In 2006 two conferences, ICEB and eBRF, joined forces in Tampere, Finland to create a joint conference for researchers, practitioners and policymakers all over the world. The conference was built around the main theme “Global Conference on Emergent Business Phenomena in the Digital Economy”. Frontiers of e-Business Research (FeBR) 2006, – a collection of 73 research papers – presents the conference proceedings of ICEB + eBRF 2006 conference.

ICEB (The International Conference on Electronic Business) is an Asian based conference that has been organized earlier in Hong Kong (twice), Taipei, Singapore and Beijing. Behind the ICEB conference is an organization called the International Consortium for Electronic Business (ICEB), which was founded in 2001. eBRF (Research Forum to Understand Business in Knowledge Society) was also launched in 2001 and has since been organized annually in Tampere, Finland. The eBRF has been organized by the eBRC (e-Business Research Center), which was a joint venture between University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology and belonged to the eTampere knowledge society program.

ICEB + eBRF 2006 was organized by the Institute of Business Information Management at the Tampere University of Technology. Co-organizers included the following universities: Tsinghua University (China), The National University of Singapore, National Chiao Tung University, (Taiwan), National Chengchi University, (Taiwan), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, (Australia), California Polytechnic State University, (USA), California State University, Sacramento, (USA) and the University of Tampere (Finland).

TRACK 1 Digitization of Business and its Global Infrastructure – Private and Public Challenges

TRACK 2 Creation and Management of Information and Knowledge

TRACK 3 Building Business in the Network Economy

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