Business Operations & Management Fall 2018 Title Catalog by Cognella, Inc

BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT TITLE CATALOG

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2018

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HOW BUSINESS WORKS Making Profits, Taking Risks, and Creating Value in a Global Economy By Robert Kemp, Adam Kemp, and Kelley Kemp

ÂŠ 2018

This text takes a holistic, comprehensive, real-world approach to teach students the fundamentals of business, incorporating both theory and practice to introduce the complexities of global business and economy. Adopting professors will have access to a complete online learning environment, which includes a solutions manual, PPT lecture slides, a test bank with over 1,900 questions, and a collaborative teaching community.

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COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS LAW Michael Bootsma, Michael Thieme, Charles Damschen, Sophia Harvey, Craig Nierman

ÂŠ 2018

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This text uses real life court cases combined with strong supporting material to educate readers about key legal principles in business law. Students are exposed to court procedures as well as alternative forms of dispute resolution. The textbook contains chapters devoted to tort law, constitutional law, criminal law, property law, employment law, bankruptcy law, environmental law, and more.

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SUPERVISION A Professional’s Perspective David Tipton

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Developed for those in health care, law, education, architecture, and engineering, this text serves as a guide to supervision and management for those who have assumed leadership positions they did not anticipate. The text provides mental models, frameworks, theories, ideas, and skills that help professionals-turned-managers develop proficiency in supervising others.

APPLIED FACILITIES MANAGEMENT FOR THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY John E. Edwards

© 2018 This text is designed to provide readers with a practical approach to understanding the activities and responsibilities involved in managing the various aspects of a hospitality enterprise. Specific topics include the functions and responsibilities of a facilities manager, information management, effective communication, workload planning and staffing, and financial management, among others.

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THE EFFECTIVE MANAGER Transforming People, Processes, and Organizations Wytress Richardson

ÂŠ 2018 This text is a compilation of research, articles, and book chapters from a wide range of experts in the field of management and leadership. The book focuses on management theory and organizational systems with an emphasis on personal development through building relationships and teams. The text discusses practical applications for effective management skills.

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TEAM IMPACT Achieving Twice as Much in Half the Time John Tropman

ÂŠ 2018

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This text explores what it takes to be a great manager and create effective, impactful teams. It features material generated by the Meeting Masters Research Project, an ongoing effort at the University of Michigan. The book covers the various types of teams, how best to manage decisions within them, lessons in prioritization, and more.

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BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS A Transactional Perspective Donald Scotten

ÂŠ 2018

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This text teaches students about business organizations from a transactional practice perspective rather than a litigation-based one. Specific topics include forming, operating and terminating partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies. Additionally, the book presents basic accounting and tax issues any transactional lawyer should know.

EFFECTIVE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT From Analysis to Implementation Daniel Kipley and Ronald Jewe

ÂŠ 2018

This text gives readers a firm foundation in the theories and concepts of strategic management. It is organized into two main sections dealing with strategic analysis and strategic formulation and includes an introduction to Ansoffian Strategy and the OSPP computer model. Students learn how to write and analyze case studies, conduct internal and external analysis, formulation, implementation, and evaluation and control.

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BREAKING THROUGH THE WORLD OF STATISTICS Kristofor Paulson

ÂŠ 2018 This text introduces students to statistics and processes that organize, summarize, and apply data to authentic situations. The content is drawn from diverse disciplines including business and sports. Students will learn about statistics and their measurement, data organization, descriptive statistics, and probability. The book demonstrates that statistics is not a single discipline, but rather has broad applications for numerous areas of life and work.

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BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC STATISTICS STUDY GUIDE Kristofor Paulson

ÂŠ 2018

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This study guide is designed to complement and enhance the teachings of the textbook Breaking through the World of Statistics. It provides students with additional opportunities for practice and analysis using a three-step approach. For each section, students first review key learning objectives, read a full chapter outline, then test their knowledge and comprehension with multiple choice and short answer questions.

