Abstract

Technological development in communication creates new possibilities for commercial activity . Each new medium was changing business processes . Internet does the same - implies rapid changes in every stage of commercial activity.The aim of this paper is to show that the Internet and Electronic Commerce are influencing the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) development in Poland. For achieving this another issue had to be under research: entrepreneur awareness of beginning breakthrough in the commercial activity. Observing multidimensional influence of the Internet and Electronic Commerce Technologies on the companies and after the literature review, author created a model, which became a base for this paper. It was created upon an observation that the activities of companies are financed by contracts on offered products and, on the other hand, that it is possible to extract main parts of Electronic Commerce influencing business activities. It shows connections between selected parts of Internet and Electronic commerce Technologies and main stages of the selling process. Discussing other interactions (with offered goods) would cause the paper grow beyond reasonable volume and therefore they are only signaled.

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