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Evolving the E-Business Professor Michael Earl Centre for the Network Economy CNE WP02/2001Evolving the E-Business Michael J Earl Introduction Even discounting for the hype of the IT industry, the rhetoric of business writers and the succession of wakeup calls from governments, few corporate leaders will doubt that e-commerce is here to stay. Even the collapse of dotcom start-ups and the volatility of Internet stocks cannot undermine this premise. Variously called e-commerce, e-businesses, the new economy, and so on, incumbent companies as much as dotcom start-ups are learning fast about th