It'sa Match! The effects of chatbot anthropomorphization and chatbot gender on consumer behavior

A Zogaj, PM Mähner, L Yang, DK Tscheulin - Journal of Business Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Chatbots are increasingly used as substitutes for human service agents in online shops.
This has led researchers to analyze how chatbot characteristics influence consumer …

Should doctors open online consultation services? An empirical investigation of their impact on offline appointments

W Fan, Q Zhou, L Qiu, S Kumar - Information Systems …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Online healthcare portals have become prevalent worldwide in recent years. One common
form of a healthcare portal is the online consultation website, which provides a bridge …

Marketplace, reseller, or web-store channel: The impact of return policy and cross-channel spillover from marketplace to web-store

AM Alaei, AA Taleizadeh, M Rabbani - Journal of Retailing and Consumer …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the advent of e-commerce, new platform sales have been created in the online retailing
industry, and choosing the best platform has become a challenge for manufacturers. For …

Strategic introduction of marketplace platform and its impacts on supply chain

D Shi, M Wang, X Li - International Journal of Production Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
With the increasing popularity of platform economics, supply chain members are facing
strategic decisions regarding whether to introduce online marketplace platforms in addition …

Strategic introduction of live-stream selling in a supply chain

S Wang, X Guo - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to the rapid development of live-stream e-commerce, firms are selling their products
directly to consumers via live-stream (LS), a business practice known as LS selling. This …

Joint pricing, ordering and order fulfillment decisions for a dual-channel supply chain with demand uncertainties: A distribution-free approach

R Qiu, L Hou, Y Sun, M Sun, Y Sun - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
A dual-channel supply chain is considered in which a manufacturer sells its product through
a traditional retailer and an e-tailer, wherein the e-tailer may adopt two, ie, the conventional …

Online channel strategies under different offline channel power structures

X Pu, S Zhang, B Ji, G Han - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2021 - Elsevier
This study explores the manufacturer's marketing and pricing strategies for online channel
under different offline channel power structures. Through these strategies, the manufacturer …

Digital transformation of SMEs: The role of entrepreneurial persistence and market sensing dynamic capability

M Christofi, H Khan, N Zahoor… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New digital technologies, combined with the challenges faced by the pandemic, have
prompted several organizations, including small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), to …

Interaction between the introduction strategy of the third‐party online channel and the choice of online sales format

G Shi, L Jiang, Y Wang - International Transactions in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
On the online platform of e‐tailers (eg, Amazon), there are many third‐party retailers who
can resell products by paying e‐tailers a platform usage fee. When e‐tailers sell …

Does online service failure matter to offline customer loyalty in the integrated multi-channel context? The moderating effect of brand strength

X Wang, Q Zhang - Journal of Service Theory and Practice, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of online service failure on
online customer satisfaction and offline customer loyalty, and the moderating role of brand …