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Karimov, Farhod P., and Malaika Brengman. "Adoption of Social Media by Online Retailers." International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2, no. 1 (January 2011): 26–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2011010103.
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In the online environment, the absence of social presence may prevent consumers from purchasing online, while it can enhance their trust, loyalty and enjoyment toward the e-retailer. Thus, today many online retailers try to create social presence by adopting media-rich technologies. In this paper, the authors assess to what degree social media cues are currently adopted by thriving web-vendors and on that basis speculate about future developments. To this purpose, 210 top B2C e-commerce websites have been content analyzed to identify how they differ in the deployment of diverse social media cues. While a wide range of social media cues are adopted by a majority of top e-retailers, a number of more advanced social media features like avatars, recommendation agents, and video-streams are in their infancy where adoption is concerned. The paper demonstrates that the utilization of social media features differs according to the monetary and symbolic value of products sold by the e-commerce vendors.
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Lei, Jiang, and You Gui Zhao. "Study on the Gaming-Oriented Competition Relationship between Independent E-Retailers and Product Suppliers." Advanced Materials Research 933 (May 2014): 897–901. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.933.897.
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A with the rapid development of e-commerce, the influence of online retailers gradually increased, vendors sell their products through online retailers have become an inevitable choice in the era of e-commerce. Vendors and online retailers have fundamental differences in the channel control, distribution of benefits, resulting in the presence of both cooperation and competition between the two sides. In this paper, using replicator dynamics model, combined with non-symmetric matrix, analysis of evolution trend between independent Internet retailers and suppliers cooperation competition game, and proposes relevant suggestions accordingly trend.
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Plessis, Erika M. du, Sarasha Govender, Bala Pillay, and Lise Korsten. "Exploratory Study into the Microbiological Quality of Spinach and Cabbage Purchased from Street Vendors and Retailers in Johannesburg, South Africa." Journal of Food Protection 80, no. 10 (September 18, 2017): 1726–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-16-540.
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ABSTRACT Knowledge of the microbiological quality and prevalence of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes in bacterial isolates from leafy green vegetables supplied by formal suppliers (retailers) and informal suppliers (street vendors) in South Africa is limited. Because leafy vegetables have been implicated in foodborne disease outbreaks worldwide, 180 cabbage and spinach samples were collected from three major retailers and nine street vendors in Johannesburg, South Africa. Escherichia coli and coliforms were enumerated using Petrifilm plates. The prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella, and Shigella was determined using real-time PCR analysis. Identities of presumptive E. coli isolates from the fresh produce were confirmed using matrix-assisted laser desorption–ionization time of flight mass spectroscopy. Isolates were characterized using phenotypic (antibiotic resistance) and genotypic (phylogenetic and virulence gene) analysis. Hygiene indicator bacteria levels on spinach from formal and informal retailers exceeded the maximum level specified by the Department of Health guidelines for fresh fruit and vegetables. E. coli counts for street vendor spinach were higher (P < 0.0789) than those for retailer spinach. E. coli was present in only two cabbage samples, at 0.0035 CFU/g. L. monocytogenes and Salmonella were detected in 7.2 and 5% of the 180 samples, respectively, based on real-time PCR analysis; Shigella was not detected. Of the 29 spinach E. coli isolates, 37.9% were multidrug resistant. Virulence genes eae and stx1 were present in 14 and 3% of the spinach E. coli isolates, respectively; the stx2 gene was not detected. Eighty-six percent of these isolates belonged to phylogroup A, 3% belonged to group C, 7% belonged to group E, and 3% belonged to clade 1. The results from the current exploratory study on the microbiological quality of spinach bought from selected retailers highlight the need for continued surveillance on a larger scale, especially in the informal sector, to characterize the potential health risks to the consumer.
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Hamidi, Hodjat, and Saba Moradi. "Analysis of Consideration of Security Parameters by Vendors on Trust and Customer Satisfaction in E-Commerce." Journal of Global Information Management 25, no. 4 (October 2017): 32–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgim.2017100103.
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Exchanges in electronic market accomplishes through electronic channels. An electronic market is a meeting point for both the shoppers and the sellers. This article aims for the impact of cultural and security orientation on the customer perception of the seller's ethics regarding the customers' loyalty. A heuristic method is applied to examine dimensions of customer perception of seller ethics. The research community is selected out of a large group of sale experts and directly through electronic survey platform in electronic markets. According to the article findings, electronic customers are of high tendency to better understand the electronic seller's ethics, and the customer's higher perception of electronic sellers increases the shopping. On-time and correct electronic seller's responses affect positively on the customers' loyalty. The consumer loyalty regarding the ethics of electronic retailer's scale is greater completeness to evaluate consumer perceptions of e-retailers' ethics than scales using a one-dimensional approach. This study further examines both individualism and collectivism at the individual level, which is rare in the existing literature.
