As technology continues to evolve, existing business models become limited with respect to complexity and speed. Accordingly, significant transformation has shaped the economy and business environments in recent decades.

Implementing New Business Models in For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations: Technologies and Applications provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings on a new platform of business models and then explores the relationship between the new Business 2.0 alliance and Web 2.0.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Business models in for-profit organizations
Business models in non-profit organizations
Employee attitudes towards business-to-employee (B2E) portals
Implementing an electronic infrastructure
Internet self-efficacy
Managing knowledge workers in the 21st Century
Modeling multi-criteria promotional strategies
Operational performance evaluation
Rethinking business process reengineering
Small and medium sized enterprises in e-supply chain management

Reviews & Statements

This book cuts through a lot of the excitement and panache associated with marketing of technologies and applications of new business models. It provides a thorough examination of business contexts and provides a framework for requirements analysis, along with case studies to assist with analysis and specification. This book also integrates the academic rigour and the practical knowledge of the authors to assist professionals and organizations in gaining benefits from both perspectives. I am pleased to be able to recommend this book to readers, be they those looking for substantive material on strategy, or those looking to understand an important aspect of new business model. I wish you the very best success with the implementations and realization of the many benefits of this technologies and applications.

– Tsungting Chung, Ph.D.

This book will help non-profit organizations (especially in education and the cultural innovation industry) and for-profit organizations (especially in high-tech, the service sector, and ICT) join the emerging Business 2.0 model. Contributors are from around the world, notably Taiwan. [...] The book is for advanced students, researchers, and managers.

– Book News, Reference - Research Book News - August 2011

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Editor/Author Biographies

Te Fu Chen, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He has taught in the Department of Information Management at Chang Jung Christian University. He has also taught in Department of International business at Ching Yun University and Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan. Dr Chen received his MBA degree in business and information management from MBA, Provindence University Taiwan in 1999; and PhD degree in management from the University of Western Sydney, Australia in 2007. His research interests include business model innovation, knowledge-based innovation, knowledge management, e-commerce/e-business, CRM, SCM, international marketing and service innovation and management. Recently, he starts to research tourism and leisure management and cultural innovation and creative industry.

Dr Chen has published over hundred papers and books in international journals global publishers, such as Edward Elgar (EE) Publishing Ltd, IGI Global Publishing group in UK and USA, Journal of Global Commerce and Management, Tamsui oxford journal of management sciences (International journal), Journal of knowledge management and practice (Top 7 for KM in International journal), International journal of e-business management (EI), International Journal of Central Asian Studies, Journal for SME Development, Journal of Entrepreneurship Research, Web Journal of Chinese management review (International journal), International Journal of Information Technology and Management (EI) etc.

Currently, he is the book editor in IGI Global publishing group, USA and IBIMA Journal of innovation management in SMEs, also, he has been the reviewer in Journal of Internet Technology (SCI-E), International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB): a special issue for the quality papers presented in ICEB 2005, International Journal of Technology Management (SCI/SSCI) on the theme "Trade, Technology and Economic Development in China", reviewer and the member of Editor board, "Risk Assessment and Management in Pervasive Computing: Operational, Legal, Ethical and Financial Perspectives", IGI Global, USA., International conference on e-business 2005, Hong Kong, International conference on e-business 2007, Taiwan, 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2009, Monash University: Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, The 44th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-44), 2010, one of the most reputable and influential conferences in the field of system sciences.

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Editorial Advisory Board

Hsiang-Yi Lin, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
Mangaraj, XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, India
Fang Zhao, American University of Sharjah (AUS), the UAE, USA
Viju Mathew, College of Applied Sciences Salalah, Oman
Moria Levy, ROM Knowledgeware Israeli Knowledge Management Forum, Israel
Yih-Chang Chen, Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan
Jian-xun Chen, Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan
Md Mahbubur Rahim, Monash University, Australia
Ti Hsu, Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, Taiwan
Wen Cheng Wang, Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan
Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland
Ko Chieh-Heng, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Irene Chen, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
Wei-Feng Tung, Fujen University, Taiwan
Chen S-H, Yuda University, Taiwan