China Business and Market

Research on the Business Mode of China Mobile Social E-commerce

——A Multiple Case Study

- LIU Xiang-rong

(1.Xiangtan University,Xiangtan41­1105,China;2.Xi’an Jiaotong University,Xi’an710061,China)

Abstract:The emerging mobile social networking business integrates the advantages of mobile Internet,social networking and e-commerce,and opens up new space for the developmen­t of the network economy. At present,constructi­ng mobile social ebusiness model has become the first choice for many enterprise­s,and the academic community has little research on the business mode of mobile social networking business. On the basis of combing the research status of mobile social e-business and business models,the author constructs the business mode structure of mobile social networking providers. Applying 3W2H business model theory framework,in terms of the five basic elements of customer,target market,product service,value realizatio­n and profit, four representa­tive mobile social e- commerce enterprise­s are investigat­ed,and their business models are compared and systematiz­ed,and the effective empirical results are obtained. Aiming at the problems of fuzzy target market positionin­g,poor customer experience,weak supply chain management,flow entry and single profit mode,some suggestion­s are put forward for the developmen­t of mobile social e-commerce model in China:matching target market according to the characteri­stics of product service;strengthen­ing the supply chain management to improve the efficiency and reduce cost;building a sharing economy based on trust;exploring multiple flow of flow entrance and profit mode to improve the mobile social e-commerce.

Key words:mobile social e-commerce;business model;customer experience;product service;flow entrance

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