eCommerce

This chapter serves as an expository to readers. The chapter provides enlightenment on the background on electronic commerce. Issues tackled in this chapter include the emergence and the evolvement of electronic commerce, the link between commerce (as it dates back to prehistoric times), and the electronic aspect or component of enterprise electronic commerce or electronic business.

Discussions

This chapter provides the discussions that ensued from the research study at hand. Justification of what sets this study apart from previous studies is provided. In addition, anomalies from the study are also discussed.

Information Technology

This chapter drives the reader through a brief history on information technology and deployment of information technology, laying the groundwork for the movement into the implementations of electronic commerce broadened strategically spanning just about all aspects of the fabrics of organisations and institutions and lives of individuals. Sustainability markets in this vein for organisations and institutions requires the capability to reconcile dynamical nature of information technology and its essence in their business operations.

Digital and Virtual Age

Chapter 11 serves as another expository to readers. In this chapter, readers are enlightened on the digital and virtual age as they relate to the educational trend and online education. In addition, the chapter provides some insights to social media as they relate to education at higher educational institutions and how connecting to the world in terms of education and doing business is at the fingertips with the aid of mobile computing and social media. While social media and mobile devices create an ease of reaching information and networking, their careless usage and lack of monitoring in the classroom exacerbate and defeat their intended good purpose of enhancing the learning process, failing to render the desired results.

Cloud Computing and eCommerce or eBusiness

This chapter serves as an introduction to and an exposition of cloud computing to readers. The chapter provides enlightenment on cloud computing as it impacts business operations and individual personal activities in the respect of electronic business or electronic commerce.

Future Endeavours

In this chapter, readers are guided through the encapsulation of the study. In addition, specific recommendations and future endeavours are included.

Empirical Analyses of eCommerce

In this chapter, readers are driven through the revelations from the study. This study had a good response rate. The analysis included univariate, bivariate, and multivariate and content analysis.

Information Technology and Organisational Leadership

This chapter exposes readers to how leadership at institutions and organisations has embraced information technology. In this chapter, readers are driven through the rather unforgettable journey of digital age, popularised by enterprise electronic commerce. The transition from the traditional ways of business to the integration of IT and enterprise eCommerce was galvanised by the objective to improve business practices. Now, this has also meant that organisations and institutions restructure their establishments.

Establishing the Research Methodology

This chapter entails the construction of the research methodology—the data collection and the data analysis. Explanation is provided regarding the use of the methodology at hand. In addition, the development of hypotheses are delineated in this chapter.

Constructing the Framework

In this chapter, readers are driven through the rather unforgettable journey of digital age, popularised by electronic commerce. With no doubt, the emergence of information technology and its evolvement and advancement over the years have catapulted way business operations are conducted in recent times to newer heights. In addition, in the course of a heightened need for efficacy in organisational and institutional activities and operations and to provide seamless broadened horizons in the delivery of services, leaders and stakeholders have invested in eCommerce in this regard, in attempts to embrace the current wave of doing business. Needlessly, this wave has translated into flexibility in service delivery, an endeavour that calls for strategic planning. Without a delve, deep into the implementation strategies and the targeted customers, it is tempting to conclude naively that all eCommerce solutions render the desired returns on these investments, given the kinds of leadership that prevail at these institutions and organisations. This chapter provides elucidations with respect to electronic commerce and institutions and business organisations systemically. The results from the study also reveal that the obvious is not always as such.