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As an intermediary improves trust between two sides of its market to facilitate matching and transactions, it faces an increased risk of disintermediation: with sufficient trust, the two sides may circumvent the intermediary to avoid the intermediary's fees. We investigate the relationship...
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factors as: the privacy information consumers must provide, the confidence levels consumers have in their suppliers, the … can gain consumer confidence and demonstrate the quality of the offered goods via detailed product descriptions in their … helped raise consumer confidence. Consumer trust is found to be related to customer satisfaction. It takes a long time for …
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study examines the factors that are affecting consumers' trust towards e-commerce, with evidence from students in Jordanian … university. Using the sample of 150 university students in Jordan through questionnaires, the findings indicate that there is …
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Operators of online auction venues, such as eBay, face competing demands. Most of those operators are reliant on income from fees paid by sellers and therefore must provide technical innovations and a contract structure favorable to those sellers. Simultaneously, the operators must lower the...
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Generally, technological innovations begin in very small niche markets when a tiny group of risk-taking consumers decide to try out a product or service they have never seen before. It is never clear that the innovation will ever reach a larger market because the forces of the status quo, as a...
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This paper explores the determinants of the individual´s decision to perform cross-border e-commerce (CBeC). The European Union (EU) is especially interested in the promotion of CBeC because it is an important tool in its strategy to achieve the Digital Single Market in Europe. In this paper...
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This paper presents characteristics of business models adopted by Internet companies operating in the consumer market. The typology covers online vendors, e-service providers, content providers, multi-sided platforms, and community providers. The business model types are described here, also...
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This study was initiated with the aim is to examine the impact of a human trait – innovativeness along with the constructs of Technology Acceptance Model on the embracement of web as a shopping medium in Pakistan. A sample size of 252 Pakistani consumers who never shopped online before has...
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