Web Data

We identify emerging research questions on digital platform design and regulation and compare strategies for acquiring and using platform data.

Why has web scraping in retailing research not picked up? We explore reasons, devise a new research agenda, explain how to use GenAI for scraping, plus provide a platform for learning how to use web scraping and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

This article develops a methodological framework that guides researchers in collecting data using web scraping and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).