Japanese E-Commerce

Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd
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Ken Coates: University of Saskatchewan
Carin Holroyd: University of Saskatchewan

Chapter 4 in Japan and the Internet Revolution, 2003, pp 90-123 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Beginning in the late 1990s, a dot.com ‘revolution’ swept through the industrialized world. Led by promoters such as Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban and fueled by the most remarkable mobilization of risk capital in a century, the dot.com visionaries mapped out a strategy for the transformation of commercial enterprise. Massive ‘communities’ of customers would be carefully managed by loyalty-conscious companies. The ability to order a whole range of products, from music CDs to books to speciality foods and automobiles, would, they argued, destroy the bricks and mortar approach to retailing. As Internet use expanded, an entire generation of dot.com entrepreneurs scrambled on board, offering a full range of services, products and delivery systems, promising in the process to re-write the very fundamental rules of business. But not, it seemed, in Japan.1

Keywords: Cash Flow; Venture Capital; Japanese Firm; Portfolio Company; Risk Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403990075_5

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