The course «International E-Commerce» is designed to provide participants with the skills required to develop and manage a thriving international e-business or e-commerce department of a larger business. «International E-Commerce» provides an overview of the fundamental concepts of online marketing, creating a web site, gaining customers online. Developed with the participation of e-Business leaders, this course will cover a range of topics and provide participants with a solid foundational understanding. After completing the course the student will be able to:
• define the meaning and scope of e-business and e-commerce and their different elements;
• summarize the main reasons for adoption of e-commerce and e-business and barriers that may restrict adoption;
• outline the ongoing business challenges of managing e-business and e-commerce in an organization;
• complete an online marketplace analysis to assess competitor, customer, and intermediary use of the Internet as part of strategy development;
• outline the hardware and software technologies used to build an e-business infrastructure within an organization and with its partners;
• outline the hardware and software requirements necessary to enable employee access to the Internet and hosting of e-commerce services;
• identify the different elements of an organization macroenvironment that impact on an organization’s e-business and e-marketing strategy;
• assess the impact of legal, privacy and ethical constraints or opportunities on a company;
• assess the role of macro-economic factors such as economics, governmental e-business policies, taxation and legal constraints;
• identify the main business and marketplace models for electronic communications and trading;
• evaluate the effectiveness of business and revenue models for online businesses;
• follow an appropriate strategy process model for e-business;
• apply tools to generate and select e-business strategies;
• outline alternative strategic approaches to achieve e-business;
• identify the main elements of supply chain management and their relationship to the value chain and value networks;
• assess the potential of information systems to support supply chain management and the value chaiт;
• identify the benefits and risks of e-procurement;
• analyze procurement methods to evaluate cost savings;
• assess different options for integration of organizations’ information systems with e-procurement suppliers;
• assess the need for separate e-business and e-marketing strategies;
• create an outline e-marketing plan intended to implement the e-marketing strategy;
• distinguish between marketing communication characteristics of traditional and new media;
• outline different methods of acquiring customers via electronic media;
• evaluate different buyer behavior amongst online customers;
• describe techniques for retaining customers and cross- and upselling using new media;
• identify the different types of change that need to be managed for e-commerce;
• develop an outline plan for implementing e-commerce change;
• describe alternative approaches to organizational structure resulting from organizational change;
• summarize approaches for analyzing requirements for e-business systems;
• identify key elements of approaches to improve the interface design and security design of e-commerce systems;
• produce a plan to minimize the risks involved with the launch phase of an e-business application;
• define a process for the effective maintenance of an e-business system;
• produce a simple web page with links to other pages;
• create a plan to measure the effectiveness of e-business application using web analytics tools.

• International Management
• Foreign Economic Activity Budgeting
• International Marketing
• Cost management in foreign economic activity

Introduction to Electronic Commerce: objectives and learning outcomes of the course. Hardware and Software. E-commerce fundamentals. E-business infrastructure. E-environment. Strategy and applications. Technology Infrastructure: The Internet and the World Wide Web. Selling on the Web: Revenue Models and Building a Web Presence. Marketing on the Web. Business-to-Business Activities: Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs. Social Networking, Mobile Commerce, and Online Auctions. The Environment of Electronic Commerce: Legal, Ethical, and Tax Issues. Web Server. E-business strategy. Supply chain management. E-procurement. E-marketing. Customer relationship management. Change management. Analysis and design. Implementation and maintenance.

Basic
1. Cooper R., Madden G. (Ed.) Frontiers of Broadband, Electronic and Mobile Commerce. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. - 341 p.
2. Electronic Commerce, Ninth Edition Gary P. Schneider, Ph.D., CPA, 2011, 643 p.
3. ICT Policies of the European Union: From an Information Society to eEurope. Trends and visions Jacques Berleur, Jean-Marc Galand in Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society (2005)
4. Ingham B. International Economics A European Focus. Reader in Economics University of Salford. Pearson Education Limited, 2004. — 330 р.
5. Kenneth C. Laudon, Carol Traver. E-Commerce 2016: Business, Technology, Society / For undergraduate and graduate courses in business./ Laudon K.C., Traver K. - Pearson Education, Limited, 2016. – 912 p.
6. Manzoor Amir. E-Commerce. An Introduction / A. Manzoor. – Lambert Academic Publishing. – Berlin, 2010 – 400 p.
7. Russel Cooper, Gary Madden. Frontiers of Broadband, Electronic and Mobile Commerce. University of Western Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia, 2004, 341 p.
8. Schneider G. Electronic Commerce. Course Technology, 2010. - 628 p.

Additional
1. Barbara Ingham. International Economics. A European Focus. Prentice Hall. Edunburg, England, 2004, 539 p.
2. Jepson, K. 2009. “How Two Credit Unions Are Achieving Banner ROI On Their Web Sites,” Credit Union Journal, September 21, 1–15.
3. Keil, M., P. Cule, K. Lyytinen, and R. Schmidt. 1998. “A Framework for Identifying Software Project Risks,” Communications of the ACM, 41(11), November, 76–83.
4. Timothy Ferriss. The 4-Hour Workweek. Escape 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich. Grow Publishers. New York, 2007, 324 p.
5. United States Department of Justice Inspector General. 2002. Audit Report No. 03-09: Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Management Of Information Technology Investments. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice.

Informational sources
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2. Building effective online marketplaces with institution-based trust. / [Electronic resource]. – Access mode: http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/isre.1040.0015
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• current control: labs, practical trainings, seminars, public presentations at workshops, rapid testing, individual scientific-research tasks, participation in colloquia and role-playing games; case studies of technology leaders such as Apple, Facebook and Google, as well as start-ups and small businesses (40 %);
• final control: exam (60 %).