Topics. The special issue welcomes all types of research perspectives and methodologies, such as design science, behavioral science, behavioral economics, and management and strategy, as well as theory, analytical modeling, empirical methods, and interdisciplinary approaches. Relevant topics include:
Trust and diffusion in social commerce contexts
User modeling and personalization in social commerce
Consumer behavior in social commerce
Culture issues involved in social commerce and social shopping
Social media collaboration, and user-generated content for social commerce
Drivers of accessibility in social commerce networks
Technological developments and platforms for social commerce
Applications that enhance the social commerce experience
Social recommender systems, and the role of social media in e-marketing
Data mining and living analytics in social media social for business and consumer insights
Privacy, security and fraud detection in social commerce
Social business strategy, adoption and diffusion issues, growth and barriers to success
Prospective and retrospective assessment of the business value of social commerce systems
Digital couponing, group-buying and business models of social commerce
Gamification, behavioral economics approaches, and location-based social commerce
