Editor's Introduction.

The article focuses on the growth of electronic commerce. Three fundamental levels of its infrastructure are enabling the global redistribution of business processes and work. Business-centered electronic commerce remains the primary component. Business-to-business electronic commerce has led to the emergence of rapid-response customer-driven supply chains and of process specialists, and undergirds rapid reconfiguration of transnational business networks. Intraorganizational electronic commerce has influenced the structure, the place and the content of work, with actionable knowledge available to increase the knowledge content of jobs.