Top Research Papers on Quick Commerce

Purpose Social media is still influencing consumers and is extending social commerce (S-Commerce) use. Different social media activities can influence the users' trust and e-satisfaction at different levels, which in turn influence the purchase intentions. This is evident for the food and beverage industry as S-Commerce mediated by social media can help realise a shorter time to market and meet buyer demands. In addition, credibility factors may influence trust and purchase intentions. Understanding the various factors of influence such as social constructs, namely ratings, reviews and referra...

Dynamic Developments in Screening Candidate Drugs molecular-dynamics simulations together with virtual high-throughput screening provide a means of quick evaluation of existing drugs for antiviral screening.

The findings add to the s-commerce literature by establishing the inter-site influence of Facebook likes on user's purchase and post-purchase decisions and providing empirical evidence of the efficacy of SNS-driven e-commerce.

Despite the disadvantages of e-commerce, the numerous advantages of this business manage to successfully attract the attention of both companies and customers.

This textbook on Digital Business and Electronic Commerce guides students from business model through strategy development to implementation.

The primary aims were to identify research gaps in e-commerce packaging and to propose new research lines aimed at reducing its environmental impact, and to allow prospective readers to become acquainted with the latest innovations in materials, sustainability and logistics.

Purpose This study associated consumers' food choice motives and socio-demographic characteristics with their attitudes and consumptions towards food shopping with four e-commerce modes: business-to-consumer (B2C), online-to-offline delivery (O2O Delivery), online-to-offline in-store (O2O In-store) and New Retail. It also explored consumer preferences for specific food categories within the four e-commerce modes. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was administered to 954 participants from three Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Descriptive analysis and linear regression...

This invited research summarizes the evolution of ECR’s research focus over its history, with an emphasis on the innovations and the vibrant growth of electronic commerce in Asia.

The Business, technological and society forces that have shaped the growth of e-commerce are identified.

Overall, accelerated TMS appears to hold promise to reduce treatment time and achieve rapid reduction in depressive symptoms, but at this time significant work remains to be done.

A positive moderating effect of pandemic fear on the relationships among PEEP, economic benefits, and sustainable consumption is found and implications for managers and theory are discussed.

A comprehensive and Systematic Literature Review (SLR) regarding the papers published in the field of e-commerce recommender systems to identify the gaps and significant issues of the RSs’ traditional methods, which guide the researchers to do future work.

Social commerce has recently expanded to operate in real time. The business model associated with social commerce has great potential to generate big sales. In order to respond to customers' behavior better on the social commerce, we need to understand social commerce attributes well. The purpose of this study is to explore the attributes of social commerce and explain the purchase intentions of the increasing population of users. The findings of this study are that a factor analysis reveals five attributes that can be used to classify social commerce – economy, necessity, reliability, interac...

The results indicated that social commerce information sharing activities increases the trust in sharing commerce platforms and reduces perceived privacy risk, which can significantly improve the decision-making process and the intention to buy.

PURPOSE Current health literacy screening instruments for health care settings are either too long for routine use or available only in English. Our objective was to develop a quick and accurate screening test for limited literacy available in English and Spanish.

Abstract The single parabolic band (SPB) model has been widely used to preliminarily elucidate inherent transport behaviors of thermoelectric (TE) materials, such as their band structure and electronic thermal conductivity, etc. However, in the SPB calculation, it is necessary to determine some intermediate variables, such as Fermi level or the complex Fermi-Dirac integrals. In this work, we establish a direct carrier-concentration-dependent restructured SPB model, which eliminates Fermi-Dirac integrals and Fermi level calculation and emerges stronger visibility and usability in experiments. W...

Before the efficacy of such vaccines in humans is demonstrated, strong international coordination and collaboration among studies, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, and governments are needed to limit further damage due the emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus.

This report features a quick-start guide that introduces and provides an overview of how ChatGPT works and explains how it can be used in higher education. The quick-start guide raises some of the main challenges and ethical implications of AI in higher education and offers practical steps that higher education institutions can take.

Examining the effect of anthropomorphism on consumers’ perceptions of mobile messenger chatbots and its impact on behavioral decision making confirms that anthropomorphic role plays a positive role in shaping consumers' intentions to purchase through chatbot commerce.

Abstract Whilst the rapid advancement of technology in the 21st century has facilitated the online collection, storage, retrieval, manipulation, and transmission of individuals' personal information, it has also led to a concomitant rise in privacy concerns amongst e‐commerce users. Although privacy concerns have received considerable attention in the e‐commerce literature, to date, empirical research has tended to report somewhat erratic and inconsistent findings in the context of consumer privacy. Accordingly, the relationships between the antecedents, privacy concerns, and the outcome varia...

This research proposes a social-hybrid recommender system in the context of social commerce that recommends tourist attractions for each tourist based on the similarity of users' desires and interests, trust, reputation, relationships, and social communities.

The significant findings are that a secure and reliable system is essential for e-business firms to work successfully; cash on delivery is the priority option for online shopping; website information and effective customer care services build a customer's trust.

This study is the first to create a role set for ELS streamers and the first not only supplements e-commerce, influencer marketing, and role theory research by identifying new characteristics and roles of ELS streams, but it also provides a clear framework practitioners can use to train streamers.

