Data-Privacy Concerns and Its Influence on Consumer Purchasing Intention in Bangladesh and India

Consumer Empowerment and Its Impact on Information Privacy Concerns and Trust: A Theoretical Model

This paper proposes a theoretical model incorporating information privacy concerns and consumers’ options and rights as the two antecedents for trust in an organization. We posit that by providing the users with choice and access to the information collected about them, an organization can help reduce the tensions that arise due to consumer’s information privacy concerns while increasing the tr...

Smart meter data: balancing consumer privacy concerns with legitimate applications

Ethical Consumer Movement: Consumer Ethical Concerns and Behaviors

Background: Consumer ethical behavior has attracted much attention in recent years. However, most empirical research has focused on specific instances of ethical consumer behavior and ignored other ethical behaviors. This means a complete lack of understanding of the lifestyles of ethical consumers. In this article, while referring to the formation of ethical consumption, a full range of ethica...

Concern for Information Privacy and Online Consumer Purchasing

Although electronic commerce experts often cite privacy concerns as barriers to consumer electronic commerce, there is a lack of understanding about how these privacy concerns impact consumers' willingness to conduct transactions online. Therefore, the goal of this study is to extend previous models of e-commerce adoption by specifically assessing the impact that consumers' concerns for informa...

Sales Promotion and Purchasing Intention: Applying the Technology Acceptance Model in Consumer-to-Consumer Marketplaces

This paper studies the impact of sales promotion on consumers’ intention to purchase online in the setting of a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) marketplace. The research is grounded in the theory of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). We test a number of hypotheses empirically about the relationship between online sales promotion, TAM and C2C online purchasing intention. The finding of this study sug...