Q.A company hires an outside firm to handle its routine payroll processing rather than doing it with its own staff. This is an example of: (A) E-commerce
(B) Outsourcing
(C) Intra-B e-commerce
(D) C2B e-commerce

Handing a task the company could have done itself over to a separate outside firm, so that firm performs it instead, is exactly what one specific business practice is def …

The scenario describes a business handing over an activity — payroll processing — that it could otherwise perform itself, to an external firm.

(A) E-commerce refers to buying and selling goods/services online, not to hiring another firm to perform an internal function — incorrect.

(B) Outsourcing is precisely the practice of hiring an outside firm to perform an activity a business could otherwise have done in-house — correct. …

Students sometimes label any instance of "using an outside company" as e-commerce because it sounds technology-related — outsourcing is specifically about handing over a business FUNCTIO …