We report the development and validation of a scale to measure online shopping addiction. Inspired by previous theories and research on behavioral addiction, the Griffiths's widely accepted six-factor component model was referred to and an 18-item scale was constructed, with each component measured by three items. The results of exploratory factor analysis, based on Sample 1 (999 college studen...

To many consumers, online shopping has become one major way to shop, so e-commerce and other related industries has enjoyed fast growth in recent years. Online retailers interact with their customers via Web-based or so-called virtual storefronts. Inevitably, various unpleasant shopping experience keep emerging along with increasing adoption of shopping via virtual storefronts. A successful onl...

A large number of studies investigating business-to-consumer e-commerce have focused exclusively on online shopping by individuals, although consumers often desire to conduct their shopping activities with others. This study has therefore attempted to study collaborative online shopping by looking at two types of presence that are of particular relevance to this context, namely, telepresence an...

Online shopping value involving perceived utilitarian value and perceived hedonic value affect consumer behaviour intention. Studies on the effects of Web site characteristics on online group buying behavior through online shopping value are scant. Thus, this study investigates the effects of information richness and navigation of GROUPON Taiwan Web site characteristics on online group buying i...

Product reviews posted at online shopping sites vary greatly in quality. This paper addresses the problem of detecting lowquality product reviews. Three types of biases in the existing evaluation standard of product reviews are discovered. To assess the quality of product reviews, a set of specifications for judging the quality of reviews is first defined. A classificationbased approach is prop...

advantages and limitations compared with those of traditional shopping, the characteristics of e-shoppers, and the factors affecting the adoption and usage of e-shopping. Since the late 1990s, a growing number of empirical studies have addressed these questions. For example, Chang et al. (5) classified the determinants of e-shopping behavior into three categories: perceived characteristics of t...