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Emerging Modes of Business – Class 11 Business Studies Chapter 5 Notes & NCERT PDF

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Chapter 5: Emerging Modes of Business

Introduction

Rita and Rekha go shopping well past midnight — without leaving home. They log on to an online shopping mall. Rekha wonders what is sold online, how it is delivered, how payment happens and why the internet is not yet popular in villages. This chapter answers those questions.

The manner of conducting business is called the mode of business; the word emerging tells us these changes are happening here and now and will continue. The three strongest trends shaping business are:

  • Digitisation — converting text, sound, images and video into ones and zeroes that can be sent electronically
  • Outsourcing
  • Internationalisation and globalisation (covered in Chapter 11)
    • The newer modes of business are not new business — they are new ways of doing business.

    Firms keep evolving better ways of doing things to meet competitive pressures and customers' demands for better quality, lower prices, speedier deliveries and better customer care.

    Key Concepts

    5.2 e-Business

    e-Business is the conduct of industry, trade and commerce using computer networks. The internet is a public thoroughfare; firms also use more private, secure networks for internal functions.

    e-Business vs e-Commerce

  • e-Commerce covers a firm's interactions with its customers and suppliers over the internet.
  • e-Business is broader: it includes e-commerce plus other electronically conducted functions such as production, inventory management, product development, accounting and finance, and HR management.

    • 5.2.1 Scope of e-Business

    Viewed by parties involved, e-business extends in these directions:

  • B2B (business-to-business): both parties are firms — e.g., an automobile factory uses a computer network to place orders with several component vendors, monitor production and delivery, and make payments. Historically, e-commerce meant B2B using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to send purchase orders and invoices.
  • B2C (business-to-customers): covers the whole marketing process online — promotion, sale, even delivery of products like music or films. The ATM example shows how the customer withdraws money first and back-end processes happen later. Its corollary, C2B, gives consumers freedom of shopping-at-will; toll-free call centres (which may be outsourced) handle queries round the clock.
  • Intra-B (within a business): uses the intranet among departments — enabling flexible manufacturing, efficient inventory and cash management. B2E (business-to-employees) includes online recruitment, training ("e-learning"), and VPN so employees can work from anywhere.
  • C2C (consumer-to-consumer): suited to goods with no established market, like used books or clothes. eBay lets buyers and sellers rate each other; PayPal acts as a payment intermediary holding money until goods are accepted. Consumer forums and groups are also C2C.

    • Benefits of e-Commerce (box)

  • To business: expands market to national and international levels, declining cost of operations, 'pull' supply chain, competitive advantage, time management, small firms co-exist with big firms
  • To consumers and society: flexibility, competitive prices/discounts, more choices and customised products, quick delivery, employment potential, e-auctions and e-tenders, interaction with consumers, wider outreach

    • 5.3 Benefits of e-Business

  • Ease of formation and lower investment — "networked individuals and firms are more efficient than networthed individuals" (the virtual restaurant example)
  • Convenience — 24 hours × 7 days × 365 days
  • Speed — cycle time shrinks as processes become parallel instead of sequential
  • Global reach/access
  • Movement towards a paperless society — e.g., Maruti Udyog sources supplies paperlessly; Information Technology Act 2000 recognises electronic records (Sec 4), digital signatures (Sec 5), e-filing with Government (Sec 6-1) and electronic retention of records (Sec 7-1)

    • Some e-Business Applications (Box A)

  • e-Procurement — reverse auctions and digital marketplaces
  • e-Bidding/e-Auction — 'Quote your price', e-tendering
  • e-Communication/e-Promotion — e-mail, online catalogues, banners, pop-ups, video conferencing
  • e-Delivery — software, e-books, e-journals, consulting services
  • e-Trading — online buying and selling of shares (e.g., sharekhan.com)

    • 5.4 Limitations of e-Business

  • Low personal touch — less suited to products like garments, toiletries
  • Incongruence between order taking/giving and order fulfilment speed — information is instant, physical delivery takes time
  • Need for technology capability — beyond the 3 R's; leads to the digital divide
  • Increased risk due to anonymity and non-traceability — impersonation, leakage of credit card details, viruses, hacking
  • People resistance — stress and insecurity with new technology
  • Ethical fallouts — e.g., Sabeena's boss reading her e-mail using an 'electronic eye'

    • Despite limitations, e-commerce is the way: websites are becoming interactive, communication is faster, and India has undertaken about 150 community telecentre projects to bridge the digital divide.

