social commerce

Social networks feed the food supplements shadow market

Purpose: The paper investigates the role of social networks in the millennials’ decision-making process of illegal and unnotified food supplements purchase. The connections and interactions that (co) produce information are studied with a holistic perspective of social sustainability as a development driver of business model innovation. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory qualitative multiple analysis study was conducted in two consecutive phases.

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