Les responsables de sites marchands cherchent de plus en plus à favoriser l’immersion des internautes pendant l’expérience en ligne. L’objectif de cette recherche est d’étudier les effets des composantes expérientielles des sites marchands comme variables atmosphériques, sur...

This qualitative study is the first to validate immersion as a relevant concept to capture the essence of online commercial experiences. Our study also highlights the specificities of immersive experiences engendered by virtual reality applications available on commercial web sites. We identify...

This research aims to help commercial web sites' manager to improve the performance of marketing investments in the development of traffic, amounting to more than 10% of sales. To do this, we present a typology of the process of choosing a merchant web site in order to highlight two major issues...

Les concepteurs et responsables de sites marchands cherchent de plus en plus à favoriser l'immersion des internautes lors de leurs expériences en ligne. Pour comprendre l'intérêt de ces démarches, une étude quantitative permet de mettre en évidence l'impact de l'expérience immersive en...

Cette étude qualitative permet de souligner les spécificités d'une expérience immersive dans le contexte du commerce électronique, comparativement aux expériences d'immersion dans le domaine culturel. La recherche permet d'identifier les composantes expérientielles des sites marchands qui...

Marketing has been given a strong interface and connection role within the literature, creating the assumption of a naturally “open” marketing. However, specifically, the opening of the marketing organization is not so obvious. In a theoretical paper, Day (2011) introduces the Open Marketing...

This article aims at discussing the various dimensions of budget allocation decisions made by final consumers. We review the main research and offer a conceptual typology of allocation choices at different levels (time, efforts, product categories, brands…). Then, we make suggestions to carry...

Since the mid 90s, the increasing importance of marketing has been observed in the big companies of the retail sector. This evolution is an answer to some changes in the sector competition which prompt the retail companies to become «customer-oriented». Thanks to a documented analysis and some...

This article aims at challenging the relevance of some concepts typical of traditional retail activities for understanding electronic commerce. We try to demonstrate that geography still plays a role in building a competitive advantage over the Web, but that the notion of distance has changed...