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Chapter 8 Review
Academic Vocab
E-Commerce
New Technology
Key Terms
100
The style of leadership in which one person runs everything and makes all the decisions without consulting others.
What is autocratic leadership?
100
A visual representation of something.
What is an image?
100
The top purchase that consumers buy online.
What is travel?
100
This early invention had a huge impact on business.
What is the telephone?
100
A newly formed business that is usually small.
What is a start-up?
200
A business that operates on the internet.
What is a dot-com company?
200
The tools and machines that people have invented to make life easier.
What is technology?
200
Actual buildings, such as stores and warehouses.
What is brick-and-mortar?
200
This group was the first to use computers.
What is the military?
200
Linking all the steps in a process digitally.
What is digital workflow?
300
These are work groups that supervise themselves.
What are self-managed teams?
300
To send or convey from one place to another.
What is transporting?
300
An advantage of e-tail that allows you shop at home without going to a store.
What is convenience?
300
Store clerks often use these to check out people more effieciently.
What are computers and scanners?
300
Business conducted on the internet.
What is e-commerce.
400
Giving managers and employees the power to run things and make decisions.
What is delegating?
400
A sum paid or charged for a service.
What is a fee?
400
Approximately 70 percent of travelers in the US now use these.
What are e-tickets?
400
A technology center in California.
What is the Silicon Valley?
400
People who work with computers while doing business.
What is the e-workforce?
500
Acting and making decisions without the help or advice of others defines this leadership quality.
What is initiative?
500
Correcting errors for clarity and correctness in a piece of writing or film.
What is editing?
500
The disadvantage of e-tail that makes it easy to overspend online.
What is buying power?
500
A country whos economy is based on technology manufacturing.
What is Japan?
500
A company that uses several means to sell products.
What is a multi-channel retailer?