In recent years, several advences in information technologies have increased the computer use of consumers in the world and our country. These developments have revealed a new way of doing business known as e-commerce. For consumers, online shopping has become the most popular internet activity...

The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumer-generated product reviews have become a valuable source of information for customers, who read the reviews and decide whether to buy the product based on the information...

We demonstrate how publicly available ratings of Internet stores can be used to perform actionable importance-performance analysis (IPA). We use a panel of 422 non-food online merchants, which allows us to account for store-specific effects, and therefore obtain better estimates of each...

The purpose of this article is to present a multi-items scale on Web retail service quality. After reviewing the literature on this subject, two studies are presented. The first study is a qualitative one with a literature review and a series of depth individuals interviews and focus groups of...

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...

Pharmaceutical companies have been forced to change their approach to selling over-the-counter medicines (OTC) because of increased pressure on sales margins. The development of Web 2.0, Web 3.0, and social media technologies allow low-cost online marketing, including e-commerce. An...

When we think about the online commerce market, the first question that arises is, how do the players on this market manage to attract potential customers and convince them to buy online repeatedly. With the development of Internet, the online presence can not be ignored, whether a site is...

Trust is a crucial factor in e-commerce. However, consumers are less likely to trust unknown Web sites. This study explores how less-familiar e-commerce Web sites can use branding alliances and Web site quality to increase the likelihood of initial consumer trust. We use the associative network...

This qualitative study is the first to validate immersion as a relevant concept to capture the essence of online commercial experiences. The studies identify the most important experiential components of e-commerce web sites using virtual reality devices and shed some light on the influence of...

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...