1.e-commerce ：The process of buying, selling, or exchanging products, services, or information via computer；2.e-business：A broader definition of EC that includes not just the buying and selling of goods and services, but also servicing customers, collaborating with business partners, and conducting electronic transactions within an organization；3.brick-and-mortar (old economy) organizations：Old-economy organizations (corporations) that perform their primary business off-line, selling physical products by means of physical agents；4.virtual (pure-play) organizations：Organizations that conduct their business activities solely online；5.click-and-mortar (click-and-brick) organizations：Organizations that conduct some e-commerce activities, usually as an additional marketing channel；6.electronic market (e-marketplace)：An online marketplace where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods, services, money, or information；7.Interorganizational information systems (IOSs)：Communications systems that allow routine transaction processing and information flow between two or more organizations；8.Intraorganizational information systems：Communication systems that enable e-commerce activities to go on within individual organizations；9.intranet：An internal corporate or government network that uses Internet tools, such as Web browsers, and Internet protocols；10.extranet：A network that uses the Internet to link multiple intranets；11.business-to-business (B2B)：E-commerce model in which all of the participants are businesses or other organizations；12.business-to-consumer (B2C)：E-commerce model in which businesses sell to individual shoppers；13.business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C)：E-commerce model in which a business provides some product or service to a client business that maintains its own customers；14.consumer-to-business (C2B)：E-commerce model in which individuals use the Internet to sell products or services to organizations or individuals who seek sellers to bid on products or services they need；15.e-tailing：Online retailing, usually B2C；16.intrabusiness EC：E-commerce category that includes all internal organizational activities that involve the exchange of goods, services, or information among various units and individuals in an organization；17.business-to-employees (B2E)：E-commerce model in which an organization delivers services, information, or products to its individual employees；18.consumer-to-consumer(C2C)：E-commerce model in which consumers sell directly to other consumers；19.collaborative commerce (c-commerce)：E-commerce model in which individuals or groups communicate or collaborate online；20.e-learning：The online delivery of information for purposes of training or education；21.e-government：E-commerce model in which a government entity buys or provides goods, services, or information from or to businesses or individual citizens；22.social computing：An approach aimed at making the human-computer interface more natural；23.Web 2.0：The second-generation of Internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in new ways, such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies；24.social network：A category of Internet applications that help connect friends, business partners, or individuals with specific interests by providing free services such as photo presentations, e-mail, blogging, and so on using a variety of tools；25.social network service (SNS)：A service that builds online communities by providing an online space for people to build free homepages and that provides basic communication and support tools for conducting different activities in the social network；26.social networking：The creation or sponsoring of a social network service and any activity, such as blogging, done in a social network ；27.enterprise-oriented networks：Social networks whose primary objective is to facilitate business；28.virtual world：A user-defined world in which people can interact, play, and do business. The most publicized virtual world is Second Life；29.digital economy：An economy that is based on digital technologies, including digital communication networks, computers, software, and other related information technologies; also called the Internet economy, the new economy, or the Web economy；30.digital enterprise：A new business model that uses IT in a fundamental way to accomplish one or more of three basic objectives: reach and engage customers more effectively, boost employee productivity, and improve operating efficiency. It uses converged communication and computing technology in a way that improves business processes；31.corporate portal：A major gateway through which employees, business partners, and the public can entera corporate Web site；32.business model：A method of doing business by which a company can generate revenue to sustain itself；33.revenue model:sales,transaction fees,subscription fees,advertising fees,affiliate fees,other revenue sources.1.e-marketplace：An online market, usually B2B, in which buyers and sellers exchange goods or services; the three types of e-marketplaces are private, public, and consortia；2.marketspace：A marketplace in which sellers and buyers exchange goods and services for money (or for other goods and services), but do so electronically；3.digital products：Goods that can be transformed to digital format and delivered over the Internet；4.front end：The portion of an e-seller’s business processes through which customers interact, including the seller’s portal, electronic catalogs, a shopping cart, a search engine, and a payment gateway；5.back end：The activities that support online order fulfillment, inventory management, purchasing