­ cal problems and dilemmas. The ethical problems and the business ethics of the electronic economy in the fields of production and labour, of consump­ tion, and in handling trust and the abuse of trust are analysed by the contribu­ tions from applied ethics and business ethics.

• Business Ethics
• E-Business
• E-Commerce
• Economic Ethics
• Electronic Business
• Electronic Commerce
• Electronic Economy
• Internet Revolution
• Trade
• ethics

• Department of Philosophy, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Peter Koslowski

• Institute of Philosophy Department of Theory of Science and Philosophy of Technology, Institute of Philosophy, Stuttgart, Germany

  Christoph Hubig, Peter Fischer

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