Cross-Industry electronic commerce is characterized as business transactions conducted over networks across boundaries of organizations in different industries.

Key Strategies of Cross-Industry:

  • Community Builder -  Aggregation of Vertical Markets
  • Procurement - Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) Support
  • Intermarket - Integrated Global Marketplace


Statistics


 


Dollar Volumes

Between firms

B2B e-commerce - $1.3 trillion by 2003 (Forrester Research, Activmedia)

  • 90% of all Internet commerce 
  • 9.4% of total US business sales 
      • Represents 99% annual growth

Between countries (1998 Census)

This report was completed in October 1999 for the class International Electronic Commerce taught in
the program of Management Of Global Information Technology at the Kogod School of Business at
American University in Washington D.C.
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