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PRACTICAL MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING A Business Planning Approach John Brooks Peacock and Chris Akroyd

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This text presents students with a new approach to managerial accounting focused on three broad areas within the discipline and profession: planning, evaluation, and decision-making. The text introduces a breadth of new tools that help to illustrate fundamental managerial accounting concepts such as costvolume-profit, variance analysis, time-value-of money, and cost flows.

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING A Business Planning Approach Noah P. Barsky and Anthony H. Catanach, Jr.

Built around authentic business problems and information needs, this text prepares students to compete in today’s dynamic business environment. In each chapter students see how target skills and tools are applied in real-world business situations. Specific topics include evaluating financial performance, planning profitable operations, using forecasting tools and techniques, analyzing budgets and costs, and preparing and presenting business plans.

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NEGOTIATING WORKPLACE RELATIONSHIPS Vincent R. Waldron and Jeffrey W. Kassing

ÂŠ 2018

This text teaches students how to navigate the ethically challenging and professionally risky situations they are likely to encounter in their working lives. Each chapter introduces specific workplace challenges, such as managing privacy, responding to harassment, offering criticism, and more, and teaches students how to address each issue using the Risk Negotiation Cycle.

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GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND INNOVATION Anoop Desai

ÂŠ 2018

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This book offers an innovative approach to studying sustainability. By exploring the roles of reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing in business decisions, it illustrates the techniques necessary to establish sustainable business practices. The text features several real-world case studies from leading experts that give readers a glimpse into how sustainability is currently being implemented in product and process design decisions at several major organizations.

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MEASURING UP Personnel and Organizational Assessment Charles Tatum

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This foundational text examines issues related to personnel and organizational performance, and addresses how to effectively assess individuals, teams, and whole organizations. While many standard texts focus primarily on techniques, theories, and research on personnel selection, this text connects people, whether individuals or groups, to the organization on a larger scale and discusses the impact of these connections and relationships.

7 ESSENTIALS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL TEAMSS Dana Jarvis

This book teaches virtual team managers how to positively interact with employees, provide team members with meaningful development opportunities, and build quality professional relationships that produce a high-performing virtual culture with measurable results. It’s a must-read for virtual team managers who wish to inspire team members to realize their full potential and contribute in meaningful ways—even from afar.

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MANAGEMENT Theory, Research, and Practice Afzal Rahim

ÂŠ 2018

This business management text features readings written for the book by successful scholars and practitioners in the field. The text presents the study of management as a hands-on, practical discipline, covering topics such as individual differences, leadership, social responsibility, ethics, and more. It is well-suited for business management and administration courses, as well as organizational psychology, communication, and public administration classes.

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PRINCIPLES OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT Ron Dotson, Troy Rawlins, Earl Blair, and Scott Rockwell

ÂŠ 2018

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This text combines scholarly source material with original experiencebased writing to present the principles of managing occupational safety. Specific topics include fire behavior, OSHA record-keeping, safety training strategies, how to establish a safety management system, and more. This text is ideal for occupational safety courses, hazard recognition program management, and investigational courses that address appropriate handling of involved persons.

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I INC. Career Planning and Personal Entrepreneurship Mike Callahan

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This text teaches students how to market themselves effectively in today’s competitive professional environment. Students will learn the critical distinction between searching for a job and developing a successful career strategy, uncover their true personal interests, develop a plan that enables them to market those interests, and then launch their careers. The book is an excellent choice for business program courses in career planning and development.

COMMUNICATING IN GROUPS AND TEAMS Strategic Interactions Joann Keyton and Stephenson Beck

Rooted in scholarly research from diverse disciplines, this text explains group communication concepts through clear examples based on representative group interactions. Rather than pure expository text, the book features dialogue to demonstrate how group dynamics unfold.

