e-Business Concepts

This section provides a set of working definitions which will be applied in operationalising the e-Business [email protected] function. It was authored by senior researchers from the German Institute for Economic Research with inputs from empirica GmbH. Concepts and definitions for the following phenomena are given:

• Units of Research
• e-Business - e-Commerce - ICT
• Electronic Transactions
• e-Business Readiness
• e-Business Usage
• e-Business Impact
• References
  

The e-Business [email protected] is
an initiative of the

European Commission
Enterprise Directorate General
E-business, ICT industries and services

The eBusiness legal portal
The Ebusinesslex.net project provides European companies, in particular Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) with a portal that offers information on all legal aspects of e-business.