Abstract

From the perspective of firm’s network, this paper first does a brief literature review on firm’s network resources, network capabilities and the growth of e-commerce platform. Then it uses case study approach to explore the impact of firm’s network capabilities and network resources on the growth of e-commerce platforms cases involving retail, travel and footwear industries. The result of case studies indicates that the network capabilities and the platform’s growth, firm’s network capabilities and network resources , firm’s network resources and the platform’s growth all have clear positive correlations. Then this paper puts forward relevant hypotheses and it will complete empirical research in the future through questionnaires.

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