Chapter 6 Company-Centric B2B and E-Procurement Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter‚ you will be able to: 1. Describe the B2B field. 2. Describe the major types of B2B models. 3. Discuss the characteristics of the sell-side marketplace‚ including auctions. 4. Describe the sell-side intermediary models. 5. Describe the characteristics of the buy-side marketplace and e-procurement. 6. Explain how reverse auctions work in B2B. 7. Describe B2B aggregation and group
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E-commerce and CSR issues In the words of Alejo and Joan (2005)‚ regarding E-commerce and its Corporate social responsibility issues‚ “Reality is virtual‚ virtual reality-the reality that exist in the form of bits and bytes activated by electromagnetic energy and made powerful by IT and the internet-has changed the way we relate to one another. It has also revolutionized economics and business”. The authors state that while e-commerce‚ the sale of goods over the internet‚ has boosted online
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The History Of Ecommerce‚ The Early Years In the 1960s‚ very early on in the history of Ecommerce‚ its purpose was to exchanging electronic data long distance. In these early days of Ecommerce‚ users consisted of only very large companies‚ such as banks and military departments‚ who used it for command control communication purposes. This was called EDI‚ and was used for electronic data interchange. In the late 1970s a new protocol was developed known as ASC X12 which was used for the exchange
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In early 1999‚ Ford announced an integrated e-commerce strategy‚ with the objective of creating an interface among customers‚ dealers‚ vendors and even competitors. The SWOT analysis was studied for the development the strategy‚ as well as the chances of success of such strategy. With Ford’s desire to shift from dealer-centric’ selling to consumer-centric’ selling‚ we looked at the typical characteristics of online customers and how dealers could reinvent themselves to remain
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Business – E-Commerce Since the introduction of the Internet in the 1950’s‚ development of technology began for use by the military until it was soon introduced to the public for commercial and private use. Throughout the decades ever since‚ technology was then on the road to sudden rapid expansion‚ with a big boom in new hardware‚ software and internet capabilities such as faster computer speeds‚ faster internet connections and efficient software. Convenient services appeared such as E-Commerce (or Electronic
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INTRODUCTION E-Commerce also known as Electronic Commerce is the use of internet to perform trading and business activities. The various technologies used by e-commerce business are Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT)‚ Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)‚ mobile ecommerce etc. E-Commerce has become a thriving business and is still growing exponentially towards the future. EVOLUTION In the 1960s‚ the US Defence Department developed ARPANET‚ a secure and robust communication network for networking with defence
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Agents & E-Commerce Introduction The internet has experienced a rapid shift from information and entertainment to electronic commerce. The amount of information available on the web‚ as well as the number of e-businesses and web shoppers‚ has been growing exponentially and the influx is difficult to process. A major challenge for marketspace participants has become sifting through an unwieldy amount of information to find products‚ services‚ and even each other – often relegating e-commerce a hit
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TABLE OF CONTENT ABSTRACT 2 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. Features of E-commerce: 4 2.1. Security role in present E-commerce: 4 2.2. Security Factors in E-commerce: 5 3. Security Technologies: 7 3.1. Secure Electronic Transaction (SET): 7 3.2. Secure Socket Layer (SSL): 8 3.3. Firewall: 8 4. Conclusion: 9 5. References: 11 ABSTRACT In the E-commerce security is most important point because a website is to protect the valuable information. It plays a vital role to provide security to the
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Amazon.com: An E-Commerce Retailer A case report prepared for Professor Stroud MG 495/DLD Business Policy Fall I 2011 August 21‚ 2011 THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY CORPORATE STRATEGY I. INTRODUCTION A. Executive Summary 1. Summary statement of the problem: Considered to be the premier online retailers in the word‚ Amazon.com has had a short life (founded in 1994) but can be proud of the strides it has made. Jeff Bezos‚ founder of Amazon.com‚ had an idea that was rejected by his
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Ebay’s E-Commerce Success How Ebay Used IT to make it Big Kent Kirkwood Intro to Business‚ BA101 Professor Williams February 2nd‚ 2011 Ebay’s E-Commerce Success How Ebay Used IT to make it Big Ebay had an unusual start‚ when a 28 year old programmer named Pierre Omidyar‚ created a site to sell items online stated‚ Hsiao‚ A (n.d.). He posted some broken laser pointers for sale in an auction-style listing. He meant this to be an example for other things to be listed for sale. Then the
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