With Internet shopping gaining more attention and momentum, a better understanding of the online consumer is now in the forefront of most retail strategies. The growth of online retailing or Internet shopping has provided the apparel industry with additional avenues to reach the consumer. Previous research has shown that consumers’ intent to purchase online is highly driven by their satisfactio...

The development of information technology and Internet has led to rapidly progressed in e-commerce and online shopping, due to the convenience that they provide consumers. E-commerce and online shopping are still not able to fully replace onsite shopping. In contrast, conventional online shopping websites often cannot provide enough information about a product for the customer to make an inform...

“Social shopping” (or social commerce), combining shopping and social networking, is an application of Web 2.0 in electronic commerce to benefit from users’ social networks. This paper explores the development of the emergent “social shopping” and related perspectives. It incorporates comparisons between social shopping marketing and search engine marketing. For example, search engine marketing...

5645 | P a g e F e b r u a r y 2 4 , 2 0 1 5 Cultural Differences and Common Regional Challenges for e-Commerce in Asia-Pacific Region Agon Memeti, Gazmend Xhaferi Teaching Assistant – State University of Tetovo, Macedonia 1 [email protected] Teaching Assistant – State University of Tetovo, Macedonia 2 [email protected] ABSTRACT Taking in consideration that the rapid growth us...

The main objective of e-Government is to better serve citizens. However, citizens’ likelihood to use e-Government services is very low especially in the context of developing countries. Lack of trust in e-Government systems has been recognized as one of the major barriers to e-Government services adoption. Citizens’ decision to use online services is dependent on their level of trust in the tec...

This paper presents findings from a study examining the diffusion and adoption of online retailing in Saudi Arabia. Although the country has the largest and fastest growing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the Arab region, growth in e-commerce activities has not progressed at a commensurate rate. In general, Saudi retailers have not kept pace with the global growth of ...

Platform-based services are online services provided by e-marketplace operators to online sellers for them to compete and enhance performance. This paper aims at examining two important questions in the context of e-marketplace: (1) what kind of platform-based services can be used by online retail sellers as competitive moves? and (2) to what extent does the usage of these platform-based servic...

This study develops an extended model to predict consumer acceptance of electronic-shopping (e-shopping) based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the technology acceptance model (TAM). Our model was tested using data collected from 212 questionnaires and analyzed using multiple regression. The results show that individual attitudes toward e-shopping are strongly and positively correlate...

With the current prosperity of the luxury market, this paper focuses on e-commence market situation of China’s luxury, disintegrates all the parts during the process of the luxury’s e-commence online shopping, analyzes the three targets and three links of the current e-commence websites at the material level and finds out its appearing relevant problems. This paper also delves deeper and puts f...

Despite the fact that service quality is a critical determinant of website success, studies show that consumers frequently view the service quality delivered through websites as unsatisfactory. This paper outlines a study investigating the dimensions of website service excellence valued by Irish customers of a small to medium enterprise specialising in gifts. The e-S-QUAL measurement instrument...