Abstract
In the 1990s, the business world was abuzz over the prospects of the Internet and e-commerce. While stocks of upstart e-commerce companies soared, many experts warned that the investment bubble could not be sustained. In 2001, the prognosticators were proven correct. Having ignored sound investment principles, thousands of investors watched helplessly as scores of insolvent e-commerce companies fell by the wayside on Wall Street. The failures of these companies left many questions about technology and e-commerce in the minds of investors and the public alike. In 2003, business expert Nicholas Carr poignantly summed up the situation in the Harvard Business Review. He stated that as information technology's power, influence, and ubiquity have expanded, its strategic importance has diminished to the point that "IT doesn't matter" (Carr, 2003). As Carr's statements sent shock waves through the world of academia and business alike, many experts pondered the implications for e-commerce. It follows that the current study examines the viability of e-commerce as a strategic component in today's business world.

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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF E-COMMERCE AS AN ESSEENTIAL COMPONENT IN BUSINESS STRATEGY Introduction In the 1990s, the business world was abuzz over the prospects of the Internet and e-commerce. While stocks of upstart e-commerce companies soared, many experts warned that the investment bubble could not be sustained. In 2001, the prognosticators were proven correct. Having ignored sound investment principles, thousands of investors watched helplessly as scores of insolvent e-commerce companies fell by the wayside on Wall Street. The failures of these companies left many questions about

Tags:e, commerce, internet, world wide web

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This document discusses the underlying principles of e-commerce and e-business. It examines such e-commerce functionalities as customer relationship management applications as a way to illustrate how effective e-commerce and e-business principles can be across all industries. Additionally, the paper utilizes three radically different businesses to illustrate how e-business and e-commerce has elevated business performance measures: Office Depot, Ford Motor Company, and Amazon.com.

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"Corporations the world over have utilized e-business or some aspect of electronic commerce (e-commerce) to either act as their sole business model or to enhance the productive performance in some way of their existing traditional business models. E-commerce might be considered as a type of business transaction where the parties to the transaction conduct their commerce electronically where electronically has come to be considered the Internet (Epstein, 2004). Yet, technically speaking e-commerce could just as well be considered to be transacted by phone, fax, or other electronic form of media. Such definitions evade the true essence of electronic commerce, which in practice has become one of those rare cases where changing needs and new technologies have come together to revolutionize the way in which business is conducted over an entirely new medium; commonly termed the Internet."

Tags:e, business, e, commerce, efficiencies

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This paper discusses the legal, ethical, and regulatory issues related to operating a business to business (B2B) e-commerce website and of operating a business to consumer (B2C) e-commerce website and the efforts to improve all aspects thereof. The consensus is that while many of the infrastructural solutions for these two orientations of e-commerce are the same, some very important differences, such as the regulatory requirements across industries, are dramatically different in industries such as the financial services and banking industries where security and reporting measures are at a premium.

Tags:e, commerce, legal, ethical

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This paper is an analysis of a proposed expansion to e-commerce by a small import/export furniture store, including an introduction that defines e-commerce, e-commerce technologies, supply chain models, and a conclusion.

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"Electronic commerce or e-commerce is business conducted through online transactions featuring linked computer systems of the vendor host and buyer. What Is E-Commerce? E-commerce comprises business-to-customer (B2C) online retailing and e-tailing, business-to-business (B2B) buying and selling, the web-based gathering and use of demographic data and Electronic Data Interchange between businesses.
"E-commerce is the focus of this paper and this type of e-commerce consists of e-tailing via virtual storefronts on web sites with online catalogs..."

Tags:furniture, B2C, Internet, e-commerce, web site, technology, data mining, personalization, import/export

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This paper considers the nature of e-commerce, some of its benefits and some of its limitations, as well as how it has developed and what its future may be. It also looks at the fact that e-commerce is becoming more and more viable and even necessary on some level for every business, whether as an adjunct to normal operations or as a completely e-commerce business model.

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"As e-commerce becomes a more important part of business, any business considering entering this area of sales has to consider the attitudes of consumers, fears for security, and both the attractions for this type of buying and the limitations that might be involved as well. Many companies have found ways to solve these problems, making it seem more and more beneficial to include e-commerce in any business plan, or even to develop a business plan that is solely based on e-commerce. "

Tags:business, e, commerce, systems

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This paper begins by giving a brief description of the term e-commerce. Then it goes on to evaluate the growth of e-commerce in the current economy. Next, the author evaluates the factors that have contributed to the growth of the sector and finally discusses the long-term effect it is expected to have on the economy.

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"This document examines the impact that e-commerce has had and will continue to have on the United States economy. The document begins by giving a brief description of the term e-commerce. Then it goes on to evaluate the growth of e-commerce in the current economy. Next the author evaluates the factors that have contributed to the growth of the sector and finally discusses the long-term effect it is expected to have on the economy."

Tags:e, commerce, economy, impact

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The paper discusses how e-business and e-commerce initiatives require scalability because of the rapid growth that these innovative business models are capable of. The paper relates that typically, e-commerce initiatives are broadly categorized as either business to business (B2B) or business to consumer (B2C). The paper looks at how Cunningham states that e-enabled businesses can grow and expand so rapidly that if scalability is not built into the system, technological infrastructures can become antiquated within a period of months because of the wide exposure that internet based operating platforms provide.

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"E-business and e-commerce initiatives require scalability because of the rapid growth that these innovative business models are capable of. Typically, e-commerce initiatives are broadly categorized as either business to business (B2B) or business to consumer (B2C). Cunningham states that e-enabled businesses can grow and expand so rapidly that if scalability is not built into the system, technological infrastructures can become antiquated within a period of months because of the wide exposure that internet based operating platforms provide (93)."

Tags:e, commerce, briefing, supply chain

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This paper discusses the legal, ethical and regulatory environment of e-commerce. It explores the impact of the Internet on commerce. The author also expands on business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce.

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"As the twenty-first century unfolded explosive growth in e-commerce made practicable through the continued evolution of the Internet also created the need for the development of legal and regulatory framework ..."

Tags:B2B, B2C, business, e-commerce, regulations, laws, Internet

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This paper examines data mining in e-commerce and discusses the various types of modeling used to make the data meaningful to e-tailers. The advantages and pitfalls of data mining and an explanation of how it has transformed e-commerce are detailed. The paper includes an abstract and table of contents.

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"Data mining as applied to e-commerce is a breakthrough technology that can gather information in an automated fashion and build models used to predict customer purchasing decisions with remarkable accuracy ..."

Tags:e-commerce, Internet, data mining, personalization, logistic regression

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This paper addresses several e-commerce issues, with a focus on the strategy involved in running an e-commerce company. The paper also examines the four infrastructures () that influence that strategy, which are technology, media, capital and public policy. The paper concludes by discussing companies and the importance of communicating with site users, and their met and unmet customer needs.

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"Discuss the strategy involved in running an e-commerce company and the four infrastructures that influence that strategy. Explain why an e-commerce manager must give careful consideration to those infrastructures. The strategy involved in running an e-commerce company has to be flexible because online enterprise is a fluid, constantly changing environment. Emergent strategy attributed to Mintzberg by Rayport and Jaworski is the name given to setting an intended strategy or what a firm hopes to accomplish in a particular time frame. But when the market changes the firm..."

Tags:e-commerce, infrastructures, strategy, media, capital, customer