We focus on the event that Taobao Mall(Tmall) changed its charging rules on October10 in 2011 which received strongly protest of small and medium sellers, and analyze the whole event separately from business and law. From business perspective, we analyze the resistance of the E-commerce transformation, and offer a solution based on shared-value theory. From the law perspective, we discuss the l...

Among the most prominent and fastest-growing markets on the Internet are online marketplaces. The leader and main exemplar of this type of market is eBay. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive examination of the salient website elements and strategies as success factor in online marketplaces. In this exploratory analysis, we report on the behavior of different types of sellers and their dis...

The introduction of distributed energy generation has among other things the power to enable traditional consumers to also produce energy (called prosumers), which they subsequently may make available on the network. The emerging SmartGrid relies on the active participation of these prosumers, and their interactions may have a significant impact on its core operations. The NOBEL project investi...

Research has focussed on the impact that factors such as IT, marketplace process design and competition have on electronic marketplace performance. However, such research has neglected the impact of ownership upon the performance of an electronic marketplace. This paper explores the issue of ownership in electronic marketplaces and derives a broad, multi-faceted perspective of ownership, incorp...

While electronic commerce radically accelerates business transactions and interactions, e-marketplace providers constantly face the challenge in attracting critical mass of participants. Previous studies suggest that trust is the prerequisite to online transaction and interaction. The purpose of this research is to explore relational factors in influencing e-vendors’ decision in terms of develo...

Driven by the evolution of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) online marketplaces, we examine the role of communication tools (i.e., an instant messenger, internal message box and a feedback system), in facilitating dyadic online transactions in the Chinese C2C marketplace. Integrating the Chinese concept of guanxi with theories of social translucence and social presence, we introduce a structural mode...

Of the array of electronic commerce business models, business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) have been one of the most heralded. These marketplaces bring together businesses buying and selling goods and services in an online buying community. E-marketplaces promise to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement activities by replacing traditional manual ...