This paper investigates adolescent online shopping and self-efficacy development in the virtual setting. The authors present and test a model of antecedents and mediators to two dimensions of online consumer self-efficacy. Additionally, a discriminant analysis finds that more involved adolescent...

Retailers with physical stores that also have an online presence (one form of multi-channel retailers) have unique challenges. Consumers bringing their prior attitudes towards the retailer to the site is one such challenge. However, researchers studying website issues focus only on consumers'...

The United States Hispanic Internet user is a growing and relatively unexplored segment in the marketing literature. This research addresses this void by assessing how key cultural characteristics of U.S. Hispanic consumers influence their behaviors online. Examining a multi-cultural sample of...