Topic: E-commerce in various aspects.
Author: Chandan Gupta
E-Commerce Sector in India: Impact and Challenges Amidst Lockdown
The pandemic-induced lockdowns accelerated the shift towards self-reliance, particularly evident in the surge of e-commerce and e-pharma adoption. Supply chains adapted, and logistical capacities met new challenges, with technology playing a crucial role. While luxury and premium goods may face cautious consumer spending, sectors like health, wellness, and technology will witness a rise in brand significance. Ayurveda and ancient sciences may find traction in e-commerce post-lockdown. The trend heavily favors pro-technology and e-commerce strategies, making digital marketing indispensable for companies. Despite challenges, e-commerce emerged as a beacon of hope, offering a safe avenue for economic survival and fostering new business models and start-ups. Its resilience amidst the pandemic underscores its status as a growth sector, poised to endure with determination.
Impact of Consumer Decision-making Styles on Online Apparel Consumption in India
This study explores consumer behavior in online apparel shopping, highlighting motivations and decision-making styles. Contrary to past research, it finds no significant gender gap in online shopping frequency. Both men and women show increasing interest in online apparel purchases, suggesting a lucrative market for retailers targeting male consumers. Highly brand and fashion-conscious shoppers are inclined towards online buying, while value-conscious individuals seek financial benefits and spend more time exploring options online. Social influence plays a role in driving online shopping frequency and spending, indicating the importance of peer recommendations. Contrary to assumptions, impulsiveness doesn’t significantly impact online apparel spending. Marketers can target value-conscious shoppers through interactive online marketing tools. Limitations include data predominantly from tech-savvy demographics like college students and young professionals, limiting generalizability. Future research could explore longitudinal effects and different demographic segments. Overall, this study contributes to understanding online consumer behavior in the apparel domain but suggests further investigation into specific product categories and longitudinal trends.
Deploying Internet Banking and e-Commerce—Case Study of a Private-Sector Bank in India
In the evolving business landscape, banks must proactively integrate internal processes and external partnerships to offer seamless products and services to customers. Indian banks, notably IHB, are pioneering this approach by aligning IT with business strategy, yielding substantial benefits for customers and economic development. Private-sector banks like IHB are spearheading the adoption of new business models leveraging IT, placing pressure on government-owned commercial banks to reevaluate their strategies. To maintain their leadership in economic development, these banks must embrace advanced technology and alternative delivery channels. This shift underscores the importance of innovation and adaptation in the banking sector to meet evolving customer needs and stay competitive in a dynamic marketplace.
The Impact of E-Commerce on Competition in the Retail Brokerage Industry
This paper presents a model of competition between a traditional full-service broker offering bundled products and an online entrant providing trade execution only. The model suggests that under certain circumstances, the full-service broker may choose to unbundle its offering, while the online entrant opts to compete with lower quality execution. Empirical findings confirm that online brokers indeed offer lower quality trade execution, yet the higher commission costs of full-service brokers aren’t fully compensated by these quality differences. Securities trading entails both observable and hidden costs, prompting future research to explore how electronic markets affect information asymmetries in various sectors. While electronic markets typically enhance price transparency, their impact on quality transparency remains uncertain. This raises questions about whether e-commerce will lead to overall transparency or primarily affect advertised prices. Online intermediaries, by reducing information asymmetries and inefficiencies in traditional value chains, significantly influence competitive dynamics across markets. The study emphasizes the importance of examining these intermediated markets to comprehend the direct and indirect impacts of emerging technologies, particularly in identifying implicit costs that consumers struggle to anticipate.
The formation of agricultural e‐commerce clusters: A case from China.
