Customer behavior and adoption · Empirical Alibaba 1688 platform analysis testing supplier capabilities (including service and logistics capability), B2B performance, customer attention as mediator, and OEM status as moderator; mediation/moderation effects are estimated with regression-based analysis.
Evaluating the drivers of B2B performance: An empirical analysis based on Alibaba
Miao Feng, Haoran Si, Yang Li, Junrui Zhang (2024). Evaluating the drivers of B2B performance: An empirical analysis based on Alibaba. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306919
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Service capability and logistics capability positively affected B2B performance; customer attention mediated these effects, including significant indirect effects for service capability (β=.148) and logistics capability (β=.084), both p<.01.
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Empirical Alibaba 1688 platform analysis testing supplier capabilities (including service and logistics capability), B2B performance, customer attention as mediator, and OEM status as moderator; mediation/moderation effects are estimated with regression-based analysis.
Publicly visible B2B supplier profiles, sales, potential customer attention, and service-performance data from Alibaba 1688, a Chinese platform covering daily-use products and multiple supplier categories.
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Research question
What the authors investigated
What does evaluating the drivers of b2b performance: an empirical analysis based on alibaba show about customer behavior or marketing outcomes?
Design
Empirical Alibaba 1688 platform analysis testing supplier capabilities (including service and logistics capability), B2B performance, customer attention as mediator, and OEM status as moderator; mediation/moderation effects are estimated with regression-based analysis.
Sample and setting
Publicly visible B2B supplier profiles, sales, potential customer attention, and service-performance data from Alibaba 1688, a Chinese platform covering daily-use products and multiple supplier categories.
Reported result
What the study found
Service capability and logistics capability positively affected B2B performance; customer attention mediated these effects, including significant indirect effects for service capability (β=.148) and logistics capability (β=.084), both p<.01.
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