Exam 6: E-Business and E-Commerce

Toy manufacturers such a Fisher Price or Lego would face __________ with their regular distributors by circumventing those distributors and selling online directly to customers.

Ethical standards and laws frequently __________ technological innovation.

Hosting an e-business Web site on a third-party's server is done if the company lacks infrastructure to host it themselves,does not have the IT expertise to manage it,or needs scalability.

What are reverse auctions and RFQs? Explain how they work and their purpose. Why do governments and corporations frequently mandate the RFQ approach for procurements?

A benefit of hosting an e-commerce site on a third-party's server is __________,which refers to the capability to add-on additional capacity incrementally,quickly,and as needed.

In __________ transactions,both the sellers and the buyers are business organizations.

The goal of __________ is to find information and knowledge that describe the relationships among consumers,products,marketing methods,and marketers.

A service level agreement (SLA)is a legal written contract between a vendor and client in which the vendor guarantees __________.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of competitive innovation?

The benefits of streamlining the e-procurement process within an organization's value chain include all of the following except:

Which of the following is not one of the challenges facing many e-tailers that can interfere with the growth of its e-tailing efforts?

__________ are the principal resources used to track visitors' Web activities and from which e-businesses draw information about how visitors use a site.

For banks,one benefit from implementing online banking is __________.

When managers are planning and managing their online business,they should do all of the following except _____.

ChemConnect.com and iSteelAsia.com are examples of vertical exchanges in which the prices of products __________.

In the sell-side marketplace model,organizations sell their products or services to other organizations from their own private e-marketplace or from a third-party site.

__________ refers to word-of-mouth marketing in which customers promote a product or service by telling others about it.

A survey conducted by the nonprofit Public Technology Institute (PTI)found 45 percent of local governments are using some form of __________ for applications or services because of budget pressures to reduce costs.

E-sourcing refers to the many __________ methods.

__________ is a revenue model by which an organization refers consumers to the selling company's Web site.