Social commerce research: An integrated view
Social commerce has quickly emerged as a new area of inquiry for both practitioners and researchers, suggesting the potential impacts of social media and social networking technologies and services in shaping commercial channels on and off the Internet. ...
Under what conditions will social commerce business models survive?
This study provides a model that captures the essential features of the social commerce business. The model focuses on the relationship between key decision issues, such as marketing expenditures and the revenue streams that are created. As more social ...
Do starting and ending effects in fixed-price group-buying differ?
With the growing popularity of group-buying websites, a plethora of group-buying options is available to consumers. Given this range of choices, information diffusion in group-buying can greatly influence consumers' purchase decisions. Our study uses ...
Why different motives matter in sustaining online contributions
Organizations are using voluntary services of contributors on the Internet to increase the value they provide to customers. To sustain such sites, administrators need to encourage repeated contributions from individuals. This study draws upon the ...
The determinants of continuous use of social networking sites: An empirical study on Taiwanese journal-type bloggers' continuous self-disclosure behavior
The popularity and growth of social networking sites (SNSs) have resulted in fierce competition among SNS providers. A critical concern of SNSs is to identify how to have users continuously use a specific SNS. This study examines the determinants of ...
Improving trust modeling through the limit of advisor network size and use of referrals
This paper explores potential improvements to the trust modeling of agents in multi-agent systems when a social network of advisors is employed as part of the trust modeling, and in particular, examines means of optimizing the number of advisors that ...
A quality evaluation model for the design quality of online shopping websites
Design quality of websites is known to have a positive impact on user attention. Although there are lots of papers that investigate design qualities of websites in the literature, none of them takes into account interactions among design ...