BACKGROUND In many countries, market orientation in healthcare has resulted in the publication of comparative performance information (CPI). Most of the research in this field is oriented towards the content and the presentation format of CPI while little is known about how consumers value CPI and the use of this information. AIM The aim of this study was to clarify the perceived value that C...

In the absence of an opportunity to physically interact with products in the online environment, online information plays a critical role in enabling e-Commerce consumers’ purchase decisions. Thus, it is critical to understand what leads to consumer satisfaction with online information quality. However, despite the rapidly increasing number of consumers who use websites to gather pre-purchase p...

One of main challenges advertisers face with the Internet is to create their Web sites so as to make visitors want to spend more time there, and to interact with the website and eventually elicit transactions. The assumption is that the more time consumers spend on the Web site, the more advantages, such as remembering the site’s contents (and eventually, company and product information), the c...

Consumers have only partial knowledge before making a purchase decision, but can choose to acquire more-detailed information. A …rm can make it easier or harder for these consumers to obtain such information. We explore consumers’information gathering and the …rm’s integrated strategy for marketing, pricing, and investment in ensuring quality. In particular, we highlight that when consumers are...

BACKGROUND Consumers receive over 27 million antibiotic prescriptions annually in Australian primary healthcare. Hence, consumers are a key group to engage in the fight against antibiotic resistance. There is a paucity of research pertaining to consumers in the Australian healthcare environment. This study aimed to investigate the perspectives, attitudes and behaviours of Australian consumers o...

As the Internet can aggregate and distribute a great amount of information to users, providing numerous products for consumers has been recognized as a major advantage of electronic commerce. Causing by the problem of information overload, however, consumers facing many alternatives on the online shop may feel hard to decide which one they prefer. Based on the theory of decision style and prosp...

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that food and nutrition misinformation can have harmful effects on the health and economic status of consumers. It is the role of nationally credentialed dietetics professionals to advocate for and promote sound, science-based nutrition information to the public, function as primary nutrition educators to health professionals, and actively...

This study aims to provide a better picture of factors affecting personal information disclosure in online shopping. Online survey data from 212 online consumers of five largest Chinese online companies are used to test the proposed model. We conduct structural equation modeling with partial least squares to analyze the measurement and structural models. Our findings show that social influence ...