Top 5 limitation of e- business||before starting e-business read the article

LIMITATION OF  e-BUSINESS

e-business is not all that rosy. Doing business in electronic mode suffers from certain limitations. It is advisable to be aware of this limitation as well.

Low personal touch: High-tech it may be, e-business, however, lacks warmth of interpersonal interactions. To this extent, it is respect of product categories requiring high personal touch such as garments, toiletries, etc.

Incongruence between order taking/giving and order fulfillment speed: Information can flow at the click of a mouse, but the physical delivery of the product takes time. This incongruence may play on the patience of the costumers. At times, due to technical reasons, web sites take unusually long time to open. This may further frustrate the user.credit: third party image reference

Need for technology capability and competence of practices to e-business: Apart from the traditional  3R’s (Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic), e-business requires a fairly high degree of familiarity of the parties with the world of computers. And, this requirement is responsible for what is known as the digital divide, which is the division of society on the basis of familiarity and non-familiarity with digital technology.

Increased risk due to anonymity and non –traceability of parties: Internet transactions occur between cyber personalities. As such, it becomes difficult to establish the identity of the parties. Moreover, one does not know even the location from where the parties may be operating. it is riskier, therefore, transacting through the internet. E-business is riskier also in the sense that there are additional hazards of impersonation ( someone else may transact in your name) and leakage of confidential information such as credit card details. Then, there also are problems of ‘virus’ and ‘hacking’ that you must have heard of. If not, we will be dealing with security and safety concerns of online business.

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People resistance: the process of adjustment to new technology and a new way of doing things causes stress and a sense of insecurity. As a result, people may resist an organization’s plans of entry into e-business.credit: third party image reference

 Ethical fallouts: “So, you are planning to quit, you may as well quit right now”, said the HR manager showing her a copy of the e-mail that she had subpoena was both shocked and stunned as to her boss got through to her e-mail account. Nowadays, companies use an ‘electronic eye’ to keep track of the computer files you use, your e-mail account, the websites you visit, etc.