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Li, Dan, Kang Li, and Xue Pan. "Marketplace or Hybrid: Vendor’s Information Sharing with e-Retailer." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (June 28, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7149531.
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This study explores the information sharing (IS) in a supply chain (SC) with a vendor selling goods via an e-retailer to consumers. Four scenarios were considered for the multistage game between the vendor and the e-retailer, and the vendor’s policy of IS and the e-retailer’s decision on online platform access were discussed under each scenario. The results show that the e-retailer will access the online platform at a low fixed access fee and will not at a high fixed access fee. Whether the vendor shares information with the e-retailer or not, he/she always faces a worse situation with e-retailer’s online access. The vendor’s decision on IS hinges on the commission rate, contesting intensity, and fixed access fee. When the commission rate is low, the vendor will share the demand if the fixed access fee is low and will not share the information if the access fee is moderate. When the commission rate is high and the contesting is fierce, the vendor is willing to share the demand if the fixed access fee is low or moderate and has no difference in the decision on IS if the fixed access fee is high.
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Dubey, Anil Roy, and B. Balaji. "A Study on E-Commerce Aspects Impacting Consumer’s Online Shopping Behavior in United Arab Emirates." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 18, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 1331–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2021.9393.
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In the digital world, it’s somewhat difficult to manage the expectations of the present customers especially E-Commerce Shoppers who are often challenging and pushed to keep up with what is anticipated to them. Numerous E-shoppers are under pressure to locate and approach to convey an offline in-store ride to the online store ride of higher level interaction with their customers. Experts have cited that all kinds of powers are clearly in the fingers of customers and that their never ever change their behaviors, this leads to force them to approach various online shops portals to adapt. Online shopping comes to be greatly empowered, the E-shoppers expectations from retailers to vendors and are developing a rapid shift in their behavior with an emphasis on pace and convenience. Shopper’s interest spans have become shorter, with 50 percent of shoppers leaping from one retailer website to another, earlier they making an enduring purchase. In addition, greater than eighty percent of shoppers are taking their shopping experience in both online as well as offline. A retailer’s internet site is one of the key places where customers go to search about their dream product’s records and pricing. The demand for the quick shipping of products purchased and handy services, such as click on online and collect in store, as properly as seamless returns have led to groups developing easy, no-fuss fee options. Research indicates that primary shops will continue to offer higher approaches to gather products purchased online from their stores, as a way of appealing to customers and supplying larger convenience. Based on these prevailing conditions a study was performed on E-Commerce components impacting consumer’s online purchasing conducted on the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Major portions of primary data collection were done via the questionnaires method and by means of emails in two predominant cities of UAE (Sharjah, Abu Dhabi). Cost, time saving (shipping), maintaining customers private details in a secured manner and comfort while do shopping were recognized as vital elements and this leads to assured buying conduct of online shopping. The www is to remodel in the region of populace where communal networked group impact and leads to online shopping.
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Kaushik, Vineet, and Sanjay Dhir. "Non-conformance in apparels: exploring online fashion retail in India." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal 23, no. 2 (May 13, 2019): 257–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfmm-05-2018-0067.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study, explore and rank the non-conforming factors in apparels purchased from e-shops. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected by visiting and interacting people in colleges and through the structured online questionnaires (n=222). The exploratory factor analysis was performed using “R” software. Identified factors were ranked using AHP methodology; 12 experts from various fashion institutes participated in identifying the factors. Findings Based upon the results of the exploratory study, non-conforming factors such as “visual variation”, “functional inconvenience”, “cloth attribute variation”, “haptic variation”, “aesthetic variation” and “fit variation” were identified. The priority ranking of factors and sub-factors was done. Research limitations/implications The sample primarily comprised of the young adult population (19–27 years) and most of them were females (71.6 per cent). There can be other demographic factors. Research is limited to online apparel retailers. Advanced methods of prioritisation can be used. Practical implications The paper can be useful to online apparel retailers, vendors and manufacturers to understand the factors that may be important for improving their business. Originality/value There is no study that identifies the non-conformance factors related to online apparel retailing.
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Onyenwe, Ikechukwu, Ebele Onyedinma, Chidinma Nwafor, and Obinna Agbata. "Developing Products Update-Alert System for E-Commerce Websites Users using Html Data and Web Scraping Technique." International Journal on Natural Language Computing 10, no. 5 (October 30, 2021): 01–07. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/ijnlc.2021.10501.
