An explorative study of industry influences: on vertical e-marketplaces’ adoption of e-procurement auction

Abstract

Vertical electronic marketplace (EM) is a new inter-organizational intermediary within a single industry that enables participating buyers and sellers to exchange information about price and product offerings and to cooperate on commodity exchange. Prior research on EM design has given a heavy weight on auction mechanism design. However, the feasibility of e-procurement auction to auction providers has long been ignored in academic. With an analysis on 157 vertical EMs from six different industries, this paper empirically demonstrates that industry contingencies exist in vertical EMs' adoption of e-procurement auction service.