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THE NEW GLOBAL MARKETING Local Adaptation for Sustainability and Profit Written by Johny K. Johansson and Michael T. Furick with Contributed Case Studies

ÂŠ 2018 Featuring more than 20 original case studies, this text is an excellent introduction to what it really takes to succeed as a global marketer. It discusses the ways marketing managers can assess the potential for global expansion and help their firms capitalize on opportunities. The material adapts well-established frameworks to demonstrate how the global marketer can assess company strengths and weaknesses and analyze opportunities and risks in foreign markets.

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COUNTRY AND REGION FACTBOOK Johny K. Johansson and Michael T. Furick

ÂŠ 2017

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Country and Region Factbook is an essential adjunct to the primary text The New Global Marketing. In effect a substantive appendix to the primary text, this book provides in-depth analysis of how marketing is conducted in important countries and regions. Intended as a resource for team and individual projects in courses on global and international marketing, the book is available as a free digital download to purchasers of the primary text.

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READY FOR ANYTHING The Making of a Change Leader Jeff Haldeman

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Incorporating ideas and insights from diverse sources, this book examines organizational change leadership from a radical, existential perspective. By drawing on disciplines outside the business field, the material broadens readers’ understanding of how organizations live, breathe, grow, and die, and empowers them to act. Each chapter features an essay on a change-related topic, brief case scenarios, and reflection questions that encourage self-examination and discovery.

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RESOURCES Applying Concepts and Practical Applications Sarah A. Daniel Felmet

© 2017 This text is a comprehensive guide to the functions of human resource management. This student-friendly text concisely covers all critical aspects of the profession, including human resource law, policy, and ethics; recruitment, interviewing, and hiring; performance appraisal; workplace safety; employee termination; and more. This text is ideal for courses in management principles.

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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND MANAGEMENT Roxanne Helm-Stevens, Daniel Kipley, and Ronald Jewe

© 2017 This student-friendly text shares current perspectives on traditional theories and explores the kinds of challenges faced by managers today. Over the course of the four sections of the book readers study management functions, individual processes in organizations, organizational processes and leadership, and how to understand and manage social processes and decision-making.

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PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP Stephen F. Hallam

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In its third edition, this text effectively blends practical application of management and leadership concepts with current theory. Readings in this book demonstrate the considerable overlap between management and leadership and provide students a unique and effective learning experience by bridging management principles and students’ own experiences.

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OPERATING SYSTEMS A Multi-perspective Episodic Approach Jae Oh

ÂŠ 2017

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This text teaches students to design and implement an operating system that suits their individual level and ability. The text focuses on understanding a simple system in its entirety, then applying this comprehensive understanding to ever more complicated systems. While students using the text must have knowledge of basic data structures and computer science, no prior knowledge of system-level programming or computer organization is required.

OVERCHOICE Too Much to Choose From, Too Little Time Christian Gilde and Fredrick M. Chilson

ÂŠ 2017

Examining the increasingly common dilemma experienced by consumers who face an overabundance of choices, this text provides context for the quandary and offers tools to help readers cope with it. The book examines overchoice as a psychological theme and establishes its sociological foundations. This timely text is well suited for courses in marketing, consumer behavior, social psychology, and economics.

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SMALL BUSINESSES, BIG IDEAS Global Case Studies in Strategy, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship Holly J. Hitzemann

ÂŠ 2016 This text introduces students to small businesses on four continents to help them understand the challenges inherent in running small businesses, as well as the strategies that lead to success. It features an overview of each region along with an assessment of the small business landscape. Case study chapters open with an original introduction that helps students focus their reading.

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FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING Key Principles Made Easy Nonso E. Okpala

ÂŠ 2016

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Written to be both accessible and readily applicable, as well as highly practical in nature, Financial and Managerial Accounting is an excellent foundational textbook. The book focuses only on the topics students need to master at the introductory level. The particulars of managerial accounting are addressed in chapters on cost-management systems, capital investment systems, and master and flexible budgets.

