E-Business and Management Science: Mutual Impacts (Part 1 of 2)
Management Science
Comparison of the group-buying auction and the fixed pricing mechanism
Decision Support Systems
Forming Buyer Coalitions with Bundles of Items
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Should we collude? Analyzing the benefits of bidder cooperation in online group-buying auctions
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Combinatorial Coalition Formation for multi-item group-buying with heterogeneous customers
Decision Support Systems
Segmenting uncertain demand in group-buying auctions
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
An investigation of online group-buying institution and buyer behavior
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services
Incentive mechanisms, fairness and participation in online group-buying auctions
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Buyer coalitions with bundles of items by using genetic algorithm
ICIC'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging intelligent computing technology and applications
Consumer adoption of group-buying auctions: an experimental study
Information Technology and Management
Group Buying: A New Mechanism for Selling Through Social Interactions
Management Science
Buyer coalitions on JADE platform
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part I
Daily deals: prediction, social diffusion, and reputational ramifications
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Forming buyer coalition scheme with connection of a coalition leader
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Matching models for preference-sensitive group purchasing
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
Information Systems Frontiers
Social buying: the effects of group size and communication on countering seller market power
Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Assessing the benefits of group-buying-based combinatorial reverse auctions
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
An empirical study on quality uncertainty of products and social commerce
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Real-time bid optimization for group-buying ads
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Frontiers
Under what conditions will social commerce business models survive?
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Do starting and ending effects in fixed-price group-buying differ?
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
A new evolution model for B2C e-commerce market
Information Technology and Management
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Web-based group-buying mechanisms are being widely used for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. We survey currently operational online group-buying markets, and then study this phenomenon using analytical models. We build on the literatures in information economics and operations management in our analytical model of a monopolist offering Web-based group-buying under different kinds of demand uncertainty. We derive the monopolist's optimal group-buying schedule under varying conditions of heterogeneity in the demand regimes, and compare its profits with those that obtain under the more conventional posted-price mechanism. We further study the impact ofproduction postponement by endogenizing the timing of the pricing and production decisions in a two-stage game between the monopolist and buyers. Our results have implications for firms' choice of price-discovery mechanisms in e-markets, and for the scheduling of production and pricing decisions in the presence (and absence) of scale economies of production.