Price is a major motive that engages consumers in shopping websites, and although price tolerance has gained increasing attention for its importance on pricing strategy, related literature on e-commerce lacks a conceptual model probing into factors that influence customers’ price tolerance. This paper proposes an integrated conceptual model, and empirically tests the model using data collected ...

This paper aims to examine the influences on the consumers to choose the online shopping channels, or to avoid using them, when alternative channels are available. This is an exploratory research conducted in the UK using a quantitative approach in collecting data. The primary data of this research have been collected through the use of questionnaires that have been completed by 106 internet us...

The Internet has impacted how we shop. This dissertation focuses on opening the black box of consumer experience in online retailing environments. In order to do so, a microscopic approach is used to detail the processes and internal states of a customer when interacting with a commercial web site. Based on previous research from related fields, a new concept of Shopping Experience is proposed ...

Online social shopping community has substantially changed the way organizations, communities, and individuals communicate. The advance of online social shopping communities facilitates individuals to share and exchange consumption related information. In this study, we attempt to address the question of why individuals intend to share information in social shopping communities. Despite the gro...

With the rapid development of science and technology, people’s acceptance of online shopping is increasing. As an important part of online shopping, small and medium-sized cosmetics enterprises have the characteristics of small investment scale and flexible adjustment of brand strategy, but previous research lack sustained and effective methods and tools to analysis brand impact. The paper take...

Purpose – The last ten years have seen a gradual withdrawal of retail facilities from many local areas and the consequent growth of ‘shopping deserts’, resulting in social and health disbenefits. This paper examines the potential for e-shopping to fill the vacuum and to assist disadvantaged shoppers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses prior published research to comment on the extent ...

Many previous studies assessed the adoption of mobile shopping by employing technology adoption models such as Technology Adoption Model (TAM), Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). However, there has been a lack of effort in re-assessing the usage of these models for investigating mobile shopping adoption through the aspect of the advanta...

Online shopping is getting popular even in the rural areas of developing countries. However, few research has been conducted to identify the factors associated to online shopping by the poor villagers. Whereas people living at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) has an aggregate purchase power which is a huge market and online shopping has the potentiality in reducing BoP penalty by removi...

The aim of this research is to consider the possible effect of an emerging technology platform on the uptake of online shopping: interactive (digital) Television (iTV), which enables viewers to select a variety of viewing options, publicity materials, games, entertainment and more recently shopping. An augmented version of the original TAM is applied to this study. Two new constructs are consid...

The aim of this research is to consider the possible effect of an emerging technology platform on the uptake of online shopping: interactive (digital) Television (iTV), which enables viewers to select a variety of viewing options, publicity materials, games, entertainment and more recently shopping. An augmented version of the original TAM is applied to this study. Two new constructs are consid...