eBay, one of the most successful online marketplaces, is attracting an increasing amount of sellers of tourism products and services. Despite this fact, research focused on tourism and online auctions is quite limited. The scope of this work is to identify key determinants of price of hotel rooms in online auctions to provide sellers with valuable information in order to optimize their selling ...

Seller reputation is recognized as an essential determinant in online C2C marketplaces, but its influence on price premium remains unknown. The majority of existing studies indicate that seller reputation is positively correlated with sales price (price premium) on eBay US, but not on Taobao China. Conversely, the strong correlation between seller reputation and sales volume found on Taobao (vo...

By bringing together large numbers of buyers and sellers and automating transactions, eMarketplaces expand the choices available to buyers, give sellers access to new customers (buyers), and reduce transaction costs for all participants. Business environment factors, how an organization does business, have an influence on the organization’s decision about adopting eMarketplace activities. In so...

The usage of recommendation agents (RAs) in the online marketplace can help consumers to locate their desired products. RAs can help consumers effectively obtain comprehensive product information and compare their candidate target products. As a result, RAs have affected consumers’ shopping behaviour. In this study, we investigate the usage and the influence of RAs in the online marketplace. Ba...

The concept of B2B (Business-To-Business) eMarketplace provides a new dimension in facilitating the marketers to work more effectively in particular when making critical marketing decision. Benefiting from the Internet technologies, the range of advantages that can be gained from the B2B e-Marketplace is extensive. This paper is intended to provide a clear understanding of the wide range of res...

This paper presents a successful multi service online platform called Meteli.net within the music industry in Finland. The case platform is maintained by a network of actors either with a commercial or non commercial interest. Sources of value and revenue are identified for the case platform as well as challenges and prospects. The study gives practical insights into the business opportunities ...

Intermediaries can choose between functioning as a marketplace (on which suppliers sell their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the marketplace-mode) or by...