Many Customer-to-Customer (C2C) online auction providers still do not have a good understanding of Customer-to-Customer trade in Taiwan. The Customer-to-Customer online auction providers still do not have a good understanding of Customer-to-Customer trade behavior and are unable to provide satisfied and effective outcomes for an online auction trade. It is difficult to propose a standard trade ...

Abstract We document systematic differences in bitcoin prices across 11 different markets representing 26% of global bitcoin trade volume. These differences must — due to the identical nature of all bitcoin — result from characteristics of markets themselves. We examine differences across the markets and find that those which do not require customer identification for establishing an account ar...

eBay has integrated Skype (a public voice over IP application) chat and voice into hundreds of categories on eBay sites globally. By integrating Skype in the marketplace, eBay sellers have the option of including Skype functionality to their eBay listings. This fosters more consumer to consumer (c2c) communication, in which eBay sellers can provide better customer care and build trust with buye...

Integrating customers into the innovation process is gaining popularity among companies as means of addressing competitive and market pressures. At the same time, companies are faced with the challenge of selecting appropriate customer integration methods to sustain customers’ engagement and elicit contributions that are useful. We draw from previous research in consumer behaviour to identify c...

One of the basic concepts in marketing is the concept of meeting customers’ needs. Since customer satisfaction is essential for lasting survival and development of a business, screening and observing customer satisfaction and recognizing its underlying factors must be one of the key activities of every business. The purpose of this study is to recognize the drivers that effect customer satisfac...

mobile technology and mobile learning are considered as important and impressive factors in earning the organizational competencies and achieving competitive advantages and customer loyalty. the purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of mobile technology in customer loyalty. the mellat bank mobile services are entering a new transition period. in response, the banking industrial is shift...

This article focuses on how the customer portfolios of technology-based entrepreneurial firms affect new product development. Drawing on knowledge-based, resource dependence, and relational theories, the authors argue that the impact of a firm’s customers on new product development depends on the size and relational embeddedness of the customer portfolio and the extent to which the firm is depe...

Web logs (or blogs) have become a means for citizens to share opinions and deliberate on local issues. However, the large number of blogs makes finding and exploring content of interest relatively difficult. This discovery problem presumably also limits participation by interested citizens. We present a tool to display a representation of citizen-to-citizen discussion in blogs that reveals simi...

I this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a firm’s proactive management of customer-to-customer communication. We are particularly interested in understanding how, if at all, the firm should go about effecting meaningful word-of-mouth (WOM) communications. To tackle this problem, we collect data from two sources: (1) we implement a large-scale field test in which a national firm created...

With a unbridled increase in international and domestic forms of business, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has become one of the matters of concern to the enterprise and the entrepreneurs. CRM takes customer as the center and it enchants a new life to the organization system and optimizes its business process increasing its profitability. In order to help enterprises understand the “Prod...