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 ...

This study examines the nature and role of psychological contract violation (PCV) in online marketplaces, a critical factor that has been largely overlooked by previous research. Applied to buyer-seller relationships, PCV is defined as a buyer’s perception of having being treated wrongly regarding the terms of an exchange agreement with an individual seller. PCV with individual sellers is propo...

Average public feedback scores given to sellers have increased strongly over time in an online marketplace. Changes in marketplace composition or improved seller performance cannot fully explain this trend. We propose that two factors inflated reputations: (1) it costs more to give bad feedback than good feedback when feedback is public because buyers fear retaliation and (2) this cost is incre...

In this research-in-progress paper, we investigate how value is co-created in IT-enabled collaborative consumption businesses. Collaborative consumption is an emerging phenomenon which involves peerto-peer sharing of products and services amongst members in a community. Existing literature exploring the notion of collaborative consumption is uncommon and does not offer a consolidated view of ho...

Information asymmetry in e-commerce market causes adverse selection phenomenon that hinders the healthy development of e-marketing. Based on the adverse selection model put forward by American economist George Akerlof , who is one of Nobel Economics Prize laureates in 2001, this paper set up an e-marketing model under the adverse selection environment in e-ecommerce market. This paper takes act...

With the expansion of the Internet, Trust has attracted the attention of more and more researchers. This paper focuses on the trust transitivity problem and proposes a trust transitivity model based on Dempster-Shafer Theory. In our model, we show two types of trust relationship: Identity Trust and Behavior Trust based on Directness Trust and Recommendation Trust. Then we build the trust transi...