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Full-Text Articles in E-Commerce
What Should Streamers Communicate In Livestream E-Commerce? The Effects Of Social Interactions On Live Streaming Performance, Danyang Song, Xi Chen, Zhiling Guo, Xiao Liu Liu, Ruijin. Jin
What Should Streamers Communicate In Livestream E-Commerce? The Effects Of Social Interactions On Live Streaming Performance, Danyang Song, Xi Chen, Zhiling Guo, Xiao Liu Liu, Ruijin. Jin
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Compared with traditional e-commerce, livestreaming e-commerce is characterized by direct and intimate communication between streamers and consumers that stimulates instant social interactions. This study focuses on streamers’ three types of information exchange (i.e., product information, social conversation, and social solicitation) and examines their roles in driving both short-term and long-term livestreaming performance (i.e., sales and customer base growth). We find that the informational role of product information (nonpromotional and promotional) is beneficial not only to sales performance, but also to the growth of the customer base. We also find that social conversation has a relationship-building effect that positively impacts both …
Governance And Design Of Digital Platforms: A Review And Future Research Directions On A Meta-Organization, Liang Chen, Tony W. Tong, Shaoqin Tang, Nianchen Han
Governance And Design Of Digital Platforms: A Review And Future Research Directions On A Meta-Organization, Liang Chen, Tony W. Tong, Shaoqin Tang, Nianchen Han
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
The burgeoning digital-platforms literature across multiple business disciplines has primarily characterized the platform as a market or network. Although the organizing role of platform owners is well recognized, the literature lacks a coherent approach to understanding organizational governance in the platform context. Drawing on classic organizational governance theories, this paper views digital platforms as a distinct organizational form where the mechanisms of incentive and control routinely take center stage. We systematically review research on digital platforms, categorize specific governance mechanisms related to incentive and control, and map a multitude of idiosyncratic design features studied in prior research onto these mechanisms. …
The Disappearing Convenience Of Convenience Stores, Ramaswami, S.
The Disappearing Convenience Of Convenience Stores, Ramaswami, S.
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
The article describes post-Covid challenges to the convenience store format in Singapore, and the ways in which some of these challenges can be mitigated.
Toward Personalized Answer Generation In E-Commerce Via Multi-Perspective Preference Modeling, Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Bolin Ding, Wai Lam
Toward Personalized Answer Generation In E-Commerce Via Multi-Perspective Preference Modeling, Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Bolin Ding, Wai Lam
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Recently, Product Question Answering (PQA) on E-Commerce platforms has attracted increasing attention as it can act as an intelligent online shopping assistant and improve the customer shopping experience. Its key function, automatic answer generation for product-related questions, has been studied by aiming to generate content-preserving while question-related answers. However, an important characteristic of PQA, i.e., personalization, is neglected by existing methods. It is insufficient to provide the same “completely summarized” answer to all customers, since many customers are more willing to see personalized answers with customized information only for themselves, by taking into consideration their own preferences toward product aspects …
Investigating Accessibility Challenges And Opportunities For Users With Low Vision Disabilities In Customer-To-Customer (C2c) Marketplaces, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Kotaro Hara, Mariko Kobayashi, Koki Kusano
Investigating Accessibility Challenges And Opportunities For Users With Low Vision Disabilities In Customer-To-Customer (C2c) Marketplaces, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Kotaro Hara, Mariko Kobayashi, Koki Kusano
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Inaccessible e-commerce websites and mobile applications exclude people with visual impairments (PVI) from online shopping. Customer-to-customer (C2C) marketplaces, a form of e-commerce where trading happens not between businesses and customers but between customers, could pose a unique set of challenges in the interactions that the platform brings about. Through online questionnaire and remote interviews, we investigate problems experienced by people with low vision disabilities in common C2C scenarios. Our study with low vision participants (N = 12) reveal both previously known general accessibility issues (e.g., web and mobile interface accessibility) and C2C specific accessibility issues (e.g., inability to confirm item …
