Whether the online social media, like Twitter or its variant Weibo, can be a convincing proxy to predict the stock market has been debated for years, especially for China. However, as the traditional theory in behavioral finance states, the individual emotions can influence decision-making of investors, so it is reasonable to further explore this controversial topic from the perspective of onli...

This paper studies a decentralized supply chain in which a manufacturer sells a common generic product through two traditional and online retailers under free riding market. We assume that the traditional retailer provides the value added services but the online retailer does not. Factors such as retail prices, local advertising of the retailers, global advertising of the manufacturer and servi...

This paper addresses the dynamic nature of business model design in the online services business. It particularly focuses on revenue models as a critical driver for mobilizing the dynamics of business models in high-velocity market environments. It argues that a dynamic revenue model design should be a fundamental strategic practice especially for online services that face significant market an...

I the online world, customers can easily navigate to different online stores to make purchases. The products purchased on one site are often associated with product purchases on other sites (e.g., a hotel reservation on one site and a car rental on another site). Whereas market basket analysis is often used to discover associations among products for brick-and-mortar stores, it is rarely applie...

Prior research has found that customers prefer retailing websites that offer online bargaining service. Online bargaining indeed is an attractive field in today’s e-commerce. However, as compared to online auction, it has been much underdeveloped. A few online bargaining systems have been proposed but their bargaining strategies do not react to the change of market situation. In a typical barga...

Several studies have shown that frictionless e-commerce is only fictional and that online price dispersion is persistent and high (e.g., Clay, Krishnan, Wolf and Fernandes 1999; Brynjolfsson and Smith 2000; Pan, Ratchford and Shankar 2002a, 2002b). Pan, Ratchford and Shankar (2002b) show that that such a phenomenon is mainly due to e-tailer characteristics such as shopping convenience, reliabil...

Prior to 2003, the biggest news in the E-grocery sector had been the dramatic implosion of high-profile operators. Silicon Valley and Wall Street saw “dot.bombs” in many sectors during the 1990s, but failings in the grocery business seemed magnified due to unique supply chain relationships and, most importantly, strong consumer expectations about product and service quality that do not disappea...

Online markets play an important role for both online sellers and online buyers. Previous research has identified problems of information asymmetry in the online used goods markets, this research explore whether there are similar problems in the new-goods online markets. Grounded in “lemon market” theory, this study used panel data captured from eBay Motors. Employing Ordinary Least Squares ana...