Socially constructed marketing imageries (e.g. e-atmospherics) help consumers while making choices and decisions. Still, human and retailing technologies interactions are rarely evaluated from a social practice perspective. This paper explores the potential impact of socially constructed...

E-grocery is gradually becoming viable or a necessity for many families. Yet, most e-supermarkets are seen as providers of low value "staple" and bulky goods mainly. While each store has a large number of SKU available, these products are mainly necessity goods with low marginal value for...

Abstract:Purpose – To investigate the extent of retail change in the UK grocery sector over the last 30 years.Design/methodology/approach – In 1980 a press article by Richard Milner andPatience Wheatcroft attempted to anticipate retail change by 1984. Taking that as atemplate we examine how...

The social construction of technology in marketers' strategy ought to have a more profound role to play in unpacking quot;realquot; motivations and predicting engagement or anti-choice behavior with technology. Focus groups were conducted in London (UK) to illicit perceptions of both adopters...

Supermarkets offer multiple mechanisms to encourage consumers to shop online. Little is, however, available to comprehend household purchasing arrangements, processes and practices before going online. Our theoretical perspective draws on body of research covering areas such as intra-household...

In the last decade, the wide use of the Internet, particularly through the proliferation of broadband, has dramatically changed the behaviour and lifestyle of many people. China, as a fast-growing emerging economy with a different shopping culture, different ideology, very large population,...

Secured bank was established as a private commercial bank in the mid 1950's with currently over $40 billion in assets. It is now the third largest bank in Turkey with over 10.2 millions customers, 489 branches, and 2000 ATMs. Since 1999, a call centre and an Internet transaction site are...

There are various models proposed in the literature to analyze trajectories of e-Government projects in terms of success and failure. Yet, only the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective (Heeks and Stanforth, 2007) considers the interaction factors among network actors and actants. This paper...

Little is known about the development of social e-atmospherics. And yet, e-atmospherics have motivated an emerging body of research which reports that both better layouts and 'recognized' atmospherics encourage consumers to modify their shopping habits. While the literature has analyzed mainly...

This paper re-visits the theory of strategic experiential modules in the case of Turkish e-banking e-atmospherics. It is argued that experiential marketing in the e-banking sector could be the key to greater active online migration of consumers and differentiation among the players. Two leaders...