About ebusiness@newcastle
The dust has settled from the dot com expansion and explosion, and the concomitant euphoria and pessimism has been replaced by more cool-headed, rational thinking and actions, underpinned by robust theories and frameworks. The dot com bust did not mark the end of the Internet and E-Business. The underlying growth of the networked society and economy, in terms of the number of people and organisations getting on line and the business volume of e-commerce have continued even during economic downturn. By 2005 there were already talks of a ‘Second e-Business Boom’, which has since become more firmly established.
Today businesses from around the globe are actively exploring opportunities and challenges brought about by the Internet and related technologies. The public sectors are not only shaping the development of infrastructure and services, but also experimenting with new ways of delivering their own information and services via electronic channels. Boundaries between products, services, channels, industries and companies are eroding. The success of private and public sector organisations in the next few years will depend on how effective they are in implementing new ways of working and how adept they are – or become – at innovatively exploiting the Internet and related technologies.
As an integral part of the Newcastle University Business School, our work explores all aspects of e-business, and its applications in different sectors and domains. We are particularly interested in the impact of Internet related technologies and e-business on the global business environment, their effects on emerging strategies and e-Business models, and the resulting organisational, and product and service innovations. We are also interested in high technology entrepreneurship and small e-Business research. Our research covers a wide range of markets and sectors, including banking, telecoms, retailing, digital media, creative industries, health and science-based businesses, with a particular focus on innovative applications and new ways of creating and capturing value. Furthermore, the group has been playing a key role in the Business School’s engagement with the Newcastle Science City initiative, while externally, our group plays an active role in the British Academy of Management and several other international conferences.
People
- Alawiyah Abd Wahab
- Yazn Alshamaila
- Malgorzata Ciesielska
- Joanna Berry
- Dr. Kostas Giannoutakis
- Zilia Iskoujina
- Mengchao Kou
- Prof. Feng Li
- Dr. Savvas Papagiannidis
- Ahmed A. Samad
External Associates
- Dr. Alexis Barlow, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
- Dr. Rahim Ghasemiyeh, Head of Humanities, Persian Gulf University, Iran
- Dr. Michael Bourlakis, Brunel University, UK