Editing Electronic business (section)

{{Short description|Business that takes place over the internet}}
{{Business administration}}

'''Electronic business''' (also known as '''online business''' or '''e-business''') is any kind of business or commercial activity that includes sharing information across the internet.<ref>{{Cite web |title=E-BUSINESS |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/e-business |website=Cambridge Dictionary}}</ref> [[Commerce]] constitutes the exchange of products and services between businesses, groups, and individuals;<ref>{{citation |title=Principles and Practice of Commerce |author=James Stephenson |year=1942 |publisher=Sir Issac Pitman & Sons, Ltd |page=14 |place=London}}</ref> and can be seen as one of the essential activities of any business.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/business|title=Oxford Living Dictionaries|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501064740/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/business|archive-date=May 1, 2019|quote=business [:] 2 The practice of making one's living by engaging in [[commerce]].}}</ref> 

[[E-commerce]] focuses on the use of [[Information and communications technology|ICT]] to enable the external activities and relationships of the business with individuals, groups, and other organizations, while e-business does not only deal with online commercial operations of enterprises, but also deals with their other organizational matters such as human resource management and production.<ref>Beynon-Davies P. (2004). E-Business. Palgrave, Basingstoke. {{ISBN|1-4039-1348-X}}</ref> The term "e-business" was coined by [[IBM]]'s marketing and Internet team in 1996.<ref>Gerstner, L. (2002). ''Who says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround.'' pg 172. {{ISBN|0-06-052379-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The e-business (r)evolution |last=Amor |first=D. |year=1999 |publisher=[[Prentice Hall]] |location=Upper Saddle River |isbn=9780130851239 |url=https://archive.org/details/ebusinessrevolut00amor_0|url-access=registration }}</ref>