Cover Image

Food in the Internet Age

This book examines food in the United States in the age of the Internet. One major theme running through the book is business opportunities and failures, as well as the harms to consumers and traditional brick-and-mortar companies that occurred as entrepreneurs tried to take advantage of the Interne...

Full description

Main Authors: Aspray, William. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Royer, George. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ocepek, Melissa G. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition,
Subjects:
Application software.
Food—Biotechnology.
Operations research.
Decision making.
Information technology.
Business—Data processing.
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).
Food Science.
Operations Research/Decision Theory.
IT in Business.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01598-9
Table of Contents:
  • Food Online: An Introduction to a Complex Environment
  • Anatomy of a Dot-Com Failure: The Case of Online Grocer Webvan
  • The Dark Side of Online Food Businesses: Harms to Consumers and Main-Street Businesses
  • Trust Online: From Amazon to Recipe Sharing.

Similar Items