This study extends our current knowledge in the area of online consumer behaviors by examining how business models could influence consumer’s sales channel preferences. It argues that business models could play an important role in consumer sales channels preference development. When a business offers multiple sales channels (a hybrid model), its customers could compare sales channels either wi...

This paper studies the strategic planning process of an electronic business project. In today’s fast growing demand of electronic transactions, with more people accessing the internet worldwide, online shopping becomes an increasingly profitable but risky business. Selling online becomes a very competitive business and time is a critical factor in launching a web site for business. This paper i...

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) web-sites must be equipped with multimedia presentations for effective marketing of their products. Providing required product-information to a genuine buyer is a complex task in the present day web-based service environments. In this paper, we propose a distributed proxy based electronic shopping model, which is intelligent enough to study the customer behavior...

Electronic check schemes provide more convenient way for clients to buy goods than electronic coin schemes. However, difficulties in making a refund reusable and in representing the face value of a check have discouraged its development. In this paper, a new online electronic check system is presented, which solves the above problems. This system uses the partially blind signature to provide us...

The Dutch flower auctions have play a critical role in the world cut-flower industry by providing efficient centers for price determination and transactions of flowers between buyers and sellers. These auctions owned by by Dutch cut-flower grower cooperatives have traditionally used the "Dutch auction" as the mechanism for price determination. This paper considers how changing patterns of inter...

BACKGROUND Shopping cart-related injuries are an important cause of childhood injury in the United States (US). To date, few studies have investigated the epidemiology and incidence of these injuries. METHODS The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System was utilized to identify shopping cart-related injuries from 2002 to 2006. Injury rates were calculated using the 2006 US population es...

Infomediaries are intermediaries that aggregate information from multiple electronic commerce retailers and provide services of searching and comparison for Internet customers. It provides added values to the traditional one-to-one business-to-customer electronic commerce. Measures that influence the success of Internet commerce has been studied by Torkzadeh and Dhillon (2002) based on the mean...

the growth and the expansion of the internet and the world wide web continue to impact society in new and amazing ways. the role of economic commerce has not been as dynamic as some predicted, but has still demonstrated remarkable success and tremendous potential. any failure to meet some of the expectations may be explained in large part by questions and concerns surrounding existing methods o...

As online shopping growth continues, electronic retailers are recognizing the need to understand risk perceptions of (prospective) customers so as to remove impediments to continued growth. One particularly fruitful area of research concerns the perceptions of online shoppers to product, financial, privacy, time/inconvenience, psychological, and product source risk. Equally important is to unde...