...CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Of Study E-Commerce is one of the very concepts growing in the internet world. Use of this system can actually benefit many parties such as consumer, manufacturer or the retailer. The concept of online shopping provides many facilities and advantages compared with the conventional concept of shopping. A part transaction process can be faster, the internet has provided nearly all goods usually sold complete. Nowadays, the development in Information Technology is rapidly growth. Information technology has proven capable of integrating every detail of information that previously seemed impossible was achieved, as the speed of information, efficiency and effectiveness. Information technology is widely used as a website for selling product online, where the product can be accessed throughout the world. Accordingly, the development of information technology through the concept of e-commerce has changed the business environment more conducive to force us to dominate the field more quickly. Rapid development in information technology, especially in the development of the Internet has led to the extensive use of electronic in the daily business such as e-commerce, e-government and e-commerce as well. E-mail and the internet site are the most important component of e-commerce. While the growing importance of the Web 2.0 and the effects on consumers and organisations are issues frequently making headlines and increasingly attracting academic...
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...The Impact of E-Commerce Willie M. Gray GB 365 Legal Environment of Business Miles College Instructor: Wendy M. Stewart October 13, 2015 Abstract Today’s economy is truly a global one, allowing a lot more room to maneuver and focus on providing customers with a value product ensuring success. E commerce has made a profound impact on society, people can shop online in the privacy of their own homes without ever having to leave. This method changes the way people look at shopping and spending money, it has changed the face of retail services. E commerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction that involves the transfer of information across the internet. It covers a range of different types of businesses, from consumer based retail sites, through auction or music sites, to business exchanges trading goods and services between corporations. E commerce is currently one of the most important aspects of the internet to emerge. E commerce businesses must use patents for their business, because it is very important to protect your company. The future of e commerce and online business looks very bright, especially since technology is evolving every single day. In the future you can probably expect custom everything for customers, more personalized brands, and virtual shopping. The Impact of E-Commerce E commerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction that involves the transfer of information across the internet. It covers...
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...E-commerce Executive Summary: E-commerce is one of the most progressive sectors of the economy. E-commerce has had powerful impact on all the macroeconomic sectors. It is redefining business processes and consumer expectations. The internet backbone of e-commerce is connecting every vendor in the world to every buyer across the globe. Advent of mobile devices has made the whole process even more interesting. E-commerce has done really well in its own right during the course of its conception as an industry. The growth rate have been continually rising against traditional shopping every year. Although the Great Recession has impacted the retail industry as a whole, the ratio of e-commerce sales are still strong and increasing. There are some clear dominance for certain goods that are purchased only through the internet. However, the proportion of shoppers purchasing online and shoppers through brick and mortars are still low. While it seems that e-commerce is taking over traditional sales, it is not even close to full domination of the retail industry. E-commerce has had significant impact on financial markets. Revenue growth of this sector is higher than that of the economy. Contribution of e-commerce to the GDP is increasing at a substantial rate. This fast growing industry has low entry barriers and is highly dependent on technological advancements. Efficiency and cost of performance are rapidly changing in favor of the industry with the growth in the technology sector. With...
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...E-COMMERCE By Name A Paper Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements of INFS-732: Electronic Commerce Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide descriptive evidence supporting Kenneth C. Laudon and Carol Guercio Traver’s concept that e-commerce is a relationship between business, technology, and society. This paper will also examine the idea that e-commerce is creating new markets in three distinct areas: where prices are transparent, markets are global, and trading is highly efficient. The findings analyzed in this paper will assist in determining whether these concepts are pushing the markets or if the markets are pulling these concepts. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract ii TABLE OF CONTENTS iii INTRODUCTION 1 types of e-commerce 1 concept of e-commerce 1 e-commerce MARKETS 1 CONCLUSION 3 References 3 INTRODUCTION In their book titled E-Commerce: Business, Technology, Society, Kenneth C. Laudon and Carol Guercio Traver define e-commerce as “the use of the Internet and the Web to transact business. More formally, digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals.” There are many benefits to an e-commerce enabled business, and EcommerceEducation.com lists some of the more distinct advantages as the following: * Business happens without regard to time and distance * Allows sellers to reach buyers around the world * Lower total cost per sale for the seller * Better purchasing decisions...
