With the widespread popularity of social media such as Facebook and Twitter, social commerce is generating much hype in business and is attracting a lot of attention in academia. Social commerce integrates e-commerce and social communication/media. In this research, our focus is on collaborative online shopping. This research-in-progress paper outlines an experimental study to investigate the e...

As the number of online shopping websites increases day by day, so are the online advertisement strategies and promotional techniques. The number of people who uses internet keeps on increasing daily and it has become a vast marketplace to promote products, surely it will be a prime reason to drive any companies’ growth in the future.. This paper primarily focuses on the areas on which online s...

A large number of studies investigating business-to-consumer e-commerce have focused exclusively on online shopping by individuals, although consumers often desire to conduct their shopping activities with others. This study has therefore attempted to study collaborative online shopping by looking at two types of presence that are of particular relevance to this context, namely, telepresence an...

advantages and limitations compared with those of traditional shopping, the characteristics of e-shoppers, and the factors affecting the adoption and usage of e-shopping. Since the late 1990s, a growing number of empirical studies have addressed these questions. For example, Chang et al. (5) classified the determinants of e-shopping behavior into three categories: perceived characteristics of t...

To many consumers, online shopping has become one major way to shop, so e-commerce and other related industries has enjoyed fast growth in recent years. Online retailers interact with their customers via Web-based or so-called virtual storefronts. Inevitably, various unpleasant shopping experience keep emerging along with increasing adoption of shopping via virtual storefronts. A successful onl...

Online shopping is no doubt the future trend. Online shopping on sectors such as fashion and accessories, electronic/electrical goods and books are growing in Malaysia. Many researches claimed that online shopping is still at the early stage of development in Malaysia and the potential for growth is inevitable. However, little is known about the acceptance of online shopping on localized produc...