    5.5 Online Transactions

    Three stages: pre-purchase/sale (advertising, information-seeking), purchase/sale (negotiation, closing, payment) and delivery. The customer's steps:

  • Registration — create an account with a password
  • Placing an order — add items to a shopping cart, then 'checkout'
  • Payment mechanism:

    • - Cash-on-Delivery (CoD)

    - Cheque (picked up; delivery after realisation)

    - Net-banking transfer (IMPS, NEFT, RTGS)

    - Credit or debit cards ('plastic money') — most widely used

    - Digital cash — electronic currency that exists only in cyberspace

    5.6 Security and Safety of e-Transactions

    Risk = probability of a mishappening causing financial, reputational or psychological losses.

  • Transaction risks — default on order taking/giving, default on delivery, default on payment. Remedies: identity/address verification, cookies, shopping from well-established sites, SSL encryption.
  • Data storage and transmission risks — VIRUS = Vital Information Under Siege; four levels: Level-1 annoyance, Level-2 disruption, Level-3 damage to data files, Level-4 complete destruction. Protection: anti-virus programmes and cryptography (plaintext → cyphertext, decrypted with a secret key).
  • Risks of threat to intellectual property and privacy — copying of online information, junk mail.

    • 5.7 Resources Required

    Besides money, men and machines, e-business needs resources to develop, operate and maintain a website — a firm's online location on the world wide web.

    Key-Facts Sheet

  • Three strongest trends: digitisation, outsourcing, internationalisation/globalisation
  • IT Act 2000 — legal basis of paperless dealings
  • About 95% of online purchases use credit cards
  • India: ~150 community telecentre projects
  • VIRUS = Vital Information Under Siege

    • Exam Focus

  • Differences between e-business and traditional business (ease of formation, physical presence, cost, contact, response time, organisation shape, transaction risk)
  • Steps in online trading; data storage and transmission risks
  • B2C commerce; limitations of e-business and whether they restrict its scope

    • Key Terms

  • e-Business (ई-व्यवसाय)
  • e-Commerce (ई-वाणिज्य)
  • Digitisation (अंकीकरण)
  • Intranet (आंतरिक नेटवर्क)
  • Shopping cart (खरीदारी की टोकरी)
  • Digital cash (डिजिटल नकदी)
  • Cryptography (कूटलेखन)
  • Cyphertext (कूट-पाठ)
  • Digital divide (डिजिटल विभाजन)
  • Cookies (कुकीज़)
  • Virus (वायरस)
  • SSL (सुरक्षित सॉकेट परत)
  • Outsourcing (बाह्यस्रोतीकरण)

    • Common Mistakes

  • Treating e-business and e-commerce as identical — e-commerce is only a part of e-business.
  • Confusing B2C with C2B, or intra-B with B2B.
  • Listing 'low personal touch' as a benefit.
  • Forgetting that delivery is the only online-transaction stage not purely about information flow.

    • 💡 Key Learning Points

    • ✓e-Business is broader than e-commerce: it covers internal functions like production, HR and finance done over networks
    • ✓The scope of e-business spans B2B, B2C (and C2B), intra-B (including B2E) and C2C transactions
    • ✓Benefits include ease of formation, convenience, speed, global reach and a move towards a paperless society backed by the IT Act 2000
    • ✓Limitations include low personal touch, delivery lag, need for tech capability, anonymity risks, people resistance and ethical fallouts
    • ✓Online trading moves through registration, placing an order and payment, and is exposed to transaction, data and privacy risks

    👨‍🏫 Teaching Tips

    • →Open with the Rita–Rekha midnight shopping story and ask students to list their own questions about online buying
    • →Draw a four-way map (B2B, B2C, intra-B, C2C) on the board and let students place real apps or services in each box
    • →Run a mock online checkout on paper: registration form, shopping cart, payment choice — then discuss what could go wrong at each step
    • →Use the ATM box to show how B2C lets the customer act first while back-end processing follows
    • →Debate: 'The limitations of e-business are too serious for it to succeed' — sides must use the book's six limitations
    • →Show a simple substitution cipher to explain plaintext, cyphertext and the secret key
    • →Connect the IT Act 2000 sections to real paperless actions like e-filing and digital signatures

    📋 Assessment Questions

    1. Can the student distinguish e-business from e-commerce with examples?
    2. Can they classify transactions into B2B, B2C, intra-B and C2C?
    3. Can they list and explain at least five benefits and five limitations?
    4. Can they describe the three categories of e-business risk and one safeguard for each?
    5. Can they sequence the steps of online trading and name the payment methods?

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    All chapters in Business Studies - Class 11

    1. 1. Business, Trade and Commerce
    2. 2. Forms of Business Organisation
    3. 3. Private, Public and Global Enterprises
    4. 4. Business Services
    5. 5. Emerging Modes of Business
    6. 6. Social Responsibilities of Business and Business Ethics
    7. 7. Formation of a Company
    8. 8. Sources of Business Finance
    9. 9. MSME and Business Entrepreneurship
    10. 10. Internal Trade
    11. 11. International Business