from suppliers, payment processing, packaging, and delivery；6.intermediary：A third party that operates between sellers and buyers；7.sell-side e-marketplace：A private e-marketplace in which one company sells either standard and/or customized products to qualified companies；8.buy-side e-marketplace：A private e-marketplace in which one company makes purchases from invited suppliers；9.storefront：A single company’s Web site where products or services are sold；10.e-mall (online mall)：An online shopping center where many online stores are located；11.Web portal：A single point of access, through a Web browser, to critical business information located inside and outside (via Internet) of an organization；Types of portals:commercial portal,corporate portals,publishing portals,personal portals12.mobile portal：A portal accessible via a mobile device；13.voice portal：A portal accessed by telephone or cell phone；mediaries：Electronic intermediaries that provide and/or control information flow in cyberspace, often aggregating information and selling it to others；15.e-distributor：An e-commerce intermediary that connects manufacturers with business buyers (customers) by aggregating the catalogs of many manufacturers in one place—the intermediary’s Web site；16.electronic catalogs (e-catalogs)：The presentation of product information in an electronic form; the backbone of most e-selling sites；17.enterprise search：The practice of identifying and enabling specific content across the enterprise to be indexed, searched, and displayed to authorized users；18.desktop search：Search tools that search the contents of a user’s or organization’s computer files, rather than searching the Internet；19.search engine：A computer program that can access databases of Internet resources, search for specific information or keywords, and report the results；20.electronic shopping cart：An order-processing technology that allows customers to accumulate items they wish to buy while they continue to shop；21.auction：A competitive process in which a seller solicits consecutive bids from buyers (forward auctions) ora buyer solicits bids from sellers (backward auctions). Prices are determined dynamically by the bids；22.electronic auctions (e-auctions)：Auctions conducted online；23.forward auction：An auction in which a seller entertains bids from buyers. Bidders increase price sequentially；24.reverse auction (bidding or tendering system)：Auction in which the buyer places an item for bid (tender) ona request for quote (RFQ) system, potential suppliers bid on the job, with the price reducing sequentially, and the lowest bid wins; primarily a B2B or G2B mechanism；25.“name-your-own-price”model：Auction model in which a would-be buyer specifies the price (and other terms) he or she is willing to pay to any willing and able seller. It is a C2B model that was pioneered by ；26.double auction：An auction in which multiple buyers and their bidding prices are matched with multiple sellers and their asking prices, considering the quantities on both sides；27.bartering：The exchange of goods and services；28.e-bartering (electronic bartering)：Bartering conducted online, usually in a bartering exchange；29.bartering exchange：A marketplace in which an intermediary arranges barter transactions；30.blog:A personal Web site that is open to the public to read and to interact with; dedicated to specific topics or issues；31.vlog (or video blog)：A blog with video content；32.micro-blogging：A form of blogging that allows users to write messages (usually up to 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group that can be chosen by the user；33.Twitter：A free micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’updates；34.tweets：Text-based posts up to 140 characters in length posted to Twitter；35.tag：A nonhierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information ；36.folksonomy ：The practice and method of collaboratively creating, classifying, and managing tags to annotate and categorize content；37.social bookmarking：Web service for sharing Internet bookmarks. The sites are a popular way to store, classify, share, and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet and intranets；38.wiki (wikilog)：A blog that allows everyone to participate as a peer; anyone may add, delete, or change content；39.avatars：Animated computer characters that exhibit humanlike movements and behaviors；40.customization：Creation of a product or service according to the buyer’s specifications；41.personalization：The ability to tailor a product, service, or Web content to specific user preferences；42.disintermediation：Elimination of intermediaries between sellers and buyers；43.reintermediation：Disintermediated entities or newcomers take on new intermediary roles；44.mass customization：A method that enables manufacturers to create specific products for each customer based on the customer’s exact needs；45.build-to-order (pull system)：A manufacturing process that starts with an order (usually customized). Once the order is paid for, the vendor starts to fulfill it；1.direct marketing：Broadly, marketing that takes place without intermediaries between manufacturers and buyers; in the context of this book, marketing done online between any seller and buyer；2.virtual (pure-play) e-tailers：Firms that sell directly to consumers over the Internet without maintaining a physical sales channel；3.click-and-mortar retailers：Brick-and-mortar retailers that offer a transactional Web site from which toconduct business；4.brick-and-mortar retailers：Retailers who do business in the non-Internet, physical world in traditional brick-and-mortar stores；5.multichannel business model：A business