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Online shopping phenomena are governed by a number of consumer acceptance and behaviour characteristics and grounded in theoretical aspects of consumer decision making. There are a number of factors that affect what we buy, when we buy, and why we buy. In reference to buying online, the factors...
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documents the critical lessons learned. Concludes that the Internet provides an effective place for the development of a new …
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a small retailer with internet storefront in an emerging market economy. Design/methodology/approach – A case study is … performance of internet retailers in a developing country. Research limitations/implications – The data collection method appears … to be unorthodox. Although the story of internet booksellers is not new, the case is located in an emerging and “non …
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Can operations management impact significantly the profitability of consumer‐based businesses on the Internet (called B …2C)? During the past two years, Internet retailers have not provided satisfactory financial results. Whereas, leading in …‐tailing (Internet B2C). To do this we singled out a well‐known dot.com retail failure, Webvan. Cost data were studied from startup (1998 …
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Co‐operation is crucial to the successful marketing of tourism destinations, and electronic commerce offers exciting new opportunities for co‐operation among tourism suppliers. This article examines the reciprocal linking of Websites to create “virtual” tourism destination organisations,...
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company users. On the other hand, managers facing the problem of adopting internet technology to support a B2b relationship …
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A certain number of theoretical trends consider a firm's reputation as valuable intangible assets. For companies in … dematerialized e‐commerce, which is not protected by traditional entry barriers, reputation may be one of the key sources of … approach, this research shows how Lastminute managed to build up its reputation through three types of actions – symbolical …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use a blended learning environment to introduce principals in small businesses to the benefits of electronic commerce, while avoiding many of the barriers identified in recent research. Design/ methodology/approach – The paper reports results from...
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Banking has traditionally operated in a relatively stable environment for decades. However, today the industry is facing dramatically aggressive competition in a new deregulated environment. Positioning is an attempt to distinguish the bank from its competitors along real dimensions in order to...
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value of Internet technologies is followed by an analysis of some of the factors that account for the lack of successful … the Internet into reality for small and medium size enterprises.  …
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