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Qbnb: An innovative C2B2C2B2C e-commerce mode for integrated on-demand services

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  • Yaoyao Wei
  • Cuiyin yao
  • Wei-fan Chen
  • Tian Xie
  • Jinzhao Yang

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The traditional supply-side-driven e-commerce modes provide consumers with massive amounts of structured information about goods and services. Due to the lack of a tailor-made ability to describe, explain, and accurately understand unstructured service demands, existing technologies and service modes still struggle to fully explore, articulate, and meet the personalized, high-quality, and urgent service demands of the disadvantaged groups in e-commerce. This paper innovatively proposes the concept of "integrated services on demand" and develops its C2B2C2B2C-based "Qbnb" e-commerce mode, operation mechanism and intermediary platform architecture. After conducting exploratory operation training, it demonstrates that the Qbnb mode can effectively achieve centralized allocation of idle social surplus service capacity to cater to the needs of disadvantaged groups in e-commerce. Compared to the traditional e-commerce service mode, Qbnb will significantly expand service demand and capacity, achieve higher service efficiency, and create a broader service consumption market, resulting in many more job opportunities.

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  • Yaoyao Wei & Cuiyin yao & Wei-fan Chen & Tian Xie & Jinzhao Yang, 2024. "Qbnb: An innovative C2B2C2B2C e-commerce mode for integrated on-demand services," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(3), pages 1-29, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0297593
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297593
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