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...

Location-based services (LBS), enabled by advances in mobile and positioning technologies, have afforded users with a pervasive flexibility to be uniquely addressable and to access network and services on-the-move. However, because LBS could also associate the lifestyle habits, behaviors, and movements with a consumer’s personal identity, privacy concerns are particularly salient for LBS. Drawi...

The costs of product piracy towards knowledge creation and innovation are enormous. It hampers the development of knowledge and innovation because piracy can greatly reduce the economic benefits for the original creators of products and ideas. Widespread piracy and weak intellectual property regulations and enforcement, particularly in developing countries, will undermine development and the gr...

Mobile apps have great potential to deliver promising interventions to engage consumers and change their health-related behaviors, such as healthy eating. Currently, the interventions for promoting healthy eating are either too onerous to keep consumers engaged or too restrictive to keep consumers connected with healthcare professionals. In addition, while social media allows individuals to rec...

COVID-19 drastically altered the way consumers shopped for food as they had to adhere recommendations social distancing. However, public has been divided across political parties in their assessment of severity and must filter through misinformation related pandemic make informed choices personal safety. Therefore, purpose this study was explore influences on Oklahoma consumers’ risk informatio...