E-commerce platforms, such as Amazon, Alibaba and Flipkart, that match sellers and consumers at an unprecedented scale, operate their internal search engines to help buyers find relevant products from a large number of sellers, and also allow sellers to advertise to consumers for positions in...

The Internet is growing at a rate of almost 50-100% per year in India. From being a medium for exchange of information and communication between the scientific research workers, it has opened a vast vista of entertainment and information (edutainment) for millions of people on the Internet...

This paper considers the monetization of online marketplaces. These platforms trade-off fees from advertising with commissions from product sales. While featuring advertised products can make search less efficient (lowering transaction commissions), it incentivizes sellers to compete for better...

Purpose: This research identifies the critical factors of online service delivery of electronic commerce (ecommerce) websites, including website attractiveness, website functionality, website security and consumer fulfillment during an unprecedented Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

e-groceries is probably is an effective way to contain the current epidemic to avoid personal contacts and maintain the social distance within the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic.The purpose of this study is to gain insight on the impact of e-service quality dimensions and customer satisfaction of...

The use of smartphone apps has numerous advantages for app providers and users. However, the users of many smartphone apps are confronted with a trade-off between usage benefits and preferences for personal data protection. We investigate the acceptability of data sharing in different...

The popularity of social networking websites has spurred wide applications of socializing functions in online marketplaces, making them social commerce platforms. In the effort of promoting business and building brand, a large number of small-sized online retailers (e-tailers) increasingly rely...

The Internet determines a revolution in today's world of computers and communications. Discoveries like telephone, radio and computers constituted a solid foundation for Internet, which is the most used multimedia channel in present time. The Internet is a mechanism of information's...

The phenomenon of sponsored search advertising – where advertisers pay a fee to Internet search engines to be displayed alongside organic (non-sponsored) web search results – is gaining ground as the largest source of revenues for search engines. Using a unique 6 month panel dataset of...

With the widespread use of the Internet, many industries have developed rapidly. The economy based on the Internet poses a significant threat to the traditional economy. Live streaming plus e-commerce, which is acknowledged as the current global economic status, is the result of combing live...