The Web has provided an excellent platform for business to consumer (B2C) electronic commerce. B2C electronic commerce offers convenience, choice, lower cost and customization to consumers. The electronic shopping platform allows consumers to make intelligent comparison and purchasing decision on consumer products. In addition to comparing product specifications as described on electronic catal...

Lower searching cost and access to large amounts of information on the Internet are making a consumer’s search more iterative. Through a synthesis of literature from consumer behaviour and information science, we propose a process model of online consumer search in which a consumer may move forward in the process towards a final product selection, but also is likely to backtrack to an earlier s...

This paper specifies and estimates a dynamic model of consumer preferences for new durable goods with persistent heterogeneous consumer tastes, rational expectations about future products and repeat purchases over time. Most new consumer durable goods, particularly consumer electronics, are characterized by relatively high initial prices followed by rapid declines in prices and improvements in ...

this paper represents a theoretical model from which the supply function for a durable goods is derived. it turns out that consumer at the equilibrium condition equates its user cost with the marginal value of services received by using an additional unit of durable goods. the stock price is obtained from this condition. in addition, at the equilbrium condition for producer, the stock price is ...

Industrial production practices are constantly being altered through a dynamic and complex process of technology innovation and consumer adoption. Analytical approaches that have explored the potential and cost of reducing energy throughput in the economy (and associated greenhouse gas emissions), have typically treated these dynamics both simplistically and inadequately. This has taken the for...

this study aims to examine the content of isps' websites in two countries, iran and malaysia. the sample contained 31 iranian and 19 malaysian websites. each website was content analyzed for use of various interactivity functions in three dimensions of consumer – message, consumer – marketer and consumer – consumer interactivity. our findings indicate that iranian websites tend to emphasiz...

With the development of restructured power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benef...

Title of Document: THE EFFECT OF LIFE-CYCLE COST DISCLOSURE ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Matthias Deutsch, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Directed By: Professor Matthias Ruth, School of Public Policy For more than 20 years, analysts have reported on the so-called “energy paradox” or the “energy efficiency gap”, referring to the fact that economic agents could in principle lower their total cost at current ...

With the development of restructured power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benef...