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Investigating relationship with partners on the Russian e-commerce market
Exploring the relationship with partners is one of the fruitful topics for academic researchers. Although most of our knowledge in this field is based on researches conducted in offline sphere, doing research in online may provide the great source of new data and contribute to reassessment of established models and marketing practices. The Internet audience in Russia is 66.5 million and the Russian market has the largest online audience in Europe. However there is little research concerning relationship with partners on the Russian e-commerce market. That’s why the main objective of this paper is to investigate companies’ interactions with partners on the Russian e-commerce market. To identify main partners on the e-commerce market and forms of interactions between company and its partners, 30 in-depth interviews with representatives of Russian internet businesses were conducted