With the increasing popularity of mobile applications, more and more e-commerce websites are providing mobile shopping services that enable their consumers to access their products and services through an additional mobile channel. Does the new channel bring new sales or just shift consumers...

A home page is the gateway to an organization's Web site. To design effective Web home pages, it is necessary to understand the fundamental drivers of user's perception of Web pages. Not only do designers have to understand potential users' frame of mind, they also have at their choosing a...

Whether and how copyrights should be enforced in the digital age has become an important policy question and an important question for empirical research. In a prior study, we found that the court ordered blocking of the Pirate Bay website in the UK in April 2012 had only a small impact on total...

This paper reports on an assessment of accessibility of e-Government websites. The study was aimed at examining accessibility of e-Government websites for a developing country. The case of Malawi was analysed. The study used qualitative and quantitative data to examine the accessibility of the...

It is no secret that the growth of online commerce has surged in the 21st Century. Accompanying that growth has been an increased level of awareness that Internet-related “cyberassets” have become critically important in the field of secured financing. There is no reason to believe that this...

This paper develops a model to measure people’s perception of web pages based on the premise that the World Wide Web is a persuasive technology intentionally designed to change a person’s attitudes and behaviors. The model, derived from the persuasion literature, particularly appraisal...

User registration is an important prerequisite for the success of many websites by enabling users to gain access to domain information and personalized content. It is not always desirable for users, however, because they need to disclose personal information. This paper examines what drives user...

User registration is an important prerequisite for the success of many websites that rely on network externalities for value creation, such as social networking and directory websites that need a large number of users to create network externalities. It is not always desirable for users,...

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