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E-commerce 2015
E-commerce 2015
Kenneth C. Laudon
Kenneth C. Laudon
Carol Guercio Traver
business. technology. society.
eleventh edition
Kenneth C. Laudon
Kenneth C. Laudon
business. technology. society.
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc.

Chapter 1
Chapter 1
The Revolution Is Just Beginning
The Revolution Is Just Beginning

Class Discussion
Class Discussion
Pinterest: A Picture Is Worth a
Thousand Words
 Have you used Pinterest or any other content
curation sites? What are your main interests?
 Have you purchased anything based on a pin
or board on Pinterest or any other curation
site?
 Why do Pinterest links drive more purchasing
than Facebook links?
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 1-3

E-commerce Trends 2014–2015
 Retail e-commerce grows over 15%
 Continued expansion of mobile, social, and
local e-commerce
 Mobile platform rivals PC platform
 Continued growth of cloud computing
 Explosive growth in Big Data
 Continued growth of user-generated content
on social networks, blogs, wikis

The First 30 Seconds
 First 20 years of e-commerce
Just the beginning
Rapid growth and change
 Technologies continue to evolve at
exponential rates
Disruptive business change
New opportunities

What Is E-commerce?
 Use of Internet and Web to transact
business
 More formally:
Digitally enabled commercial transactions
between and among organizations and individuals

E-commerce vs. E-business
 E-business:
Digital enabling of transactions and processes
within a firm, involving information systems
under firm’s control
Does not include commercial transactions
involving an exchange of value across
organizational boundaries

Why Study E-commerce?
 E-commerce technology is different, more
powerful than previous technologies
 E-commerce brings fundamental changes to
commerce
 Traditional commerce:
 Consumer as passive targets
 Mass-marketing driven
 Sales-force driven
 Fixed prices
 Information asymmetry

Eight Unique Features of
E-commerce Technology
1. Ubiquity
2. Global reach
3. Universal standards
4. Information richness
5. Interactivity
6. Information density
7. Personalization/customization
8. Social technology

Web 2.0
 User-centered applications and social
media technologies
User-generated content and communication
Highly interactive, social communities
Large audiences; yet mostly unproven business
models
Examples: Twitter, YouTube, Instagram,
Wikipedia, Tumblr, Uber

Types of E-commerce
 May be classified by market relationship or technology
 Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
 Business-to-Business (B2B)
 Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C)
 Mobile e-commerce (M-commerce)
 Social e-commerce
 Local e-commerce

The Growth of B2C E-commerce in the U.S.
Figure 1.3, Page 19
SOURCE: Based on data from eMarketer, Inc., 2014b; authors’ estimates.
Slide 1-12

The Growth of B2B E-commerce in the U.S.
Figure 1.4, Page 20
SOURCE: Based on data from U.S. Census Bureau, 2014; authors’ estimates.
Slide 1-13

The Internet
 Worldwide network of computer
networks built on common standards
 Created in late 1960s
 Services include the Web, e-mail, file
transfers, and so on
 Can measure growth by number of
Internet hosts with domain names

The Web
 Most popular Internet service
 Developed in early 1990s
 Provides access to Web pages
HTML documents that may include text, graphics,
animations, music, videos
 Web content has grown exponentially
 Google reports 60 trillion unique URLs

The Mobile Platform
 Most recent development in Internet
infrastructure
 Enables access to the Internet via
wireless networks or cell-phone service
 Mobile devices include
Tablets
Smartphones
Ultra-lightweight laptops

Insight on Technology: Class Discussion
Insight on Technology: Class Discussion
Will Apps Make the Web Irrelevant?
 What are the advantages and disadvantages
of apps, compared with Web sites, for
mobile users?
 What are the benefits of apps for content
owners and creators?
 Will apps eventually make the Web
irrelevant? Why or why not?

Origins and Growth of E-commerce
 Precursors:
Baxter Healthcare
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
French Minitel (1980s videotex system)
None had functionality of Internet
 1995: Beginning of e-commerce
First sales of banner advertisements
 E-commerce fastest growing form of
commerce in United States

E-commerce: A Brief History
 1995–2000: Invention
Key concepts developed
Limited bandwidth and media
Euphoric visions of
 Friction-free commerce
 Lowered search costs, disintermediation, price transparency,
elimination of unfair competitive advantage
 First-mover advantages
 Network profits
Dot-com crash of 2000

E-commerce: A Brief History (cont.)
 2001–2006: Consolidation
Emphasis on business-driven approach
Traditional large firms expand presence
Start-up financing shrinks up
More complex products and services sold
Growth of search engine advertising
Business Web presences expand to include e-
mail, display and search advertising, and limited
community feedback features

E-commerce: A Brief History (cont.)
 2007–Present: Reinvention
Rapid growth of:
 Online social networks
 Mobile platform
 Local commerce
Entertainment content develops as source of
revenues
Transformation of marketing
 Coordinated marketing on social, mobile, local platforms
 Analytic technologies

Insight on Business: Class Discussion
Insight on Business: Class Discussion
Start-up Boot Camp
 Why do you think investors today are still
interested in investing in start-ups?
 What are the benefits of investing in a company
that is a graduate of a Y Combinator boot camp?
 Is an incubator the best solution for start-ups to
find funding? Why or why not?

Assessing E-commerce
 Many early visions not fulfilled
Friction-free commerce
 Consumers less price sensitive
 Considerable price dispersion
Perfect competition
 Information asymmetries persist
Intermediaries have not disappeared
First mover advantages
 Fast-followers often overtake first movers

Predictions for the Future
 Technology will propagate through all commercial
activity
 Large, traditional companies will continue to play
dominant role, consolidating audiences
 Start-up ventures can still attract large audiences in non-dominated arenas
 Integrated online/offline companies will experience
more growth than purely online companies
 Additional factors:
 Increased regulation and control
 Cost of energy

Understanding E-commerce:
Organizing Themes
 Technology:
 Development and mastery of digital computing and
communications technology
 Business:
 New technologies present businesses with new ways of
organizing production and transacting business
 Society:
 Intellectual property, individual privacy, public welfare
policy

The Internet and
the Evolution
of Corporate
Computing
Figure 1.11, Page 41

Insight on Society: Class Discussion
Insight on Society: Class Discussion
Facebook and the Age of Privacy
 Why are social network sites interested in collecting
user information?
 What types of privacy invasion are described in the
case? Which is the most privacy-invading, and why?
 Is e-commerce any different than traditional
markets with respect to privacy? Don’t merchants
always want to know their customer?
 How do you protect your privacy on the Web?

Academic Disciplines
Concerned with E-commerce
 Technical approach
 Computer science
 Management science
 Information systems
 Behavioral approach
 Information systems
 Economics
 Marketing
 Management
 Finance/accounting
 Sociology

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