MIS: Exam 3 - Ch 10 Flashcards
Term: The web is available anywhere/anytime
Ubiquity
Term: commerce across cultural and national boundaries
Global Reach
Term: technology standards enabled connectivity
Universal Standards
Term: audio, video and text enhance marketing messages
Richness
Term: two-way interaction, engaging consumers in dialog
Interactivity
Term: increased amount and quality of information, greater price/cost transparency, enables price discrimination
Information Density
Term: modification of messages and goods
Personalization/Customization
Term: promotes user content creation and distribution
Social Technology
E-Commerce’s Unique Features
Ubiquity, Global Reach, Universal Standards, Richness, Interactivity, Information Density, Personalization/Customization, and Social Technology
Digital Markets Reduce: one party in a transaction having more information related to the transaction. (transparency, ex. Cars)
Information Asymmetry
Digital Markets Reduce: merchants costs of changing prices.
Menu Costs
Digital Markets Enable: price of a product varies depending on demand characteristics of the customer or supply situation of seller.
Dynamic Pricing
Digital Markets Reduce: The cost of participating in a market
Transaction Costs
Digital Markets Reduce: The effort required to find suitable products
Search Costs
Digital Markets Enable: Selling the same goods, or nearly the same goods, to different target groups at different prices.
Price Discrimination
Digital Markets Enable: Removal of layers responsible for intermediary steps in a value chain
Disintermediation
Term: are delivered electronically, cost of producing first unit is almost the entire cost of product. Marginal costs is virtually zero.
Digital goods