Over the last five years there has been a significant increase in the level of exposure to new business risks affecting product and service providers and their customers. These new risks have arisen from the increased use of the Internet technology and the mistrust by customers in security, privacy, and service fulfillment when purchasing online. The World of the Internet has been touted as the greatest enabler of the explosive birth of the new economy, where many business deals will be negotiated and transacted through electronic online facilities. While the potential for rapid adoption of eCommerce was always there its realization and the speed of uptake has been very disappointing to date. Many questions can be raised as to why the new economy is not growing at a faster rate. The new economy's way of doing business offers customers the product and service features not previously available. New technologies enable smaller enterprises to develop business relationships with customers in geographically distant markets. Access to these markets, until recent times was reserved exclusively for large, and financially strong companies that could afford to set up their presence through the representative channels of sales and distribution.
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