The Internet and emerging technologies are facilitating the creation of new marketplaces designed to address a diverse range of business and societal needs. As companies are utilizing technology to manage their business processes, such a marketplace has emerged that is designed to provide third-party availability of business services delivered via Web services technology, particularly in the co...

Competitive information revealed in a marketplace will have significant impact on the learning ability of the participating sellers across market sessions and therefore, on performance of the marketplace. The marketplace that we study in this paper has the following characteristics: a) Products transacted are custom-built – created specifically for a consumer and cannot be resold to other consu...

Digital platforms increasingly determine the 21 century business world. This is especially reflected in the development of multi-sided platforms such as Airbnb or Uber that depict the centerpiece of innovative business models as they effectively match demand-side and supply-side participants through advanced technologies. Such marketplace platforms substantially contribute to an emergence of ne...

There has been a reported increase in political activity through the marketplace in the form of ‘consumer votes’. The use of marketplace votes by consumers to address their concerns about societal issues is a phenomenon that has growing relevance for firms, since they are often affected by such consumer citizenship. Therefore, this paper aims to enhance our conceptual understanding of the consu...

The electronic marketplace is a new medium for exchanging information, goods, services, and payments. It houses infrastructure, facilitates transactions, and matches buyers with sellers. A mobile-agent-based marketplace allows corporate data to be maintained by local buyers and sellers and transferred to the marketplace only when orders are matched. This provides the participating companies wit...

This article examines e-marketplace adoption difficulties from a contextualist perspective. The analysis of industrial characteristics will unearth the adopter’s supply chain practices and the contextual features which are unfavorable for e-marketplace deployment. To gain a deeper understanding, this research examines an unsuccessful e-marketplace adoption for agricultural industry in China. Th...

China’s fast-growing online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) market merits widespread research efforts. However, it has so far received little research attention. In this exploratory study, we chose Taobao – a leading online C2C auction company in China with more than 70% of market shares – as our research context. We focus on the general market structure of Taobao in terms of three factors: market d...