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doc2. The trend of e-commerce in the world
3. Potential benefits of e-commerce
4. Obstacles to E-Commerce and counter plan
5. Conclusion
Electronic commerce has been simply defined as conducting business on-line. Not only products and services, which are delivered via on-line order process, but also the products, such as computer software program and digitalized music – all kinds of commercial transactions mean E-Commerce. OECD defines electronic commerce as a new way of conducting business qualifying it as business occurring over networks, which use non-proprietary protocols that are established through an open standard setting process such as the Internet . This definition distinguishes it from the earlier EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) type proprietary based networks or Intranets that were not based on an open (and therefore not cost effective) information infrastructure like the Internet.
1.2. Models
Table 1 below shows a variety of types in which each economic actor uses Internet in business. Among 9 models of Internet adaptation types, business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) are mainly concerned as electronic commerce.
Currently at least 80 per cent of total e-commerce activity is conducted in form of B2B. Most firms that are classified into B2B have universal business system. A recent Goldman Sachs report estimates that firms’ possible savings from purchasing over the Internet vary from 2 per cent in the coal industry to up to 40 per cent in electronic components . However, small- and medium size enterprises may get more potential gains from B2B purchasing indirect inputs,
