0 describing or involving arrangements or trade between different businesses, rather than between businesses and the general public
1 relating to trade in products and services between businesses, especially trade over the internet:
The growth of the internet has increased productivity, especially through business-to-business e-commerce.
business-to-business market
2 trade between businesses, especially over the internet:
E-commerce is the wave of the future, whether in the form of business-to-business or business-to-consumer.
Furthermore, the sale on the site should be business-to-customer and not business-to-business, which involves different rights (34).
Typical examples of complex distributed applications are social simulations, supply-chain management, electronic auctions, e-institutions, or business-to-business applications.
This means that basically three different constellations are possible for each different type of e-marketplace (business-to-business, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer).
There is a great deal of work where agents support electronic commerce, in general, but little work specifically attacks the problem of business-to-business interoperability.
Moreover, with the addition of the intelligence and autonomy of software agents, transactions may be equally automated for consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer, and business-to-business collaborations.
I notice also that in the rapidly growing area of business-to-business electronic commerce, prices are being quoted in euros.
It will extend the use of obligatory reverse-charge mechanisms for certain business-to-business transactions carried out by non-established taxable persons.
The issue of misleading and comparative advertising in business-to-business transactions has been regulated by the introduction of a single, consolidated directive.
