As discussed in the introduction, the existence of traditional Thai shopping environments is being threatened by modern shopping environments, a result of a globalizing economy. If modern shopping environments replace traditional shopping environments, the sense of place in traditional markets, and the relationships between people and their places, will disappear. Thailand, especially Bangkok, ...

Objective A great number of customers spend much more time than expected on shopping because of a lot of reasons like variety in products. Thus, they may feel confused and disappointed. Such confusion can influence purchasing procedure and determine purchasing behavior. Such customers fail to purchase wisely and may face difficulty choosing appropriate and reasonable products. However, if the ...

In two experiments, the impact of shopping context on consumers' risk perceptions and regulatory focus was examined. We predicted that individuals perceive an online (vs. conventional) shopping environment as more risky and that an online shopping environment, by its risky nature, primes a prevention focus. The findings in Study 1 demonstrate these effects by using self-report measures for risk...

This study investigates impulse buying behaviors in both traditional store and online shopping contexts. The results show that impulsive buying tendency and involvement with clothing products is positively associated with impulse buying behavior of clothing in traditional store shopping, but not online. For computer peripherals, on the other hand, higher impulsive buying tendency and higher pro...

the increase of incomes in irans endowents (waqfs) could have an outstanding role in providing a part of public services needed in the society and betterment of income distribution and as a result endowers and benefactors would play a part in meeting greater portion of these services. materializing this objective requires an all-out development of endowment (waqt) services as wall as better ope...

1 Motivation E-commerce became an important economic factor during the last years. Approximately 38.5 million customers in Germany have already bought goods or services online. Furthermore the total revenue in Germany is expected to rise from 46 billion Euro in 2006 to 145 billion in 2010. Increasing mobile web usage and the trading firms' expanding international activities boost this developme...

This study endeavours to understand customer satisfaction in online shopping while investigating the major reasons that motivated customers’ decision-making processes as well as inhibitions of online shopping. The Kotler and Killers (2009) Five Stage Buying Process Model was chosen as the basis of framework of this study to explain customer satisfaction through their motivations to buy products...