model where a company sells in multiple marketing channels simultaneously；6.electronic(online) banking or e-banking:various banking activities conducted from home or the road using an internet connection;also known as cyberbanking,birtual banking,online banking ,and home banking7.birtual banks:have no physical location;only conduct online transactions8.shopping portals:gateways to e-storefronts and e-malls;may be comprehensive or niche oriented9.shopping robots:tools that scout the web on behalf of consumers who specify search criteria10.disintermediation:the removal of organizations or business process layers responsible for certain intermediary steps in a given supply chain11.reintermediation:the process whereby intermediaries take on new intermediary roles12.cybermediation(electronic intermediation):the use of software(intelligent) agents to facilitate intermediation13.channel conflict:situation in which an online marketing channel upsets the taditional channels due to real or perceived damage from competitionproduct brokering:Deciding what product to buymerchant brokering:Deciding from whom (from what merchant) to buy a productmarket segmentation:The process of dividing a consumer market into logical groups for conducting marketing research and analyzing personal informationone-to-one marketing (relationship marketing): Marketing that treats each customer in a unique way personalization:The matching of services, products, and advertising content with individual consumers and their preferencesuser profile:The requirements, preferences, behaviors, and demographic traits of a particular customer cookie:A data file that is placed on a user’s hard drive by a remote Web server, frequently without disclosure or the user’s consent, which collects information about the user’s activities at a sitebehavioral targeting:Targeting that uses information collected about an individual’s Web-browsing behavior, such as the pages they have visited or the searches they have made, to select an advertisement to display to that individualcollaborative filtering:A market research and personalization method that uses customer data to predict, based on formulas derived from behavioral sciences, what other products or services a customer may enjoy; predictions can be extended to other customers with similar profilese-loyalty:Customer loyalty to an e-tailer or loyalty programs delivered online or supported electronically interactive marketing:Online marketing, facilitated by the Internet, by which marketers and advertisers can interact directly with customers, and consumers can interact with advertisers/vendorsCPM (cost per thousand impressions) :T he fee an advertiser pays for each 1,000 times a page with a banner ad is shownadvertising networks: Specialized firms that offer customized Web advertising, such as brokering ads and targeting ads to select groups of consumersbanner:On a Web page, a graphic advertising display linked to the advertiser’s Web pagespot buying: The purchase of goods and services as they are needed, usually at prevailing market prices strategic (systematic) sourcing:Purchases involving long-term contracts that usually are based on private negotiations between sellers and buyersdirect materials:Materials used in the production of a product (e.g., steel in a car or paper in a book) indirect materials:Materials used to support production (e.g., office supplies or light bulbs)MRO (maintenance, repair, and operation) :Indirect materials used in activities that support production vertical marketplaces:Markets that deal with one industry or industry segment (e.g., steel, chemicals)horizontal marketplaces:Markets that concentrate on a service, material, or a product that is used in all types of industriesprocurement management:The planning, organizing, and coordinating of all the activities relating to purchasing goods and services needed to accomplish the organization’s missionmaverick buying:Unplanned purchases of items needed quickly, often at non–pre-negotiated higher pricese-procurement:The electronic acquisition of goods and services for organizationsinternal procurement marketplace:The aggregated catalogs of all approved suppliers combined into a single internal electronic catalogbartering exchange:An intermediary that links parties in a barter; a company submits its surplus to the exchange and receives points of credit, which can be used to buy the items that the company needs from other exchange participantsdesktop purchasing:Direct purchasing from internal marketplaces without the approval of supervisors and without the intervention of a procurement departmentgroup purchasing:The aggregation of orders from several buyers into volume purchases so that better prices can be negotiatedconsortium trading exchange (CTE) :An exchange formed and operated by a group of major companies in an industry to provide industry-wide transaction servicespartner relationship management (PRM) :Business strategy that focuses on providing comprehensive quality service to business partnerssupply chain:The flow of materials, information, money, and services from raw material suppliers through factories and warehouses to the end customerssupply chain:A supply chain that is managed electronically, usually with Web technologiesprocurement:The process made up of a range of activities by which an organization obtains or gains access to the resources (materials, skills, capabilities, facilities) they require to undertake their core business activities supply chain management (SCM) :A complex process that requires the coordination of many activities so that the shipment of goods and services from supplier right