Electronic commerce researchers have retention of Consumers post-adoption continuance behavior attendees induce deep trust and service quality of online shopping behavior, thereby contributing to higher revenue and marketing strategy based on social exchange theory. This study provides additional information about the path from the service quality and trust to continuous usage. Also, this study...

Based on 2.91 million user sessions, this study analyzes the effect of user-generated social-shopping features on micro-conversions. In the authors’ specific case of a social shopping community (SSC), the authors define a micro-conversion as a visit to a product-detail page. These visits are a requisite for visits to participating online-shops (click-out) for which the operator of a SSC receive...

To protect online consumers, as OECD Guidelines recommend, Internet shopping malls should provide information about their business on their webpages. In Korea, The Consumer Protection Law in Electronic Commerce, forced Internet shopping malls to provide their business information, so that consumers could easily identify them. Since most Korean Internet shopping malls provide consumers with busi...

Measuring the quality of mobile shopping (m-shopping) system provides retailers with a greater understanding of what improvements need to be made along the way to increase purchase intention and organizational performance. M-shopping is an alternative sales channel available to optimize marketing investments as it can be tailored to customer’s purchase intention and ultimately to drive sales. T...

This study investigates the effect of the 2004 US shopping cart safety standard on shopping-cart-related injuries among children younger than 15 years of age by retrospectively analyzing data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. An estimated 530 494 children younger than 15 years were treated in US emergency departments for shopping-cart-related injuries from 1990 to 2011, a...

Research on online shopping has taken three broad and divergent approaches viz, human-computer interaction, behavioral, and consumerist approaches to examine online consumer behavior. Assimilating these three approaches, this study proposes an integrated model of online shopping behavior, with four major antecedents influencing online purchase intent: Web site quality, customer concerns in onli...

Internet shopping mall has the dual nature of Web-based application system and traditional shopping mall. This paper explores online and offline features of Internet shopping malls and their relationships with the acceptance behaviors of customers. The results from a Web survey of 932 users show that the technology acceptance model (TAM) is valid in predicting the acceptance of the Internet sho...

The foramen tympanicum is an anatomical variation that is created in the tympanic plate of temporal bone during the first year of life. The tympanic plate grows and foramen tympanicum is gradually closed by about the fifth postnatal year. However, due to a defect in normal ossification, foramen tympanicum sporadically remains throughout life. The construction of a shopping center in Tabriz, nor...

According to a review by Campbell and Roland,1 a patient’s decision to consult a doctor is dependent on a multitude of physical, psychological and social reasons, with or without prior self-care. The patient’s journey of seeking medical care is influenced by socio-economic and demographic status, perception of susceptibility and severity, benefits/costs of seeking the interaction, as well as th...