Over the last decade, China’s online marketplaces have experienced rapid evolution. The first, EachNet, was established in 1999. EachNet was acquired in 2002 by eBay and renamed “eBay China.” The second, TaoBao, owned by Alibaba, China’s largest business-to-business portal, went online in April 2003. TaoBao replaced eBay China as market leader in 2004. eBay China was eventually sold to TOM Onli...

Retaining your customers is important for E-sellers to survive in the intensified competitive e-marketplace. We approach this issue from the perspective of “continuance intention”, a behavior intention that describes the willingness of customers to continue transacting with sellers. Drawing upon the trust-commitment theory, as well as institution-based trust factors, we examine two types of tru...

Consumers respond positively to products tied to charity, particularly from sellers that are relatively new and hence have limited alternative means for assuring quality. We establish this result using data from a diverse group of eBay sellers who “experiment” with charity by varying the presence of a donation in a set of otherwise matched product listings. Most of charity’s benefits accrue to ...

In this paper we propose a conditional logic IBC to represent iterated belief revision. We define an iterated belief revision system by strengthening the postulates proposed by Darwiche and Pearl [3]. First, following the line of Darwiche and Pearl, we modify AGM postulates to make belief revision a function of epistemic states rather than of belief sets. Then we propose a set of postulates for...

Recently in China, the speed of the development of the C2C websites has been very swift. This article is on the research actuality and the problems of the China C2C websites, and studies the index system of China C2C’s website evaluation. Conclusions and suggestions are given by using the index system and taking Taobao, eBay and paipai websites as example to analyze.

In the emerging competitive and technological driven banking era, banks have to strive hard for retaining and enlarging their customer base. Electronic customer relationship management (E-CRM) is the combination of traditional CRM with the e-business applications marketplace. An E-CRM system provides financial institutions with the opportunity to establish individual and need oriented customer ...

This study examined the impact of social media marketing on online purchase intention, with brand attachment, trust, and equity acting as mediating factors. The problem addressed in this research is lack understanding regarding reasons for low adoption shopping Iran despite increasing popularity internet, originality lies exploring factors proposing testing a conceptual model that influence Ira...

Governments at all levels are implementing electronic procurement systems, and in particular sponsoring eMarketplace systems. The selection and implementation of eMarketplace systems is complex within the private sector. The procurement environment of the public sector is constrained a range of factors which are additional to those found in standard business transactions, greatly increasing thi...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a source of competitive advantage in organizations especially for those organizations that supply chain (SC) is the core of their business or is tightly coupled with their core business. Traditionally organizations use re-engineering practices and organizational enhancement programs in order to increase their competitive advantage through optimizing their supply...