E-commerce's future is in creating 'swift guanxi,' or personal and social rapport

Despite the reputation of online marketplaces being distant and impersonal, through social technologies such as instant messaging, they can create the sense of personal and social relationships between buyers and sellers, termed "swift guanxi" in China, to facilitate loyalty, interactivity and repeat transactions, according to new research by Temple University Fox School of Business Professor Paul A. Pavlou.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/tu-...