ABSTRACT
The study and research of international business and e-commerce has both many similarities and some differences. E-commerce touches many of the same disciplines as IB (Boddewyn and Iyer 1999), i.e. economics, political science, law, sociology and psychology, and functional or professional areas, i.e. management, marketing, finance, etc., which apply concepts, models and variables derived from these disciplines. We have observed how the network properties of the Internet and e-commerce have encouraged IB, but not necessarily the amount and internal relatedness of foreign direct investment associated with business models of the mid-1990s (Beck et al. 2000).
