BUS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: E-Commerce, Future Shop, Amazon Marketplace

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 201
• Professor: Peter Tingling

Document Summary

E-business: everything having to do with the application of information and communication technologies to the conduct of business between organizations or from company to consumer. Electronic buying and selling, electronic advertising, groupware, email, electronic distribution. E-commerce: buying and selling over electronic channels. Web commerce: buying and selling over the web. Most customers today are multi channels (site, physical store, etc) E-commerce is an inter-organizational system because it links parties that buy goods and services with parties that sell those goods and service: complex value chain. Buy adele"s album so you have to pay bc tax, but you can say you live in alberta an then no tax. Technology perspective: not easy to set up, must consider and obtain technology infrastructure. Outsource this functionality (for a cost: goods & services may be listed on larger sites e. g. ebay, craigslist, amazon.