The COVID-19 pandemic has affected various sectors in multiple countries, among them the economic sector has been one of the most affected, so the search for tools or measures for the continuation of sales and processes became recurrent, finding in e-business and its components precise tools to...

Entrepreneurship has gained widespread attention in the 21st century. This study aims to examine the direct effect of self-perceived creativity on e-entrepreneurship intention and the moderating effect of social media use on the relationship between self-perceived creativity and...

Cohort analysis is a new practical method for e-commerce customers' research, trends in their behavior, and experience during the COVID-19 crisis. The purpose of the research is to validate the efficiency of this method on the e-commerce records data set and find out the critical factors...

Sharing economy online labor platforms play a critical role in bringing together freelancers and potential employers. This research is one of the few studies to address how freelancers' characteristics impact the likelihood of being hired by employers using the theory of person-environment fit...

Online labour platforms are redefining the world of work, but little is known even now about the drivers of worker engagement in this type of activity. Earlier studies focused on individual preferences and job characteristics such as flexibility or low entry barriers, but the relative role of...

With the rise of the sharing economy, more and more retailers join the e-commerce platform to expand sales channels. As an important means to improve consumer retention rate, the membership system is widely used in major e-commerce platforms. In this paper, we develop a model to discuss the...

Refunds can be a major issue that e-tailers desperately want to avoid in China. One of the main reasons for customer returns is damage to goods due to improper logistics and shipping; however, proper packaging material (or technique) can significantly reduce the refund rate attributed to...

The world has gone digital and instant messaging is the order of the day. Traditional modes of communication via letters and posts have been rendered redundant by the introduction of electronic messaging. Meddlesome interlopers no longer need to have access to a message's physical copy to access...

Online price discrimination (OPD) or personalized pricing has triggered many debates in the existing literature, due to its potential adverse effects on (trust in) markets and certain consumer groups. The implicit assumption underpinning these debates is the actual use of OPD in practice,...

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of digital use by the government in order to serve the community when facing the Covid-19 pandemic and preparation for the Socialization era, which is an innovation that needs to be accelerated, so as to provide the best service, the method...

We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...

This article reviews the regulatory campaign against China’s online platform sector that took place between 2020 and 2022. It focuses specifically on its substantive policy aspects, arguing that this “rectification” both intended to remedy existing perceived problems in the online platform...

As the COVID-19 pandemic transitions to an endemic phase worldwide, the expansion of e-commerce exports is likely to continue. The strategic advantages of e-commerce exports can be leveraged to boost exports for SMEs. Promoting e-commerce exports for policy purposes requires policy development...

The success of digital content platforms such as YouTube depends on the creativity of independent content creators and the efficiency of content distribution. These platforms share advertising revenue with content creators to induce creative effort. Most platforms also use recommendation systems...

In online shopping, customers are unable to examine the products physically. Hence, they rely on telepresence, augmented reality, aesthetics, and entertainment – the elements of central and peripheral routes in the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM). This study examined the impact of ELM on...

The Cloud Computing is a technology that will totally dominate in the future. Companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others have invested heavily in new technological structure while increasingly focus their services to take advantage of the revolutionary Cloud Computing capabilities....

Authenticity of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reports for E-commerce logistics service providers (ELSPs) is crucial to ensure the transparency and accuracy in reporting on sustainability practices. As logistics activities have a significant impact on the environment and society,...

An inclusion of non-market goods and services which are core to the digital economy in the system of economic circulation affects the basic socio-economic indicators both in Russian and in international practice. In this connection, the goal of this study is to develop a methodological basis for...

There have been at least two dominant forces at work in the realm of consumer contracting over the past several decades. One has been the rise and domination of the standard form contract, whereby merchants contract with consumers via the use of standardized, boilerplate terms and conditions...

The burgeoning growth of the digital economy has increasingly prominent implications for enterprises. Utilizing the principal component analysis method, this study derives a comprehensive index of urban digital economy development, which is then matched with data pertaining to A-share listed...

Online shoe store, E-commerce is electronic commerce, buying and selling products and services, transmitting budgets and facts over digital networks. These transactions occur from commercial enterprise to enterprise, business to a buyer, purchaser to a customer, and the client to commercial...

The rhetoric of the e-commerce opportunity in policy dialogues on trade and development often fails to engage with concerns on equity and inclusion. While the pandemic has given a new impetus to digital trade, the status quo of data extractivism presents an insurmountable barrier to...

As the internet traffic dividend disappears, the growth of e-commerce platforms slows and competition among sellers increases. Cooperative advertising schemes between e-commerce platforms and sellers come into being. This paper considers advertising strategies in a supply chain with one...

The online blood donation information will be developed as part of the online blood donation management system project. The distributed client-server computing technology has been considered throughout the online Blood Donation Management System project. The purpose of the Online Blood Donation...

This paper aims to explore consumer engagement with online retailers through gamification, the use of game mechanics, and co-creation. A qualitative methodology was used through an exploratory case study approach. The interviews were conducted with 30 Portuguese consumers. It was found that the...

The COVID-19 situation has accelerated the adoption of e-commerce across the world. While, globally, there has been an increase in the share of e-commerce in total retail sales, there are variations in e-commerce adoption across countries and the difference is obtrusive when one compares...