Electronic commerce (EC) describes the buying, selling, transferring or exchanging of products, services or information via computer networks, including the Internet. E-business is a broader definition of EC, including buying and selling of goods and services, and also servicing customers, collaborating with partners, conducting e-learning and conducting electronic transactions within an organization.
The types of e - commerce are:
Business-to-consumers (B2C) - In this case, the sellers are organizations and the buyers are individuals.eg. Amazon.com etc
Business-to-business (B2B) - Involves sales of goods and services among business organization. ChemConnect’s Website for buying and selling natural gas, refined and intermediate fuels, chemicals, plastic etc
Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) - In this case an individual sells and products or services to other individuals.eg. eBay, the giant web auction site
Consumer-to-business(C2B) - In this case consumers make a particular need for a product or services, and organizations compete to provide the product or services to consumers.eg. Priceline.com where the customer names the price and suppliers try to fulfill it.
Business-to-employee (B2E) - In this case organizations provide different services to the employee through web
E-government - In this case the government provides services to its citizens via EC technologies.
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