2 – Individual Report (40%)
Week 25 – by 15 April 2014 (Monday) – Submit one hard copy to the Assignment hand-in point and submit an electronic copy through TurnitinUK via BREO
The assignment will be a project that requires students to outline, plan and develop a conceptual virtual organisation using appropriate e-business platforms or solutions. The virtual organisation must demonstrate how business processes and/ or services can be supported and improved. The assignment should also produce a report on the management and maintenance issues of e-business. Prior to the submission of the report, each individual is expected to give a short presentation based on the report for formative feedback. More details will be made available in Week 12 or 13.
Your report should be no more than a maximum of 1800 ± 10% words in length. The highest levels of presentation are expected for all assignments and poor presentation will be penalised. The ‘Harvard’ system of referencing should be used in your work.
Textbooks and Reading List
The recommended textbooks for this unit are:
1. Dave Chaffey (2011) E-Business and E-Commerce Management: Strategy, Implementation and Practice (5th Edition), Prentice Hall. ISBN: 9780273752011 (4th Edition is available in e-copy in http://library.beds.ac.uk)
2. Efraim Turban, David King, Jae Lee, Ting-Peng Liang and Deborah Turban (2012) Electronic Commerce 2012 (7th Edition), Prentice Hall. ISBN: 9780132145381
Note: previous editions are acceptable
In addition, the team recommend the following readings for further reference:
1. Barnes, S. (2007) E-Commerce and V-Business: digital enterprise in the twenty-first century (2nd Edition), Butterworth-Heinemann.
2. Bocij, P., Greasley, A., and Hickie, S. (2008) Business Information Systems – Technology, Development and Management for the E-Business (4th Edition), Financial Times Prentice Hall.
3. Chaffey, D. (2006) Internet Marketing: strategy, implementation and practice (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall.
4. Chen, S. (2005) Strategic Management of e-Business (2nd Edition), John Wiley and Sons.
5. Curry, A. Flett, P. and Hollingsworth, I. (2005) Managing Information and Systems: The Business Perspective, Routledge.
6. Haag, S., Cummings, M. and Mccubbrey, D. (2007) Management Information Systems for Information age (6th Edition), McGraw-Hill.
7. Jelassi, T and Enders, A. (2008) Strategies for e-Business: creating value through electronic and mobile commerce, Prentice Hall and FT.
8. Jonathan Reynolds (2010) E-business: a management perspective, Oxford University Press.
9. Feng Li (editor) (2007), Social implications and challenges of e-business, Hershey PA, London.
10. Tassabehji, R. (2005) Applying e-Commerce in Business, Sage.
Recommended Academic Journals
• Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
• European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
• Information and Management
• Management Information Systems Quarterly (MIS Quarterly)
• International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations
Other Sources
• http://www.davechaffey.com/E-business
• University’s Digital Library (EBSCO EJS)
Internet
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