The Dutch telephone company KPN [KPN01] provides the cHTML language specification.

Ashely
et al.'s article compares WAP and iMode's security [Ash01]. The W3C's Bos04 CSS standard is
freely accessible to the public. Billsus et al.'s article on the personalization of web pages [ BBE+02]
and one by Freire (FKL01) are both available.
Numerous works, including Kaplan's [Kap96a] book, contain reports on the GPS procedure used for
positioning. GALILEO is being developed at the moment. The European Space Agency (ESA)'s
homepage contains some works and related documentation, including a technical report on the
project's current status (Eur08b). The article by Drane et al. provides a summary of GSM
positioning [ Dra98]. The methods presented in the article by Seybold and Stormer [Sey03] are used
to inject location-dependent data into photographs.
The mobile visit was mentioned in our discussion of medical mobile solutions. The article by
Arnscheidt et al. provides a more in-depth description of this [ Arn02].
10 eSociety Industrial Solutions Technology and Innovation Management (mBusiness)
eProcurement eProducts & eServices eMarketing eContracting ePayment eCustomer Relationship
Management Value Chain eBusiness Framework Individual and Society (eSociety) Supporting
Processes Strategic Planning Organization and Human Resources Security Management Controlling
Cultural Administration This chapter discusses the effects of electronic markets' location and time
independence on individuals and society. Our approaches to work and organization are primarily
being altered by technological and market shifts (Sect. 10.1). In accordance with Sect. 10.2, virtual
organizations (independent network partners) develop forms of cooperation that bundle core
competencies. As a result, mobile workstations are used by eTeams to carry out their activities. In a
society with multiple options, a knowledge worker is both an employee and an entrepreneur (Sect.
10.3). Section 10.4 demonstrates that virtual and knowledge-intensive businesses maximize
intangible assets (also known as intellectual capital).
At the same time, knowledge workers like those in eTeams need to make a commitment to acting
ethically (Sect. 10.5). Literature on the information and knowledge society is cited in Section 10.6.
H. Stormer and A. Meier, eBusiness and eCommerce: Managing the Digital Value Chain, 185 c
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 186 10 eSociety 10.1 Change in the Working World
Western industrialized nations are currently experiencing a significant shift in societal and
workplace values. Despite the continuing rise in demands and expectations regarding work and free
time, unemployment, uncertainty, and dissatisfaction are important factors here. There is a demand
for work environments that offer a high degree of independence and better balance between work
and personal lives.
Especially for employees with higher qualifications, appreciation and the possibility of structuring
are significant sources of motivation.
• Market globalization • Sectoral structure change • Market dynamics • Product and service
complexity • Market uncertainty • Intermediation and disintermediation • Decreasing costs of
storage media • Miniaturization (ubiquitous computing) • Global information-technical networking
• Simultaneous growth of information technology and telecommunications • Digitalization of the
value chain 10.1: According to Reichwald et al., the factors that are influencing the shifts that are
taking place in the workplace
The three factors that are influencing our work methods are depicted in Figure 10.1:
Changes in the global market The way we work and the people we interact with at work have
become more global as a result of the globalization of the market and competition relationships.
Nowadays, work requires collaboration across vast geographical distances and time zones. Cultural
and linguistic barriers must be broken down. As depicted in Fig., in addition to globalization,
sectoral structure shifts are also taking place. 1.6 in the beginning chapter. Our activities and the
working world have changed as a result of the long-term shift in worker density from agriculture
(the primary sector) to the production sector (secondary sector), services, and the information
society (tertiary sector). In industrialized nations, occupations in the information sector clearly
dominate, despite occasional fluctuations; This employment sector encompasses all 187 of the
activities related to information production, processing, and distribution in 10.1 Change in the
Working World.
technological advancement. Information technology is losing its luster as the price of processing
power for computers continues to fall.