For courses in e-commerce.

The most up-to-date, comprehensive overview of e-commerce today
Lively and fun to read,  E-commerce 2019: business.technology.society is an in-depth, thought-provoking introduction to e-¿commerce focusing on key concepts and the latest empirical and financial data. Hundreds of examples from companies such as Facebook^®, Google^®, Twitter^®, and Amazon^® illustrate how e-commerce is altering business practices and driving shifts in the global economy. The entire 15th edition, including its data, figures, and tables, has been updated through October 2018. It has up-to-date coverage of key topics in e-commerce today, such as privacy and piracy, government surveillance, cyberwar, social-local-mobile marketing, Internet sales taxes, and intellectual property.

Kenneth C. Laudon is a professor of information systems at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He holds a BA in economics from Stanford University and a PhD from Columbia University. He has authored 12 books dealing with electronic commerce, information systems, organizations, and society. Professor Laudon has also written more than 40 articles concerned with the social, organizational, and management impacts of information systems, privacy, ethics, and multimedia technology.

Professor Laudon’s current research is on the planning and management of large-scale information systems and multimedia information technology. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation to study the evolution of national information systems at the Social Security Administration, the IRS, and the FBI. Ken’s research focuses on enterprise system implementation, computer-related organizational and occupational changes in large organizations, changes in management ideology, changes in public policy, and understanding productivity change in the knowledge sector.

Ken Laudon has testified as an expert before the United States Congress. He has been a researcher and consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment (United States Congress), the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the President, several executive branch agencies, and Congressional Committees. Professor Laudon also acts as an in-house educator for several consulting firms and as a consultant on systems planning and strategy to several Fortune 500 firms.

At NYU’s Stern School of Business, Ken Laudon teaches courses on managing the digital firm, information technology and corporate strategy, professional responsibility (ethics), and electronic commerce and digital markets. His hobby is sailing.

Carol Guercio Traver is a graduate of Yale Law School and Vassar College. She has many years of experience representing major corporations as well as small and medium-sized businesses as an attorney with NYC law firm Proskauer, with expertise in intellectual property law, technology law, Internet law, and privacy law, as well as general corporate law. Carol is also a co-founder, with Ken Laudon, of Azimuth Interactive, one of the first “ed tech” firms and creator of some of the first interactive software training and testing systems for higher education and corporate training, and, today, a provider of digital media and publisher services for the higher education industry.

PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO E-COMMERCE
1. The Revolution Is Just Beginning
2. E-commerce Business Models and Concepts

PART 2: TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR E-COMMERCE
3. E-commerce Infrastructure: The Internet, Web, and Mobile Platform
4. Building an E-commerce Presence: Websites, Mobile Sites, and Apps
5. E-commerce Security and Payment Systems

PART 3: BUSINESS CONCEPTS AND SOCIAL ISSUES
6. E-commerce Marketing and Advertising Concepts
7. Social, Mobile, and Local Marketing
8. Ethical, Social, and Political Issues in E-commerce

PART 4: E-COMMERCE IN ACTION
9. Online Retail and Services
10. Online Content and Media
11. Social Networks, Auctions, and Portals
12. B2B E-commerce: Supply Chain Management and Collaborative Commerce