Quantitative methods are very successful in producing baseline forecasts of time series; however, these models forecast neither the timing nor the impact of special events such as promotions or strikes. In most of the cases, the timing of such events is not known so they are usually referred as...

This article studies how adoption and usage behaviour of the Internet and online shopping, respectively influence the preference to use electronic commerce to purchase different types of products. We empirically model the preference for electronic commerce when consumers have to buy different...