Smart home services (SHS) have been developed by related firms and have had a strong impact on consumers’ lives. This research integrates involvement antecedents, innovation diffusion factors and a technology acceptance model to develop a conceptual framework for discussing consumer attitudes and adoption behaviors toward smart home service applications. A sample of 580 respondents from differe...

The emergence of m-commerce and mobile data service (MDS) attract much of the attentions in the field of mbusiness. Salient studies have mainly identified the critical factors that drive consumer intentions to adopt a new mobile technology or a cluster of mobile services. While various technologies and services are embedded into one consumer device, existing models have limitations in explicati...

Consumer online resale is soaring and becoming a major venue for transactions related to second-hand goods. Previous studies on consumer satisfaction have focused on perceived product performance or quality, but in the extension of consumer behaviour from purchase to resale, consumer satisfaction and repurchase intentions may also be determined by the resale outcome, rather than being limited t...

Counterfeits consumption has recently attracted considerable attention. This study examines factors affecting consumer purchase intention for counterfeit products. Specially, this study takes Vietnam, a developing country where consumer behavior is being affected by rising living standard, as a research object. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior of Ajzen with the additional factor of perce...

The purpose of this research is (1) to develop a theoretical model for consumer purchasing behavior on the Internet and (2) to test the effects of consumer lifestyles in the form of price-oriented, net-oriented, and timeoriented lifestyles, and perceived benefit and perceived risk on purchasing behavior. Structural equation modeling is applied to test a hypothesized research model using Graphic...

BACKGROUND Perceived value is the key ingredient to carving and maintaining a competitive business niche. The opportunities to interact with consumers to understand and enhance perceived value are termed 'touch points'. Due to the out-of-pocket expense incurred by patients, Danish chiropractors are subject to consumer trends and behaviors. The purpose of this investigation was to explore and de...

Previous research on online consumer behavior has mostly been confined to the perceived risk which is used to explain those barriers for purchasing online. However, perceived benefit is another important factor which influences consumers’ decision when shopping online. As a result, an integrated consumer online shopping decision-making model is developed which contains three elements—Consumer, ...

Wireless communication and Internet services are converging to provide an unprecedented level of convenience for online shopping. Although the concept of consumer-perceived convenience has been extensively discussed in marketing and consumer behavior literature, there still is a lack of empirical validation in the context of mobile commerce. This study was conducted to examine the effect of con...

Lay public's concerns around health and health information are increasing. In response, governments and government agencies are establishing websites to address such concerns and improve health literacy by providing better access to validated health information. Since 2011, the Korean government has constructed the National Health Information Portal (NHIP) website run in collaboration with the ...

This article examines how individual differences on the need for cognitive closure and demographics influence consumer perception and the usage of consumer reviews in online shopping. Data were randomly collected from 2,381 U.S. online consumer review users through an online survey. The findings from multiple regression analyses revealed the different effects of the need for cognitive closure d...