Purpose: This paper is to identify and explain the in-store shopping environment effects that drive consumers’ impulse buying decisions. Methodology: Primary data is collected from 100 randomly selected shoppers in Abbottabad and Islamabad. Descriptive data analysis along with test of significance was applied to analyze data. Findings: Results indicate that presence of an enjoyable, pleasant an...

Online shopping is gradually becoming popular in the developing countries like India. The online bookstores have emerged as a new destination which attracts millions of shoppers every day. The impulse buying in the offline stores has been a major area of interest for the researchers. But with the boom in online shopping, there is a scope to study the different aspects of impulse buying in onlin...

Background: Because of the high-speed development of e-commerce, online group buying has become a new popular pattern of consumption for Chinese consumers. Previous research has studied online group-buying (OGB) purchase intention in some specific areas such as Taiwan, but in mainland China. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to contribute to the Technology Acceptance Model, incorporating ot...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Exercise dependence (EXD) is considered a behavioral addiction that is often associated with eating disorders. To date, only few studies examined the potential overlap between EXD and other addictive behaviors. Therefore, the present study aimed at investigating the relationship of EXD with pathological buying, pathological video gaming (offline and online), hypersexual beha...

This paper examines how World Wide Web (WWW) usage for procurement purposes affects corporate buyers’ search costs and buying organizations’ coordination costs and how it ultimately affects the efficient boundaries of buying organizations. The analysis is based on a model that integrates Transaction Costs Economics (TCE) (Williamson 1975, 1985) and forces of electronic interconnections (Malone ...

Web-based Group-Buying mechanisms, a refinement of quantity discounting, are being used for both Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-toConsumer (B2C) transactions. In this paper, we survey currently operational online Group-Buying markets, and then study this phenomenon using analytical models. We surveyed over fifty active Group-Buying sites, and provide a comprehensive review of Group-Buy...