through to customer is done efficiently and effectively for all parties concerned. SCM aims to minimize inventory levels, optimize production and increase throughput, decrease manufacturing time, optimize logistics and distribution, streamline order fulfillment, and overall reduce the costs associated with these activitiese-supply chain management (e-SCM) :The collaborative use of technology to improve the operations of supply chain activities as well as the management of supply chainsbullwhip effect:Erratic shifts in order up and down supply chainsradio frequency identification (RFID) :Tags that can be attached to or embedded in objects, animals, or humans and use radio waves to communicate with a reader for the purpose of uniquely identifying the object or transmitting data and/or storing information about the objectcorporate (enterprise) portal:A gateway for entering a corporate Web site, enabling communication, collaboration, and access to company informationinformation portals:Portals that store data and enable users to navigate and query the datacollaborative portals:Portals that allow collaborationgroupware:Software products that support groups of people who share common tasks or goals and collaborate on their accomplishmentvirtual team:A group of employees using information and communications technologies to collaborate from different work basesvirtual meetings:Online meetings whose members are in different locations, even in different countriesgroup decision support system (GDSS) :An interactive computer-based system that facilitates the solution of semistructured and unstructured problems by a group of decision makersernment-to-citizens (G2C)：E-government category that includes all the interactions between agovernment and its citizens；ernment-to-business (G2B)：E-government category that includes interactions between governments and businesses；ernment-to-government (G2G)：E-government category that includes activities within government units and those between governments；ernment-to-employees (G2E)：E-government category that includes activities and services between government units and their employees；5.mobile government (m-government)：The wireless implementation of e-government mostly to citizens but also to business；6.e-learning：The online delivery of information for purposes of education, training, or knowledge management；7.distance learning：Formal education that takes place off campus, usually, but not always, through online resources；8.virtual university：An online university from which students take classes from home or other offsite locations, usually via the Internet；tainment：The combination of education and entertainment, often through games；10.online publishing：The electronic delivery of newspapers, magazines, books, news, music, videos, and other digitizable information over the Internet；11.e-book：A book in digital form that can be read on a computer screen or on a special device；12.knowledge management (KM)：The process of capturing or creating knowledge, storing it, updating it constantly, disseminating it, and using it whenever necessary；13.consumer-to-consumer (C2C)：E-commerce model in which consumers sell directly to other consumers；14.peer-to-peer (P2P)：Applications that use direct communications between computers (peers) to share resources, rather than relying on a centralized server as the conduit between client devices；1.short message service (SMS)：A service that supports the sending and receiving of short text messages on mobile phones；2.multimedia messaging service (MMS)：The emerging generation of wireless messaging; MMS is able to deliver rich media；3.interactive voice response (IVR)：A voice system that enables users to request and receive information and to enter and change data through a telephone to a computerized system；4.personal area network (PAN)：A wireless telecommunications network for device-to-device connections within a very short range；5.Bluetooth：A set of telecommunications standards that enables wireless devices to communicate with each other over short distances；6.wireless local area network (WLAN)：A telecommunications network that enables users to make short-range wireless connections to the Internet or another network；7.Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity)：The common name used to describe the IEEE 802.11 standard used on most WLANs；8.WiMax：A wireless standard (IEEE 802.16) for making broadband network connections over a medium-size area such as a city；9.wireless wide area network (WWAN)：A telecommunications network that offers wireless coverage over a large geographical area, typically over a cellular phone network；10.location-based m-commerce (l-commerce)：Delivery of m-commerce transactions to individuals in a specific location, at a specific time；work-based positioning：Relies on base stations to find the location of a mobile device sending a signal or sensed by the network；12.terminal-based positioning：Calculating the location of a mobile device from signals sent by the device to base stations；13.global positioning system (GPS)：A worldwide satellite-based tracking system that enables users to determine their position anywhere on the earth；14.geographical information system (GIS)：A computer system capable of integrating, storing, editing, analyzing, sharing, and displaying geographically-referenced (spatial) information；15.pervasive computing：Invisible, everywhere computing; computing capabilities embedded into the objects around us；1.social media：The online platforms and tools that people use to share opinions, experiences, insights, perceptions, and various media, including photos, videos, and music, with each