Online retailing (“e-tailing”) provides an opportunity for new pricing options that are not feasible in traditional retail settings. This paper proposes a dynamic pricing strategy from the perspective of bundling to derive added savings for customers while maximizing profits for etailers. Given product costs, posted prices and customers’ reservation prices, we propose a nonlinear mixed-integer ...

E-tailing websites are often perceived to be static, impersonal and distant. However, with the movement of the World Wide Web to Web 2.0 in recent years, these online websites have been found to display personalities akin to ‘humanistic’ qualities and project impressions much like its retailing counterpart i.e. salespeople. This paper examines the personality of e-tailing websites and their imp...

The purpose of this article is to theoretically identify the salient elements e-retailing websites and empirically verify them through a rigorous scale development process. A mixed method approach was followed achieve these objectives: qualitative (content analysis) quantitative (factorial confirmatory surveys). Three findings emerge from current study. First: study provides sound empirical sup...

Shopping mobility is an essential component of urban trip system, for both personal and goods flows. Although several works exist on general trips, mainly related to work-based trip chains or professional deliveries, the literature on kids and young mobility in terms of shopping trip behaviour is scarce. Moreover, this segment of population presents the particularity that systematic trips are n...

Electronic retailing is expected to affect consumer behaviour many ways through creating new consumer value. In this paper, we adopt a mixed value approach to the consumer value problem in the context of electronic retailing of clothing. We attempt to discover the dominant value patterns that best characterize the underlying consumer value patterns motivating consumers in their purchase situati...

O retailing provides an opportunity for new pricing options that are not feasible in traditional retail settings. This paper proposes an interactive, dynamic pricing strategy from the perspective of customized bundling to derive savings for customers while maximizing profits for electronic retailers (“e-tailers”). Given product costs, posted prices, shipping fees, and customers’ reservation pri...