E-commerce In China Research Articles

Innovating Collection Modes for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in China

The huge amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has aroused global concern with its importance of environmental performance for resources reutilization being recognized. The incomplete collection management system is required to be improved for a more environmental and orderly recycling way. Based on the public survey, field research and information search on the Internet, we present the existing framework and problems of WEEE collection in China, according to which four innovative WEEE collection modes are put forward: (i) Unified collection channels mode; (ii) Manufacturer alliance mode; (iii) Innovative enterprise self-built network platform mode; and (iv) Third-party integrated network platform mode. The characteristics, merits and deficiencies of the four modes are compared and analyzed, combined with which, we match the four modes with regions of different economic levels and Internet application. Third-party integrated network platform integrating online and offline resources is expected to be generalized under rapid development of information technology and e-commerce in China. The purpose of our research is to explore appropriate innovative WEEE collection modes and give suggestions for countries or economies whose WEEE collection situation or system are similar with China. Besides, government support and laws implementation are emphasized in mode promotion.

A new coupled ARMA-FGM model and its application in the internet third-party payment forecasting in China

PurposeWith the rapid development of e-commerce in China, the third-party payment system greatly improved the efficiency and volume of the entire trading market. The purpose of this paper is to put forward a suitable prediction model to analyse its development trend.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analyse internet third-party payments in China, taking into account online payment transaction values coupled with an ARMA model and the fractional grey model (FGM). First, the rolling FGM model is applied in order to characterise the trends of the transaction volume. The influence of the initial value change on the FGM model is analysed. The optimisation mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) model is constructed to determine the optimal translational values, the corresponding optimal accumulation order and optimal inverse accumulation order.FindingsThis paper uses China’s recent third-party online payment data to quantify its development trend. The authors find the coupling model suitable for the development trend of third-party online payment transaction. The results show that the model is suitable to quantify its development trend of China’s recent third-party online payment.Originality/valueConsidering the complex influence factors that lead to the third-party online payment volume data of time-varying grey feature, this paper combines the FGM with ARMA model to describe the development of third-party payment mode.

Analysis of Agricultural Products Logistics Mode in China in the E-commerce Environment

The development of agricultural products of e-commerce in china is slow, the sales mode is single, and the logistics is in poor circulation. It had an impact on the development of agricultural products of e-commerce development. In the e-commerce environment, how to make the agricultural products logistics mode better service for farmer is this paper study. This paper analyzes the existing problems of the current logistics mode of the agricultural products in the e-commerce environment. Through the investigation of some farmers and consumers, a model of the operation mode of the agricultural products in the e-commerce environment is put forward, which mainly solves the circulation way of the agricultural products and information. Then it puts forward several modes of agricultural product logistics in the e-commerce environment.

The Application of VAR Model in Economic Interaction: The Case of China E-Commerce and Trade

Vector auto regression model (VAR) is widely used in the researches of variables interactions. China’s cross-border e-commerce and trade volume has grown rapidly in recent years. But it is uncertain that there is interaction between the common growth and the VAR model can be used to explain that. Based on these issues, this paper collected data on China’s cross-border e-commerce and trade growth from 2001 to 2015 so as to establish the VAR model of cross-border e-commerce and trade growth by using Augmented Dickey–Fuller test, Granger causality test and co-integration test. From the results, VAR model has great explanation for the interactive relationship between e-commerce and trade growth. There is a long-term equilibrium between both. On the other hand, the pulse response analysis found the stability for this long-term equilibrium.

Comparative Analysis on Corporate Strategy of B2C E-commerce in China: The Cases of JD.com and Tmall

The main B2C business modes in China are the self-run e-commerce mode represented by JD.com and the platform-based e-commerce mode represented by Tmall. As the two biggest e-commerce enterprises in China, JD.com and Tmall have been sustainably competing with each other. The purpose of this research was to compare the corporate strategies of these B2C enterprises and point out the necessary focuses when formulating their corporate strategies. External and internal environmental analyses were used to analyze and compare the corporate strategies of JD.com and Tmall. Hypotheses related to the impacts of Technology, Brand, Logistics and the Commodity Service of the two enterprises on customer loyalty and recommendation were formulated. A questionnaire survey was administered to customers, and the hypotheses were tested through regression analysis and t-test using SPSS 23.0. The results showed that Commodity Service positively affected the customer loyalty and recommendation both in the two enterprises. Furthermore, the logistics competitiveness of JD.com is significantly better than that of Tmall.