Pricing And Quality Strategies For An On-Demand Housekeeping Platform With Customer-Intensive Services, Jianjun Yu, Yanli Fang, Yuanguang Zhong, Xiong Zhang, Ruijie Zhang
Pricing And Quality Strategies For An On-Demand Housekeeping Platform With Customer-Intensive Services, Jianjun Yu, Yanli Fang, Yuanguang Zhong, Xiong Zhang, Ruijie Zhang
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
In this paper, we study an on-demand housekeeping platform in which suppliers have hetero-geneous opportunity costs, and customers are sensitive to service quality, price, and waitingtime. The platform charges fees from customers and divides revenue with service suppliers ina certain proportion. We analyze two types of market coverage, namely full market coverageand partial market coverage. We find that as the potential demand market capacity expands,the platform will choose to lower prices to attract more customers and service suppliers until itreaches the partial market, thereby obtaining higher revenue, and suppliers will provide lowerquality services to serve more customers and thus obtain …
The Impact Of Line (Brand) Extension Strategies On Competition And In-Store Operational Performance In The China E-Commerce Environment, Er-Yung Stephen Chu
The Impact Of Line (Brand) Extension Strategies On Competition And In-Store Operational Performance In The China E-Commerce Environment, Er-Yung Stephen Chu
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
Line (brand) extension activity in the western markets may have tempered during the last decade, and most of the academic research that has been done is based on traditional brick and mortar stores. With the rise of e-commerce, line extension became a growth tool for brands. The study starts with the classification of line extension strategic types, which gives different tiers of Chinese e-commerce firms a good reference, especially in the rapidly changing e-commerce environment. It also seeks to give guidance for different aspects of launching new line extensions. Using this guidance, future brands can make better estimations of brand …
Learning To Ask Critical Questions For Assisting Product Search, Zixuan Li, Lizi Liao, Tat-Seng Chua
Learning To Ask Critical Questions For Assisting Product Search, Zixuan Li, Lizi Liao, Tat-Seng Chua
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Product search plays an essential role in eCommerce. It was treated as a special type of information retrieval problem. Most existing works make use of historical data to improve the search performance, which do not take the opportunity to ask for user’s current interest directly. Some session-aware methods take the user’s clicks within the session as implicit feedback, but it is still just a guess on user’s preference. To address this problem, recent conversational or question-based search models interact with users directly for understanding the user’s interest explicitly. However, most users do not have a clear picture on what to …
Shareholder Wealth Implications Of Software Firms' Transition To Cloud Computing: A Marketing Perspective, Mehdi Nezami, Kapil R. Tuli, Shantanu Dutta
Shareholder Wealth Implications Of Software Firms' Transition To Cloud Computing: A Marketing Perspective, Mehdi Nezami, Kapil R. Tuli, Shantanu Dutta
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Moving into cloud computing represents a major marketing shift because it replaces on-premises offerings requiring large, up-front payments with hosted computing resources made available on-demand on a pay-per-use pricing scheme. However, little is known about the effect of this shift on cloud vendors' financial performance. This study draws on a longitudinal data set of 435 publicly listed business-to-business (B2B) firms within the computer software and services industries to investigate, from the vendors' perspective, the shareholder wealth effect of transitioning to the cloud. Using a value relevance model, we find that an unanticipated increase in the cloud ratio (i.e., the share …
5 Ways To Turn The Pandemic Into An Opportunity For E-Commerce Disruption, Yuanto Kusnadi, Gary Pan
5 Ways To Turn The Pandemic Into An Opportunity For E-Commerce Disruption, Yuanto Kusnadi, Gary Pan
Research Collection School Of Accountancy
It is safe to say that the COVID-19 pandemic had upended life as we knew it. Schools embraced blended learning, brick-and-mortar businesses were shuttered, and mask wearing whilst at indoor venues remains the order of the day. Amid the chaos, one bright spot is the opportunity for e-commerce entrepreneurs to disrupt traditional businesses.
