Smart Business: Technology and Data Enabled Innovative Business Models and Practices

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, which took place in Munich, Germany, in December 2019.

The purpose of WeB is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss findings, novel ideas, and lessons learned to address major challenges and map out the future directions for e-Business. The WeB 2019 theme was Smart Business: Technology and Data Enabled Innovative Business Models and Practices.

The 20 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 42 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections as follows: crowdfunding and blockchain; business analytics; digital platforms and social media; managing e-Business projects and processes; and global e-Business.

Inhalt
Crowdfunding and Blockchain.- How Social Networks Dynamics can affect Collaborative Decision Making on Crowdfunding Platforms.- Go in The Opposite Direction? The Impact of Unavailability on Crowdfunding Success.- The Challenges and Countermeasures of Blockchain Applications to Finance and Intellectual Property Management.- The Impact of Blockchain on Medical Tourism Medical.- Business Analytics.- Creating a Data Factory for Data Products - Practice Oriented Research.- An Empirical Investigation of Analytics Capabilities in the Supply Chain.- Finding Real-life Doppelgangers on Campus with MTCNN and CNN-based Face Recognition.- Time Series Analysis of Open Source Projects Popularity.