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Conducting business activities electronically over computer networks
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Electronic Commerce
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Subset of e-commerce
All the participants are organizations
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B2B E-Commerce
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organizations sell their products directly to consumers
amounts to about 4.6% of total U.S. retail sales |
B2C E-Commerce
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The elimination of intermediate organizations between the producer and the consumer
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Disintermediation
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Sales in local stores that are stimulated through online marketing
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Web-influenced sales
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Subset of e-commerce that involves consumers selling directly to other consumers
Popular sites: e-Bay, Bidzcom, Craigslist, eBid, Kijiji ePier, Ibidfree, Ubid, and Tradus |
Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) E-Commerce
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Use of information and communications technology to:
Simplify the sharing of information
Speed formerly paper-based processes
Improve the relationship between citizen and government
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E-Government
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Forms of e-Government
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Government-to-consumer (G2C)
Government-to-business (G2B)
Government-to-government (G2G)
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Relies on the use of mobile, wireless devices to place orders and conduct business
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M-commerce
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Created a .mobi domain to help attract mobile users to the Web
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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Direct sale from business to consumer through electronic storefronts
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Electronic retailing (e-tailing)
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Single Web site that offers many products and services at one Internet location
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Cybermall
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Purchases often approach 40 percent of a manufacturing company’s total revenues
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Manufacturing, repair, and operations (MRO)
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Electronic forum where manufacturers, suppliers, and competitors buy and sell goods, trade market information, and run back-office operations
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Electronic exchange
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Owned and operated by a single company
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Private exchanges
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