Over the past two decades, much research effort has been directed to identifying salient perceptions of innovation characteristics that determine user acceptance of technology, but largely ignored the potential effect of individual adopter differences. According to innovation diffusion theory, some individuals are more likely to adopt an innovation than others because of their differences in in...

1 If we postulate the usual list of forces, cities should fly apart. The theory of production contains nothing that holds a city together. A city is simply a collection of factors of production – capital, people, and land-and land is always far cheaper outside cities than inside. Why don't capital and people move outside combining themselves with cheaper land and thereby increasing profits? Of ...

Every time we buy something online, we are confronted with Terms of Services. However, only a few people actually read these terms, before accepting them, often to their disadvantage. In this paper, we present the SaToS browser plugin which summarises and simplifies Terms of Services from German webshops.

As an important factor that affects customer purchase intention, online review has attracted the attention from both enterprises and researchers. According to persuasion theory, planned behavior theory and regulatory focus theory, combined with the three dimensions of online reviews, we construct a modified model of the influence of online reviews on customer purchase intention, and put forward...

This paper develops a research model of the importance of consumers’ perceived risk and the Internet shopping experience in the online purchasing behavior of Internet users. The model was tested using a survey of some 700 New Zealand Internet users. Both the perceived risk and perceived benefits of Internet shopping were found to be significantly associated with the amount and frequency of onli...

This paper analyzes the individual decision of online shopping, in terms of socioeconomic characteristics, internet related variables and location factors. Since online shopping is only observed for internet users, we use the two-step Heckman’s model to correct sample selection. We argue that one of the relevant variables to explain online shopping, the existence of a home internet connection, ...

This study proposes a model of e-shopping continuance intentions combining the revised technology acceptance model and expectation confirmation theory, measuring student gender differences with regard to continuance online shopping intentions in Saudi Arabia. The results of an online survey (n = 234, 61.5% women, 38.5% men) are used in a structural equation model that confirms fit. Perceived us...

This research aims at improving online shopping. In general, people have a range of motives for shopping. They also have a number of reasons for finding shopping disagreeable, and one of these is sales pressure. We argue that, contrary to normal prejudice, the role of the salesperson is important. If exercised properly, it encourages us to examine our objectives and values when contemplating a ...