There are concerns that despite government initiatives to promote adoption of electronic commerce, SMEs still fail to realise e-commerce related benefits. It may therefore, seem premature to discuss electronic marketplaces in the context of SMEs. However, if SMEs ignore e-marketplaces a number of problems can result. E-marketplaces present a significant threat to SMEs since they increase compet...

Online shoppers depend on customer reviews when evaluating products or services. However, in the international online marketplace, reviews in a user’s language may not be available. Translation of online customer reviews is therefore an important service. A crucial aspect of this task is translating opinion words, key words that capture the reviewers’ sentiments. This is challenging because opi...

What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? The Long Tail is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From sup...

Although there are many initiatives to encourage SMEs online, not all have been successful. It may therefore seem premature to discuss electronic marketplaces in the context of SMEs. However, if SMEs ignore e-marketplaces a number of problems can result. E-marketplaces present a significant threat to SMEs since they increase competition and leave nonparticipants vulnerable to more e-enabled fir...

The motivation for e-marketplace participation for suppliers as well as buyers is closely linked to the perceived outcome of participation and not only in terms of the benefits of joining an emarketplace, but also in terms of possible consequences of not joining. Hence, the central issue is why organisations decide to buy and/or sell goods or services on e-marketplaces. We develop a theoretical...

Today eMarketplaces play a significant role in contemporary life by providing a lot of income and business opportunities to people and organizations throughout the world. Despite innovations in the field of IT, many of eMarketplaces lack the ability to provide appropriate services for people with special needs, especially the blind. Therefore, this paper is focused on incorporating an interface...

A reputation system is a common approach to induce sellers’ good conduct in an e-marketplace, where feedback about a seller will be used by a potential future buyer to decide whether to conduct a transaction with the seller. However, reputation systems suffer from some inherent problems. We propose a novel approach that changes the fundamental role of feedback — the impact of feedback is exerte...

Enterprises often need to communicate and exchange data among each other. Previously, such communication was mainly achieved by human contact, letter exchange, by telephone and by fax. In the early stage of the Internet and electronic procurement (e-Procurement), enterprises built the channel for exchanging data by using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). However, in the later stage of the deve...

1. Overview and Summary The term price dispersion is commonly used to refer to firms in the same market selling identical goods for different prices at the same time. Since the early conjecture by Bakos (1997) that electronic markets are likely to feature lower price dispersion on account of lower search costs, a number of researchers have studied how information technology alters the observed ...

With the rapid development of the Internet, more and more consumers choose to go shopping online. As Asia’s largest retail network, Taobao’s status should not be ignored. Firstly, this paper investigates Taobao consumer behavior, puts forward 20 variables that influence Taobao consumer behavior, and uses statistical methods of factor analysis, and then concludes 7 factors that influence Taobao ...