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Preface — Special Issue: Operational Research Models for E-Commerce Platforms: Business Model Innovation

Bin Shen

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1420-0658

Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai, P. R. China

E-mail Address: binshen@dhu.edu.cn

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Ciwei Dong

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9059-8776

School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China

E-mail Address: dongciwei@zuel.edu.cn

Corresponding author.

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Hau-Ling Chan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2531-3084

Business Division, School of Fashion and Textiles, The Hong Kong, Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China

E-mail Address: hauling.chan@polyu.edu.hk

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This article is part of the issue:

Special Issue — Operational Research Models for E-Commerce Platforms: Business Model Innovation (Part 1)

Abstract

E-commerce platforms are digital marketplaces for selling goods and services online. Operational research (OR) models support business model innovation in e-commerce platforms. This issue covers eight papers that utilize OR models to examine business model innovation in e-commerce platforms. They all introduce new research problems and concepts, develop novel and rigorous OR methodologies to tackle them, and present innovative OR applications according to the real problems in e-commerce platforms. Based on the eight papers’ discussions, we propose future research directions.

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