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Websites are regarded as domains of limitless information which anyone and everyone can access. The new trend of technology has shaped the way we do and manage our businesses. Today, advancements in Internet technology has given rise to the proliferation of e-commerce websites. This, in turn made the activities and lifestyles of marketers/vendors, retailers and consumers (collectively regarded as users in this paper) easier as it provides convenient platforms to sale/order items through the internet. Unfortunately, these desirable benefits are not without drawbacks as these platforms require that the users spend a lot of time and efforts searching for best product deals, products updates and offers on ecommerce websites. Furthermore, they need to filter and compare search results by themselves which takes a lot of time and there are chances of ambiguous results. In this paper, we applied web crawling and scraping methods on an e-commerce website to obtain HTML data for identifying products updates based on the current time. These HTML data are preprocessed to extract details of the products such as name, price, post date and time, etc. to serve as useful information for users.
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Gao, Xian, Choy-Leong Yee, and Wei-Chong Choo. "How Attachment and Community Identification Affect User Stickiness in Social Commerce: A Consumer Engagement Experience Perspective." Sustainability 14, no. 20 (October 21, 2022): 13633. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142013633.
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Social commerce (s-commerce) is a rapidly developing form of e-commerce powered by social media influencers (SMIs). It can create valuable opportunities for retailers. In light of this growing trend, this study explores the influence of consumers’ engagement experiences (social support and presence) on community identification and consumers’ attachment to SMIs, along with their impact on consumers’ stickiness in the s-commerce context. We explore this through social presence and social support theory. The survey data from 411 s-commerce users via an online questionnaire were analyzed empirically with the PLS-SEM approach. The results indicated that presence and social support have significantly positive impacts on consumers’ attachment to SMIs and community identification, respectively. This increases users’ stickiness in s-commerce. This study enriches our understanding of user stickiness in s-commerce and can assist online vendors in developing marketing strategies and cultivating sustained relationships with their users.
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Anjum, Safia, and Junwu Chai. "Drivers of Cash-on-Delivery Method of Payment in E-Commerce Shopping: Evidence From Pakistan." SAGE Open 10, no. 3 (July 2020): 215824402091739. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020917392.
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The e-commerce market of Pakistan has phenomenally fostered in recent years as a result of cyberspace expansion and launching of various national and international vendors. While country’s e-commerce scenario has significantly reshaped, customers are still reluctant to adopt e-payment methods and cash on delivery (COD) prevails as the method of payments for online shopping. This study was conducted to empirically investigate major factors which influence Pakistani customers to opt for COD while shopping online. A framework was proposed based on seven constructs and the data were collected using 5-point Likert-type scale. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) v. 22 and Amos v. 23 were used for statistical analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). Cronbach’s alpha values above .85 were found suggesting good internal consistency. The goodness-of-fit index and adjusted goodness-of-fit index values were observed to be 0.933 and 0.866, respectively. In SEM analysis, perceived security against online scams and perceived control over the buying process were observed to be the key role players instigating Pakistani customers to use COD. Interestingly, perceived trust and perceived satisfaction did not show significant impact. Moreover, the moderator of ease of use positively mediated the influence of perceived security on the use of COD. This study presents imperative implications for online businesses as well as government agencies. The investigation provides an insight into purchase behaviors of Pakistani e-customers and has paramount importance for e-commerce retailers and marketing startups in evolving e-commerce scenario of the country.
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Damena, Abraham, Abraham Mikru, Million Adane, and Beyene Dobo. "Microbial Profile and Safety of Chicken Eggs from a Poultry Farm and Small-Scale Vendors in Hawassa, Southern Ethiopia." Journal of Food Quality 2022 (May 23, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7483253.
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A freshly laid hen’s egg is devoid of microorganism, but soon after oviposition, it is contaminated by various spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms. The aim of this study was to assess the microbial profile and safety of chicken eggs in Hawassa City. A total of 60 egg samples were collected from Hawassa University Poultry Farm (HUPF) and small-scale vendors in Hawassa. The samples were analyzed for aerobic mesophilic bacterial count (AMBC), Staphylococcal count (SC), Enterobacteriaceae count (EC), total coliform count (TCC), fecal coliform count (FCC), and yeast and mold count (YMC). Moreover, the dominant mesophilic aerobic bacterial genera and common bacterial pathogens were identified by phenotypic methods. Accordingly, the mean aerobic mesophilic bacterial load of the shell surface rinsate of the egg samples ranged from 1.22 log10 CFU/ml to 9.7 log10 CFU/ml, while that of the internal contents ranged from 1.52 log CFU/ml to 9.36 log CFU/ml. The microbial load values of the egg contents were beyond the international recommended acceptable limits and suggested incipient spoilage. The mesophilic aerobic bacterial genera of the shell and internal contents of the egg samples were similarly dominated by Pseudomonas, Micrococcus, and Staphylococcus. The incidence of E. coli in shell rinsate and egg content was 10% (6 of 60) and 1.67% (1 of 60), respectively. Salmonellae were detected in shell rinsate of six egg samples (10%) and in the contents of eight samples (13.33%), all from small-scale vendors. These findings call for vigilant exercise of good agricultural and hygienic practices by primary producers and retailers.
