Waymond Rodgers 
E-Commerce Issues Addressed in a Throughput Model [PDF ebook] 

E-commerce enables business integration together with a company’s personnel, alliances, suppliers, customers, or a community. It provides processes and frameworks to actively seek and promote interactive decision making and transactions enablement. Since the Internet extends across the globe, it is possible to do business with any organization or person who is connected to the Internet. Even small businesses such as specialist record stores are able to market and sell their offerings internationally using e-commerce. Moreover, E-commerce allows buyers and sellers to conduct business around the clock. Thus, using aspects of e-commerce tools can provide organizations with the advantages of sourcing and using products and services provided by other businesses in other countries.