The aim of this paper is to empirically explore the perception of a group of United Arab Emirates (UAE) web users towards e-commerce transactions, study their willingness to trade online, and isolate factors that drive these users towards purchase decisions. The study finds that web users largely use functional characteristics to assess the effectiveness of e-commerce websites, and are driven t...

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Online retailing (a model of B2C e-commerce) is growing worldwide, with companies in many countries showing increased sales and productivity as a result. It has great potential within the global economy. This paper looks at the current status of online retailing in Saudi Arabia, with particular focus on what inhibits or enables both the customers and retailers. It also analyses the status of Go...

Online perceived risk is an important issue in e-commerce. As China has a large Internet shopper population and online consumer spending continues to increase, better understanding Chinese online shoppers’ perceived risk and risk reduction strategies becomes particularly relevant. However, research in the Chinese context is limited. Given this reality, the purpose of this study is to (1) identi...

The Internet has engendered a new type of commerce, commonly referred to as electronic commerce, or eCommerce. But despite the phenomenal growth of eCommerce, the vast majority of transactions still take place within the realm of traditional, physical commerce. Pocket BargainFinder is a handheld device that seeks to bridge the gap between electronic and traditional commerce. It represents one o...

Despite the proliferation of e-commerce adoption by SMEs and the world-wide growth of e-commerce, in general there is a paucity of empirical studies that examine the adoption of e-commerce by SMEs in the Middle East. In this paper, the authors provide insights into the salient e-commerce adoption issues by focusing on Saudi Arabian SMEs. This research was designed using a qualitative approach t...

Electronic shopping is a rapidly expanding market and can reap beneets from the employment of user modeling techniques in order to personalize the shopping procedure for each customer. In this paper we present a methodology for user modeling that uses attribute grammars to extract a user representation from the navigation steps and actions the user takes inside the electronic shop. This method ...

Electronic markets have successfully adopted third party trust seals as a self-regulatory mechanism to enhance consumer trust. While there exist many papers supporting the effectiveness of trust signals, interaction between trusts seals and contextual factors in e-commerce (e.g., value of shopping carts, number of trust seals displayed, shopper experience and retailer’s sales volume) is an unde...

Marketing activities can be represented by a sequence of certain steps in the market that manufacturer must take on way to consumer. The implementation these has undergone radical changes due advent Internet and e-commerce. e-commerce world Ukraine particular is actively developing growing. business began move online today shopping become very common. With development e-commerce, retail signifi...

With the development of new media technology, some changes have been brought to traditional shopping. In this environment, live streaming e-commerce has loved by online consumers. We adopted theory planned behavior (TPB), perceived interactivity and utilitarian value as theoretical basis for research. part data collection, we surveyed 600 Chinese consumers, results showed that attitude, subject...