CHAPTER 7 E-Commerce: Applications and Issues CHAPTER OUTLINE 7.1 Overview of E-Business & E-Commerce 7.2 Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce 7.3 Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Commerce 7.4 Electronic Payments 7.5 Ethical and Legal Issues in E-Business 7.1 Overview of E-Business and E-Commerce The dot-com era Over 3 billion people are now connected to the Internet More than 130 million people are buying online E-commerce began in 1995 Marketplace → Marketspace * Overview of E-Business and E-Commerce E-Commerce (EC): describes the process of buying, selling, transferring or exchanging of products, services or information via computer networks, including the Internet. E-business: is a broader definition of EC, including buying and selling of goods and services servicing customers collaborating with partners conducting e-learning conducting electronic transactions within an organization. * Pure versus Partial EC depends on the degree of digitization involved:The product can be physical or digital.The process can be physical or digital.The delivery agent can be physical or digital Brick-and-mortar: purely physical organizations Click-and-mortar: organizations are those that conduct some EC activities, yet their business is primarily done in the physical world [multichannneling] Pure Play: organizations that are engaged only in EC Overview of E-Business and E-Commerce * Bricks and Mortar, Partial EC, and Pure EC Buy books at Family Bookshop bricks and mortar Order physical book from Amazon: partial EC Order and download book from Amazon: pure EC Types of E-Commerce Business-to-Consumer (B2C): the sellers are organizations and the buyers are individuals Business-to-Business (B2B): both the sellers and buyers are business organizations Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C): both the sellers and buyers are individuals * Types of E-Commerce Business-to-Employee (B2E): An organization uses e-commerce internally to provide information and services to its employees. E-Government (E-Gov.): the use of Internet technology to deliver information about public services to citizens (Government-to-Citizen [G2C]), business partners and suppliers (called government-to-business [G2B]) and between governments [G2G]. Mobile Commerce (m-commerce): e-commerce that is conducted using a mobile phone * E-Commerce Business ModelsOnline Direct Marketing: manufacturers sell directly to customers Electronic Tendering System: businesses (or governments) request quotation from suppliers [uses B2B or G2B] -[Example: e-tendering The Tender Board ] E-auction – an auction which is held over the Internet www.ebay.com Forward Auction: the highest bidder wins the auction Reverse Auction: the lowest bidder wins the auction * E-Commerce Business ModelsName-your-own-price: customers decide how much they want to pay www.priceline.com Find-the-best-price: customers specify a need and an intermediary comp.