The echo chamber phenomenon in Alibaba Taobao --- one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world --- is analyzed and evidence suggests the tendency of echo chamber in user click behaviors, while it is relatively mitigated in user purchase behaviors.

Since the turn of the century especially small, local retailers struggle with the advent of e-commerce. It is hence no surprise that the retail sector is one of the hardest-hit sectors in the current pandemic. To understand the short- and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 on retail, we conducted two surveys to understand ongoing changes in the sector. By contrasting changing consumer behavior with the actions taken by local retailers, we assess whether the current pandemic is potentially a catalyst for e-commerce in Belgium. We do this based on a newly constructed framework of e-retail accessibi...

A new model for social commerce customer engagement is proposed, based on social support theory, social presence theory, uses and gratifications theory, and the information system success model, which demonstrated that customer engagement behaviour is strongly determined by social interaction, technological factors, and motivational factors.

How blockchain potentially impacts different elements of e-commerce in these respective areas are illustrated, including technological, technological, legal, organizational and quality issues as well as consumer issues.

Analyzing data from 1.3 million livestreams on TikTok, the authors find a negative interaction effect between big and small influencers when employed together due to decreased trust in big influencers and substitution effects.

There is an urgent need in the field of international entrepreneurship to elucidate how SMEs can pursue new opportunities in a digital international business environment. The purpose of this study is to examine, by using effectuation theory, the processes by which retail SMEs develop international e-commerce in foreign markets. This research is based upon qualitative data from three Swedish retail-SMEs. This study makes a theoretical contribution to international entrepreneurship research by providing more granular insights into the actual drivers of e-commerce internationalisation. In particu...

This research conducted on two e-commerce companies actively operating in Indonesia showed that products from Soundcore, Lenovo, and Xiaomi were the best products with preference values with preference values of 0.83, 0.65, and 0.60 respectively.

Problem definition: This paper examines the economic effects of the fulfillment services offered by Amazon (FBA) to the third-party sellers on its retail platform. Academic/practical relevance: Logistics is critical for e-commerce. It is intriguing that the third-party sellers that use FBA may directly compete with Amazon. By FBA, their service levels are substantially improved and so is their competitiveness. Such a phenomenon has been little investigated in prior literature. Methodology: We develop a strategic competition model where Amazon and a representative third-party seller engage in b...

This study makes theoretical contributions through a moderator analysis, which helps to better understand the underlying consumer behavior theories, and further examines the role of trust in the integration of such theories.

E-commerce plays an essential role in modern trade today. It is expected that e-commerce volume amounted to 29 trillion USD in the world in 2017, and would grow with the spread of the Internet and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), together with many others, consider e-commerce a means to facilitate rapid, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, improving the living standards and alleviating poverty. This article examines areas for potential cooperation by BRICS countries in e-commerce development across rural and remote...

This paper estimates the impact of the first nationwide e-commerce expansion program on rural households. To do so, we combine a randomized control trial with new survey and administrative microdata. In contrast to existing case studies, we find little evidence for income gains to rural producers and workers. Instead, the gains are driven by a reduction in cost of living for a minority of rural households that tend to be younger, richer, and in more remote markets. These effects are mainly due to overcoming logistical barriers to e-commerce rather than additional investments to adapt e-commerc...

E-commerce live streaming can considerably help brands improve sales dynamics, but it is multiple dilemmas in choosing suitable e-commerce live streaming product showcasing modes. To address the multiple dilemmas, we first employ the Stackelberg game to depict three e-commerce live streaming product showcasing modes: brand self-live streaming, influencer-led live streaming mixture, and influencer-led special live streaming. Second, we analyze the relationship between choices and game parameters, including live streaming stimulus sensitivity, unit service quality improvement cost, and service s...

This paper synthesises research on artificial intelligence (AI) in e-commerce and proposes guidelines on how information systems (IS) research could contribute to this research stream and places China-based institutions as leaders in this researcher area.

The rise of live-streaming e-commerce has attracted the wide participation of online influencers, brands, and retailers. Live streamers offer a fresh shopping experience to consumers through broadcasting product demonstrations and communicating with them. This study characterizes the streamers' behavior and explores the key drivers of live-streaming e-commerce success as measured by gross merchandise value (GMV) and fan growth. We employ both machine learning and econometric methods to analyze a unique dataset of 55,096 shows by the top 1,000 live streamers on Alibaba's live streaming platform...

The theoretical understanding of the influence of digital influencers through a new lens of social power is advanced, and the two types of consumer engagement behaviours could further affect consumer's purchase expenditure in the social commerce community.

Given the positive bias toward attractive people in society, online sellers are justifiably apprehensive about perceptions of their profile pictures. Although the existing literature emphasizes the “beauty premium” and the “ugliness penalty,” the current studies of seller profile pictures on customer-to-customer e-commerce platforms find a U-shaped relationship between facial attractiveness and product sales (i.e., both beauty and ugliness premiums and, thus, a “plainness penalty”). By analyzing two large data sets, the authors find that both attractive and unattractive people sell significant...

The proposed approach shows high potential to be successfully used as a central component of DSS for recommending the most suitable product and could be a universal and future-proof solution for e-commerce sites and websites.