benefits such as convenience and low prices. But such benefits are partly offset by a new cost—the time and frustration required to sift through information on innumerable vendor sites and to learn how to submit and manage orders. These tasks are difficult because the type, amount, and organization of information differ from vendor to vendor. Complicating matters, customers are unaware of chang...

E-shopping has grown considerably in the last years, providing customers with convenience, merchants with increased sales, and financial entities with an additional source of income. However, it may also be the source of serious threats to privacy. In this paper, we review the e-shopping process, discussing attacks or threats that have been analyzed in the literature for each of its stages. By ...

Before Internet consumers make buying decisions, several psychological factors come into effect and reflect individual preferences on products. In this paper, the authors investigate four integrated streams: 1) recognizing the psychological factors that affect Internet consumers, 2) understanding the relationship between businesses’ e-marketing mix and Internet consumers’ psychological factors,...

Internet connectivity can offer enormous advantages, however security needs to be a major consideration when planning an Internet connection. There are significant security risks associated with the Internet that often are not obvious to new (and existing) users. In particular, intruder activities as well as vulnerabilities that could assist intruder activity are widespread. Intruder activity i...

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First-generation comparison-shopping software tools in general have limitations in dealing with bundled products. A new model for e-commerce comparison-shopping, based on a logical unBundling of sellers' offerings, is introduced. The model captures dominance relationship between offerings and consumer requirements and may serve as a foundation for a variety of shopping decision support software...

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, ...

The three articles for week 5 all deal with business-to-consumer electronic commerce. B2C e-commerce represents the most visible part of e-commerce, and it has forever changed the way many people shop. Most people enjoy the convenience and time saving resulted from online shopping. One recent study found that the more time-starving a consumer is, the more likely he or she will shop online. Othe...

Abstract: Online shopping is a process in which buy goods or services through the Internet. With large of consumer using Internet for online shopping, it is not clear what drives them to shop online (Monsure et al., 2006) and studies regarding consumer behavior towards online shopping in the Malaysian environment is still limited number (Haque and Khatibi, 2006). Thus, this study objective is t...