E-Commerce

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Course No: 
188427
Course Type: 
VU
Term: 
2018W
Weekly Hours: 
2.0
Lecturer: 
Allan Hanbury
Dimitrios Sacharidis
Language: 
English
Objective: 

The lecture introduces the topic of e-commerce and treats it both from a conceptional as well as technical point of view.

Content: 

- Introduction (information society, diffusion, classification)- The Enterprise (IT and organization, competition and strategy, pricing issues)- Personalization (Recommender Systems, advanced topics and challenges)- E-marketing (SEO, affiliate marketing, analytics)- Market and Networks (inter-organizational systems, hierarchies, intermediaries)- Business Models (Business model canvas, digital models)- Ethics (evaluating the ethical aspects of e-Commerce practices)- Blockchain and Crypo-currencies (Bitcoin, Etherium, etc.)- Data Markets (buying and selling data)

Information: 

Preliminary Discussion: Thursday, 04.10.2018, 8:30 - 9:30, Freihaus Hörsaal 5
Questions regarding the lecture organisation should be sent to questions_ec@list.tuwien.ac.at
Questions about the lecture content should be posted in the TUWEL "discussion" forum
Workload for students (in hours):

  • Lectures: 24
  • Prepare exam: 15
  • Exam: 1
  • Assignment work: 35

Sum: 75

Notes: 

Slides, will be available during the semester. A list of the literature will be also provided.
 

Examination: 

<p>4 assignments (in groups) and final test</p>

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