Trust and risk are very important in consumers' electronic commerce purchasing decisions. How do trust and risk affect an Internet consumer's purchasing decision? To answer this question I’ve developed a theoretical framework describing the trust-based decision-making process a consumer uses...

This article presents the importance and the aim of auto-regulation of e-commerce in Romania, as a tool that could be used to prevent and diminish the frauds within the virtual world. Electronic commerce, as a form of manifestation of informational revolution, induces specific problems that can...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design, develop and evaluate a reliable and valid scale for the measurement of online retail service quality, specifically in the French context. Design/methodology/approach – Study 1 derived scale items from the literature by content analysis. Study...

This article aims at challenging the relevance of some concepts typical of traditional retail activities for understanding electronic commerce. We try to demonstrate that geography still plays a role in building a competitive advantage over the Web, but that the notion of distance has changed...

Las nuevas técnicas de marketing, y más concretamente las técnicas de «cibermarketing», pueden mejorar la comercialización de los vinos de calidad, ya que posibilitan que el consumidor disponga de cuanta información requiere para tomar su elección de compra. En esta línea, el primer...

This paper provides a method to estimate search costs in an environment in which consumers are uncertain about the price distribution. Consumers learn about the price distribution by Bayesian updating their prior beliefs. The model provides bounds on the search costs that can rationalize...

This paper tries to assess quantitatively the role of electronic commerce in economic activity and in trade and tariff revenue collection. The share of value added that potentially lends itself to electronic trade represents around 30 percent of GDP, most importantly distribution, finance and...

The introduction of new digital production and distribution technologies may alter the firms' strategy sets, as they are not able to commit credibly to quantity strategies anymore. Mixed oligopoly markets may emerge where some companies compete in prices, while others adjust their quantities....

In 1998, University of Iowa faculty members created their own futures markets. These experimental markets, designed to provide insights into the behavior of traders and naturally occurring markets, are still going strong. Their clever design gives them another practical use: They can be used to...