Online apparel shopping behaviour of South African professional women: the role of consumers' apparel shopping scripts

Towards a Next Generation Universally Accessible 'Online Shopping-for-Apparel' System

This paper reports initial research findings from on-going longitudinal participatory design studies within a national (Danish) funded project to realize a gesture-controlled ‘Online shopping-for-apparel’ system – A Virtual Dressing Room (VDR). A product that reduces customer purchase returns, reportedly up to 40%, which is a huge burden to the clothing industries as shopping percentile of sale...

A Typology Of Online Window Shopping Consumers

Consumer online shopping behaviors are well attended in the IS and marketing literature. Yet, there is another group of individuals who spend a lot of time online but do not purchase anything. This online window shopping phenomenon is intriguing to both scholars and marketers yet it is less studied and little understood. Questions such as what the online window shopping consumers do during thei...

Can Online Visual Cues Compensate For The Lack Of Touch In The Context Of Apparel Online Shopping?

An Economic Model of the Consumers' Online Shopping Utility and Factors Affecting on Online Shopping

This paper integrates extant literature on retailing and consumer choice to develop an economic model of consumer choice in which a consumer self-selects on-line shopping. Three important factors impacting consumer choice of on-line shopping: (1) the online shopping utility (2) the consumers’ perceived product and service risks (Perceived Privacy Protection, Perceived Security Protection etc.) ...

Consumer Behaviour in Online Shopping

The Internet has developed into a new distribution channel and online transactions are rapidly increasing. This has created a need to understand how the consumer perceives online purchases. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine if there are any particular factors that influence the online consumer. Primary data was collected through a survey that was conducted on students at the Unive...