Smart Business: Technology and Data Enabled Innovative Business Models and Practices [electronic resource] : 18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, Munich, Germany, December 14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers /

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.

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.