With the proliferation of multi-channel retailing, developing a better understanding of the factors that affect customers’ purchase behaviors within a multi-channel retail context has become an important topic for practitioners and academics. While many studies have investigated the various customer behaviors associated with brick-and-mortar retailing, online retailing, and brick-and-click reta...

This paper explores the issues that influence online retailing in Saudi Arabia. Retailers in Saudi Arabia have been reserved in their adoption of electronically delivered aspects of their business. Despite the fact that Saudi Arabia has the largest and fastest growth of ICT marketplaces in the Arab region, e-commerce activities are not progressing at the same speed. Only very few Saudi companie...

The present study on retailing has been undertaken in Andhra Pradesh to examine growth and performance of modern retailing and its impact on traditional retailers. The study has indicated that the number of players is less in modern retailing than in the traditional retailing. Vertical analysis between the two chains has also indicated the same results. For instance, in the case of vertical dis...

the fast development of information technology, retailers are suffering from the excess of information. Too much information can be a problem. However, more information creates more opportunity. In retailing, information is the key issue to maximizing revenue. It is now hard to make timely or effective decisions and to the right content to the right place, at the right time and in the right for...

Previous research has directly studied whether on-line retailing is more competitive than conventional retail markets. The evidence from books and music CDs is mixed. Here, I use an indirect approach to compare the competitiveness of on-line with conventional markets. Focusing on the retail market for books, I identify a peculiarity in the pricing of bestsellers relative to other titles. Suppos...

Current research activities in the area of trading digital products usually focus on specific legal or technical problems, neglecting the underlying business models and their implications on retail information systems. There is a need for a framework in to order the structure the diverse research efforts. Within the paper retailing of digital products is positioned within the wider field of ele...

As consumers seek products that cause minimal environmental harm and bring about positive social impact, as awareness of supply chain impact grows, retailers must embrace sustainability. Given their unique position in the between upstream suppliers downstream consumers, are key to a circular economy which at initial end-of-life stage returned for continued use. By serving connection retail init...

This paper aims to examine the factors affecting postadoption of RFID technology as part omnichannel strategies in retail industry. In addition, it evaluates how this innovation contributed improvement quality corporate financial information. We employed an exploratory multiple-case study design based on qualitative research, by using semi-structured interviews, and public sustainability report...

We investigated the effect of playfulness on user acceptance of online retailing and tested the relationship between Web quality factors and user acceptance behavior. A survey of 942 users of Web-based online retailing was conducted to test our model. The results showed that playfulness plays an important role in enhancing user attitude and behavioral intention to use a site. We also found that...