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Peña-Pita, Amalia Priscila, Martha Cecilia Sarmiento-Mejía, and Ana Teresa Castro-Torres. "Caracterización, riesgos ocupacionales y percepción de salud de vendedores informales de lotería y chance." Revista Ciencia y Cuidado 14, no. 1 (January 4, 2017): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22463/17949831.807.
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Objetivo: analizar las características sociodemográficas, percepción de la salud y riesgos ocupacionales de la población de vendedores informales de lotería y chance de Villavicencio y Yopal. Materiales y Métodos: estudio descriptivo, transversal y prospectivo. La muestra no aleatoria estuvo integrada por 249 vendedores informales. Las variables estudiadas fueron: características sociodemográficas y económicas, afiliación al sistema general de salud, nivel de ingreso, responsabilidad en el hogar, propiedad de la vivienda, factores de riesgo ocupacionales y condiciones laborales. Como instrumento de recolección de información se utilizó la Encuesta del Ministerio de Salud para Trabajadores Informales. Resultados: la mayoría de vendedores de lotería y chance son mayores de 40 años, mujeres, casados o en unión libre. Se observó una baja afiliación a pensiones y riesgos laborales, y con ingresos inferiores a un salario mínimo legal mensual vigente en un 80%. Las condiciones de trabajo, sobre todo las ambientales y de seguridad, son precarias; aun así, la auto percepción de salud como mala o regular no supera el 50%. Conclusión: población muy vulnerable en cuanto a sus ingresos y condiciones futuras de ingreso para protección en la vejez. PALABRAS CLAVE: condiciones de trabajo, salud laboral, riegos laborales.Characterization, occupational risks and perception of health of informal lottery vendorsABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the socio-demographic characteristics, health perception and occupational risks of the population of street lottery retailers in Villavicencio and Yopal. Materials and Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional, and prospective study. The non-aleatory sample was made by 249 informal vendors. The variables studied were: socio-demographic and economic characteristics, affiliation to the general health system, level of income, home responsibility, homeownership, occupational risk factors and work conditions. As an instrument of data collection the Department of Health for Informal Workers Survey was used. Results: most of the lottery retailers are older than 40, women, married or cohabiting. A low affiliation to pension and occupational risks was observed, and with incomes lower than a monthly minimum wage valid in an 80%. The work conditions, most importantly the environment and security conditions, are precarious; nonetheless, the self-perception of health as bad or regular does not reach 50%. Conclusion: very vulnerable population regarding income and future conditions of income for old age protection.KEYWORDS: working conditions, occupational health, occupational risks.Caracterização, riscos ocupacionais e percepção de saúde de vendedores informais de loteria RESUMOObjetivo: analisar as características sócio-demográficas, percepção da saúde e riscos ocupacionais da população de vendedores ambulantes de loteria nas cidades de Villavicencio e Yopal na Colômbia. Materiais e Métodos: estudo descritivo, transversal e prospectivo. A amostragem não aleatória esteve integrada por 249 vendedores informais. As variáveis estudadas foram: características sócio-demográficas e económicas, afiliação à rede de saúde, nível de ingresso, responsabilidade no lar, casa própria ou não, fatores de risco ocupacionais e condições de trabalho. Como instrumento de recolecção de informação se utilizou a Pesquisa de Opinião do Ministério de Saúde para Trabalhadores Informais. Resultados: a maioria de vendedores de loteria são maiores de 40 anos, mulheres, casadas ou em união libre. Observou-se uma baixa afiliação a Fundo Social de Pensão e Riscos de Trabalho, e com ingressos inferiores a um salário mínimo legal mensal vigente num 80%. As condições de trabalho, sobre todo as ambientais e de seguridade, são precárias; ainda assim, a auto percepção de saúde como má ou regular não supera o 50%. Conclusão: população muito vulnerável em quanto a seus ingressos e condições futuras de ingresso para proteção na velhice. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: condições de trabalho, saúde do trabalhador, riscos ocupacionais.
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Sulistiawati, Indry, Rahmawati Rahmawati, and Saida Zainurossaiamia ZA. "Which is More Interesting Between Gamification, Share, and Like in Customer Engagement in Millennials and Generation Z?" Journal of Social Research 2, no. 1 (December 16, 2022): 224–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.55324/josr.v2i1.502.
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Background: Shopee is one of the major online retailers that offers a marketplace for exchanges of products and services between vendors and consumers, allowing for simple electronic transactions across networks and the internet. Shopee is not just a place for transactions; as it develops, it also offers a variety of conveniences for its users, such as making it simpler for users to complete daily tasks involving the purchase of goods and services, facilitating transactions, offering customers assistance with shopping-related issues, having game features that elicit strong emotions and offer numerous advantages, etc. 140 respondents were surveyed for this study, many of whom were Samarinda City Shopee users.