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PREPARING AN EVIDENCE-BASED REPORT T. Zane Reeves

ÂŠ 2016

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This text uses case studies to teach basic principles of human resources and the skills needed to conduct investigations into human resource issues. It explores the emotional nature of such investigations and the tensions they inevitably produce. Readers learn practical skills to ensure investigations are carried out in a fair and reliable manner.

HUMAN RELATIONS IS YOUR BUSINESS Jim Wilhelm

ÂŠ 2016

This text addresses basic concepts in the area of human relations with the added benefit of including skills that encourage and enhance positive relationships. Topics include cultivating self-awareness and self-disclosure, building self-esteem and positive attitudes, and improving communication skills. In addition, the book teaches students motivation and conflict resolution strategies, team building, and methods for developing emotional control.

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Comprised of statutes, legal decisions, scholarly essays, and the primary source material of the legal profession, this text replaces stale textbook explanations with real-world, scholarly work. The book allows the texts to speak for themselves and challenges students to parse meaning, interpret content, and contextualize their learning.

Emphasizing life-long learning and application, this book provides information that will be of use in a variety of classroom settings, business organizations, and environments. Students will gain a foundation in strategic management and its process, become familiar with various schools of thought regarding strategy, and acquire analytical tools.

MORE THAN ONE RIGHT ANSWER ETHICAL DILEMMAS FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS

This book makes use of ethical dilemmas confronting today’s college students to build the skills they need to confront professional ethical dilemmas in a business environment. It presents “College Situations” that prompt questioning and critical thinking, and then asks students to apply what they have learned to “Business Scenarios.”

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SELECTED READINGS ON EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

This text is designed to help students distinguish between popular theory and the long-term impact of truly influential thinking. As the readings expose students to major ideas, the commentary at the beginning and end of each chapter aids them in making important connections between these ideas and their personal approaches to leading others.

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This text allows students to explore and address complex tax problems in a safe learning environment. It provides opportunities to combine and integrate target concepts in order to solve complex, inter-related tax problems. The book concludes with a comprehensive tax return case.

This text emphasizes working through problems over reading about theory and identifies clear procedures for completing each problem successfully. The heart of each chapter features an appropriate method for solving problems, an illustrative example, and an introductory stop-check problem for immediate application.

MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING FOR SMALL, PRIVATELY OWNED BUSINESSES

With its shared focus on the management of small businesses and the financial well-being of individuals, this book covers everything needed to successfully run a business or increase personal wealth. All material is rooted in real-world business practices and presented in a clear, concise, and accessible way.

This book emphasizes the analysis and evaluation of cost accounting information for managerial planning, control, and decision-making. It provides a complete and concise coverage of topics commonly included in a basic course, with an in-depth coverage of selected topics more appropriate for an advanced course in cost accounting.

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This text is designed to help student learn how to assess the health of employees and utilize this information to design, implement, and evaluate an appropriate public health program. It illustrates the importance of healthy employees for corporations and delivers different strategies for implementing successful public health programs.

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

This book introduces learners to the complexities of effective leadership, organizational behavior, and strategic planning. Over the course of the book the material addresses leadership types and functions, organizational change, capacity building, strategic planning, a three dimensional leadership model, and three “E’s” of leadership — emotional intelligence, empowerment, and ethics.

HUMAN CAPITAL LEADERSHIP

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to human resource management issues in the modern workplace. Focused on understanding complex human behavior within a dynamic organizational context, the book covers strategic human capital leadership, globalization, and strategic IHRM to meet AACSB requirements.

With outstanding DVD Excel demos that show spreadsheet developments, this text enables students to dive into practical examples using advanced algorithms. The principal topics covered are network models, linear programming, decision analysis, and PERT Monte Carlo simulation.

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This text gives readers a firm understanding of important principles of business management. The initial chapters introduce the history of management and familiarize readers with different management roles and functions. The book addresses planning and decision-making, and how to effectively handle change, innovation, and conflict.

SMART START-UP ESSENTIALS

The first book in a series of three on successful entrepreneurial style, this text teaches readers how to analyze opportunities and turn them into a legal and effective business venture. It educates readers about the essential business elements that enable them to create a smart start-up.

