As the growth in teleworking, 'virtual teams', and 'virtual enterprises' has shown, the economic landscape is increasingly characterized by an ability to work across spatial and organizational boundaries. Only with this re-design of working methods and business processes can the promise of the digital age be delivered.
This book draws upon an international, multi-disciplinary team of editors and contributors and presents the most recent academic research on the subject.

The main issues surrounding e-Business are often difficult to untangle. e-Business Fundamentals is a comprehensive textbook that considers all of the key business, management and technical issues of e-Business, examining and explaining how technologies can help organizations in both the public and private sectors conduct business in new ways. The book begins by addressing the changing nature of the e-Economy and the impact of the dot.com bubble of the late 1990s, going on to analyse key software developments and the impact these have had on organizational practices, such as human resource...

Prostate cancer is the second leading cancer in men in Western society. A major concern, and an area of intensive research, involves understanding why certain prostate cancers remain localized or indolent, whereas others become aggressive and metastasize. The differences between these cancer types have profound implications for patients and physicians. Indolent d- ease, which grows very slowly, generally does not cause any problems to the patient, whereas aggressive disease requires immediate treatment, the earlier the better. At present, there are no markers that discriminate between these...