Creating and Capturing Value: Perspectives and Cases on Electronic Commerce

Written by two experts in the field, A. Michael Spence, winner of the 2001 Noble Prize for Economics, and Garth Saloner, the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Electronic Commerce, Strategic Management, and Economics at Stanford University, Creating and Capturing Value: Perspectives and Cases on Electronic Commerce is an introduction for students to the volatile, developing world of e-commerce. The book has two parts, "Perspectives" and "Cases." "Perspectives " provides an overview of important issues in electronic commerce such as the technologies that preceded the Internet, how the new technologies are changing the landscape and how new and established firms must respond to changes in the business environment. "Cases" includes 22 cases that have been developed at Stanford over the past couple of years.

Garth Saloner is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Electronic Commerce, Strategic Management, and Economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he headed the Strategic Management group through the 1990's and where he now directs the Center for Electronic Business and Commerce.

A. Michael Spence was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. He is Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where he served as dean throughout the 1990's. He is also a partner at Oak Hill Venture Partners. Prior to joining Stanford, Spence served as Professor of Economics and Business Administration and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.