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- research-articleDecember 2022
A comparison between the wholesale model and the agency model with different launch strategies in the book supply chain
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 4Pages 1491–1513https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-021-09474-zAbstractElectronic books’ pricing model and launch strategy are main issues concerned by the members of the book supply chain. Inspired by this fact, this paper establishes analytical models to investigate the publisher’s and the bookstore’s optimal ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
The influence of community engagement on seller opportunistic behaviors in e-commerce platform
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 4Pages 1377–1405https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-021-09469-wAbstractFirms using e-commerce as platforms need to develop effective mechanisms to govern seller opportunism. This paper attempts to explore the effect of seller community engagement, as an informal mechanism of network governance, on seller ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
Experiences in consumer flow in online supermarkets
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 4Pages 1195–1226https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-021-09460-5AbstractThis study aims to characterize the role of flow in online purchasing processes for mass consumption products in online supermarkets. The study uses qualitative and quantitative techniques. The qualitative research involved five in-depth ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
Online sequential bundling: profit analysis and practice
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 4Pages 1351–1375https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09452-xAbstractWe investigate monopoly profit under a new online tying strategy, namely sequential bundling. This method allows customers to buy additional products at discounted prices immediately after purchasing one or some of the available products. This ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
E-business adoption costs and strategies for retail micro businesses
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 4Pages 1153–1193https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09448-7AbstractE-business benefit both large and small businesses. However, the aggregate cost of successful online trading, including initial and recurring costs, continues to pose a great challenge to micro-enterprises. For these willing businesses, the result ...
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- research-articleSeptember 2022
An analysis on the policy evolution of cross-border ecommerce industry in China from the perspective of sustainability
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 3Pages 875–899https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09427-yAbstractThe rapid development of China’s cross-border e-commerce has largely benefited from the support of industrial policies. This paper adopts social network analysis and content analysis, builds an analytical framework from the four dimensions: policy ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Last minute only bidding is implausible in eBay sealed bid type-of-auctions
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 2Pages 225–239https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-022-09550-yAbstractIn recent years internet auctions have attracted much attention. This paper discusses the "last minute bidding" (sniping) phenomenon, first investigated by Roth and Ockenfels (American Economic Review 92, 1093-1103) in eBay, fixed-end, auctions. ...
- research-articleJune 2022
The role of cognitive complexity and risk aversion in online herd behavior
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 2Pages 585–621https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09451-yAbstractThis paper investigated the role of information related, social and customer characteristics in public information adoption tendencies of online customers to result in herding in e-commerce. E-commerce platforms contains numerous online reviews ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Thesaurus matching in electronic commerce
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 2Pages 513–538https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09438-9AbstractThis paper tackles the problem of e-commerce thesauri alignment. It includes the definition of three alignment techniques which can be combined to increase the effectiveness and reduce the execution time. It also introduces a filtering technique ...
- research-articleJune 2022
A default penalty model based on C2VP2C mode for internet financial platforms in Chinese market
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 2Pages 485–511https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09436-xAbstractThe present study proposes a novel customer-to-virtual-product-to-customer (C2VP2C) mode of a loan default penalty model for Internet financial platforms (IFPs) in the Chinese market. The C2VP2C mode is developed based on the traditional peer-to-...
- research-articleJune 2022
Analysis of the efficiency of electronic reverse auction settings: big data evidence
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 2Pages 427–450https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09433-0AbstractDespite the existence of research in the field of electronic reverse auctions (eRAs), there is still a limited understanding of the determinants of auction savings that exist in this process, especially factors that can change information ...
- research-articleMarch 2022
Optimal pricing decision of composite service offered by network providers in E-commerce environment
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 22, Issue 1Pages 177–193https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-021-09487-8AbstractWith the increasing demand of consumers for diversified network services, more and more network service providers are competing fiercely in providing network composite services in order to meet the market demand. Network composition service is the ...
- research-articleDecember 2021
How do reputation, structure design and FinTech ecosystem affect the net cash inflow of P2P lending platforms? Evidence from China
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 21, Issue 4Pages 1055–1082https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09400-9AbstractBased on daily data of 749 active online P2P lending platforms in Chinese market, this study explores the key factors affecting the net cash inflow rate of the platform which is vital for its operation and survival from the perspective of ...
- research-articleDecember 2021
When does online review matter to consumers? The effect of product quality information cues
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 21, Issue 4Pages 1011–1030https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09398-0AbstractWord of Mouth (WOM) is powerful, and online reviews are often the most accessible WOM information source in electronic commerce. Maintaining favorable online reputation has been the top priority for businesses, and investments in improving online ...
- research-articleSeptember 2021
The business analysis on the home-bias of E-commerce consumer behavior
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 21, Issue 3Pages 855–879https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09431-2AbstractThis paper discusses consumer behavior in Taiwan to both domestic and cross-border E-commerce service providers based on the literature review and field research, conducting the empirical analysis through the survey. The results are 1. Taiwan ...
- research-articleSeptember 2021
An analysis of the effects of electronic commerce on the Korean economy using the CGE model
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 21, Issue 3Pages 831–854https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-019-09358-3AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the economic effects of foreign direct online purchasing on the Korean economy using computable general equilibrium and to analyze the future growth of electronic commerce. We assumed that foreign online ...
- research-articleJune 2021
Incentive mechanism to prevent moral hazard in online supply chain finance
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 21, Issue 2Pages 571–598https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-019-09385-0AbstractWith e-commerce developing rapidly, banks have begun to cooperate with online platform operators to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, this process engenders its own unique financial risks. This study highlights and ...
- research-articleJune 2021
Free-driven web-based business models
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 21, Issue 2Pages 445–486https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-019-09374-3AbstractInternet has increased the companies’ propensity to offer products/services free of charge through web-based platforms. This choice challenges the logic of traditional business models aimed at increasing the value captured by the firm. In order to ...
- research-articleJune 2021
Fulfillment mode selection for Indian online sellers under free and flat rate shipping policies
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 21, Issue 2Pages 263–296https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-019-09348-5AbstractIn this study, we have examined the performance of an online seller under two distinct fulfillment modes (fulfillment by seller and fulfillment by E-marketplace) under two shipping fee policies (free shipping and flat rate shipping). We have ...
- research-articleMarch 2021
20 years of Electronic Commerce Research
Electronic Commerce Research (KLU-ELEC), Volume 21, Issue 1Pages 1–40https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-021-09464-1Abstract2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of Electronic Commerce Research (ECR). The journal has changed substantially over its life, reflecting the wider changes in the tools and commercial focus of electronic commerce. ECR’s early focus ...