2003, Larry Harris,Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners,→ISBN:
The sell side exists only because thebuy side trades before we can understand when the sell side is profitable.
2009, Richard Goldberg,The Battle for Wall Street,→ISBN:
Like their buy-side counterparts, the sell side will welcome entrepreneurs with open arms for no other reason than to regain the home court advantage: to reconnect to thebuy side.
I stand by the door, playing the role of greeter, accumulating lipstick impressions on my cheeks and, occasionally, a small gift -- a perk of thebuy side.
(e-commerce) A model ofe-commerce in which an institution uses a softwareapplication to electronically streamline the purchasing process.
2001, Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Robert J. Bignall,Internet Commerce and Software Agents,→ISBN, page116:
It provides a discussion of various e-commerce business models from differing persepectives and presents a taxonomy based on criteria such as sell side versusbuy side, system orientation, penetration level, and organizational structure.
2008, J. Botha, C. H. Bothma, Pieter Geldenhuys,Managing E-commerce in Business,→ISBN, page414:
Thebuy side model has one company buying products and services from many sellers.
2014, Zheng Qin, Yang Chang, Shundong Li,E-Commerce Strategy,→ISBN, page224:
On thebuy side, e-commerce strategy aimed at carrying out the whole negotiation process on the web and performing transactions electronically with GE's suppliers.