TY - JOUR
T1 - The sustainability of B2B e-marketplaces
T2 - Ownership structure, market competition, and prior buyer-seller connections
AU - Zhao, Kexin
AU - Xia, Mu
AU - Shaw, Michael J.
AU - Subramaniam, Chandrasekar
N1 - Funding Information:
Chandrasekar Subramaniam is an assistant professor of MIS at the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He received his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2003. His research projects have been funded by corporations such as Caterpillar, Motorola, and State Farm Insurance and the Center for e-Business and IT Management at the University of Illinois. He has published in several leading journals in information systems and contributed chapters for two books on electronic commerce.
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - B2B e-marketplaces alter the structure of buyer-seller trading networks. To study the network-level structural changes caused by the emergence of e-marketplaces, we develop a multiple-player noncooperative game, where rational firms select optimal interfirm connections and the network is endogenously formed and evolved. We examine the conditions under which both neutral and biased B2B e-markets will sustain, when previous buyer-seller connections exist. We test our model in both the oligopoly market and the oligopsony market. Our analysis explains how ownership structures and market competition interact with each other to affect e-market sustainability. We also identify other critical factors for sustainable e-markets and their social welfare implications.
AB - B2B e-marketplaces alter the structure of buyer-seller trading networks. To study the network-level structural changes caused by the emergence of e-marketplaces, we develop a multiple-player noncooperative game, where rational firms select optimal interfirm connections and the network is endogenously formed and evolved. We examine the conditions under which both neutral and biased B2B e-markets will sustain, when previous buyer-seller connections exist. We test our model in both the oligopoly market and the oligopsony market. Our analysis explains how ownership structures and market competition interact with each other to affect e-market sustainability. We also identify other critical factors for sustainable e-markets and their social welfare implications.
KW - B2B e-marketplaces sustainability
KW - Market competition
KW - Ownership structure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.dss.2009.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.dss.2009.01.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:64949202502
SN - 0167-9236
VL - 47
SP - 105
EP - 114
JO - Decision Support Systems
JF - Decision Support Systems
IS - 2
ER -