Introduction The Internet and globalisation have redefined the way business gets done by erasing traditional boundaries of time, distance and geography to create new virtual communities of customers and suppliers, with new demands for products and services. The internet has transformed businesses and industries of the 21st century just like what electricity had done for the industrial revolution in the 20th century (Schwartz, 2000, pp68). E-Business is about business harnessing the power of the internet to …showed first 75 words of 2425 total…

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