1. ELEKTRONINĖS KOMERCIJOS POPULIARUMAS LIETUVOJE.
- Author
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Klapatauskienė, Jolanta
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ELECTRONIC commerce , *INTERNET , *POPULARITY , *WEBSITES , *BUSINESS to consumer transactions , *ECONOMIC models , *SOCIAL factors - Abstract
Electronic commerce - this is the form of commerce that occurred in the end of the 20th century. Technological, economic and social factors have caused the emergence of e-commerce. E-commerce is linked with the popularity of the Internet and the global spread of the World Wide Web. E-commerce development in Lithuania is not fast, but the development of information and telecommunication technologies, foreign investment companies and a number of companies that provide Internet and other programming services have a positive impact on. Every day we see and hear advertising companies engaged in e-commerce. There is disseminating information about the benefits of e-commerce through the media. The purpose of the article - an overview of e-commerce models: business to consumer (B2C) and consumer to consumer (C2C) and the peculiarities of their development in Lithuania from 2005 to 2012. The study used data from the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, Eurostat and Alexa.com. The article will provide statistics of the Lithuanian population used computers, Internet services and electronic commerce. These data will be compared with the EU average and draw conclusions. Key findings of this article: 1) the number of households with computers and using the Internet is growing every year, but this rate is lower than the EU average; 2) internet users typically read, downloading newspapers and magazines, looking for information about goods and services, sending or receiving emails; 3) increasing population, who bought or sold goods or services over the Internet. Lithuanian population number, who uses e-commerce services, is significantly below the EU average. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013