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...Describe The changing of e-commerce in Vietnam nowadays and its impact on Tradition Marketing .Give some solutions for Marketing activities Over the past decade, the explosion of Internet has significant impact on marketing activities as well as building company brand and product in the competitive market. ". Internet can create strong brand recognition ever and increase number of people who know the brand very quickly. Along with the constant increasing of online marketing activities, the Internet can also bring risks for new brands in the industry. For Vietnam, e-commerce has many impact on the way companies marketing to sell their product as well as do research about their customers. Back to the day when there was no Internet or e-commerce, when you want to buy something, you have to go to the stores, markets or supermarkets to get what you want. However no matter how big these places can be, you may not find the things you need because the bigger these places are the harder it get to find what you need. If you want to buy a product that is common for everyone then it will be displayed at a visible place, but if you want an unpopular product you may not find it. Moreover you may have to go to two or three different places to buy all the things you need. That’s why when E-commerce showed up, it open a new era of buying and selling online as well as other activities, caused severe damage to the old markets, stores, supermarkets … In order to survive, most of these places...
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...Yuming Jiang How electronic commerce effect on marketing Saint Joseph’s College Yuming Jiang How electronic commerce effect on marketing Saint Joseph’s College How Electronic Commerce Effect on Marketing The past five years, the global marketing strategy has undergone enormous changes, which there are many factors. They include: changes in consumer demand, population movements, changes in the ecological environment, financial investment direction and other factors. This article I will focus on the impact of the rise of e-commerce play a leading role in the development of science and technology and advances led to the marketing of the marketing process of change and change. With the rapid development of information technology, especially the Internet popularization and application of e-commerce it is widely used in various fields of human society, while e-commerce is the inevitable product of technological progress. But also inevitably lead to changes in the traditional business model and corporate structure, and have a profound impact on the traditional marketing model, especially in the last five years. Network broke through the space-time industrial society, has shaken the business and marketing presence in the past the foundation. How to deal with change, how to meet the challenges in a changing, enterprises now need to seize the opportunity to seriously think about. Human society is in a technology transition, the information explosion and today's era of rapidly...
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...supportive for Alibaba, but there are some emerging challenges in economic environment. From SWOT, it is also found that are various opportunities and threats for Alibaba in the existing business environment. In the end, it is observed that global expansion can be effective for Alibaba to deal with future challenges effectively. Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 Company Background 4 3.0 Business Performance 4 4.0 Macro and Micro Environment Analysis 5 4.1 PESTLE Analysis 6 4.2 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 7 4.3 SWOT Analysis 8 5.0 Recommendations 9 5.1 Conclusion 10 5.2 References 11 1.0 Introduction This report is prepared to analyze external business environment for an organization and make appropriate recommendations to deal with future challenges. For this purpose, Alibaba is selected for this report. 2.0 Company Background Alibaba is a China based e-commerce company that was founded in year 1999 by Jack Ma when he launched a website called Aliobaba.com. At present, it mainly operated three e-commerce sites that are: Taobao (online shopping destination), Tmall (a third-party online platform for brands and retailers) and Alibaba.com (online shopping destination). Currently, Alibaba is the world’s largest e-commerce company in terms of customer base of millions of users, merchants and businesses as well as sales volume (Yahoo Finance, 2015). 3.0 Business Performance...
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...The impacts of E-commence on international business and marketing: A literature review Name student: Tao Yi Student number: 1192930 Course name: Master thesis international track Course code: 2012-191880750-1A Assessor: Assistant Prof. Dr. E. Constantinides and Dr. Huub J.M. Ruel Hand in date: 15-09-2012 E-commerce and Web 2.0: An intensive literature review on their impacts on international business and marketing Table of content Managerial summary ............................................................................................ 2 1. Background and research objectives .............................................................. 3 2. Research problem and research questions...................................................... 4 3. Research methodology ................................................................................... 6 4. Key findings .................................................................................................. 8 4.1. 4.1.1. 4.1.2. 4.1.3. 4.2. 4.2.1. 4.2.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.4.1. 4.4.2. 4.4.3. 4.5. 4.5.1. 4.5.2. 4.5.3. 4.6. The impacts of Internet on International business and marketing .................................. 8 The impacts on international business ......................................................................... 8 The impacts on international entrepreneurship ............................................................ 9 The impacts on international companies‟ marketing ................................
