The Global Cybercrime Industry Economic, Institutional and Strategic Perspectives /

• Main Author: Kshetri, Nir (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Business.; Industrial management.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Ethics.; Computers.; Law and legislation.; E-commerce.; Mass media.; Law.; Business and Management.; Media Management.; e-Commerce/e-business.; IT in Business.; Media Law.; Legal Aspects of Computing.

This book is about the global cybercrime industry, which according to some estimates, is a US$1 trillion industry and is growing rapidly. It examines economic and institutional processes in the cybercrime industry, provides insights into the entrepreneurial aspect of firms engaged in cyber-criminal...

Table of Contents:

• The Global Cybercrime Industry and Its Structure: Relevant Actors, Motivations, Threats, and Countermeasures
• Simple Economics of Cybercrime and the Vicious Circle
• An Institutional Perspective on Cybercrimes
• Increasing Returns and Externality in Cybercrimes
• Institutional Field Evolved Around Cybercrimes
• Information and Communications Technologies, Cyberattacks, and Strategic Asymmetry
• Global Heterogeneity in the Pattern of the Cybercrime Industry
• Structure of Cybercrime in Developing Economies
• Institutional and Economic Foundations of Cybercrime Business Models
• The Global Click Fraud Industry
• Concluding Remarks and Implications.