Research on social e-commerce reputation formation and state-introduced model
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to solve the problem of information overload and reduce search costs. It proposes a social e-commerce online reputation formation model and community state-introduced model. A system dynamics trend simulation has been run to capture the relationship among the sellers, buyers, social e-commerce platforms and external environment to obtain an online reputation.
Design/methodology/approach
Empirical research relating to social e-commerce reputation has been used to confirm the influencing factors in social e-commerce, and a conceptual framework is developed for social e-commerce reputation formation. Thereafter, a trend simulation is generated to classify the relationship among the factors based on system dynamics. Also, the improved algorithm for community detection and a state-introduced model based on a Markov network are proposed to achieve better network partition for better online reputation management.
Findings
The empirical model captures the interaction effect of social e-commerce reputation and the state-introduced model to guide community public opinion and improve the efficiency of social e-commerce reputation formation. This helps minimize searching cost thereby improving social e-commerce reputation construction and management.
Research limitations/implications
There is no appropriate online reputation system to be constructed to test the relationship proposed in the study for a field experiment. Also, deeper investigation for the nodes’ attributes in social networks should be made in future research. Besides, researchers are advised to explore measurement for the reputation of a given seller by using social media data as from Twitter or micro blogs.
Originality/value
Investigations that study online reputation in the social e-commerce are limited. The empirical research figured out the factors which can influence the formation of online reputation in social e-commerce. An SD model was proposed to explain the factors interaction and trend simulation was run. Also, a state-introduced model was proposed to highlight the effect of nodes’ attributes on communities’ detection to give a deeper investigation for the online reputation management.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Funds of China (No. 71401109) and Shenyang science and technology project (No. 170683).
Citation
Wei, C., Yu, Z.-J. and Chen, X.-N. (2017), "Research on social e-commerce reputation formation and state-introduced model", Kybernetes, Vol. 46 No. 06, pp. 1021-1038. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-08-2016-0203
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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