E-commerce Platform in the Global South – Concepts, Trends, and Cases
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Weiyi Tian
Available Online 27 December 2022.
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_36How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- E-commerce; Emerging markets; Platform
- Abstract
The e-commerce industry is expanding quickly worldwide, with the fastest growth seen in Global South countries. This paper reviews recent development of e-commerce platforms in emerging markets: the paper first defines e-commerce platforms broadly and summarizes its various characteristics; then, it identifies the unique opportunities and challenges faced by e-commerce platforms in Global South countries and major trends in selected countries; lastly, the paper briefly discusses two specific examples of e-commerce companies in the Global South and their business model formation processes in relation to Amazon.
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TY - CONF AU - Weiyi Tian PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/27 TI - E-commerce Platform in the Global South – Concepts, Trends, and Cases BT - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 300 EP - 309 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_36 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_36 ID - Tian2022 ER -