The second book in the series helps new entrepreneurs make the transition to becoming managers and leaders. The book addresses the most essential issues for effectively managing start-ups, and ensuring that new businesses survive. The four succinct sections of the text focus on the drivers of successful business management.

SMART START-UP GROWTH

The final book teaches readers how to plan for growth, and network effectively in order to develop the right resources needed to support that growth. It discusses five dimensions of successful growth: strategy, networking, marketing and sales, customer service, and communicating the story and needs of the business.

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WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGY

This text provides a solid foundation in the major theories and practice of workplace psychology. Concise and focused, each chapter highlights relevant theory, empirical work, current practices, and legal and professional contexts. The combination of text, images, and graphics helps to maintain student interest.

This book uses crossword puzzles as a learning tool to assist in reviewing important management concepts. The puzzles are developed to coordinate with topics covered in standard management textbooks, such as organizational culture, globalization, decision making, planning and strategy, team and human resource management, motivation, and leadership.

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

In a global business environment, managers must understand and promote the pride of all cultures in both their home and host countries. By helping readers understand specific cultural identities, the text enables them to become multicultural, multinational managers who build their own cultural philosophies and match their corporate fitness to different business environments.

ADVENTURES OF A DEAN

This book examines the interpersonal, professional, and financial aspects of being a dean, and illustrates how politics continually impacts a dean’s goals and strategies. Adventures of a Dean is a candid discussion of the opportunities and the risks facing deans, as well as a lesson in business school financial planning and strategy.

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This text teaches students about strategic planning and decision making. Unlike many traditional textbooks that focus on strategy in a theoretical manner, this text approaches strategy as results-driven, data-driven, and dynamic. Global and multinational strategic plans are considered from a results orientation, supported by extensive research and practical experience.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FOR RESULTS PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES

Linda L. Brennan and Faye A. Sisk

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This text teaches graduate students of management about strategic planning and decision making. This reader approaches strategy as results-driven, datadriven, and dynamic. Featuring contemporary topics that are of high interest to students, the book emphasizes the practical, rather than the theoretical.

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT READINGS, CASES, AND MATERIALS

This is the text for providing human resource students a foundation of legal understanding as they prepare for their careers. For each specific topic, students examine statutes, cases, and leading interpretations of doctrine. The materials also allow students to critically analyze legal documents and principles.

This text outlines the process of starting a business by applying the advantages of the WEB 2.0 environment. Using case studies, the book advocates a clear-eyed, directive approach to starting and running a business. In doing so, it incorporates social networking and viral marketing approaches. This text focuses on illustrating the ways technology can enhance and improve the entrepreneurial process.

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This text is designed to give managers the tools they need to lead effectively. Focusing on motivation and communication, the book guides managers through the process of motivating employees in order to help them realize their full potential.

This text explores essential statistical techniques, including data collection, simple graphic and numeric statistical procedures, probability, hypothesis testing, and regression. The book is designed to show readers how to become producers of statistical analysis, which will help them make decisions and become better consumers of information.

This book fills the gap left by many textbooks that are often dedicated to either mathematics or statistics, but not both. It also serves as both a textbook that describes basic concepts and a workbook that shows plenty of examples and exercise problems. This book covers only the most fundamental topics in business mathematics and statistics and truly lays down the basic concepts step by step.

Drawing on major sociological and organizational theories, this book delves into the experiences of executives and senior-level managers in American’s top Fortune 500 corporations. In exclusive interviews, these men and women recount their professional and personal experiences associated with their corporation’s adoption and implementation of diversity strategies.

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E-COMMERCE MANAGEMENT Zinovy Radovilsky ÂŠ2009 REQUEST a Review Copy

This text offers a detailed description and analysis of e-commerce business models including their components, classification, and performance results. It also provides a methodology and practical examples of selecting and implementing e-commerce business models and associated online applications.

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