E-COMMERCE- BUSINESS- TECHNOLOGY-SOCIETY

: E-Commerce the use of the Internet and the web to transact business. E-Commerce on digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals. Digitally enabled transactions include all transactions mediated by digital technology. This means transactions that occur over the Internet and the web. Commercial transactions involve the exchange of value across organizational or individual boundaries in return for products and services. Exchange of value is important for understanding the limits of e-commerce without an exchange of value no commerce occurs. This paper identifies the Business, technological and society forces that have shaped the growth of e-commerce .


The Difference between E-commerce and E-business E-Commerce
E-Commerce encompasses the entire world of electronically based organizational activities that support a firm's market exchanges including a firm's entire information system's infranstructure.

E-Business
E-Business refer to digital enabling of transactions and processes within a firm involving information system under the control of the firm. E-Business does not include commercial transactions involving an exchange of value across organizational boundaries. Pages that works, load quickly, and point the customer your product offerings Links that customers can easily find to discover more about you and your products Simple fool-proof navigation Alternative navigation to the same content One or two clicks to purchase Site works with the most popular browsers Avoids distracting, obnoxious graphics and sounds that the user cannot control Avoids backgrounds that distort text or make it illegible

Ecommerce Social Issues
The Internet and its use in e-commerce have raised pervasive ethical, social, and political issues on a scale unprecedented for computer technology.

UNIQUE FEATURES OF E-COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY AND THEIR POTENTIAL ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND/OR POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS E-COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY POTENTIAL ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Ubiquity -Internet/Web technology is available everywhere: at work, at home, and elsewhere via mobile devices, anytime Work and shopping can invade family life; shopping can distract workers at work, lowering productivity; use of mobile devices can lead to automobile and industrial accidents, Presents confusing issues of "nexus" to taxation authorities.

E-COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY POTENTIAL ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Global reach -The technology reaches across national boundaries, around the Earth Reduces cultural diversity in products; weakens local small firms while strengthening large global firms; moves manufacturing production to low-wage area of the world; weakens the ability of all nationslarge and small-to control their information destiny.
Universal standards -There is one set of technology standards, namely Internet standards Increases vulnerability to viruses and hacking attacks worldwide affecting millions of people at once. Increases the likelihood of "information" crime, crimes against systems, and deception.
Richness -Video, audio, and text messages are possible.
A "screen technology" that reduces use of text and potentially the ability to read by focusing instead on video and audio messages. Potentially very persuasive messages possible that may reduce reliance on multiple independent sources of information.
Interactivity -The technology works through interaction with the user.
The nature of interactivity at commercial sites can be shallow and meaningless. Customer e-mails are frequently not read by human beings. Customers do not really "co-produce" the product as much as they "coproduce" the sale. The amount of "customization" of products that occurs is minimal, occurring within predefined platforms and plug-in options.
Information density -The technology reduces information costs, raises quality.
While the total amount of information available to all parties increases, so does the possibility of false and misleading information, unwanted information, and invasion of solitude. Trust, authenticity, accuracy, completeness, and other quality features of information can be degraded. The ability of individuals and organizations to make sense of out of this plethora of information is limited. Personalization/Customization-The technology allows personalized messages to be delivered to individuals as well as groups.
Opens up the possibility of intensive invasion of privacy for commercial and governmental purposes that is unprecedented.
Social technology -The technology enables user content generation and social networking.
Creates opportunities for cyber bullying, abusive language, and predation; challenges concepts of privacy, fair use, and consent to use posted information; creates new opportunities for surveillance by authorities and corporations into private lives.

Conclusion
In this paper, we study about E-commerce in business model, technology, society issues. The technology provides the infrastructure, it is the business applications. To understand some key business concept such as electronic markets, information goods. The primary societal issues are intellectual property, individual privacy and public policy. So the study of this e-commerce will be helpful to understand technology, business, society and its various application areas and models.