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Online group-buying: business models, literature review and directions for future research

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Online group-buying: business models, literature review and directions for future research. / Liu, Yi; Sutanto, Juliana.
In: ACM SIGMIS Database, Vol. 46, No. 1, 02.2014, p. 39-59.

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Liu Y, Sutanto J. Online group-buying: business models, literature review and directions for future research. ACM SIGMIS Database. 2014 Feb;46(1):39-59. doi: 10.1145/2747544.2747548

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