History Matters: The Impact Of Online Customer Reviews Across Product Generations, Linyi Li, Shyam Gopinath, Stephen J. Carson
History Matters: The Impact Of Online Customer Reviews Across Product Generations, Linyi Li, Shyam Gopinath, Stephen J. Carson
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
We examine how online customer reviews for one generation of a product affect sales of another generation in the same product series. The main intriguing result is that previous generation valence has a positive impact on current generation sales; however, current generation valence has a negative impact on previous generation sales. The positive impact of previous generation valence becomes even stronger (1) as the uncertainty (standard deviation) in reviews for the current generation increases and (2) when the current generation valence is high. In contrast, it becomes weaker (1) as the uncertainty in reviews for the previous generation increases and …
Ampsum: Adaptive Multiple-Product Summarization Towards Improving Recommendation Captions, Quoc Tuan Truong, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Changhe Yuan, Jin Li, Jim Chan, Soo-Min Pantel, Hady W. Lauw
Ampsum: Adaptive Multiple-Product Summarization Towards Improving Recommendation Captions, Quoc Tuan Truong, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Changhe Yuan, Jin Li, Jim Chan, Soo-Min Pantel, Hady W. Lauw
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In e-commerce websites, multiple related product recommendations are usually organized into “widgets”, each given a name, as a recommendation caption, to describe the products within. These recommendation captions are usually manually crafted and generic in nature, making it difficult to attach meaningful and informative names at scale. As a result, the captions are inadequate in helping customers to better understand the connection between the multiple recommendations and make faster product discovery.We propose an Adaptive Multiple-Product Summarization framework (AmpSum) that automatically and adaptively generates widget captions based on different recommended products. The multiplicity of products to be summarized in a widget …
Pinduoduo: So Far, So Good. Now What?, Singapore Management University
Pinduoduo: So Far, So Good. Now What?, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
China’s e-commerce upstart came to the party late but still caught up with Alibaba and JD.com
Mapping Consumer's Cross-Device Usage For Online Search: Mobile- Vs. Pc-Based Search In The Purchase Decision Process, Sangman Han, Jin K. Han, Il Im, Sung In Jung, Jung Won Lee
Mapping Consumer's Cross-Device Usage For Online Search: Mobile- Vs. Pc-Based Search In The Purchase Decision Process, Sangman Han, Jin K. Han, Il Im, Sung In Jung, Jung Won Lee
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
The ubiquity of both mobile devices and PC’s has enabled the modern-day consumer to engage in cross-platform online searches as a new norm. The accumulated knowledge on cross-device search behavior to date, however, emanates largely from industry reports and at an aggregate level. To better understand the individual consumer’s purchase decision process, we set out to investigate contingencies of what (subject of search), how (device of choice), and when (stage in the buying decision). To this end, we utilize a panel data consisting of clickstream from mobile and PC searches, coupled with entropy-based metric to chart the breadth and depth …
How Augmented Reality Can - And Can't - Help Your Brand, Chandukala, Sandeep R., Karempudi Srinivas Reddy, Yong-Chin Tan
How Augmented Reality Can - And Can't - Help Your Brand, Chandukala, Sandeep R., Karempudi Srinivas Reddy, Yong-Chin Tan
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Customers want AR. But managers must have a proper understanding of how AR can help their brand before they invest in the technology. AR helps in entertaining and educating customers while also aiding them in evaluating products. AR can also promote online channel adoption while also encouraging category expansion. AR also benefits products that are less popular, less mainstream, and more expensive. But AR can also be expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to implement. Despite consumer demand, retailers must understand the costs and challenges associated with AR adoption before embarking on significant projects.
Platform Governance Design In Platform Ecosystems: Implications For Complementors' Multihoming Decision, Liang Chen, Jingtao Yi, Sali Li, Tony W. Tong
Platform Governance Design In Platform Ecosystems: Implications For Complementors' Multihoming Decision, Liang Chen, Jingtao Yi, Sali Li, Tony W. Tong
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Extant platform research focuses on how platform owners' governance behaviors directly affect complementors. This study explicates the multilateral interdependence among different groups of producers within a platform ecosystem. We theorize about how platform owners' governance design may create frictions between platform providers and complementors. While open governance grants greater autonomy to platform providers, it also cultivates a more complex ecosystem for complementors. Since ecosystem complexity raises the cost of product customization, complementors will be less willing to port an existing complement to a more complex ecosystem, that is, less likely to multihome. The negative effect is weakened as the complementor …
New-Media Advertising And Retail Platform Openness, Jianqing Chen, Zhiling Guo
New-Media Advertising And Retail Platform Openness, Jianqing Chen, Zhiling Guo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We recently have witnessed two important trends in online retailing: the advent of new media (e.g., social media and search engines) makes advertising affordable for small sellers, and large online retailers (e.g., Amazon and JD.com) opening their platforms to allow even direct competitors to sell on their platforms. We examine how new-media advertising affects retail platform openness. We develop a game-theoretic model in which a leading retailer, who has both valuation and awareness advantages, and a third-party seller, who sells an identical product, engage in price competition. We find that the availability of relatively low-cost advertising through new media plays …
E-Commerce Governance: Back To Geneva?, Henry S. Gao
E-Commerce Governance: Back To Geneva?, Henry S. Gao
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is no stranger to e-commerce governance. It launched its first initiative to regulate e-commerce1 at its second Ministerial Conference in May 1998, a few months before Google was founded. At the Ministerial Conference, WTO members adopted the Declaration on Global Electronic Commerce, 2 which recognized the “new opportunities for trade,” and directed the General Council to “establish a comprehensive work programme to examine all trade-related issues relating to global electronic commerce, including those issues identified by Members.”
