Global e-readiness—for what? Readiness for e-banking

✍ Scribed by Vincent Maugis; Nazli Choucri; Stuart E. Madnick; Michael D. Siegel; Sharon E. Gillett; Farnaz Haghseta; Hongwei Zhu; Michael L. Best

• Book ID: 102871001
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 781 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0268-1102
• DOI: 10.1002/itdj.20022

✦ Synopsis

With the rapid diffusion of the Internet worldwide, there has been considerable interest in the e-potentials of developing countries giving rise to a first generation of e-readiness studies. Moreover, e-readiness means different things to different people, in different contexts, and for different purposes. Despite strong merits, this first generation of e-readiness studies assumed a fixed, one-size-fits-all set of requirements, regardless of the characteristics of individual countries, the investment context, or Sherif Kamel was the accepting Associate Editor for this paper.