Laudon E-commerce Review Questions and Cases --- Chapter 1: Qs 1, 3, & 8
1. What is e-commerce? How does it differ from e-business? Where does it intersect with e-business?
E-commerce involves digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individual.
E-business refers primarily to the digital enabling of transactions and processes within a firm, involving information systems under the control of the firm.
For the most part, e-business does not involve commercial transactions across organizational boundaries where value is exchanged. Commercial transactions involve the exchange of value across the organizational or individual boundaries in return for products or services.
The intersect of them is the digitally enabled transactions. Including all those mediated by digital technology, transactions that occur over the Internet, the Web and via mobile app.
3. What are some of the unique features of e-commerce technology?
. 1, ubiquity 2, global reach 3, universal standards 4, interactivity 5, information density 6,personalization and customization 7, social technology 8,richness
8. What is Web 2.0? Give examples of Web 2.0 sites and explain why you included them in your list.
A set of applications has emerged on the Internet, loosely referred to as Web 2.0. These applications attract Huge audiences and represent significant new opportunities for e-commerce revenues. Web 2.0 applications Such as social networks, photo- and video-sharing sites, and blog platforms support very high levels of Interactivity compared to other traditional media.
Ch 1 Case: The Pirate Bay
1. Why did TPB believe it was not violating copyright laws? What did the Swedish court rule?
The pirate bay claims it is merely a search engine providing pointers to existing P2P networks that it does not it