Food in the Internet Age

• Main Authors: Aspray, William. (Author), Royer, George. (Author), Ocepek, Melissa G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition
• Subjects: Computer science.; Food science.; Operations research.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Food Science.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Business Information Systems.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01598-9

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...

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.