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Chapter 1

This chapter provides an overview of electronic commerce, defining key terms like electronic commerce, e-business, brick-and-mortar organizations, and learning objectives around EC models and drivers. It also outlines the various forms of EC transactions, from pure digital to partial digital, and describes EC frameworks involving intranets and extranets.

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Chapter 1

This chapter provides an overview of electronic commerce, defining key terms like electronic commerce, e-business, brick-and-mortar organizations, and learning objectives around EC models and drivers. It also outlines the various forms of EC transactions, from pure digital to partial digital, and describes EC frameworks involving intranets and extranets.

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Chapter 1

Overview of Electronic Commerce

2008 Pearson Prentice Hall, Electronic Commerce 2008, Efraim Turban, et al.

Learning Objectives
1. Define electronic commerce (EC) and
describe its various categories.
2. Describe and discuss the content and
framework of EC.
3. Describe the major types of EC transactions.
4. Describe the digital revolution as a driver of
EC.
5. Describe the business environment as a
driver of EC.
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Learning Objectives
6. Describe some EC business models.
7. Describe the benefits of EC to organizations,
consumers, and society.
8. Describe the limitations of EC.
9. Describe the contribution of EC to
organizations responding to environmental
pressures.
10. Describe online social and business
networks.
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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
electronic commerce (EC)
The process of buying, selling, or
exchanging products, services, or
information via computer networks

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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
EC can be defined from these
perspectives:
Business process
Service
Learning
Collaboration
Community

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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
e-business
A broader definition of EC that includes
not just the buying and selling of goods
and services, but also servicing
customers, collaborating with business
partners, and conducting electronic
transactions within an organization

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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
Pure versus Partial EC
EC can take several forms depending on
the degree of digitization
1. the product (service) sold
2. the process (e.g., ordering, payment,
fulfillment)
3. the delivery method

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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts

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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
brick-and-mortar (old economy)
organizations
Old-economy organizations
(corporations) that perform their primary
business off-line, selling physical
products by means of physical agents
virtual (pure-play) organizations
Organizations that conduct their
business activities solely online
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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
click-and-mortar (click-and-brick)
organizations
Organizations that conduct some ecommerce activities, usually as an
additional marketing channel

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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
Internet versus Non-Internet EC
Most EC is done over the Internet, but EC
also can be conducted on private networks,
such as value-added networks, local area
networks, or on a single computerized
machine
Non-Internet EC includes the use of mobile
handwriting-recognition computers used by
field reps to write their notes in the field
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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
electronic market (e-marketplace)
An online marketplace where buyers and
sellers meet to exchange goods,
services, money, or information

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Electronic Commerce:
Definitions and Concepts
interorganizational information systems
(IOSs)
Communications systems that allow routine
transaction processing and information flow
between two or more organizations
intraorganizational information systems
Communication systems that enable ecommerce activities to go on within individual
organizations
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The EC Framework,
Classification, and Content
intranet
An internal corporate or government
network that uses Internet tools, such as
Web browsers, and Internet protocols
extranet
A network that uses the Internet to link
multiple intranets

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The EC Framework,
Classification, and Content

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The EC Framework,
Classification, and Content
EC applications are supported by
infrastructure and by these five support
areas:
People
Public policy
Marketing and advertisement
Support services
Business partnerships
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