ABSTRACT

There has been much discussion about what exactly constitutes an ‘e-business’. That is because there has been an electronic aspect to many businesses for quite some time, with electronic transfer of funds, for example, having been standard business practice for many organizations for decades! What most people mean when they use the term ‘e-business’ is some sort of business that exists, at least in part, on the worldwide web, and which uses the web to do its business – be this in terms of selling products or services to customers, using it to manage the internal dimensions of operating the business or, in fact, being the total driving force behind the existence of the business.