Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 1.0, Thames Valley University, London, language: English, abstract: This dissertation is a study in the area of e-commerce. The aim of this study was to examine the adoption of online shopping and online shopping for clothing in particular and factors influencing the intention to purchase clothing online. A quantitative research method was used and a questionnaire designed on the website www.surveymonkey.com and then distributed by sending out the link leading to the survey via facebook and emails. 94 useful questionnaires were gathered from female and male UK students. SPSS 17 was used to analyse the collected data by conducting chi-square tests and Spearman's rho correlation tests to examine the relation between different variables. The constructs of the technology acceptance model (TAM) were used as a framework and basis for this research and were extended by further constructs. Therefore, the impact of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, prior online shopping experience, perceived risk and product involvement on the intention to purchase clothing online was analysed. Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and prior online shopping experience had positive effects on the intention to purchase clothing online. Perceived risk had a negative effect on the intention to purchase clothing online. These findings supported the hypotheses. Other than hypothesised, clothing product involvement did not have a significant positive effect on the intention to purchase clothing online.

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The Internet has developed into a new distribution channel and online transactions are rapidly increasing. This has created a need to understand how the consumer perceives online purchases. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors affecting student consumer's buying decision when purchasing clothing online, and find out which factors impact on the online buying decision most. The research hypotheses are tested by using data collected from 200 students of Glyndwr University in UK. The identified factors economic orientation, convenience orientation, trust orientation and social influence have been examined. Among all of them, the first three were positively correlated with online attitude, whereas the result shown that social influence weakly associated with online attitude. The findings of this research can be drawn as implications for online clothing retailers so as to improve their understanding of the segment consumer group and increase their online marketing strategy effectiveness.

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Purpose - To investigate the factors affecting consumer's online shopping behavior.Design/methodology/approach - A descriptive type of study using judgmental sampling for selecting the samples from online shopping users of Kanpur city. The data has been collecting with the help of questionnaire. The factor analysis is performed for identifying the factors, the nonparametric test has been used for hypothesis testing.Findings - The study results suggest that consumers' online shopping behavior is being affected by several factors like demographic factors, social factors, consumer online shopping experience, knowledge of using internet and computer, website design, social media, situational factors, facilitating conditions, product characteristics, sales promotional scheme, payment option, delivery of goods and after sales services plays an important role in online shopping.Research limitations/implications - The study results cannot be generalized to the all online shopping users because of small sample size and geographical location from where data is collected. Future studies may also apply some more statistical techniques to improve the conclusiveness of the findings reported in this study.Practical implications - The results should be of interest to the online retailers in deciding their marketing program.Originality/value - The paper is based on original work, the questionnaire has been found reliable after checking the cronback Alpha value. The KMO values supports the adequacy of sample size. It will help the academicians and scholars in their research work in the form of a literature on online shopping. It will also provide guidelines to online retailers in making their marketing program.

Online Consumer Psychology addresses many of the issues created by the Internet and goes beyond the topic of advertising and the Web to include topics such as customization, site design, word of mouth processes, and the study of consumer decision making while online. The theories and research methods help provide greater insight into the processes underlying consumer behavior in online environments. Broken into six sections, this book: focuses on community and looks at the Internet's ability to bring like-minded individuals from around the world into one forum; examines issues related to advertising, specifically click-through rates and advertising content placed within gaming online and wireless networks; provides readers with reasons why consumers customize products and the benefits of customization; discusses the psychological effects of site design; asks the question of whether the Internet empowers consumers to make better decisions; and discusses research tools that can be used online.

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.