Objective: This study aims to analyze which is more interesting between gamification, share, and like in customer engagement in millennials and gemerasi z.
Method: By employing the PLS analysis technique to ascertain the influence between variables, this form of research is quantitative
Result: The results of this study are broken down into ten hypotheses that explain how content marketing, gamification, and e-Women all significantly affect customer engagement, customer loyalty, and customer engagement—all of which are significantly mediated by customer engagement—and how content marketing, gamification, and e-Women significantly affect customer loyalty.
Conclusion: Customer engagement, which is influenced by marketing strategies like content marketing, gamification, and e-WOM, has an impact on customer loyalty through the medium of customer engagement. This engagement is supported by quality and useful content to encourage positive comments on the content provided, and the presence of game features that offer rewards encourages customers to keep up their engagement in order to draw emotional customers who will be devoted to Shopee's goods and services.
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Hao, Na, H. Holly Wang, and Qingjie Zhou. "The impact of online grocery shopping on stockpile behavior in Covid-19." China Agricultural Economic Review 12, no. 3 (August 14, 2020): 459–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/caer-04-2020-0064.
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PurposeThis research is to examine the impact of online channels on food stockpile behavior.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, we use bivariate probit models to empirically investigate the impact of online purchasing channels on Chinese urban consumer food hoarding behaviors with random survey samples.FindingsResults show that fresh food e-commerce channels are more likely to be associated with panic stockpile behaviors due to higher likelihood of supply shortages than offline channels with government assistance in logistic management. In contrast, community group buy, another format of e-commerce, appears superior in satisfying the consumer needs and easing the panic buying perception.Practical implicationsIt suggests that online channels may have diverse impacts on consumers' panic stockpiling behaviors during the extreme situations. Online channels need to develop efficient supply chains to be more resilient to extreme situations and the government shall recognize the increasing share of the online channels together with traditional offline channels when implementing supporting policies.Social implicationsWith ever increasing share of online channels, it is imperative in terms of policy implications to understand how would online channels affect hoarding behavior.Originality/valueWe are the first study in online shopping's impact on food stockpile during pandemics using a random sample. Although food stockpile behavior at times of emergency have been investigated in many literature, there are no empirical studies on the impact of online channels on stockpile behaviors under extreme situations. Unlike disasters that immediately impact every entity in supply chains covering producers, vendors, distribution centers and retailers, pandemics did not render supply chains affected immediately, but rather increase consumers' willingness to shop online to avoid virus. Thus, Covid-19 provides a natural experiment to investigate the online channels' impact on stockpile behavior.
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Nady, Baha`a Abdul-Hafez Attallah Al, Ahed Saket Al Haraizah, and Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Al Hawary. "Environmental Scanning and Communication Technology as a Gate for Sustainable Competitive advantage of Sanitary Ware (bathtub) Suppliers in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY 13, no. 3 (April 24, 2014): 4335–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/ijct.v13i3.2764.
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Today globalization turned the world into a global village where event in one region transmits to others almost immediately. Communication technology has played big role and transformed many aspects of business; Internet is one of most important technology which has created e-commerce and a global digital economy with new opportunities. Social media such as websites Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest have already demonstrated their potential for getting information also mobile technology have a lot of potential for gathering information. In spite of environmental turbulence, organizations must effectively depend on scanning environment and useful communication technology for operations and survival. It is crucial for every company to analyze strengths and weaknesses of the internal and external environment to enable the business sustain and growth. Both internal and external environmental scanning is important to be conducted but basically internal scanning will be done first as it will be the ground analysis to determine further direction of an organization. Increasing risk of error, failure to analyze environment included strength and weaknesses internally, opportunities and threats externally, and inefficient of communication technology may resulting to unsustainable the business in long term. Additionally a growing number of companies in Jeddah city led to the business competition between companies that increasingly tight and competitive. This paper sought the place of environmental scanning and role of communication technology as a way for providing information helpfully and as a means of business survival and sustainable competitive advantage. In this study we will focus on Suppliers who deal with sanitary ware (Bathtub) in Jeddah city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mostly people in Jeddah City prefer to purchase from various outlets vendors / retailers who are available usually in same area, according to their convenience, preference and selection. Increases in expectations and changing culinary style of consumers make the Sanitary Ware (Bathtub) business dynamic in general. Despite the increasing interest in the area there are very little researches on sustainable competitive advantage of sanitary ware vending service in our domestic market. Keeping these conditions in view, this study tries to explore the current scenario in which Sanitary Ware (Bathtub) has become a flourishing business for a lot of Suppliers as it has been successful in attracting a large mass of customers and projects.This study analyses environmental scanning and communication technology as a gate for sustainable competitive advantage of sanitary ware (Bathtub) in Jeddah city. The data analysis was based on 108 retailers who purchase bathtub sanitary ware from sanitary ware suppliers companies in Jeddah city, the data analysis was based on multivariate statistical techniques encompassing Factor analysis to test reliability, Percentage and frequency, descriptive analysis to describe the sample, multiple linear regressions via using SPSS analysis software. It identifies the most relevant understanding of environmental scanning and role of communication technology as agate for sustainable competitive advantage, and determines their influence in choosing of sanitary ware outlets. The results show that as environmental scanning and communication technologies (independent variables) have a positive influence on sustainable competitive advantage (dependent variable) of bathtub sanitary ware suppliers in Jeddah city.
