CIS 424
Internet and E-Commerce
Major Assignment #2
DUE Tuesday - April 19, 2005
Your Major Paper topic is to be determined as follows:
1. Style and format requirements are still in effect for this paper, they can be viewed here.
2. Paper is to be emailed to instructor by due date of Tuesday, April 19, 2005.
3. Grades will be returned via email by Thursday, April 28, 2005.
Research Question #1
According to Laudon and Traver (2004), E-commerce poses some unique issues relative to the collection of revenue. Please discuss these issues and offer suggestions and potential solutions that address these issues.
Research Question #2 - CLOSED
The six (6) key dimensions to E-commerce security are specified as integrity, nonrepudiation, authenticity, confidentiality, privacy, and availability. Analyze these dimensions, and issue a ranking from 1 through 6 from the merchant's perspective on the importance of these dimensions. Substantiate and explain your ranking.
Research Question #3- CLOSED
The six (6) key dimensions to E-commerce security are specified as integrity, nonrepudiation, authenticity, confidentiality, privacy, and availability. Analyze these dimensions, and issue a ranking from 1 through 6 from the customer's perspective on the importance of these dimensions. Substantiate and explain your ranking.
Research Question #4 -
The evolution from E-commerce I to E-commerce II was swift, but very costly to many people. Address the changed visions between the two eras, specifically looking at the characteristics of how E-commerce business models have changed. Has the evolution been positive or negative?
Research Question #5
Ethics is at the heart of social and political debates about the Internet. If a person understands some basic ethics principles, their ability to reason about larger social and political issues is improved. These issues present themselves as dilemmas. In the western culture, dilemmas are addressed with three basic principles, those being Responsibility, Accountability, and Liability. Using these three principles, address a current dilemma, and report on same.
Research Question #6 - CLOSED
Relative to the four (4) case studies that are on pages 587 - 611 of the Laudon and Traver text, compare and contrast the eight topics from each case study. The topics are vision, business model, financials, business strategy, competition, technology, social and legal challenges, and finally future prospects. In each of these areas, explain which of the four companies are the best positioned within their niche, and why they are so positioned. Be specific.