In the paper, frameworks for electronic shopping of composite (modular) products are described: (a) multicriteria selection (product is considered as a whole system, it is a traditional approach), (b) combinatorial synthesis (composition) of the product from its components, (c) aggregation of the product from several selected products/prototypes. The following product model is examined: (i) gen...

Electronic marketing is a revolution in today’s business world. Most businesses have been forced to adapt to the rapid pace of technological change over the last decade. A new definition of consumer behavior has emerged in an age of digital economy. In a broad sense, electronic marketing is the use of computer technology, or electronicbased activities, to improve marketing performance. It enhan...

Low search costs in Internet markets can be used by consumers to find low prices, but can also be used by retailers to monitor competitors’ prices. This price monitoring can lead to price matching, resulting in dampened price competition and higher prices in some cases. This paper analyzes price data for 316 bestselling, computer, and random book titles gathered from 32 retailers between August...

Hundreds of articles on e-business adoption were published from 2006 to 2010. What are the primary and new messages they convey? Going forward, an answer to this question is necessary and valuable to facilitate systematic advances in e-business adoption research. As a way to bring sense to this complicated landscape, this paper analyzes what has been accomplished. The resultant profile gives, n...

The main hypothesis of the dissertation is that “e-grocery with home delivery can be more efficient than supermarket retailing handling a similar volume of sales”. The e-grocery business should be seen as an assembly industry producing shopping baskets. Only in this way can the new electronic channel work efficiently. The e-grocery business is usually seen as a supermarket copied into an electr...

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...

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...

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...

Electronic shopping will be a large industry within a few years. Both the interactive TV and on-line service providers are rushing to bring this application to the home. Systems that have been built so far have a number of serious flaws that will limit their success. They are designed to support only a few vendors when vigorous competition to produce innovative "virtual" store design is needed....