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Oberoi, Harinder Singh, and Dinesh M R. "Trends and Innovations in Value Chain Management of Tropical Fruits." Journal of Horticultural Sciences 14, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.24154/jhs.2019.v14i02.002.
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India produced about 97.35 million tons of fruits during 2017-18, of which less than 1% fruits were exported. In India, less than 5% of the total fruits produced are sold by the organized supply chain management and E-commerce companies and 3% of the total produce gets processed, indicating that more than 90% of fruits follow the traditional route of supply chain involving farmers, auctioneers, agents/intermediaries, wholesalers, sub-wholesalers, retailers, cart vendors before they reach the consumers. Post-Harvest (PH) losses occur at each stage of the supply chain and are compounded with each operation. A study on PH loss estimation has shown maximum loss of 15.88% in guava among fruits while other studies have reported much higher PH lossesin fruits. Value of tropical fruits, both in monetary terms and quality reduces during harvesting, handling, transportation from the farmer’s field, packaging, storage, retail and even at the consumer’s level. Important interventions that reduce the PH losses and improve the supply chain management are establishment of pre-cooling facilities and short term storage facilities through evaporative cooling/refrigeration mechanisms at the farm gate, primary processing and packaging provision at the farm gate or nearby collection centres, transportation of fruits in refrigerated/evaporative cooled vans with the use of alternate energy sources and provision for low temperature and high humidity storage at the retail centres. Establishment of a Postharvest management system for sorting, washing, partial drying, edible coating, if required and grading at the collection centres will help in reducing the PH losses in the supply chain and help farmers get a better value for their produce. Formation of farmer clusters or Farmers Producer Organizations (FPOs) provides farmers a better bargaining power because of higher volumes. Educating and bringing awareness among the farmers about the good agricultural practices (GAP), mechanization in field operations, availability of seeds for different seasons, eliminating the problem of seasonality are also important in production of quality output. Transportation of fruits, such as mango, banana and guava in vans/wagons operating through evaporative cooling/cooling mechanism using phase change material will help in improving the shelf life of such fruits. An integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) system along with the sensors for ethylene, temperature and RH monitoring is likely to help in easy tracking and traceability of the fresh produce. Establishment of primary and secondary processing facility at the farmer cluster/ FPO levels will help in transforming the farmers to primary processors.
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Oberoi, Harinder Singh, and Dinesh M R. "Trends and Innovations in Value Chain Management of Tropical Fruits." Journal of Horticultural Sciences 14, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v14i2.773.
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India produced about 97.35 million tons of fruits during 2017-18, of which less than 1% fruits were exported. In India, less than 5% of the total fruits produced are sold by the organized supply chain management and E-commerce companies and 3% of the total produce gets processed, indicating that more than 90% of fruits follow the traditional route of supply chain involving farmers, auctioneers, agents/intermediaries, wholesalers, sub-wholesalers, retailers, cart vendors before they reach the consumers. Post-Harvest (PH) losses occur at each stage of the supply chain and are compounded with each operation. A study on PH loss estimation has shown maximum loss of 15.88% in guava among fruits while other studies have reported much higher PH lossesin fruits. Value of tropical fruits, both in monetary terms and quality reduces during harvesting, handling, transportation from the farmer’s field, packaging, storage, retail and even at the consumer’s level. Important interventions that reduce the PH losses and improve the supply chain management are establishment of pre-cooling facilities and short term storage facilities through evaporative cooling/refrigeration mechanisms at the farm gate, primary processing and packaging provision at the farm gate or nearby collection centres, transportation of fruits in refrigerated/evaporative cooled vans with the use of alternate energy sources and provision for low temperature and high humidity storage at the retail centres. Establishment of a Postharvest management system for sorting, washing, partial drying, edible coating, if required and grading at the collection centres will help in reducing the PH losses in the supply chain and help farmers get a better value for their produce. Formation of farmer clusters or Farmers Producer Organizations (FPOs) provides farmers a better bargaining power because of higher volumes. Educating and bringing awareness among the farmers about the good agricultural practices (GAP), mechanization in field operations, availability of seeds for different seasons, eliminating the problem of seasonality are also important in production of quality output. Transportation of fruits, such as mango, banana and guava in vans/wagons operating through evaporative cooling/cooling mechanism using phase change material will help in improving the shelf life of such fruits. An integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) system along with the sensors for ethylene, temperature and RH monitoring is likely to help in easy tracking and traceability of the fresh produce. Establishment of primary and secondary processing facility at the farmer cluster/ FPO levels will help in transforming the farmers to primary processors.
