Since the late 1990s, online shopping has taken off as an increasing number of consumers purchase increasingly diversified products on the Internet. Given that how to attract and retain consumers is critical to the success of online retailers, research on the antecedents of consumer acceptance of online shopping has attracted widespread attention. There has yet to be a holistic view of online s...

Mobile phones are becoming, if not already, an integral part of our lives. They have a wide range of applications, such as communication, gaming and commerce. Shopping in particular is a rapidly growing domain. Today, shoppers use their phones to make more informed shopping decisions by researching products and merchants, save money using price comparison, mobile coupons and daily deal apps, ev...

The positive effects of social popularity (i.e., information based on other consumers’ behaviors) and deal scarcity (i.e., information provided by product vendors) on consumers’ consumption behaviors are well recognized. However, few studies have investigated their potential joint and interaction effects and how such effects may differ at different timing of a shopping process. This study exami...

Few studies in the literature on electronic commerce provide empirical investigation of consumer behavior in the international online shopping context. This study identifies and discusses factors that influence international online purchases and profile the characteristics of those who purchase and those who do not purchase from online stores overseas in three main categories: the online shoppi...

Research has shown that grocery shopping is the most stressful form of shopping and it is an activity that most individuals perform on a regular basis. Grocery shopping via the Internet has the potential to reduce a number stressors associated with grocery shopping. This research confirms that shopping over the Internet reduces these stressors but creates a new list of potential stressors for c...

Abstract An increasing number of global consumers use their smartphones to shop for goods. This short paper aims explore if a price-conscious decision-making style has relationship with young adult consumers’ tendency perform mobile shopping in retail stores. The study is conducted as survey sample that includes two different nationalities. results suggest interesting positive relationships bet...

since the energy consumption has become one of the crisis of modern buildings, modeling the iranian past architecture patterns could be helpful. the shopping streets as one of the main sectors consuming energy locate near the open spaces it seems, therefore, they need more thermal comfort. however, using passive techniques, the iranian traditional bazaars architecture solved the problems regard...

In an attempt to gain a better position in haggling, consumers often seek a seller's pricing information (e.g., whether the posted price is negotiable, the discount and transaction prices) before going to that seller. Although traditionally difficult to obtain, such information is becoming increasingly available due to consumer price posting (CPP), whereby consumers post and share their purchas...

With the improvement of telecommunication and wireless Internet-access technologies, smart mobile terminals have been extensively applied for mobile shopping. In this paper, PPM Model is taken as a theoretical framework and an empirical research method is employed to determine the antecedents influencing consumers’ decisions on migrating from PC-based shopping to mobile shopping. We found that ...