| 英文摘要 |
Social group buying has become a new business model. This study explores the hybrid business model driven by social group buying from the perspective of social influence and presents the following contributions. First, it explores the shaping process of hybrid business models from the perspective of community management. Compared to past studies that explored the hybrid process and benefits from the perspective of organizational activities or resource flows, this paper proposes a new discourse on hybrid business models from the perspective of community management. Taking the theoretical lens of convergence in social influence, this study proposes that value creation, value communication, and value capture in community group buying business models must be examined through social identification, social compliance, and social internalization. In addition, this paper explores how community group buying can form a hybrid business model with physical retail from the perspective of business model convergence, leading to the convergence on value creation, value communication, and value capture. In terms of practical contributions, this paper proposes the practices of community aggregation, community interaction, multi-channel connection, and hybrid business model formation to serve as a reference for companies operating social group buying as hybrid business models. |