This qualitative paper examines the importance of both situational factors and adoption constructs in the decision to use online grocery services for the first time. To that end, we have conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with (one or more representatives of) 15 households in Flanders...

Krivosheya (2020) finds that consumers’ use of financial innovations has a positive effect on the frequency with which they use a payment card at the point of sale. This comment argues that Krivosheya’s results are a case of ‘correlation does not imply causation’

The two-sided market theory holds that consumer adoption and merchant acceptance of payment cards are interdependent. However, empirical evidence on such network externalities is scarce, especially for the merchant side. This paper uses a logit model to explain merchant card acceptance in...