Traditional online shopping has been a solitary activity, but technology advances are challenging this norm. Collaborative online shopping (i.e., co-shopping) stimulates more purchases than solo shopping does, and it embraces the innate human need to socialize. Thus, it represents a growing form...

Many e-marketplaces use national brand sellers' contract manufacturers to produce their e-commerce brand products, and some of the e-marketplaces also advertise that their e-commerce brand products have the same contract manufacturers as excellent national brand products to take advantage of the...

RFID (Radio frequency identification) is an emerging technology that attracts attention of supply chain participants. However, most Chinese firms just adopt this innovation without fully utilizing its benefits. Extant IS research also only focuses on factors that impact its adoption rather than...