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...ASSIGNMENT ON E-COMMERCE IN BANGLADESH Submitted To: Submitted by: Table of Contents Ecommerce .....................................................................................3 History of E-Commerce....................................................................3 Why e-Commerce for Bangladesh……………………………………………….4 Traditional and Electronics Business Transaction ............................5 Traditional Commerce vs e-Commerce............................................3 Dimensions of E-Commerce .............................................................6 Business to consumer(B2C) ..................................................7 Business to Business (B2B) ...................................................7 Business to Government(B2G) ..............................................7 Benefits of E-Commerce ...................................................................7 e-Commerce in Different Sector in Bangladesh ................................8 Overview of implementation stage of e-Commerce in Bangladesh 8 Some e-Commerce shop in Bangladesh ............................................9 The impact of e-Commerce ...............................................................9 Constraints to E-Commerce in Bangladesh......................................10 Challenges of E-commerce for Bangladesh......................................11 Recommendations………………………………………………………………………11 Conclusion........
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...Emergence of e-business and supply chain management enables informational technologies to fuse with logistic. In this fast growing global economy, e-logistics has been appeared to overcome the informational barriers in the supply chain. This essay indents to bring an interpretation of the “old economy” logistics with "new generation" logistics. Firstly, the essay explains the definitions of the e-logistics and also analyses the differences between e-logistics and traditional logistics. INTRODUCTION Oscar Morgenstern proposed logistics as a discipline in science economy. Until the Second World War, logistics was considered as a science using for military services. Now logistics is considered as a civil science. The developmental stages of logistics can be categories as military logistics, business logistics and e-logistics. Among these stages, e- logistics can be considered as the latest stage of this industry. Nowadays, e-logistics has been discussed as electronic logistics, which uses the web technology as inevitable tool to administer some of the sectors of logistic industry or the whole process (Wang Wei, 2003); according to Prof. Zhai Xuewei, e-logistics is the combination of logistics supporting e-commerce and the electronic technology for logistics (Sun Chao, 2002). In this juncture, e-logistics can be regarded as e-logistic commerce, in which information flow is combined in the form of electronic technology, network technology and automation. Therefore, e-logistics...
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...ABSTRACT E-commerce made Supply Chain Management (SCM) technically viable and unleashed the practice of SCM. The Kenya Sugar Industry and particularly Sony Sugar Industry, due to its own characteristics, have not utilised E-commerce for Supply Chain Management as widely as it could have. The purpose of this exploratory study is to increase the understanding of the determinants for adoption of E-commerce in SCM within Kenya and its apparent industry of this study. The study will also aim at testing the value of supply chain structure and company strategies in explaining E-commerce adoption. Questionnaires, mail and email surveys will be conducted to collect the data. Simple interviews and regressions will be used to achieve the objectives and answer the questions generated. The results of this study will be used to confirm whether the literature that perceives E-commerce characteristics and Sony Sugar’s characteristics influence the E-commerce adoption level although not every factors of these two groups will be expected to do so. The study will also show that one of the factors in supply chain structure, E-procurement, is significantly related to the e-commerce adoption level. Key words: E-commerce, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Kenya Sugar Industry, Sony Sugar Industry. LIST OF FIGURES 1. FIGURE 1 Supply chain model in E-Commerce environment 2. FIGURE 2 the E-Procurement Process 3. FIGURE 3 The Independent and the Dependent...
