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RESEARCH PROPOSAL
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL
E-BUISNESS AND ITS FINANCIAL ADVANTAGES
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STUDENT NAME:
DATE:
Contents
INTRODUCTION    2
AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH    3
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:    3
LITERATURE REVIEW    4
RESEARCH METHODS    7
METHODS:    7
FRAMEWORK    8
INTERVIEWING    9
TARGET PAERTICIPANTS    10
ETHICAL CONSIDERSTIONS    11
SAMPLE QUESTION    12
CONCLUSION    13
REFERENCES    15
INTRODUCTION
In the era of digitalization, technologies are continuously changing, and business leaders need to keep an eye to achieve success. The companies who do not adopt or implement e-business technology may lose their prospective and potential customer in the long run. Therefore many companies whether it is small scale or large scale companies opts for new e-business technologies to maintain its competitive advantage over their competitors. It is very important for the business leaders to expand their business activities or business all over the world without any issues regard the location or staff. E-business is the process of conducting business activities with the help of the internet services. E-business provides immense financial benefit to it user to attain success in long run. It mainly refers to use of web services, intranet, web-based customer relationship and internet. It helps the companies to operate the business operations from anyplace along with it helps to cover a large number of the customer from the different geographical location. E-business technology helps the start-ups to operate their business with no such big investment without any physical location, staff or ant tools. Today with the continuous changes in the needs and demand of the customer, so, it is very crucial to maintain a bond or remain in touch with the potential and prospective customer to know what they need and make the needful changes accordingly. E-business technology is helping to build long-term customer relationship by requesting them to share their contact number and Gmail id to send them mails or call them directly if the company launches new product or services. This will help in engaging and attracting more customers which will
ing customer loyalty will increase the profitability of the business.
According to Sanders (2017), The research proposal is designed to address how e-business technology influence the financial perspective of any company along with appropriate recommendations how business leaders can implement this technology to increase their organizational profitability and productivity. It will help in facilitate company viability and long-term growth.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH
Aim: The aim of the research proposal is to identify the importance of the e-business and how it financially benefits the potential companies. E-business helps in increasing the profitability of the companies by providing an exceptional platform to connect with the prospective customers across different geographical areas.
The specific objectives of this concerned research are:
· Critically examine the literature on how e-business technology helps the companies financially to increase their productivity and profitability.
· To conduct the interviews of the companies who have successfully adopted the e-business technology.
· Assess the information how e-business technology impacts the different categories of people or companies differently.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
RQ1: “Due to the lack of awareness, different companies fail to adopt e-business technologies”. Is this statement is true or false”?
RQ2: E-business helps the potential companies to minimize their cost of production and maximize their rate of productivity and profitability.
RQ3: What are the challenges faced by the companies if they do not adopt e-business technology.
LITERATURE REVIEW
According to the Benitez & Chen & Tej & Ajamieh (2018), With the advancement of technology, e-business has gained much appreciation and helps the companies to attain success in the long run by providing a good platform to attract large number of customer from different geographical area, and to operate business from anywhere without any big investment. E-business helps the companies to operate the business from anyplace and anytime. There are no restrictions on the timings where the companies can serve their customer ad provide their valuable support at night if needed. Earlier people do not opt for e-business technologies because of the fear of fraud. It resists the companies to use e-business technologies to serve their perspective and potential customer. Now, people are fond of digitalization, and they love to purchase their needed products online rather than moving to the crowded places.
According to Sangwook (2017), Not only the big or small companies, e-business can help all the categories to increase their profit and wide coverage of customers. E-business helps the suppliers to procure their basic to complex activities through e-business as it will help them to save their valuable time and to be in contact with many companies as compared to earlier. Supply chain management is the practice of the continuous flow of goods and services which includes movement and storage of raw materials, the stock of unfinished and finished goods from a place of production to the end place of consumption. The process is very time-consuming as it takes long hours to move from one place to another to take orders or supply raw materials to the concerned company along with it also increase the transportation cost which increases the overall cost of production. Mostly, it is found that supplier lacks the appropriate information that how e-business can help in maximizing their productivity and minimizing their cost of production. According to this research, the suppliers who are beginners have less awareness, and they thought that fraud might
eak their foundation, this is happening just because of security concerns. With the advancement of technology, a hacker has found new ways to hack the different accounts of the users and may take their confidential information or misuse it for their benefit. The hacker could help the competitive suppliers who may hack the supplier account to know their present contracts or may want to take their attractive party. Nowadays, IT sector is contributing enough to provide the greater security from the hackers and giving strong punishments to them if any found guilty. According to Chen (2017), E-business technology may help the prospective suppliers to know the purchasing behavior of different client from any place along with it helps in saving long hours of the suppliers which they needed before while giving their proposal to the many companies at the different place. E-business also helps the customers to know about many companies and compare their prices by sitting at home as it reduces the transportation cost. E-business helps the companies to maintain the competitive advantage over their competitors. The research gap is generally that earlier person of do not use the innovative e-business technology because of fear that competitors may get useful information about what they serve or their prices, but now, companies understand that it is very significant to use e-business technology as it may lose many customers as most of them are online available rather than moving to
ick and mortar shops. Using e-business technology incurs a huge cost for the...