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economicentities(businessentities),e.g.manufacturers,suppliersorwholesalers(Tayeb
2000;Mamcarz2008,Bilbruck2015;Dunne2017).Itmayrefertothepurchaseorsale
ofindustrialproducts(semi-finishedproducts)andfinalproducts,e.g.thesemi-finished
productmanufacturertradeswiththeproduceroffinalproductsorthemanufacturerof
finalgoodstradeswiththedistributor.
TheB2Cmodeltakesintoaccounttherelationbetweentheproducerofthefinalgoods
(company)andthemassrecipient(e.g.buyer,consumer).Itshouldbenotedherethatin
thesourceliteraturethereisapolemiconthesubjectofconvertibleuseoftermsconsumer
andbuyer(Bartosik-Purgat2011).AccordingtoBonandPras(2001)thesetermscannot
beusedinterchangeably,becausethebuyerofgoodsdoesnotnecessarilyhastobetheir
consumer.Thebuyeristhepersonmakingthepurchase,payingforit,andtheconsumer
isapersonwhousestheproductorservice(isitsuser,canbuythegoods,butcanalso
obtainthemfreeofcharge).Aldridge(2005)addsonemoretermofthemarketentity
-thecustomer.Accordingtotheresearcher,thecustomercanbeaconsumer(goods
user),abuyer(choosingandoftenpaying)aswellasapayer(payingforthegoodsbut
notnecessarilyusingthem).Aldridge(2005)alsostatesthatthecustomerhasaregular
relationshipwiththesupplier.
ReferringtotheabovebusinessmodelsintheB2Bmarket,thecustomer(buyer
andpayer)isthemostcommon.McFerrin(2014)usesthetermbusinesscustomer5.In
theB2Cmarket,inturn,inadditiontotheaboveentities,thereisalsoaconsumer.Itis
difficulttotalkabouttheoccurrenceoftheconsumerontheB2Bmarket.Accordingto
McFerrin(2014),thespecificityoftheB2Cmarketisthefunctioningofanindividual
customerwhoisusuallytheuserofthepurchasedgoods,i.e.aconsumer.
Inthismonograph,theB2Bmarketisunderstoodasthewholeofrelations(including
communication)betweenenterprises,wherethereisnodirectcontactwithanindividual
buyerorconsumerofthefinalgoods.Ontheotherhand,theB2Cmarketiscreatedin
particularbytherelationsbetweenthecompanyandtheindividualbuyer(creating,along
withothers,themasscustomersegment)ontheretailmarket.Inthefurtheranalysis,
thebuyerintheB2Bmarketwillbereferredtoasacustomerorbusinesspartner,and
onB2Casanindividualendcustomerco-creating,withtheotherentities,asegmentof
potentialbuyers(masscustomer).
Duetothedifferencesintheentitiesoperatingonparticularmarkets(B2B-customer
orbusinesspartnerandB2C-individualcustomer),therearealsoothercharacteristics
ofthesemodelsthatrelatetovariouscriteria,suchasthepurposeoftheaction,market
size,importanceofrelationship,salesprocess,prices(seeTable2).Thegoalofbusiness
entitiesintheB2Bmarketis,inadditiontosales,buildinglong-termrelationships,trust
andagoodimageonasmaller,limitedmarket(thenumberofentitiesoperatingon
5Inthemonograph,termscustomerorbusinesspartnerwillbeused.
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