International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
The SocialTrust framework for trusted social information management: Architecture and algorithms
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Co-Creation: Toward a Taxonomy and an Integrated Research Perspective
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Modeling Consumer Purchasing Behavior in Social Shopping Communities with Clickstream Data
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
The Influence of Personal and Social-Interactive Engagement in Social TV Web Sites
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
What Drives Social Commerce: The Role of Social Support and Relationship Quality
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Simulating social commerce applied to buyer group pricing, recommendation incentives, and bundling
Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Social commerce research: An integrated view
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
User-centered investigation of social commerce design
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
Aligning principal and agent's incentives: A principal-agent perspective of social networking sites
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
From e-commerce to social commerce: a framework to guide enabling cloud computing
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Requirements for Personalized m-Commerce: What Drives Consumers' Use of Social Networks?
Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations
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The increased popularity of social networking sites, such as Linkedln, Facebook, and Twitter, has opened opportunities for new business models for electronic commerce, often referred to as social commerce. Social commerce involves using Web 2.0 social media technologies and infrastructure to support online interactions and user contributions to assist in the acquisition of products and services. Social media technologies not only provide a new platform for entrepreneurs to innovate but also raise a variety of new issues for e-commerce researchers that require the development of new theories. This could become one of the most challenging research arenas in the coming decade. The purpose of this introduction is to present a framework that integrates several elements in social commerce research and to summarize the papers included in this special issue. The framework includes six key elements for classifying social commerce research: research theme, social media, commercial activities, underlying theories, outcomes, and research methods. The proposed framework is valuable in defining the scope and identifying potential research issues in social commerce. We also explain how the papers included in this special issue fit into the proposed research framework.