Background From the last decade, data mining techniques, employed in particular in customer relationship management, have assumed a key role in the profitability and operations of companies. To support small and medium companies (SMEs), several innovative and continuously improving tools have...

Internet or "big" data are increasingly measuring the relevant activities of individuals, households, firms and public agents in a timely way. The information set involves large numbers of observations and embraces flexible conceptual forms and experimental settings. Therefore, internet data are...

Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we find an increase of 4%–10% in...

From the perspective of live commerce consumers in South Korea, this study aimed to investigate the changes in consumer interest since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To this end, a consumer perception survey on live commerce was conducted. Further, this study...