There is a tremendous growth of online group-buying (OGB) in recent years. Under the intensive market competition, customer’s revisit behavior is essential for OGB websites to survive. Drawing upon the shopping value perspective, this paper identifies the unique features of OGB and investigates the impacts of these features on customer shopping value and revisit behaviors. A theoretical model w...

Dutch municipalities have the right to decide on Sunday shop opening hours since 1996. Despite positive effects on economic growth and employment, many municipalities restrict Sunday trading in one way or another. Based on 2003 data we show that especially religious and political affiliation, regional differences and the size of the municipalities explain the variation between municipalities. T...

Prices for similar products often differ between retail outlets, leading consumers to actively search for products that meet their needs at the lowest possible price. Prices differ among retailers, and search intensity differs among consumers because search is a costly activity and consumers differ in their costs of search. How variety and the multiproduct nature of retailing affect search cost...

A new Core Broking Model (CBM) has been introduced to e-markets, involving joint-selling of multiple goods and offering volume discount for group-buying coalitions. It is a core-based model, maintaining the stability of coalitions and using physical brokers to resolve group-trading problems in e-markets. A survey has been made on the present commission of brokers and the current fees systems of...

In the past, a retailer usually chose only one market mechanism, either a posted price or an auction, for a product. However, currently some web stores sell a product at a posted price and simultaneously run auctions for the identical product. This new phenomenon has not been studied fully yet. We study a new selling mechanism, Dual Mechanism, where an online retailer combines two famous conven...

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This study examines how the initially perceived product value affects a consumer’s purchase intention after he/she reads various tones of online reviews. It proposes that the associations among the initially perceived product value, the level of confirmation made by reading reviews and final purchase intention would differ across review tones that; 1) when the tone is extreme, the impact of con...

Retail organisations are making investments into information technologies (IT) to integrate their physical and online retail channels in order to meet the demands of multichannel consumers. Redesigning the organisation into an IT-enabled hybrid organisational structure is a complex process that involves decisions to either integrate or differentiate numerous organisational activities. Drawing o...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of Product Associated Displays – PADs – as a way of providing visual feedback to users interacting with physical objects in an instrumented environment. PADs are projected public displays created at locations that can be intuitively associated with the objects they show information about. The concept is illustrated in a shopping scenario.