How Marketing Factors Influence Online Browsing and Sales: Evidence From China's E-Commerce Market

As the e-commerce market evolves from being primarily transactional to being more subtle, sellers now seek to form online strategies. Previous studies have investigated buyers’ purchasing patterns, online transaction trust, electronic word-of-mouth, online resale behavior as well as online auctions. However, less is known about the antecedents that effect store traffic and sales. By using real market data from a major Chinese C2C e-commerce site, this article investigates C2C transactional formation and identifies sellers’ performance payoffs that result from various marketing factors. Marketing factors that influence store traffic and sales will be analyzed by means of the Negative Binomial model and Tobit model. Results point out that strong store reputation and high service quality are crucial indicators for increasing number of browsers and sales amount. In accordance with the results of prior research, advertising is confirmed as an effective tool for positively influencing both store traffic and sales. In addition, we found that guarantee policies can positively impact store sales only by interacting with reputation ratings. Drawing on empirical findings, we also discuss the managerial implications for C2C sellers and put forth some recommendations.

Weak Signals and Wild Cards Leading to Transformative Disruption: A Consumer Delphi Study on the Future of e-Commerce in China

The future of businesses is not only orchestrated by emerging trends and megatrends but also to a greater extent struck by surprising events. With the accelerating presence of high-tech innovations and smart technologies, business activities are exposed to an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment. Any unexpected changes in the environment could lead to the malfunction or even collapse of a company, a business, or even an industry. Discerning the seeds of change and anticipating the potential disruptions in the external environment is a precondition for avoiding potential risks and threats. The present study contributes to the conceptual and methodological discussion of disruptive transformation by identifying, analyzing, and interpreting the potential disruptive factors in the external business environment. The venture is undertaken through the lens of probing into the dynamism of China’s e-commerce industry, considering its growing influence both domestically and abroad. Any unexpected disruptions would result in a significant ripple effect on interrelated businesses, industries, and even economies. The research adopts a combined mode of qualitative and quantitative methods in the form of horizon scanning and a Consumer Delphi study. Horizon scanning collects futures signals indicating the seeds of change (i.e., weak signals) and potential disruptions (i.e., wild cards), whereas Delphi study solicits the evaluations on the degree of likelihood and impact of the collected factors from an expert panel. As a result, twenty-seven potential disruptive factors are discovered, categorized, estimated, and discussed.

Impact of payment technology innovations on the traditional financial industry: A focus on China

With the rapid advent of e-commerce in China, the technological innovation of third-party payment has experienced explosive growth. This important technological innovation, initiated by emerging Internet companies, is helping the traditional financial industry's payment business—represented by commercial banks—expand in both depth and breadth. Meanwhile, there is also a large degree of substitution, competition and crowding out among these banks in terms of the traditional financial industry's basic payment and settlement functions, potential customers, deposit and loan services and traditional intermediary business. This paper explores the impact (episodic and long-term steady-state) of the technological innovation of payment on commercial banks. It also considers the impact of technological innovation on industrial evolution to clarify whether technological innovation offsets the advantages of traditional industries or promotes industrial development. This study adopts the Vector Auto-Regression (VAR) impulse response model to analyze the impact of Internet Third-Party Payment (TPP) on the traditional financial industry from 2007 to 2014. The empirical results suggest that in China, third-party payments have had a significant positive correlation with the value creation capabilities of traditional financial industries, and that this relationship tends to remain in a steady state in the long term. Based on these findings, this paper confirms that the technological innovation of methods of payment in emerging economies, such as China, has promoted the development of the financial industry and accelerated the process of industrial evolution. We conclude the paper with feasible policy suggestions.