other；2.disruptors：Companies that introduce a significant change in their industries, thus causing a disruption in normal business operations；3.virtual (Internet) community：A group of people with similar interests who interact with one another using the Internet；4.mobile social networking：Members converse and connect with one another using cell phones or other mobile devices；5.business network：A group of people who have some kind of commercial relationship; for example, sellers and buyers, buyers among themselves, buyers and suppliers, and colleagues and other colleagues；6.business social network：A social network whose primary objective is to facilitate business connections and activities；7.Semantic Web：An evolving extension of the Web in which Web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a form that can be understood, interpreted, and used by intelligent computer software agents, permitting them to find, share, and integrate information more easily；1.business continuity plan：A plan that keeps the business running after a disaster occurs. Each function in the business should have a valid recovery capability plan；2.cybercrime：Intentional crimes carried out on the Internet；3.exposure：The estimated cost, loss, or damage that can result if a threat exploits a vulnerability；4.fraud：Any business activity that uses deceitful practices or devices to deprive another of property or other rights；5.malware：A generic term for malicious software；6.phishing：A crimeware technique to steal the identity of a target company to get the identities of its customers；7.social engineering：A type of nontechnical attack that uses some ruse to trick users into revealing information or performing an action that compromises a computer or network；8.click fraud：Type of fraud that occurs in pay-per-click advertising when a person, automated system, or computer program simulates individual clicks on banner or other online advertising methods；9.identity theft：Fraud that involves stealing an identity of a person and then the use of that identity by someone pretending to be someone else in order to steal money or get other benefits；10.spyware：Software that gathers user information over an Internet connection without the user’s knowledge；11.spam：The electronic equivalent of junk mail；1.smart card：An electronic card containing an embedded microchip that enables predefined operations or the addition, deletion, or manipulation of information on the card；2.purchasing cards (p-cards)：Special-purpose payment cards issued to a company’s employees to be used solely for purchasing nonstrategic materials and services up to a preset dollar limit；3.card verification number ：Detects fraud by comparing the verification number printed on the signature strip on the back of the card with the information on file with the cardholder’s issuing bank；4.Address Verification System (AVS)：Detects fraud by comparing the address entered on a Web page with the address information on file with the cardholder’s issuing bank；5.Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network：A nationwide batch-oriented electronic funds transfer system that provides for the interbank clearing of electronic payments for participating financial institutions；6.order fulfillment：All the activities needed to provide customers with their ordered goods and services, including related customer services；7.back-office operations：The activities that support fulfillment of orders, such as packing, delivery, accounting, and logistics；8.front-office operations：The business processes, such as sales and advertising, which are visible to customers；9.e-logistics：The logistics of EC systems, typically involving small parcels sent to many customers’homes ；10.merge-in-transit：Logistics model in which components for a product may come from two (or more) different physical locations and are shipped directly to the customer’s location；11.rolling warehouse：Logistics method in which products on the delivery truck are not preassigned to a destination, but the decision about the quantity to unload at each destination is made at the time of unloading；12.enterprise resource planning (ERP)：An enterprisewide information system designed to coordinate all the resources, information, and activities needed to complete business processes such as order fulfillment or billing；13.sealed-bid auction：Auction in which each bidder bids only once; a silent auction, in which bidders do not know who is placing bids or what the bid prices are；14.Vickrey auction：Auction in which the highest bidder wins but pays only the second highest bid；15.bundle trading：The selling of several related products and/or services together；Order fulfillment:all the activities needed to provide customers with their ordered goods and services,including related customer servicesBack-office operations:the activitees that support fulfillment of orders,such as packing,delivery,accounting,and logisticsFront-office operations:the business processes,such as sales and advertising,which are visible to customers e-logistics:the logistics of EC systems,typically involving small parcels sent to many customers’ homes(in B2C)ERP:an enterprisewide information system designed to coordinate all the resources,information,and activities needed to complete business processes such as order fulfillment or billing.Sealed-bid auction:auction in which each bidder bids only once;a silent auction,in which bidders do not know who is placing bids or what the bid prices areVickrey auction:auction in which the highest bidder wins but pays only the second highest bidBundle trading:the selling of several related products and/or services together。
