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Strategic online customer decision making: leveraging the transformational power of the Internet

Alan D. Smith (Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Management and Marketing, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, USA)
William T. Rupp (Dean of Stephens College of Business, University of Montevallo, Alabama, USA)

Online Information Review

ISSN: 1468-4527

Article publication date: 1 December 2003

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Abstract

Online shopping phenomena are governed by a number of consumer acceptance and behaviour characteristics and grounded in theoretical aspects of consumer decision making. There are a number of factors that affect what we buy, when we buy, and why we buy. In reference to buying online, the factors that influence consumers are marketing efforts, socio‐cultural influences, psychological factors, personal questions, post‐decision behaviour, and experience. These factors will be further discussed by way of a consumer decision‐making model for online shoppers.

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Smith, A.D. and Rupp, W.T. (2003), "Strategic online customer decision making: leveraging the transformational power of the Internet", Online Information Review, Vol. 27 No. 6, pp. 418-432. https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520310510055

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