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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Shopping Environment"”.
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Utilising online shopping environment attributes holistically to create competitive advantage
… becomes crucial for marketers to know how online shopping environments (OSEs) can be used to gain competitive advantage. This dissertation aims to explain theoretically how OSE attributes work together holistically to produce desirable consumer responses, applying and extending a theory from the …
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Sifting customers from the clickstream : behavior pattern discovery in a virtual shopping environment
While shopping online, customers' needs and goals may change dynamically, based on a variety of factors such as product information and characteristics, time pressure and perceived risk. While these changes create emergent information needs, decisions about what information to present to customers …
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An environment for protecting the privacy of e-shoppers
… information. Preserving one's privacy while e-shopping, especially when personalisation is involved, is a big challenge. Current initiatives only offer customers opt-out options. This research proposes a `privacy-preserved' shopping environment (PPSE) which empowers customers to disclose …
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A Mathematical Study of Purchasing Airline Tickets
… tickets from competing websites in an online shopping environment. We explore how consumers might distribute themselves among websites and different tickets dependent on parameters such as price of ticket, number of stops, input rate of tickets into the site, and so on. To facilitate our …
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Merchant differentiation through integrative negotiation in agent-mediated electronic commerce
This thesis proposes to fix online shopping by guiding it away from price comparisons and toward value comparisons. Though price comparisons may be adequate for simple products (e.g., books and music), they are inadequate for facilitating transactions of complex products (e.g., computers and …
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Feelings of doing good for myself or others: Discussing effects of self-conscious emotions on sustainable consumption
… Study 2 examined three emotions regarding a shopping scenario. The results indicated that empathy had a significant influence on willingness to pay more for the sustainable product, but pride and guilt did not. Additionally, only private self-consciousness significantly resulted in pride and …
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Reinventing flexibility : a hybrid paradigm for Thai markets in Bangkok, Thailand
… improve goods storage, attractive envelope, and shopping environment, is actually neither modern nor sustainable for the Thai socio-economic system. Despite fact that Thai Markets have claimed to be modernized over time, they are merely heavily populated for a few hours each day, and otherwise …
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Low engagement and failed choices : exploring the mechanism for harbingers of failure
… to changes in hourly store traffic in an offline shopping environment. Using a fixed effect model, we show that increases in store traffic lead to significant increases in the proportion of failed products purchased by customers visiting the store. We confirm that store traffic influences flop …
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A structured demographic evaluation approach for interactive technologies based on the identification of high impact usability factors
… about web design attributes in an online shopping environment in cultures with high uncertainty avoidance. Uncertainty avoidance expresses community avoidance from unknown situations, ambiguity, and personal risk. The objective was to determine the relationship between web design …
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Toward Preservation of the Traditional Marketplace: A Preference Study of Traditional and Modern Shopping Environments in Bangkok, Thailand
… dissertation are to: 1) identify the aspects of shopping environments that are important to people; and 2) identify strategies to maintain the cultural relevance and viability of traditional marketplaces in the new global economy. This dissertation uses a Content Identifying Methodology (CIM) to …