E-Commerce Background

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Author(s): Mahmud Akhter Shareef (Carleton University, Canada), Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Swansea University, UK), Michael D. Williams (Swansea University, UK)and Nitish Singh (Boeing Institute of International Business at St. Louis University, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 30
Source title: Proliferation of the Internet Economy: E-Commerce for Global Adoption, Resistance, and Cultural Evolution
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mahmud Akhter Shareef (Carleton University, Canada), Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Swansea University, UK), Michael D. Williams (Swansea University, UK)and Nitish Singh (Boeing Institute of Internatonal Business, St. Louis University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-412-5.ch002

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / E-Commerce

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Electricity, telecommunication, integrated circuits, networking, and the Internet fostered a revolution by delivering distinctive services. The power of the net lies in restructuring the global economy to benefit consumers, businesses, society, and civilization. In general sense, electronic economy is considered to have three primary components--supporting infrastructure, electronic processes (how it is conducted), and electronic commerce transactions (buying and selling). This chapter deals with the introductory concepts of B2C EC and its related issues in the global context. It describes introduction to EC and evolution of one of the basic components of EC, that is, the Internet. Then this chapter sheds light on definition, proliferation, adoption, globalization, and management issues related to B2C EC. This chapter also explains the basic concepts of M-Commerce and E-Government (EG) as the related issues.

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