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Collaborative Shopping with the Crowd

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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (CDVE 2015)

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The ubiquity of information and communication technologies (ICT) stimulate collaborative shopping and bring together customers with similar interests around the world to perform cooperative and collective online shopping. As a result, various models of collaborative online group buying are emerging. This paper analyses the phases of interaction during the shopping processes and provides a systematic categorization of the online group buying based on the top-down/bottom-up crowd-shopping models. In addition, this paper discusses recent developments and challenges of group buying in order to contribute to future research directions within the field of collaborative online group buying.

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  1. Department of eBusiness, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Mladenow & Christine Strauss

  2. Department of Information Systems and Operations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Christine Bauer

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Mladenow, A., Bauer, C., Strauss, C. (2015). Collaborative Shopping with the Crowd. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9320. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24132-6_19

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