Recently, the web is becoming an important part of people’s life. The web is a very good place to run successful businesses. Selling products or services online plays an important role in the success of businesses that have a physical presence, like a re

The World Wide Web represents a new frontier towards a global industry, leading the way for new businesses. Commerce now deals with a whole different concept: electronic commerce (e-commerce). This kind of commerce provides new means for a large variety o

This paper explores differences in consumers' grocery shopping behavior when they shop online and in a brick-and-mortar store. To do so, I assemble a new scanner dataset that tracks customers' grocery purchases in-store and on the Internet. This allows comparison in behavior of the same...

In 2001, the dot.com bubble burst and U.S. e-commerce growth slowed. Slower e-commerce growth may signal changes in the use and perceptions of the Internet and e-commerce in agribusiness companies. Agribusiness firm managers were surveyed in 2004 to identify agribusiness use of the Internet and...

The study of perceived risk is one of the major behavioral determinants. Most of the literature analyzes perceived risk in relation to risk relievers and their role in consumer behavior. A risk reliever is a device or an action initiated by the purchaser or the seller in order to reduce the...

This study focuses on consumer assessment of online auction in China using Taobao.com as a typical case. With an attempt to provide a theoretical framework for consumer evaluation of online auction business there, a research instrument, E-auction Web Assessment Method (E-auction WAM), was...

During the past years, the Internet has gained a very important role in our everyday lives as well as in the business environment. This online trend developed also in the way companies interact with their customers by means of Internet platforms, or in the form of e-commerce. Despite the...

Businesses and communities in rural areas face increased challenges to compete in the globalized tourism market. Rural areas and small communities often have rich endogenous natural resources, which may appeal to a stressed urban public, however, simply possessing these attributes is not...

The present study analyzes the importance of research design in measuring perceived risk in e-commerce by revealing the influences that certain variables might have on the reliability of scales. Perceived risk is known as a major behavioral determinant, moreover it has been found to be a barrier...