In voting systems where a mark in a fixed position may mean a vote for Alice on a ballot, and a vote for Bob on another ballot, an attacker may coerce voters to put their mark at a certain position, enforcing effectively a random vote. This attack is meaningful if the voting system allows to take receipts with them and/or posts them to a bulletin board. The coercer may also ask for a blank rece...

Group buying talent is a new mode of Internet group business in recent years. It usually occurs on media platforms such as short videos and uses celebrity influence to sell large number goods. This study aimed explore the influential factors consumers' purchase intention. paper applied further developed endorsement theory, increases situation sales basis various this enriches its impact consume...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Compulsive buying is a severe phenomenon, especially among younger consumers. It is well documented in Western industrial societies like the USA and Germany, and nowadays an increasing interest in compulsive buying in non-Western countries is on the rise. METHODS In the current study, we measured the prevalence of compulsive buying tendencies among Chinese female and male ...

online impulsive purchasing is focused on those buying processes which simply break the borders of normal logical buying process, and are done after being influenced by some internal or external stimuli in a spare of moment and without complete evaluation of products’ alternatives. this subject especially in an online context becomes a popular one among researchers in management, economy and co...

Although materialism has a robust relationship with compulsive buying, psychological theories also suggest that financial attitudes and financial management practices would significantly predict compulsive buying severity even after controlling for materialism. We also expected that financial attitudes and financial management practices would moderate the relationship between materialism and co...

Online stores spring up everywhere and their store display changes more agilely than the brick-andmortar ones. The webpage aesthetics in online stores, similar to in-store atmospherics in brick-andmortar stores, are significant to consumer impulse buying, yet has received very limited attention from researchers. This paper reports three empirical studies that examine how webpage aesthetic compo...

The purpose of this study is to develop and assess an objective research model to weigh the factors that affect intention of cross-buying insurance in banks. The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) was conduct firstly for the shortlist selection of factors of cross-buying intention. Then, the factors’ weights of cross-buying intention is also used as the eval...

We present a new model of impulse buying, based on a social constructionist theory, which addresses some of the short-comings of previous models from economics, consumer behaviour, and psychology. Our model predicts that products are impulsively bought to reflect self-identity. Thus gender, as a major social category, should influence both the products bought impulsively and the buying consider...