A curriculum for e-Business education

Abstract

This study constitutes an investigation into the electronic business environment, with the aim of developing a curriculum for e-Business education. It synthesizes the literatures on e-Business arid on curriculum. The synthesis is combined with research into developments at other major educational institutions and into present and future student attributes. It proposes a curriculum for an e-Business course at the School of Business at the University of Otago. The ideas developed during the course of the investigation were tested against the views and opinions of staff in the School of Business who have an interest and expertise in e-Business. Because it is hoped that this work will be of immediate practical benefit for the implementation of an e-Business course, the traditional Master of Commerce thesis is supplemented in this volume by a short executive report. In line with the spirit of the topic, an electronic version of this thesis is available on an enclosed CD-ROM. The author hopes that this electronic version would facilitate the finding of material presented in this thesis and provides an efficient manner for the webknowledgeable reader to read the thesis.