Task: How international business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce have been facilitated by the Internet and other technological advances as you explore the following questions:
Q1. What barriers to effective international business management has technology lowered?
Q2. How has technology changed markets?
Q3. What new alliances has technology enabled?
Q4. How is the potential for a firm's international expansion impacted by technology?
Q5. Can technology be adapted when a company has business in countries of different technological capacities, or does the complexity create too great of a risk for expansion (Deresky, 2006)?