On the Development of Cross-Border E-Commerce and the Transformation of Foreign Trade Model

In recent years, the international economic development has been continuously sluggish. The market environment has been deteriorating, and the competition has become increasingly fierce. The development of small and medium-sized enterprises is restricted by factors such as capital, talents and market. With the development of Internet technology, the emergence of cross-border e-commerce has attracted the attention of Chinese government and enterprises. E-commerce has become a new mode of trade. On the one hand, it can solve the problem of insufficient enterprise resources; on the other hand, it can realize the rational allocation of enterprise resources. E-commerce is of great significance to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises oriented by foreign trade. It can help small and medium-sized enterprises effectively to solve problems in capital, talents and market, and help them develop and grow. The rapid development of e-commerce has given rise to a new form of international trade, namely cross-border e-commerce. Its development has a great influence on the development of traditional foreign trade. Based on the development status of cross-border e-commerce in China, this paper analyzes the influence of the development of cross-border e-commerce on China’s foreign trade mode, and proposes foreign trade pattern transformation strategies in order to provide reference for the development of cross-border e-commerce and foreign trade in China.

The Significance of Chongqing Cross-Border E-Commerce in Promoting Regional Economic Development

Under the guidance of the Belt and One Road strategy, the international consumption structure has been upgraded year by year. The channels for Chinese consumers to experience cross-border products are more convenient and unimpeded. Due to the dual development opportunities, cross-border e-commerce has led to the transformation and upgrading of the traditional trade model, which has become a new trend of the transformation of China's foreign trade growth pattern. Cross-border e-commerce refers to the e-commerce model of goods transferring across regions through online trading, international payment, financial services, and offline international logistics delivery through the Internet and other e-commerce trading platforms. Cross-border e-commerce trade makes up for the shortcoming of traditional trade in cost and logistics and becomes a new driving force for China's foreign trade development. Since Chongqing became one of the first pilot cities of cross-border e-commerce in China, the number and transaction volume of cross-border e-commerce enterprises in the region have increased year by year. In recent years, cross-border e-commerce enterprises in the region have entered a golden period of development under the government's policy inclination. Taking Chongqing cross-border e-commerce as an example, this paper USES data statistics, literature analysis and field research methods to analyze the development status of cross-border e-commerce in Chongqing, analyzes regional, policy, logistics, enterprises and other advantages, and discusses the future development prospect of cross-border e-commerce and the driving force of regional economy. In order to help cross-border e-commerce enterprises in this region seize opportunities, actively participate in international market competition, and promote the rapid development of economy in Chongqing, the author puts forward some opinions on strengthening government policy support, strengthening enterprise brand management and school-enterprise cooperation in cultivating application-oriented e-commerce talents.

A Study on the Strategic Implications of the B2C E-commerce Export Marketing toward China

Currently, many e-commerce professional organizations are focusing on China as the most important market of the future B2C e-commerce market. In fact, China’s B2C e-Commerce imports in 2014 amounted to 150 billion yuan, and in 2018 it is expected to grow more than seven times to 1 trillion yuan. In China, Korean products are still popular. Thus, demand for Korean consumer products continues. Such a phenomenon has emerged as a new export opportunity for Korean SMEs and small exporters. Therefore, this paper attempts to investigate the type of transactions relative to B2C e-commerce through theoretical consideration of B2C e-commerce transactions between internationalcountries. Then thecurrent status of imports and exports in terms of B2C e-commerce in Korea and China as well as the problems from the viewpoint of export marketing are explored. Finally, strategic implications necessary for the development of B2C e-commerce export strategy in China are presented.

Research on the Challenges and Development Path of E-commerce in China in the New Era

With the popularization of the Internet, e-commerce is developing very fast. However, there are still many obstacles and challenges which affect the healthy and sustainable development of e-commerce in the new situation. This paper makes an in-depth analysis of the main characteristics of electronic commerce in China, exploring the major challenges faced in its development process, putting forward the solution to improving the development of e-commerce in China under the new situation.

