An E-Commerce Organization Is in Its Sixth Month of Online

question 36

Essay

An e-commerce organization is in its sixth month of online operations selling academic regalia for graduation. The founders had long had their own personal Web pages, and had stumbled upon an inexpensive source for the sewing of gowns. They invested all their savings and took out a loan in order to finance the inventory and equipment needed to go into business. By March of its first year of operations, an unexpectedly large number of orders reached the company. The founders devoted their full energies to getting product where it needed to be in time for graduation. At odd hours of day and night, they could be found doing anything from the job of the information systems specialist they had recently hired, to the job of the mail clerks. As this company grows and takes on related product lines, what would you expect to happen as they go through the stages of development?

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Definitions:

Alkene

A hydrocarbon that contains at least one carbon-carbon double bond, characterized by the general formula CnH2n and often involved in chemical reactions due to its unsaturation.

Structural Formula

A representation of the molecular structure of a compound that shows how atoms are arranged and bonded to each other in a molecule.

3-Hexene

A type of alkene with a double bond between the third and fourth carbon atoms in its six-carbon chain.

Lewis Line Structure

A representation of molecules where atoms are shown as letters and covalent bonds as lines, illustrating the connectivity of atoms within the molecule.