Background: “An increasing number and variety of firms and organizations are exploiting and creating Business opportunities on the Internet” Liao and Cheung (2000) As online shopping is a new medium so the consumer behavior in the field of online shopping is also pretty diverse in nature compare to traditional consumer behavior, so it is equally important for one to identify what factors influence consumers to shop online. In order to reach towards purchase decision, it consists of several factors which influence consumers to shop online. These factors are important for retailers to compete in the market and to make their product more compatible. Purpose of the Research and Research Questions: The prime purpose of the research is to identify and analyze the factors influencing on consumers to shop online. Besides the factors influencing another purpose of the study is to analyze who are online shoppers in terms of demography. The findings of this research will not only help marketers to formulate their marketing strategies for online shoppers but will also increase the knowledge and research in field of online shopping. i) What factors influence consumers to shop online? ii) Who are online shoppers in terms of demography? One of our research objectives is to work on factors that influence consumers to shop online, researchers have decided to study four factors such as Convenience, Time Saving, Website Design/Features and Security. While it is important to investigate the motivation behind consumer purchasing but it is equally important to find as how the consumers form attitudes and behaviors towards online buying because consumer attitude towards purchasing online is a conspicuous factor affecting actual buying behavior. When marketers get to know the factors affecting online consumer behavior then it create huge opportunity for the marketers to develop the marketing strategies accordingly and turn the potential customers into actual one and retain the exiting buyers. Question: Prepare the Research Proposal for “Consumer behavior towards Online Shopping in India” with reference to above Purpose of the Research and Research Questions.

Master's Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: A, , course: Master of commerce, language: English, abstract: This study tries to determine reasons for the shift of urban Indian youth shopping orientation from physical stores to online stores and the impact of various factors on customer satisfaction and loyalty. It also compares factors affecting online consumer buying behaviour of differently oriented shoppers and is supposed to identify the usage of mobile shopping application and its attractiveness amongst urban Indian youth. E-tailing in India is growing at a rapid pace and need of study arises for the E-tailers to provide better improved service quality to the customers. As it is a newer concept, customers are still unaware as to what their expectations are- What more they can expect from the E-tailer still depends on the orientation of the shopper. E-tailing industry in India has witnessed many changes in a short span of time along with many opportunities as well as challenges.

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 64.6, University of Lincoln (PG-Business School), course: MBA, language: English, abstract: In the last few decades, the internet has been a powerful tool. The advent of internet has removed major industry barriers and made shopping much more easily. The development of internet from last 5 years has significantly increased the web-users which are due high speed data transmission and other technology developments have created an advantage for the firms to promote themselves more significantly. In the current era of internet customers use internet for varied purpose and activities; searching information about products/ services, companies, product features and prices, availability of the product, selection of products, placing order and paying them online ensuring a smooth transmission of the complete process. According to the UCLA centre for communication policy, online shopping has become the third popular internet activity which further followed up by e-mails and web browsing. Many researches have indicated that the internet shopping particularly in B2C has risen and online shopping become more popular to many people. According to The Emerging Digital Economy Report, in some companies the weight of e-commerce sales is high (Dell computer reached $ 18million sales through internet). This advent of internet has made the marketers to realise that the consumer behaviour transformation is unavoidable and thus they have to change their marketing strategy.

Who doesn't love shopping? Of course, most of us. Evolution of internet and digitalization in all walks of life have created a paradigm shift in shopping patterns from bricks and mortar to online shopping. Though consumers have started welcoming and adopting this new phenomenon but still the move is not in its full swing. Consumers are somewhat reluctant to use it as they are facing various kinds of obstacles. Since consumers are central point of any business to achieve success, it is imperative to analyze and understand consumers behavior and attitudes to make them satisfied. The book makes an attempt to assess the web-based shopping behavior of consumers in India. Specifically it presents a clear picture of concerns and issues that exist in the adoption of online shopping. The main objective of this study is to explore major factors which consumers consider while making online purchases and to expose the factors which create hindrance to online shopping. The present work is a modified version of author's research work for which she has been awarded a Doctorate degree by Department of Business Administration, University of Kota.

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: Online shopping is having very bright future. Perception towards online shopping is getting better in India. With the use of internet, consumers can shop anywhere, anything and anytime with easy and safe payment options. Consumers can do comparison shopping between products, as well as, online stores. In present scenario customers are busy that they don’t have enough chance and time to go to shopping centers and purchase the things they need, everybody likes to do online shopping. In online, Product assortment is very huge to choose, and make immediate comparison in price, quality, variety, colour and also get product based information like customer feedback. The main purpose of this paper is to determine the “Factors Influencing Consumer Perception towards Online Shopping”. The objective for this research is to know the customer perception and identify the factors which influence the online customer’s. A quantitative research design which is descriptive and exploratory in nature was selected to gain insights about customer perception towards online shopping. The questionnaire prepared by using Likert’s five-point scale ranging from (1-5) where 1 Means ‘not at all important and 5 Means ‘most important ‘.The research has taken use of closed ended questions. The data collection was done over a period of 8 weeks this was done by going directly to the respondents or through mails. A total number of respondents taken for this study are 154. The collected data is analyzed in statistical method of factor analysis in the IBM SPSS 20.0 software. The data collected on 30 variables was deducted into five factors in the software and analyzed accordingly. The survey revealed that different customers have different perception towards online shopping; most of them having a very good attitude towards online shopping but there are certain customer who still find difficulties or we can say apart from several benefits has some disadvantage in mind of customer. Customer perception keeps on changing with time to time which is to be taken in the consideration.The most important factors that can be taken into account to understand the Internet shopping (Customer Service, Convenience, Experience, Value added service and Product related information).

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 64.6, University of Lincoln (PG-Business School), course: MBA, language: English, abstract: In the last few decades, the internet has been a powerful tool. The advent of internet has removed major industry barriers and made shopping much more easily. The development of internet from last 5 years has significantly increased the web-users which are due high speed data transmission and other technology developments have created an advantage for the firms to promote themselves more significantly. In the current era of internet customers use internet for varied purpose and activities; searching information about products/ services, companies, product features and prices, availability of the product, selection of products, placing order and paying them online ensuring a smooth transmission of the complete process. According to the UCLA centre for communication policy, online shopping has become the third popular internet activity which further followed up by e-mails and web browsing. Many researches have indicated that the internet shopping particularly in B2C has risen and online shopping become more popular to many people. According to The Emerging Digital Economy Report, in some companies the weight of e-commerce sales is high (Dell computer reached $ 18million sales through internet). This advent of internet has made the marketers to realise that the consumer behaviour transformation is unavoidable and thus they have to change their marketing strategy.