E-Commerce

Match the following terms with the definitions.

A. Electronic commerce

B. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) & Extensible Markup Language (XML)

C. TCP/IP

D. SWOT analysis

E. Industry value chain

F. Extranet

G. Value chain

H. Intranets

I. Law of diminishing returns

J. Network effect

ABCDEFGHIJUsed when companies want to collaborate with suppliers, partners, or customers

ABCDEFGHIJMost activities yield less value as the amount of consumption increases

ABCDEFGHIJProtocol suite used to create and transport information packets across the Internet

ABCDEFGHIJAn analyst first looks into the business unit to identify its strengths and weaknesses then reviews the operating environment and identifies opportunities and threats

ABCDEFGHIJApplication of new technologies to conduct business to negotiated exchange of goods or services

ABCDEFGHIJLanguages derived from SGML

ABCDEFGHIJPrivate internal networks

ABCDEFGHIJA way of organizing the activities that each strategic business unit undertakes

ABCDEFGHIJLarger stream of activities into which a particular business unit’s value chain is embedded

ABCDEFGHIJAs more people or organizations participate in a network, the value of the network to each participant increases