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| Name: Increasing Use of e-Commerce
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| What: Selling products or services over the Internet is adding more and more to companies’ revenues and nations' GDPs.
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| Enablers: auction sites like eBay, market sites like Betfair.com, and commercial trading sites such as Dell.com, Amazon.com or B2B sites
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| Inhibitors: taxes, currency exchange rates, lower consumer confidence
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| Paradigms: shopping without leaving your living room, lower procurement costs
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| Experts: Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman
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| Timing: the late 1990’s saw the rapid adoption of e-commerce.
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| Web resources: www.dell.com, www.ebay.com, www.amazon.com
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