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Manmohan Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 2: Business Models of E-Commerce

Unit 2: Business Models of E-Commerce

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
2.1 Intra-B Commerce
2.1.1 Importance of Intra-B Commerce
2.2 Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Commerce
2.2.1 B2B Market Places

2.2.2 B2B Exchanges
2.2.3 Benefits and Barriers of B2B E-Commerce
2.3 Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce
2.3.1 B2C Models
2.3.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of B2C Models

2.3.3 Differences between B2B and B2C
2.4 Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) E-Commerce
2.4.1 Importance of C2C E-Commerce
2.5 Summary
2.6 Keywords
2.7 Self Assessment
2.8 Review Questions
2.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Discuss Intra-B commerce
• Describe business-to-business e-commerce
• Describe business-to-consumer e-commerce
• Describe consumer-to-consumer e-commerce
Introduction

The scope of e-commerce is vast and includes all processes that a business organization conducts over a
computer network. The Internet based businesses or the dot-com revolution grew rapidly and
comprehensively, almost minimizing the growth and progress of other sectors. Organizations doing
business through the Internet have emerged with their own ideas to succeed in the business.

Companies such as, Hotmail and Netscape have made business by offering free
products and services. The ideas used by such organizations have helped in
building new business models for Internet based business.
The different types of e-commerce business models are Intra-B commerce, Business-to-Business e-
commerce (B2B), Business-to-Consumer e-commerce (B2C), and Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) e-
commerce. An Intra-B transaction happens among different departments in a firm, B2B transactions

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