How do manufacturing enterprises construct e-commerce platforms for sustainable development? A case study of resource orchestration
Faculty Advisor
Date
2020
Keywords
e-commerce platform, resource orchestration, sustainable development, construction mechanism
Abstract (summary)
The existing literatures mainly focus on the pricing, strategic significance and sustainable development characteristics of the e-commerce platform, and lack deep research on mechanisms in the process of construction like main structure of recourses and driving force. This paper takes Haier as a Chinese example and explores how manufacturing enterprises create and develop the sustainable e-commerce platform. The research findings show that: (1) An e-commerce platform respectively carries the functions of sales channels, service differences and innovation incubation in different stages of the manufacturing enterprises’ sustainable development; (2) For managing e-commerce platform of manufacturing enterprises’ sustainable development, resource orchestration can effectively realize the integration of value creation and resource; (3) Finally, it further reveals that the driving power which resource orchestration continuously promotes for the sustainable e-commerce platforms to construct is from the co-creation value of manufacturers and users. This paper discusses the structure of e-commerce platforms based on the main characteristics of each resource, and systematically explores the mechanism and evolutionary driving force of resource orchestration to promote the construction of e-commerce platforms for the sustainable development. It complements and enriches the innovation ecosystem and resource orchestration theory, providing significant practical guidance to the sustainable development of manufacturing enterprises.
Publication Information
Hu, J.' Ouyang, T., Wei, W.X., Cai, J. (2020). How do manufacturing enterprises construct e-commerce platforms for sustainable development? A case study of resource orchestration. Sustainability, 12(16), 6640. DOI: 10.3390/su12166640
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Item Type
Article
Language
English
Rights
Attribution (CC BY)
