Our research intends to provide a general better understanding of consumer on-line purchasing behaviour. This paper examines consumers’ perception of a web merchant trustworthiness within the framework of signaling theory. Although consumer researchers were interested in a numerous economic...

Lack of trust has been identified as the major barrier to the growth of electronic commerce. Building trust is essential for the success of web vendors, especially less-known ones. If trust is a sine qua non condition of e-commerce development, then understanding its determinants should be a...

Our research intends to provide a general better understanding of consumer on-line purchasing behaviour. This paper examines consumers’ perception of a web merchant trustworthiness within the framework of signaling theory. Although consumer researchers were interested in a numerous economic...

The aim of this paper is to provide a literature review of research on online consumer trust. First, the concept specificities are identified and the construct definition and dimensionality are examined. Then, a taxonomy of the online trust determinants is suggested. Finally, to gain...

The objective of this work is to highlight the issues of cyber- resistance for companies. The article first outlines the contributions of the web for the development of resistance actions. It then proposes a classification of the main ways of action related to the web. Finally, the strategic...

This article focuses on the practices of resistance to intrusive advertising on the Internet. The analysis of 19 interviews reveals the existence of different resistance profiles when exposed to interstitial: functional resistance, ideological resistance, conative avoidance and non-resistance....

This paper develops a scale to measure consumer trust towards a web merchant. For this purpose, two studies were carried out. A total of 430 valid observations were used for the scale development. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the psychometric properties...

This paper explores the persuasive effects of different commercials for an analgesic on members of different age groups. Commercial content was manipulated to be either of (a) factual or (b) evaluative. The impact of these two contents was assessed on members of two different age groups: young...