Using Amazon’s establishment of a fulfillment center (FC) as a proxy of e-commerce’s local presence, this paper quantifies the spillover effect of e-commerce on local retail property market. We find that the retail property value where a FC is opened increases by 5.2 percentage points...

Past papers on consumer behaviour of Internet non-shoppers in Hong Kong have been lacking. This empirical study by focus group interview is an attempt to understand what can be done to facilitate local Internet shopping? Inducements for non-shoppers to purchase on-line include "increasing web...

Past papers on consumer behaviour of Internet non-shoppers in Hong Kong have been lacking. This empirical study by on-line questionnaire is an attempt to understand what the barriers against Internet shopping are? Research overseas suggests that major barriers against Internet shopping are...

Research undertaken within Hong Kong concerning consumer response to shopping on the Internet is piecemeal and incomplete. This empirical study intends to explore on why have the consumers chosen to shop products via the Internet. According to recent research conducted in the United States,...