Abstract
This has been the year of the "E." E-business and e-commerce have exploded as enterprises and business of all sorts have moved to take advantage of the ubiquity of the Web. While a large number of organizations are still focused on using the Web for marketing and pre-sales, a sizeable percentage are utilizing the Web to transform the nature of their internal and external operations to service and support customers, clients, suppliers, and other partners in new and innovative ways. For the most part, this move to the Web is taking place in a "theoretical" and "research" vacuum. There has been little conceptual, empirical, or methodological work aimed at understanding what has occurred, what could occur, or what ought to occur as these organizations move from one phase of Web transformation to another. This track on the Internet and the Digital Economy attempts to fill this vacuum by providing these conceptual, empirical and methodological underpinnings for e-commerce, e-business and the digital economy in general.From a high level perspective, the minitracks in this session deal with 4 key issues. Included are: Virtual communities and collaboration; Web-enabled work processes between and within organizations; Analysis, models and methodologies of e-commerce and e-business The design, implementation and maintenance of Web applications and network infrastructure.