E-commerce Types and Models

Definition
E-commerce types and models –classifications of transactions depending on:
-subjects (persons, who mutually conduct the business);
-objects (kinds of goods or services, which is the aim/target of business).
MODELS
Business to business
Business to business (B2B) - economical interactions, where subjects are legal persons (e.g., enterprise).

The main task of B2B – increasing of effective work of company in B2B market, using decrease of trade procedure and enlargement of spreading of e-business all over the world.

The B2B tasks are also:
Organization of interactions between enterprises;
To construct safety channel in order to exchange the information between enterprises;
Coordination of activities of enterprises and its’ common development on the base of informational exchange;


Business to consumer
Business to consumer (B2C) means commercial interactions between enterprises (business) and private person (consumer).

Usually these transactions are selling of goods and offering of services.
Consumer to business
Consumer to business (C2B) is an electronic commerce business model in which consumers (individuals) offer products and services to companies and the companies pay them.…