This qualitative study is the first to validate immersion as a relevant concept to capture the essence of online commercial experiences. Our study also highlights the specificities of immersive experiences engendered by virtual reality applications available on commercial web sites. We identify...

Les concepteurs et responsables de sites marchands cherchent de plus en plus à favoriser l’immersion des internautes lors de leurs expériences en ligne. Pour comprendre l’intérêt de ces démarches, une étude quantitative permet de mettre en évidence l’impact de l’expérience...

This research aims to help commercial web sites' manager to improve the performance of marketing investments in the development of traffic, amounting to more than 10% of sales. To do this, we present a typology of the process of choosing a merchant web site in order to highlight two major issues...

Les concepteurs et responsables de sites marchands cherchent de plus en plus à favoriser l'immersion des internautes lors de leurs expériences en ligne. Pour comprendre l'intérêt de ces démarches, une étude quantitative permet de mettre en évidence l'impact de l'expérience immersive en...

Cette étude qualitative permet de souligner les spécificités d'une expérience immersive dans le contexte du commerce électronique, comparativement aux expériences d'immersion dans le domaine culturel. La recherche permet d'identifier les composantes expérientielles des sites marchands qui...

Noting that the use of Internet is not only utilitarian but experiential indeed cultural, this dissertation describes in depth and explains what people lives in their online consumer experiences. This description is done through the three great social and personal changes brought by the advent...

A transdisciplinary literature review enabled us to identify a new construct in the marketing research field, i.e. Customer-Company Identification. It is defined as the process whereby customer’s beliefs about a company become self-defining and whereby he defines himself by the same attributes...

The short-term effect of store-level promotions (weekly flyers, radio and outdoor advertising) on grocery store choice is investigated. We estimate household-level multinomial logit (MNL) models of store choice on panel data, using promotional variables, loyalty, and moderating variables. The...

From the 90’s onwards, retailers’ marketing resources have been mainly developed through the recruitment of qualified managers and the establishment of partnerships with service providers and suppliers. However, our research shows that overall marketing competency relies less on the...