Institutional Logics Shaping the Behavior of Actors in C2C Handmade Market
Institutional Logics Shaping the Behavior of Actors in C2C Handmade Market
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10.23919/picmet53225.2022.9882568
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2022-08
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Sayaka Tokita
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Sayaka Tokita
In recent years, with the development of ICT, the customer-to-consumer transaction market (C2C market), in which individual consumers sell their own creations to other consumers, has expanded. The emergence of an online platform that mediates transactions between consumers has given them personal trading opportunities. This paper focus on this C2C market. The goal of this paper is to clarify the institutional logic that exists in the C2C market and shapes the behavior of actors. Interviews with people who are actors in C2C market, reveal the existence of four institutional logics: hobby logic, communication logic, commercial logic, anti-profit logic. In particular, the anti-profit logic expresses the seller’s aversion to making money from their creations. This institutional logic looks like a mismatch as the institutional logic that exists in the trading market for economic profit. In the way, some of these institutional logics in C2C market are formed by human emotional factors, unlike the rational rules that exist in Business-to-customer(B2C) market. Since both the seller and the buyer in the transaction are human individuals, the institutional logic of the C2C market they form is very complex.