Face To Purchase: Predicting Consumer Choices With Structured Facial And Behavioral Traits Embedding, Zhe Liu, Xianzhi Wang, Lina Yao, Jake An, Lei Bai, Ee-Peng Lim
Face To Purchase: Predicting Consumer Choices With Structured Facial And Behavioral Traits Embedding, Zhe Liu, Xianzhi Wang, Lina Yao, Jake An, Lei Bai, Ee-Peng Lim
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Predicting consumers’ purchasing behaviors is critical for targeted advertisement and sales promotion in e-commerce. Human faces are an invaluable source of information for gaining insights into consumer personality and behavioral traits. However, consumer's faces are largely unexplored in previous research, and the existing face-related studies focus on high-level features such as personality traits while neglecting the business significance of learning from facial data. We propose to predict consumers’ purchases based on their facial features and purchasing histories. We design a semi-supervised model based on a hierarchical embedding network to extract high-level features of consumers and to predict the top-N purchase …
Partnering For Value Perfection And Business Sustainability In The Cloud Services Brokerage Market, Richard Shang, Robert John Kauffman
Partnering For Value Perfection And Business Sustainability In The Cloud Services Brokerage Market, Richard Shang, Robert John Kauffman
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The cloud computing and services market has advanced in the past ten years. They now include most IT services from fundamental computing to cutting-edge AI capabilities. With the widespread adoption of cloud services, clients are facing the fact that they are utilizing cloud resources at a sub-optimal level. Cloud services brokers (CSBs) grew from the market to fill the needs for cloud resource management and risk mitigation. Based on analysis of the cloud market and the case of cloud services brokerage and related activities in North America, we offer theoretical analysis for how value creation works, its impacts on the …
Do Sequels Outperform Or Disappoint? Insights From An Analysis Of Amazon Echo Consumer Reviews, Kyong Jin Shim, Siaw Ling Lo, Su Yee Liew
Do Sequels Outperform Or Disappoint? Insights From An Analysis Of Amazon Echo Consumer Reviews, Kyong Jin Shim, Siaw Ling Lo, Su Yee Liew
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Rapid technological advances in recent years drastically transformed our world. Amidst modern technological inventions such as smart phones, smart watches and smart home devices, consumers of electronic digital devices experience greatly improved automation, productivity, and efficiency in conducting routine daily tasks, information searching, shopping as well as finding entertainment. In the last few years, the global smart speaker market has undergone significant growth. As technology continues to advance and smart speakers are equipped with innovative features, the adoption of smart speakers will increase and so will consumer expectations. This research paper presents an aspect-specific sentiment analysis of consumer reviews of …
Functional Signatures: New Definition And Constructions, Qingwen Guo, Qiong Huang, Sha Ma, Meiyan Xiao, Guomin Yang, Willy Susilo
Functional Signatures: New Definition And Constructions, Qingwen Guo, Qiong Huang, Sha Ma, Meiyan Xiao, Guomin Yang, Willy Susilo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Functional signatures (FS) enable a master authority to delegate its signing privilege to an assistant. Concretely, the master authority uses its secret key sk(F) to issue a signing key sk(f) for a designated function f is an element of F-FS and sends both f and sk(f) to the assistant E, which is then able to compute a signature sigma(f) with respect to pk(F) for a message y in the range of f. In this paper, we modify the syntax of FS slightly to support the application scenario where a certificate of authorization is necessary. Compared with the original FS, our …
China And E-Commerce: The Long And Winding Road, Henry S. Gao
China And E-Commerce: The Long And Winding Road, Henry S. Gao
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Although it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, China has largely kept silent on the e-commerce discussion and only made its first submission in this regard in 2016.