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...THE IMPACT OF E-COMMERCE IN MODERNISATION OF TRADITIONAL ENTERPRISES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN BTAD OF ASSAM. (Prasenjit Nath, Janata College, Serfanguri, BTAD, Assam. Department of Computer Science & Application.) ABSTRACT: This paper explores the synergies between Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) and in traditional micro and small enterprises in Bodoland Territorial Area Districts of Assam for marketing, advertising, and sales their organizational products or services. For this study used current literature review on E-commerce and Entrepreneurship and case study analysis from different sources. In addition to this, interviews were conducted to examine the perceptions of enterprises in E-Commerce regarding modernization of traditional micro and small enterprises and entrepreneurship development and the factors affecting the modernization of business and integration of entrepreneurship. The study has explored the synergies between E-Commerce and modernization of traditional micro and small enterprises and entrepreneurships of Bodoland Territorial area Districts through a review of principal literature in this field, case study analysis, web researches and interviews with micro and small traditional enterprises. Traditional micro and small enterprises and E-Commerce should be regarded as ongoing, everyday practice in enterprises. For rural area of North-East...
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...system is all about people using technology to work with information as they support the organization in its quest for a competitive advantage (Haag & Cummings, 2008, p. 29). Researchers and authors have discussed management information systems and technology over the decades. The concepts of competitive advantage, technology, outsourcing etc. have been theorized, yet discussion on the subject matter continues. While MIS strategy formulation has seen advancement, organizations are evolving and constantly changing their operating models. An example of such organization is Wal-Mart, the global retail giant. This research seeks to pin-point Wal-Mart’s key management information system strategy, while providing a deeper understanding of the organization’s management information systems strategy and its impacts. Further it aims to investigate knowledge management, e-commerce strategy, and the impact of database management which are aspects that can be incorporated into the MIS strategy formulation. To achieve this objective the literature survey was conducted to explore available published papers in the sphere of IS/IT strategy formulation. Considering that the applicability of information systems and technology is mission critical, the research design focused on the qualitative approach. The primary method of data collection was through semi-structured interviews with managers and co-managers. This was complemented by credible peer-reviewed literature. Using grounded theory approach...
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...Course No Course Name University Name Instructor’s Name Date Host Foreign Country’s Concern in Expansion Plan Foreign nations faces various obstacles in adoption of new business ranging from infrastructural issues of technological advancement, network problem, lack of skilled resources, etc; investment issues in inter-organization communication, network establishment, etc; security and privacy issues of customer information in transaction; government regulations for legal protection of consumer rights; logistics issues of distribution; lack of physical and social interaction in virtual environment for purchase; and returning policy of traders (OECD, 2004). Although infrastructure and deregulation governs the success of commerce, transactional trust is mandatory for encouraging the participants to pursue the shopping from foreign firms (Oxley & Yeung, 2001). Socio-cultural characteristics of these countries also raises concern of institutional trust in the new business as substitute for social milieu lacking in personal touch or localization of product (Efendioglu, Yip, & Murray, 2004). Temporal and spatial separation requires radical shift in consumer pattern to create trust between parties involved in transaction occurring in trading based on agreed contract. Delivery of products to the increasing number of customers in new system brings challenges for seller to keep the promises of order fulfillment in committed time. Logistics capability determines the delivery...
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...Impact of WTO on Globalization Trade Policy Introduction World Trade Organization (WTO), found in 1995 and headquarters is in Geneva, has its clearly main purposes since its beginning that to promote economic and trade development all over the world. Up to the end of 2008, there are more than 135 members in the organization. In particularly, with the expansion of globalization trade, international business is more often than any time in the history. As one of the most crucial carrier of economic globalization, WTO establishes a set of international trade rules focusing on the liberalization, which play a strong role of encouraging and guiding in the process of economic globalization (Pauwelyn, 2005). This essay will mainly discuss WTO’s influence on the rules of globalization trade in combination with the current reform of trade policy. It will explain the topic from the following four aspects in detail: first, the basic rules WTO set up for the international trade, then, rules on e-commerce, the new rising global business, third, the preferential rules made by WTO for developing countries, and at last, it will discuss the impacts of WTO’s regulations on environmental issues when doing global trade. Basic Rules WTO set up for the Global Trade WTO's main objective is to provide adequate competitive opportunities for the trade among the members, which needs recognized common rules and principles for members to abide. There are two basic principles, namely the MFN principle (referred...
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