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Kamble, Mr Pratik, Ms Sneha Kamble, and Ms Neha Jadhav. "Online Shopping E-commerce Android Application and E-commerce Website Development." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 4 (April 30, 2022): 3216–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.41950.
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Abstract: We are designing an app that directly sells its products to the customer. As compared to other apps which have tie-ups with multiple retailers. Eg: Amazon is an online shopping App which is collaborated with multiple companies; So Amazon becomes the 3rd party vendor. Due to our App there will be no such 3rd party vendor in the whole sale process because by using our App customers will be directly connected to the manufactures of the products. By using this application customers can directly get the required products of the Company directly from the company that to in manufacturing rates. By using the website of our client one will be able to compare wide range of products and also be able to purchase those. This report will be consisting all the design plan of the app as well as the design plan for the client website & Search Engine Optimization for the same. Keywords: E-Commerce, Website Development, Android App Development
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Mauldin, Elaine, and Vairam Arunachalam. "An Experimental Examination of Alternative Forms of Web Assurance for Business-to-Consumer e-Commerce." Journal of Information Systems 16, s-1 (January 1, 2002): 33–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/jis.2002.16.s-1.33.
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This study reports the results of an experiment that examined alternative forms of web assurance for “B2C” e-commerce. Specifically, using a repeated measures design, variations in purchase intent were examined across four within-subjects web site conditions (two MP3 players and two digital cameras from different web sites) and five between-subjects assurance conditions (undirected or directed retailer disclosures, VISA, TRUSTe, and WebTrust™). The effects of assurance (present vs. absent) on purchase intent were studied relative to the roles of retailer disclosures, information risk (security, disclosure, and product risk), and familiarity (with the retailer and product). Control variables encompassing previous Internet and online purchase experiences, general intent to buy online, and web site design were also incorporated in the study. No differences in intent to purchase were found for the three assurance conditions and they were combined for further data analysis. Results indicate that higher intent to purchase is associated only with web assurance when consumers did not observe retailer disclosures and product familiarity was lower. When consumers did observe retailer disclosures, intent to purchase was not significantly associated with web assurance. Results also indicate that familiarity with vendor and information risk were not associated with intent to purchase. However, several of the control variables, including comfort with the Internet, general intent to buy online, and web site design, were significantly associated with higher intent to purchase.
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Komaromi, Kurt, Fahri Unsal, and G. Scott Erickson. "Online Interaction with Millenials." International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism 3, no. 1 (January 2013): 46–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2013010104.
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Trust in exchanges is an important concept in business and has become of topic of some interest in e-commerce. Substantial work has been done on how institutional mechanisms, technology, word-of-mouth, and numerous other variables affect trust in a website and potential customers’ willingness to conduct business there. This study continues that line of research by considering how the millennial generation perceives the trustworthiness of three types of online sites: a retailer, an auction site, and a social networking site. Little work has been done on whether social network sites have more or less trust than other types of websites and what aspects of trust are affected. Given the broad trend toward utilizing these social network sites for commercial purposes, it makes sense to assess how targeted users view and interact with them. This study presents preliminary data on all of these issues, suggesting that there do appear to be differences between social network sites and more traditional online vendors.
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Jajja, M. Shakeel S., and Mohsin N. Jat. "Daraz.pk: Online Marketplace’s Value Chain." Asian Journal of Management Cases 16, no. 1 (March 2019): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972820119825976.
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This case study provides an understanding of the channels through which orders at an online retail platform are fulfilled. Daraz.pk, the pioneering and leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan, started in 2012 as an online fashion retailer and evolved into a general marketplace for brands selling items ranging from electronics to home appliances to fashion. The case study is built around the decision regarding how to engage international brands in the wake of increasing local completion and the potential entry of some established international players. Highlighting the decision’s implications on logistics (and vice versa), this case study exposes various important trade-offs between in-house inventory and vendor-managed inventory. Through the example of a sales-day event conducted by Daraz, this case study also brings to light various strains that logistics could potentially face because of demand hikes and the steps that could help in managing a situation like this.
