The evolution of social commerce: The people, management, technology, and information dimensions

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-127

  Wang, Chingning ^a   Zhang, Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Evolution; F commerce; G commerce; Groupon; Information model; Mediation; Mediatization; Social commerce; Social shopping; T commerce; Tuangou

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CROWDSOURCING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EVOLUTION; F COMMERCES; GROUPON; INFORMATION MODELING; MEDIATION; MEDIATIZATION; SOCIAL COMMERCES; SOCIAL SHOPPING; T-COMMERCE; TUANGOU;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84876146864     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03105     Document Type: Article

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