Information rules: a strategic guide to the network economy
Information rules: a strategic guide to the network economy
Communications of the ACM
Executive's Guide to E-Business: From Tactics to Strategy
Executive's Guide to E-Business: From Tactics to Strategy
Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases
Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases
A day in the life of web searching: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
E-Business and E-Commerce Management (3rd Edition)
E-Business and E-Commerce Management (3rd Edition)
A Model of Internet Pricing Under Price-Comparison Shopping
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
A classification of product comparison agents
Communications of the ACM
Consumer E-Tailer Choice Strategies at On-Line Shopping Comparison Sites
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Evolution of Prices in Electronic Markets Under Diffusion of Price-Comparison Shopping
Journal of Management Information Systems
Click trading: A case study of Moneynet
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
One size does not fit all: legal protection for non-copyrightable data
Communications of the ACM - The Status of the P versus NP Problem
Developing a framework to analyse the roles and relationships of online intermediaries
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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This paper analyses the comparison website sector in the UK using what Stabell and Fjeldstad (1998) term the three generic value configurations: the value chain, the value shop and value network. Drawing on secondary material and case studies from the United Kingdom, the key finding is that these frameworks all offer partial explanations of value creation in comparison websites. An amended version of the value chain termed the click chain, outlined by Laffey (2009), is most effective in explaining the source of online traffic for comparison websites and in explaining their costs and revenues. This is an important finding as the literature has identified the value chain as being of limited relevance outside of the manufacturing sector. In addition the value shop offers insights into how the sector deals with more complex products such as mortgages and life insurance, whilst the value network helps to explain the growth of comparison websites. The paper also suggests how this framework can be used for e-commerce markets in general before it concludes.