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Hossain, Mohammad Alamgir, Shams Rahman, Tamgid Ahmed Chowdhury, Caroline Chan, Xiaoyan Yang, and Qingxin Su. "How signaling mechanisms reduce “lemons” from online group buying (OGB) markets? A study of China." International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management 48, no. 7 (August 6, 2018): 658–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpdlm-02-2017-0113.
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PurposeA major transformation in retail logistics over the few years is backed by enormous improvements in internet technologies. It is now easy for e-retailers to entertain delivery progression, or consumers can share use-experience with future customers and thereby reducing information asymmetry. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of different signals on consumer behavior in the presence of information asymmetry, in the context of online group buying (OGB) markets in China.Design/methodology/approachBased on the lemon market theory (LMT) and signaling theory, the study develops a research model of the OGB consumers’ context in China, which is validated using data from an online survey. A total of 528 responses are used for data analysis applying structural equation modeling technique.FindingsThe findings of the study show that perceived vendor quality (PVQ) and perceived product quality (PPQ) have significantly positive effects on intention to purchase from OGB websites. PVQ is associated with perceived reputation and perceived trustworthiness (PT) of vendor, and the determinants of PPQ are quality assurance information of products, and information about mer-chants. Further, PT has a mediating effect, while asymmetry of information has a moderating effect.Research limitations/implicationsThe research model is valid as a generic OGB model that can be investigated in other contexts to understand the generalizability of the findings. Future research is needed to incorporate additional relevant factors (e.g. price, advertising activity/investments) that may help increase the acceptability of the model to a wide range of e-commerce contexts. Two of the control variables (gender and prior internet experience) were found to be significant; this could be further examined in future studies to determine the relative impact on each causal relationship.Originality/valueWhereas prior studies in the domain of consumer service proposed different signaling mechanisms that were believed to eliminate information asymmetry from a market, the study sheds light on the effectiveness of the signals in the OGB context. This is a unique effort that applies and extends LMT and signaling theory in OGB context by theorizing the associated dimensions and their causal effects.
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-, Pankhuri Chawla. "An Investigation of Consumer's Online and Offline Shopping Conduct." International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research 5, no. 3 (May 8, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i03.2896.
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I have embraced this research project undertaking to comprehend client's way of behaving towards on the web and disconnected shopping. I also looked at the factors that affect customers' online and offline shopping behaviors in this study. The report contains the short depiction of the internet shopping and disconnected shopping. It contains the discoveries and examination of the study led to accumulate essential information, to pass judgment on the significance of different qualities that impact the fulfillment of clients in various way and to the different degree. Initial Experience, service delivery, and handling grievances are the three categories that fall under this category. Additionally, efforts have been made to determine the general level of customer satisfaction. There were forty customers who participated in this study. We have come to the conclusion that, despite the fact that the e-commerce industry is increasingly offering cutting-edge services, many customers are still unaware of these offerings. The use of these services is a different matter because they are only concerned with providing innovative services to customers without educating them about them. The e-commerce industry needs to educate customers about the benefits and uses of its services. I learned a lot from working on this project, and it also gave me enough room to use my analytical skills. Web based shopping has become progressively famous, because of accommodation (and frequently lower costs). Online shopping makes it easier to avoid the hassle of searching multiple stores and then waiting in long lines to purchase a particular item, especially during the holiday season. Using a web browser, consumers can directly purchase goods or services from a seller through online shopping, a type of electronic commerce. A shopping search engine, which displays the same product's availability and pricing at various e-retailers, can be used by consumers to find a product of interest by either directly visiting the retailer's website or searching among alternative vendors.
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Hermes, Anna, Cornelia Sindermann, Christian Montag, and René Riedl. "Exploring Online and In-Store Purchase Willingness: Associations With the Big Five Personality Traits, Trust, and Need for Touch." Frontiers in Psychology 13 (April 4, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.808500.
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Nowadays, customers can utilize both online and in-store retail channels. Consequently, it is crucial for retailers to understand the possible drivers of retail channel selection, including customers’ personalities, degrees of trust, and product touch preferences. Unfortunately, current omnichannel research only scarcely addresses the effects of personality, trust, and desire to touch a product before purchasing it on willingness to purchase and how those effects vary between online and in-store shopping. Thus, we conducted an exploratory study. Our analysis of survey data (N = 1,208)—which controls for respondents’ age, gender, and education—reveals that across both the willingness to purchase in-store and online, a higher level of e-vendor trust is a significant, positive predictor. However, we also identify several channel-related differences, including that Trust Propensity, as well as the Big Five traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness are significantly positively related to in-store, but not online, purchase willingness. We also find that Instrumental Need for Touch (defined as goal-motivated touch of a product) is positively related to in-store, but negatively related to online, purchase willingness. Finally, we highlight opportunities for future research and discuss how retail managers might enhance customer experiences in their physical and online stores.