Author(s)

Yuqing Wu ¹, Xiao Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Management, Qingdao City University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Corresponding Author

Yuqing Wu

ABSTRACT

Hong Kong (China) government has introduced lots of policies to support the growth of cross-border e-commerce in these years. Cross-border e-commerce promotes the efficient use of multilateral resources and generate multiple advantages which contribute to the growth of Hong Kong (China) economy. However, the effect of cross-border e-commerce growth on the local retailing industries remains under-explored. To address this gap, this paper studies the impact of cross-border e-commerce on local retailing industries in Hong Kong (China), especially on store-based retailing. In addition, this paper also investigates the impact of covid-19 pandemic on the retailing market. Firstly, our result shows that the cross-border e-commerce has a negative effect on total retailing, however, it hasn't actually turned into a barrier to the growth of the entire retailing industry. Additionally, cross-border e-commerce has brought benefits during the covid-19 pandemic, which helped cushion the blow to the total retailing market. Secondly our study reveals that the cross-border e-commerce negatively affected the store-based retailing, but some subcategories such as Grocery retailers were not negatively influenced due to uniqueness of grocery products. 

KEYWORDS

Cross-border e-commerce, Store-based retailing, Covid-19, Hong Kong (China)

CITE THIS PAPER

Yuqing Wu, Xiao Wang, The Effect of Cross-Border E-Commerce on Hong Kong (China)'s Retailing Market. Information Systems and Economics (2025) Vol. 6: 21-28. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/infse.2025.060104.

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