In developing countries like China, the rise of digital dividends from online resources, particularly in rural and agricultural areas, is facilitated by expanding network infrastructure and information industries. Agricultural e-commerce clusters are emerging, empowering farmers with broader market access. The formation of these clusters involves dynamic mechanisms, formative elements, and developmental processes, as observed in the case study of Shuyang County. Factors such as technology introduction, diffusion, and industrial agglomeration contribute to cluster development. Challenges like quality crises and opportunistic behaviors among local farmers are addressed through technology diffusion and governmental support. The success of e-commerce relies on holistic industrial upgrading and strategic integration with agricultural practices. Governments must recognize the pivotal role of e-commerce in regional development and support its integration into agricultural sectors. Shuyang County’s experience exemplifies how information technologies can address agricultural sales challenges and foster rural development. As Internet accessibility improves and supporting industries develop, online market access for farmers is expected to become more widespread
The Evolving B2B E-Commerce and Supply Chain Management
This study examines sixteen years of B2B e-commerce growth data in the U.S. Manufacturing sector, finding that factors beyond overall business activity contribute to e-commerce growth. A maturity model is employed to discuss integration stages over time, suggesting that organizational maturity in systems integration strongly influences e-commerce success and growth. Synchronizing the maturity of multiple systems is highlighted as crucial for growth. Slow e-commerce growth in early years is attributed to insufficient systems integration maturity. The study reveals that transitioning to higher maturity levels takes considerable time, evidenced by the delayed growth spurt in e-commerce. Managers planning e-commerce systems can benefit from realistic expectations based on this understanding, guiding their implementations effectively.
E-COMMERCE AND THE MARKET STRUCTURE OF RETAIL INDUSTRIES
This article investigates how the introduction of e-commerce tools, reducing consumer search costs, impacts market structures. Through a general industry model, it demonstrates that decreased search costs lead to lower prices and a shift in market share from low- to high-type producers. Empirical testing in travel agencies, bookstores, and car dealerships confirms these predictions, showing smaller establishments declining as larger ones become dominant with increased Internet usage for purchases. The mechanisms driving market share shifts differ across industries; in travel agencies, it’s primarily driven by aggregate changes such as airline commission reductions, while in bookstores and car dealerships, faster growth in online purchases leads to more exits among smaller stores. This underscores the varied impacts of e-commerce adoption on market structures in different sectors.
A Model of Multinational Income Shifting and an Application to Tax Planning with E-Commerce.
This study investigates tax planning in a multijurisdictional setting, considering income shifting and repatriation decisions. The model reveals incentives for income shifting into the U.S. but highlights conditions where shifting out of the U.S. is not optimal. Lower costs of shifting increase the amount of income shifting. Notably, the model identifies a link between investment characteristics and repatriation incentives, a novel insight. Empirical application to e-commerce firms suggests higher tax planning for those with increased e-commerce activity. Results indicate decreased effective tax rates with greater e-commerce usage, particularly for firms unlikely to repatriate earnings, aligning with predictions from the model. This study contributes to theoretical and empirical research on income shifting and responds to calls for evidence on the e-commerce-tax relation, suggesting e-commerce as a tool for tax alleviation but highlighting ongoing challenges in addressing e-commerce tax issues.
Factors Affecting Usage of E-Commerce: A Study of Haryana Region
Corporate should prioritize factors such as ease of use, awareness, transaction facilitation, and complaint resolution to enhance e-commerce usage. Redressing complaints promptly is crucial for retaining existing customers and attracting new ones. Reliability in online transactions, payments, and deliveries must be ensured to build consumer trust. Strengthening supply chain management is essential for smooth delivery and customer satisfaction. By considering these factors and implementing effective policies, corporate can bolster e-commerce reliability and maintain strong customer relationships.
Game theoretic analysis of horizontal carrier coordination with revenue sharing in E-commerce logistics
This research investigates the coordination of a two-horizontal carrier e-commerce logistics system, considering the impact of logistics service levels and competitive power structures. It examines centralized and decentralized systems analytically and numerically, while proposing a leader-follower RSC mechanism for decentralized coordination. The study contributes to operations management literature by demonstrating the effectiveness of horizontal carrier collaboration, elucidating equilibrium results under different competitive structures, and highlighting the role of logistics service levels in e-commerce logistics. The findings reveal optimal order quantities for maximizing profit among logistics service providers (LSPs), Nash equilibrium existence between competitive LSPs, and Stackelberg equilibrium in horizontal competition. Additionally, it proves that the RSC mechanism can coordinate the decentralized system within the Pareto zone, offering insights for enhancing e-commerce logistics efficiency and profitability through strategic coordination mechanisms.
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