The Limits of Sustainability in e-Commerce Framework
The new economy that is based on knowledge, made out of the informational techniques a powerful source, which step by step infiltrates in every aspect of our life. If in the beginning they were seen as ring-shaped life-buoys in the state which brought mankind to the industrial era, today, we must admit that there are also negative effects of these. This article pursues to highlight the relationship between the concepts of sustainability and e-commerce, as well of the concrete aspects of the application of the sustainable practices as part of different forms of electronic commerce. We consider that is not late to identify and to become conscious of the positive effects of the propagation of electronic commerce, as well of those negative ones, to be able to elaborate and to implement politics and strategies which would turn to a good account the first ones and would permit to obviation or the minimization of the others.
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