Price comparison sites (shopbots) are supposed to create price transparent markets. Nevertheless, online prices are still very dispersed, making the question when and how customers are influenced by price transparency the key for understanding electronic channels. This study is the first empirical investigation of this question using transaction data from the largest online retailer Amazon and ...

Online shopping is no doubt the future trend. Online shopping on sectors such as fashion and accessories, electronic/electrical goods and books are growing in Malaysia. Many researches claimed that online shopping is still at the early stage of development in Malaysia and the potential for growth is inevitable. However, little is known about the acceptance of online shopping on localized produc...

This study investigates the impact of the customer reviews and the incentives on the product sales at the online retail store. Two customer review factors (i.e. average review ratings and the number of reviews) and two customer incentives factors (i.e. price discounts and special shipping offers) are used for the regression analysis. With the sales ranking data collected from the video game tit...

There is a disagreement among researchers in regard to academic dishonesty in online as compared to traditional learning settings. Based on this, the aim of the current study was to investigate the connection between academic dishonesty in the virtual versus face-to face teaching/learning settings in relation to students' learning motivation, while examining the phenomenon from a cross-cultural...

This study explored online personal ads of 294 heterosexual and homosexual men and women in the United States through a qualitative analysis and comparison of participant-generated ‘‘personal” and ‘‘preferred partner” narratives. Nine characteristics were identified and combined into three overarching categories: physical, lifestyle, and personality characteristics. These three personal and pre...

This chapter provides the background context for the problem, the setting, and the issues related to shopping environments, all of which establish the background for this dissertation. From the previously stated problem, globalization has influenced the appearance of new shopping developments and poses a threat to the viability of traditional shopping environments. The problem affects local eco...

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With more internet giants develop online shopping platform, the credit of platform has become the key point of competitive advantages. The sellers are the supplier of credit, while the platform is the supervisor of credit. Game model is built to study the factors affect the seller’s credit supply and the platform’s supervision intensity. We draw suggestions about how to optimize the credit supp...