Electronic Commerce Strategy in the UK Electricity Industry

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) has two separate chapters on self-employed persons who move on a permanent or temporary basis between Member States: the chapters on freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services. The central principles governing freedom of establishment and the free movement of services are laid down in the TFEU and have been developed through case law. Important developments have also been brought about through secondary legislation in sectors such as insurance, broadcasting, financial services, electronic commerce, telecommunications, and other ‘services of general economic interest’. This chapter focuses on the broad constitutional principles applicable to every sector. The UK version contains a further section analysing issues concerning freedom of establishment and the provision of services between the EU and the UK post-Brexit.

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Electronic Commerce Strategy in the UK Electricity Industry

Software Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-060-8.ch087 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1478-1497

Author(s):

Duncan R. Shaw ◽

Christopher P. Holland ◽

Peter Kawalek ◽

Bob Snowdon ◽

Brian Warboys

Keyword(s):

Business Process ◽

Design Theory ◽

Business Processes ◽

Interaction Model ◽

Electricity Industry ◽

Consumer Behaviors ◽

Technical Standards ◽

Regulatory Law ◽

The Uk ◽

Business To Business

This paper investigates the collective use of a simple modeling technology by highly complex, heterogeneous and numerous groups of stakeholders who heavily depend upon it to mediate their interactions. We use economic theory, design theory, complex systems theory and business process modeling concepts to analyze deregulation and business to business interaction in the UK electricity industry, and the strategic business and IT response of Electric Co, a large electricity supply company. The relevance of this study comes from its investigation of a novel example of the shaping of a whole sector’s ebusiness through regulatory law and thus we are concerned with enterprise and inter-enterprise systems not purely with ERP systems. We focus on model-based business interaction and its effect upon the business and consumer behaviors of a whole country’s electricity sector. This sector is a socio-technical system; so business processes and consumer behaviors are not only shaped by the regulator’s legally enforced business to business process interaction model, but the opinions of businesses and the public also influence how the regulator updates its model. Thus business behaviors, consumer behaviors and the model interact to shape each other. By moving from intra to inter-organizational business processes we seek to demonstrate and explain the value of models in e-business where the complexity of interacting business systems involves many thousands of parameters. We show how developments in technical standards and business process management are related to inter-organizational interaction and coordination.

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SMEs ECT Reality

Electronic Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-056-1.ch027 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 421-439

Author(s):

Zakia A. Elsammani

Keyword(s):

Strategic Planning ◽

Electronic Commerce ◽

Management Practices ◽

Change Agent ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Web Presence ◽

The Difference ◽

The Uk ◽

Development And Management ◽

Over Time

Lack of strategic planning in e-commerce and subsequently e-business adoption within smallto medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been strongly reported in literature. This chapter presents SMEs’ Web presence implementation patterns and unravels the reasons behind the lack of strategic planning when adopting Electronic Commerce Technologies (ECT). The chapter presents findings from semi-structured interviews from 11 SMEs in the Northwest of the UK. Findings reflect the difference in development and management practices of Web presence, between the more able Need Pull SMEs that identified the need to adopt ECT, and the less able Technology Push SMEs that were mostly influenced by change agent diffusion and awareness efforts. Over time, each group of SMEs reflect a different pattern in ECT implementation. This chapter depicts the issues that hinder SMEs, particularly in micro and small, in moving beyond Web site adoption.

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Spot Market Competition in the UK Electricity Industry

The Economic Journal ◽

10.2307/2234530 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 103 (418) ◽

pp. 531 ◽

Cited By ~ 220

Author(s):

Nils-Henrik Morch von der Fehr ◽

David Harbord

Keyword(s):

Market Competition ◽

Spot Market ◽

Electricity Industry ◽

The Uk

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SMEs ECT Reality

Global Electronic Business Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-642-6.ch004 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 63-87

Author(s):

Zakia Elsammani

Keyword(s):

Strategic Planning ◽

Electronic Commerce ◽

Management Practices ◽

Change Agent ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Web Presence ◽

The Difference ◽

The Uk ◽

Development And Management ◽

Over Time

Lack of strategic planning in e-commerce and subsequently e-business adoption within small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been strongly reported in literature. This chapter presents SMEs’ Web presence implementation patterns and unravels the reasons behind the lack of strategic planning when adopting Electronic Commerce Technologies (ECT). The chapter presents findings from semi-structured interviews from 11 SMEs in the Northwest of the UK. Findings reflect the difference in development and management practices of Web presence, between the more able Need Pull SMEs that identified the need to adopt ECT, and the less able Technology Push SMEs that were mostly influenced by change agent diffusion and awareness efforts. Over time, each group of SMEs reflect a different pattern in ECT implementation. This chapter depicts the issues that hinder SMEs, particularly in micro and small, in moving beyond Web site adoption.

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31. Introduction to passing off and trade marks

Intellectual Property Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198769958.003.0031 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

L. Bently ◽

B. Sherman ◽

D. Gangjee ◽

P. Johnson

Keyword(s):

Electronic Commerce ◽

Common Law ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Trade Marks ◽

Passing Off ◽

Domain Names ◽

Regional Background ◽

History Of ◽

The Common ◽

The Uk

This chapter introduces the common law of passing off and the statutory regime that protects registered trade marks found in the Trade Marks Act 1994. It commences with a brief history of trade marks and the development of their legal protection. This is followed by a discussion on the ways in which legal protection of signs and symbols are justified. It then considers the international and regional background that informs and constrains the law on trade marks in the UK, with particular reference to registration and the harmonization of standards. The chapter concludes by looking at challenges posed to trade marks by electronic commerce and the use of trade marks as domain names, as well as the phenomenon of supermarket lookalikes or own brands.

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23. Freedom of Establishment and to Provide Services

EU Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198859840.003.0023 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 861-920

Author(s):

Paul Craig ◽

Gráinne de Búrca

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Electronic Commerce ◽

Financial Services ◽

Case Law ◽

Economic Interest ◽

The European Union ◽

Freedom Of Establishment ◽

Provision Of Services ◽

General Economic Interest ◽

The Uk

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) has two separate chapters on self-employed persons who move on a permanent or temporary basis between Member States: the chapters on freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services. The central principles governing freedom of establishment and the free movement of services are laid down in the TFEU and have been developed through case law. Important developments have also been brought about through secondary legislation in sectors such as insurance, broadcasting, financial services, electronic commerce, telecommunications, and other ‘services of general economic interest’. This chapter focuses on the broad constitutional principles applicable to every sector. The UK version contains a further section analysing issues concerning freedom of establishment and the provision of services between the EU and the UK post-Brexit.

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