IT2301 ELECTRONIC COMMERCE UNIT – 1 INTRODUCTION Traditional Commerce and E-Commerce: Traditional Commerce: Traditional commerce perhaps started before recorded history when our ancestors first decided to specialise their everyday activities. Instead of each family unit having to grow crops‚ search for food‚ and make tools‚ families developed skills in one of these areas and traded some of their production for other needs. It started with bartering‚ which eventually gave
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Information Age‚ the Internet economy is said to be the next growth engine. The advanced technology of the Internet has brought traditional business activities to a whole new level‚ which is electronic commerce. Internet is the strong force which fuels the growth of e-commerce. Electronic commerce refers to a wide variety of online business activities for any forms of products and services. Examples of online business activities are the delivery of business information‚ the transfer of ownership
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Social Business Networking and E-Commerce BUS 352 e-Business December 10‚ 2012 Social networking websites have become most hyped phenomenon‚ be the site formed for the purpose of recreational social networking or for businesses or business professionals networking. In this particular assignment though‚ we will discuss about the social networking site that is formed for business professionals. We will discuss the elements and concepts pertaining to that social networking website that played
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Powell‚ T.‚ (1984) Industrial Salesforce Motivation: A Critique and Test of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need. Journal of Personal Selling & Saes Management‚ May‚ pp.33-39 Prather‚ C. (2009). The Manager ’s Guide to Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Teams. McGraw Hill Professional. Renko‚ M.‚ Kroeck‚ K.G.‚ Bullough‚ A.‚ (2012) Expectancy theory and nascent entrepreneurship. Small Business Economy‚ 39‚ pp.667-684 Teck-Hong‚ T.‚ Waheed‚ A.‚ (2011) Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory and Job Satisfaction
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merchants traveled around the world and learned the more efficient ways to govern and different cultures or rituals they could adapt. Trade helped shape and link societies and people from the entire world and this motivated and sustained long distance commerce. 2. Eastern Hemisphere societies developed long distance trade more extensively than Western Hemisphere societies because of geography. Some geographical differences added obstacles. For example the narrow bottleneck of Panama covered with
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Introduction to Business Chaminade University of Honolulu Date (May 3April 17‚ 2013 Motivation Motivation plays a key role in the daily lives of most people. A well-motivated individual will be more attentive‚ efficient‚ hardworking‚ and happy. So what leads a person to be motivated? How can one obtain motivation? Maintain it? How is having a personal drive‚ or goals motivators for you in the work place or private life? When we look at what drives
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What is motivation? Motivation is generally defined as the force that compels us to action. It drives us to work hard and pushes us to succeed. Motivation influences our behavior and our ability to accomplish goals. There are many different forms of motivation. Each one influences behavior in its own unique way. No single type of motivation works for everyone. People’s personalities vary and so accordingly does the type of motivation‚ that is most effective at inspiring their conduct. Types
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Maslow’s Theory of Motivation and Hierarchy of Human Needs: A Critical Analysis Allison Ruby Reid-Cunningham‚ MSW School of Social Welfare University of California – Berkeley Prepared under the supervision of Dr. William McKinley Runyan School of Social Welfare PhD Qualifying Examination December 3‚ 2008 Table of Contents Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Conceptual Framework and Methods ………………………………………………... 4 Motivation Theory …………………...………………………………………………
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The Advantages of E-Commerce Kyvonne Coleman‚ Marketing 552 August 26‚ 2013 Professor Maureen Murphy Advantages of E-Commerce Economic Commerce (e-commerce) is a term used to describe any transaction of business that is conducted over the internet where an end-user provides information to receive or purchase a product from a retailor of any sort. Being in an age that majority of businesses thrive off of e-commerce‚ any business down to a fast food restaurant such as Pizza
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Motivation is the process of stimulating people to act in ways which serve the needs of the organization providing the stimulus. Simply put‚ motivation is discovering and applying whatever is needed to get the employee to carry out designated activities in specified ways. However‚ a clear distinction is made between attitude‚ which is a state of mind‚ and behavior‚ which is a state of action. A milestone in the relationship between the behavioral scientist and the manager was the "Hawthorne Experiments"
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