•Digital economic index is constructed scientifically by principal component method.•Using the dual approach which is more accurate than Solow method to calculate TFP.•Nonlinear panel model shows the ...relationship between digital economy and TFP.
This study applied the pooled regression to examine the innovation-driven effects of digital economy on total factor productivity (TFP) in China based on the data including the provincial TFP calculated by the dual approach and the digital economy index proposed by the principal component analysis in this paper. The results show that the digital economy index has a positively nonlinear relationship with provincial TFP, and it demonstrates the digital economy acts as an innovation driver for the extensive and sustainable development of TFP. Nevertheless, there is a regional diversity that digital integration in eastern China accelerates the high-quality TFP growth, while they are relatively inferior in the central and western regions. The results provide valuable reference resources for the departments concerned to cross the regional barriers existing in technological information, launch a cooperative program, and construct a decentralised infrastructure.
The digitization of the economy is altering the nature of competition, affecting the fundamental way firms compete in digital markets. In this article, we offer a platform-based view of competition ...in digital markets, present three distinct types of platform markets, the key elements affecting the value of a platform-based service, and the competitive logic that shape competition in these markets. We introduce the concept of platform identity to delineate the platform's technological and market profile delineating the platform's competitive identity domain and distinguish it from platform size (which reflects the scale of its user and complementor network). We argue that each platform has a unique identity, and comparisons of rival platforms along these two strategic dimensions-platform size and platform identity-help to explain the nature of competition in digital markets and explain the unique competitive dynamics that depart from mainstream competitive theory's predictions. Our framework also helps to identify cases where the market boundaries and competitive domains become contested because of platform competition, leading to market convergence. We discuss how the proposed framework can enrich and extend existing theory on competitive dynamics to the context of digital markets, and offer a foundation for future research.
New digital technologies have transformed the nature of uncertainty inherent in entrepreneurial processes and outcomes as well as the ways of dealing with such uncertainty. This has raised important ...questions at the intersection of digital technologies and entrepreneurship—on digital entrepreneurship. We consider two broad implications—less bounded entrepreneurial processes and outcomes and less predefined locus of entrepreneurial agency—and advance a research agenda that calls for the explicit theorizing of concepts related to digital technologies. In articulating the promise and value of such a digital technology perspective, we consider how it would build on and enrich existing entrepreneurship theories.
E-business benefit both large and small businesses. However, the aggregate cost of successful online trading, including initial and recurring costs, continues to pose a great challenge to ...micro-enterprises. For these willing businesses, the result is a mere web presence and for some, the thought of trading online is a no-go area. Using a multi-case study qualitative approach, this study adopts the technology-organisation-environment theoretical lens to explore empirically the strategies used by e-retail microbusinesses to potentially advance their e-business adoption. The findings revealed the actual cost of adoption, the technology-organisation-environment strategies in use to lower the cost barrier, and how the pursuit of the cost barrier simultaneously lowers some adoption barriers outside the cost factors. The study also highlighted the intrinsic idiosyncratic nature of small firms’ ecosystems, and the fact that government resources and services provided by companies, both private and public, could effectively reduce the costs associated with e-business adoption.
•This study systematically reviews a body of 72 research papers (83 studies) that investigated VR retail.•The results are further analyzed from 51 experiment-based empirical studies.•Sixteen future ...research avenues related conceptual, thematic, methodological and technological issues are discussed.•The definition of VR and features of VR shopping experience are proposed in conceptual agenda.
Virtual reality (VR) refers to technologies for substituting the perceived reality. With the recent proliferation of consumer-grade head-mounted VR displays, several industries have started to wake up to the possible potential of virtual reality. One typical area in the early stages of the adoption of these technologies is marketing, and especially its sub-areas of retail and shopping. However, there has been a dearth in our understanding of how VR technology has been investigated in retail-related literature. This study systematically reviewed a body of 72 research papers that investigated the application of VR in shopping. The corpus was reviewed for covered research methods, theories, investigated output and input devices, tracking technologies, products and simulated environments, antecedents and consequences. Based on experiment-based studies in the corpus, we assessed the effects of VR and related stimuli on consumer psychology and behavior in the context of shopping. Based on the review, we propose 16 future research avenues pertaining to concepts, themes, methodologies and technologies.
The use of e-business technologies between supply chain organizations has been thematic in recent literature. Organizational collaboration, the foundation of supply chain management, has been enabled ...by the development and use of e-business technologies. Organizational collaboration and information sharing, in turn, are expected to improve organizational performance. We propose and test a model of the relationship between organizational use of e-business technologies, organizational collaboration, and performance, using empirical data. Our model differs from past studies in that collaboration is viewed as two unique constructs, differentiating between intra- and inter-organizational collaboration. Our findings show that use of e-business technologies impacts performance both directly and indirectly by promoting both measures of collaboration. Intra-firm collaboration is also found to have a direct impact on organizational performance. However, the impact of inter-organizational collaboration on performance is found to be only indirect, through the impact of intra-organizational collaboration. These findings reveal the complexity of organizational collaboration, underscore the importance for companies to promote internal collaboration, and invest in information technologies that facilitate it.
Online marketplaces, such as those operated by Amazon, have seen rapid growth in recent years. These marketplaces serve as an intermediary, matching buyers with sellers, whereas control of the good ...is left to the seller. In some cases, e.g., the Amazon marketplace system, the firm that owns and manages the marketplace system will also sell competing products through the marketplace system. This creates a new form of channel conflict, which is a focus of this article. We consider a setting in which a marketplace firm operates an online marketplace through which retailers can sell their products directly to consumers. We consider a single retailer, who currently sells its product only through its own website, but who may choose to contract with Amazon to sell its product through the marketplace system. Selling the product through the marketplace expands the available market for the retailer, but comes at some expense, e.g., a fixed participation fee or a revenue sharing requirement. Thus, a key question for the retailer is whether she should choose to sell through the marketplace system, and if so, at what price. We analyze the optimal decisions for both the retailer and the marketplace firm and characterize the system equilibrium.
20 years of Electronic Commerce Research Kumar, Satish; Lim, Weng Marc; Pandey, Nitesh ...
Electronic commerce research,
03/2021, Volume:
21, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of
Electronic Commerce Research
(
ECR
). The journal has changed substantially over its life, reflecting the wider changes in the tools and commercial ...focus of electronic commerce.
ECR
’s early focus was telecommunications and electronic commerce. After reorganization and new editorship in 2014, that focus expanded to embrace emerging tools, business models, and applications in electronic commerce, with an emphasis on the innovations and the vibrant growth of electronic commerce in Asia. Over this time,
ECR
’s impact and volume of publications have grown rapidly, and
ECR
is considered one of the premier journals in its discipline. This invited research summarizes the evolution of
ECR
’s research focus over its history.
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