Popular: Still Singapore’S Favourite Bookstore, Singapore Management University
Popular: Still Singapore’S Favourite Bookstore, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Popular is evolving into an omni-channel retailer to improve its customer experience
Pivot Or Perish: The Retail Reality, Anne Lepissier, Ryan Vaughan, Shantanu Bhattacharya
Pivot Or Perish: The Retail Reality, Anne Lepissier, Ryan Vaughan, Shantanu Bhattacharya
Perspectives@SMU
Brick-and-mortar retailers are adapting to meet the challenges posed by accelerating e-commerce adoption. Some are doing better than others, but supply chain obstacles could prove decisive
Technology Lends A Hand To Green E-Commerce, Hao Liang, Sin Mei Cheah
Technology Lends A Hand To Green E-Commerce, Hao Liang, Sin Mei Cheah
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
The world has witnessed an e-commerce boom in the past 2 decades, and Asia-Pacific is now driving the latest wave of growth. The Covid-19 pandemic has further accelerated consumers' growing preference for online consumption, with the Asia-Pacific region raking US$230 billion in online retail sales in 2020. This article is adapted from the authors' teaching case study - Alibaba Cainiao's Smart Green Logistics Strategy: Good for the Earth, Good for the Business.
Investigating The Effects Of Dimension-Specific Sentiments On Product Sales: The Perspective Of Sentiment Preferences, Cuiqing Jiang, Jianfei Wang, Qian Tang, Xiaozhong Lyu
Investigating The Effects Of Dimension-Specific Sentiments On Product Sales: The Perspective Of Sentiment Preferences, Cuiqing Jiang, Jianfei Wang, Qian Tang, Xiaozhong Lyu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
While literature has reached a consensus on the awareness effect of online word-of-mouth (eWOM), this paper studies its persuasive effect, specifically, the dimension-specific sentiment effects on product sales. We allow the sentiment information in eWOM along different product dimensions to have different persuasive effects on consumers’ purchase decisions. This occurs because of consumers’ sentiment preference, which is defined as the relative importance consumers place on various dimension-specific sentiments. We use an aspect-level sentiment analysis to derive the dimension-specific sentiments and PVAR (panel vector auto-regression) models to estimate their effects on product sales using a movie panel dataset. The findings show …
Luxury Back In Vogue, Erwan Rambourg
Luxury Back In Vogue, Erwan Rambourg
Asian Management Insights
The luxury rebound following the Covid-19 pandemic has been more impressive than most would have thought. Scale continues to play an important role, physical stores are back, and while there are some clouds on the horizon, the outlook for the luxury sector remains incredibly positive for the long term. My optimistic outlook for the long term is predicated on the power of three consumer segments that will move the needle for the luxury sector–women, Chinese shoppers, and youth. In addition, the rapid speed of scaling-up and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) should provide a great boost to a post-Covid luxury world.
Start Small. Do It Well. Then Expand Your Offerings., Binny Bansal
Start Small. Do It Well. Then Expand Your Offerings., Binny Bansal
Asian Management Insights
An interview with Binny Bansal. Binny Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart, and co-founder and executive chairman of xto10x, talks about his entrepreneurial journey in the world of e-commerce.
China Meets Digital Currency: E-Cny And Its Implications For Businesses, Heng Wang
China Meets Digital Currency: E-Cny And Its Implications For Businesses, Heng Wang
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
China is likely to be the first major economy to issue central bank digital currency (CBDC). China’s CBDC, e-CNY, may lead to a new ecosystem that would profoundly affect business, product offerings and business practice. E-CNY is likely to affect both local and international businesses, particularly those with a presence in China or those who commonly transact with Chinese actors. There is also the possibility of e-CNY use outside of China. If China’s CBDC practice and standards affect international practice (such as through standard making), e-CNY has the potential to affect the broader businesses community. This article discusses the following …