Globalization and E Commerce: Diffusion and Impacts of the 

Internet and E Commerce in Germany 

July 2004 

PROF. DR. WOLFGANG KOENIG

1

PROF. DR. ROLF T. WIGAND

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DIPLOMA IN ECONOMICS ROMAN BECK

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 Institute of Information Systems 

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 

Frankfurt am Main, Germany 

{wkoenig, rbeck}@wiwi.uni frankfurt.de 

2

Maulden Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor  

of Information Science and Management 

Department of Information Science  

CyberCollege

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA 

rtwigand@ualr.edu

This research is part of the Globalization and E Commerce project of the Center for Research on Information 

Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at the University of California, Irvine.  This material is based upon work 

supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0085852.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions 

or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the 

National Science Foundation. 

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