Research on Credit Mechanism in E-commerce Environment

E-commerce has been developing very fast since the twenty-first Century. However, the widespread existence of the credit risk of e-commerce brings great harm to the healthy development of e-commerce. Therefore, how to establish the credit supervision system of electronic commerce effectively, while maintaining the integrity, fair and harmonious network environment at the same time have become a new serious problem facing us. The construction of credit mechanism in e-commerce environment has become very urgent. This paper analyzes the characteristics of e-commerce market economy and trade credit behavior, exploring the concrete measures of constructing credit mechanism in China's e-commerce environment.

Development Strategy of Cross-border E-commerce in China

At present, cross-border e-commerce is explosive development. However, while the rapid development of cross-border electricity supplier industry, some problems have also come. Therefore, to change the traditional cross-border electricity supplier sales service model, to meet consumer demand, we must study the formulation of relevant laws and regulations, in order to promote cross-border electricity supplier better and faster development.

The Courses and Policy Environment of E-Commerce Development in China

China’s e-commerce industry has went through 21 years since China’s first e-commerce enterprise established in 1996. With the rapid development of Internet and communication technology, e-commerce has penetrated into enterprises’ production and people’s life, and continued to exert its great potential when combining with traditional manufacturing industry. There is no doubt that e-commerce has greatly increased the efficiency of society functions. This paper cards the courses and policy environment of e-commerce development in China, identifies four stages for China’s e-commerce development, which are “initial stage, accelerated stage, standardization stage and globalization stage”. At the same time, this paper describes three different characteristics of current China’s e-commerce and also summarizes five policy focus for e-commerce. Based on the previous analysis and descriptions, this paper puts forward conclusions that China's e-commerce sector will usher in a new round expansion on global scale, and the Chinese government will play a key and active role in promoting it. In addition, this paper warns these China’s e-commerce enterprises to actively prevent unknown risk from home and abroad in their business expansion, the government ought to listen to e-commerce companies to deal with their specific difficulties.

A Study on the Legal Regulation of E-commerce System in China

Entering into a new era of the prevalence of E-commerce, large numbers of complex issues have emerged, which gives rise to some different impacts to people’s daily lives. In order to make the situation under control, a series of laws and regulations need to be carried out and implemented by competent authority. With regard to the current legal system of E-commerce in China, it is far from flawless and deficiencies exist both in the phases of legislation and implementation. As for the solutions, both domestic and international measures should be taken into consideration, which target at improving the legal regulations system over E-commerce and providing a healthy and safe environment for online transactions.

The Operation Status of Cross-border E-commerce in Ningbo

Due to the further update of modern network system, the cross-border e-commerce in China is in a rapid development. This kind of new trade pattern is destroying the traditional mode of trade. Ningbo, as the top five export city in China, enjoys the advantages of excellent geographic position, sound commercial infrastructure, advanced port logistics, favorable development prospect and environment for e-commerce. Therefore, this paper, with Ningbo as the object of study, analyzes the current difficulties and the unparalleled advantages item by item, so as to make a little contribution to the development of the cross-border e-commerce for Ningbo and even the whole China.

Benefits, Problems and Possible Strategies of China’s E-commerce Development

This paper explores the current situation of China's e-commerce development. It expounds on various benefits brought by China's e-commerce development, such as promoting the economic growth. It also claims that many serious problems existing in the development process, especially the service quality, safety issues and lack of shared standards. At the end of the paper, some strategies are proposed, in order to solve these problems.

Research on the Qualities of Innovative Talents from the Perspective of Agricultural Electronic Commerce

Nowadays, the issue of Internet + Agriculture is very popular. But we should know that, the development of agricultural electronic commerce faces a lot of problems, such as model construction, logistics distribution and talents shortage, etc. So this paper mainly discusses the development status of agricultural e-commerce in China, and the main characteristics of innovative talents. Then on the base of the discussion, we summarize the quality requirements of innovative talents in the agricultural e-commerce area.

A Study of the Status and Strategies of Agricultural Products E-commerce in China

To derive a profound understanding of the dilemma in agricultural E-commerce development in China, we mainly analyzed recent situation and focused on restraints in agricultural products E-commerce of our country by integrating theory with practice. In addition, we will make further step to study the process of the agricultural products E-commence in China.