The emergence of the Internet may have fundamentally altered the mechanisms underlying information exchanges between … transaction efficiency effects from Internet purchases by consumers. It develops and empirically tests a theoretical framework … examining the role Internet purchases have in establishing transaction-efficiency levels in product exchanges involving sellers …

Research undertaken within Hong Kong on the profile of Internet shoppers is piecemeal and incomplete. This empirical … study intends to explore into this issue. Similar studies overseas suggest that the profiles of Internet shoppers are moving … towards shoppers found in mainstream population. However, this study reveals that in Hong Kong, the dominant Internet shopping …

operate their own Internet channels. In this paper, we investigate the interaction between the capabilities of introducing the … Internet channels, the pricing strategies, and the channel structure. We classify consumers into two segments: Grocery shoppers … attach a higher utility from purchasing through the physical channel, whereas a priori Internet shoppers prefer purchasing …

Logistics services and their providers are helping intermediaries add value to Internet supply chains in ways that are …. Moreover, the study shows that Internet sellers establish relationships with logistics service providers in order to extract … that Internet sellers form these relationships to lower the costs they would incur if they were organized to carry out the …