Which of the following statements is not true?

A) No one academic perspective dominates research about e-commerce.

B) Economists take a purely technical approach to e-commerce.

C) There are two primary approaches to e-commerce: behavioral and technical.

D) Management scientists are interested in e-commerce as an opportunity to study how business firms can exploit the Internet to achieve more efficient business operations.

Answer: B) Economists take a purely technical approach to e-commerce.

Which of the following is one of the three primary societal issues related to e-commerce?

A) liability

B) anonymity

C) equity

D) intellectual property

Answer: D) intellectual property

Which business application is associated with the technological development of local area networks and client/server computing?

A) transaction automation (e.g., payroll)

B) desktop automation (e.g., word processing)

C) industrial system automation (e.g., supply chain management)

D) workgroup automation (e.g., document sharing)

Answer: D) workgroup automation

Above all, e-commerce is a ________ phenomenon.

A) technology driven

B) finance-driven

C) sociological

D) government-driven

Answer: A) technology driven