Abstract
The ubiquity of information and communication technologies (ICT) stimulate collaborative shopping and bring together customers with similar interests around the world to perform cooperative and collective online shopping. As a result, various models of collaborative online group buying are emerging. This paper analyses the phases of interaction during the shopping processes and provides a systematic categorization of the online group buying based on the topdown/ bottom-up crowd-shopping models. In addition, this paper discusses recent developments and challenges of group buying in order to contribute to future research directions within the field of collaborative online group buying.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 162-169 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 12th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization & Engineering - Mallorca, Spain Duration: 22 Sept 2015 → 23 Sept 2015 Conference number: 12 |
Conference
| Conference | 12th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization & Engineering |
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| Abbreviated title | CDVE 2015 |
| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Mallorca |
| Period | 22/09/15 → 23/09/15 |
Keywords
- Crowdsourcing; Collaboration; Crowd-Shopping; Online group buying; Group buying 2.0; Social shopping; Cooperative decision making; Collaborative information seeking; Business model