Neutral Versus Biased Marketplaces: A Comparison of Electronic B2B Marketplaces with Different Ownership Structures

Byungjoon Yoo, Vidyanand Choudhary, Tridas Mukhopadhyay
2001 International Conference on Information Systems  
Despite the tough environment dot-com firms are facing, electronic business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces are becoming an important and growing part of electronic commerce. An important question in the context of electronic B2B marketplaces concerns the ownership structure of B2B marketplaces. At the advent of electronic B2B marketplaces, "neutral marketplaces," independent of buyers and suppliers, were commonplace. Later, incumbent companies (suppliers or buyers) came together to create "biased marketplaces.
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