Purpose: The growing importance of e-commerce has negative effects on the sustainability of supply chains, highlighting the need for appropriate packaging system design. Thus, it is increasingly common to see cities where thousands of packages are delivered every day, increasing congestion and...

Background: Rapid urbanization has intensified the challenges of freight transport, particularly in last-mile (LM) delivery, leading to rising costs and environmental externalities. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have emerged as a promising innovation to address these issues. While much of the...

The complexity of consumer free-riding behavior is a current significant problem, as modern online purchasing channels sharply compete with the traditional ones. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of showrooming behavior by free-rider consumers on product valuation within a...

Determining the optimal portfolio is important in the investment process because it includes the selection of appropriate fund allocation to manage financial risk effectively. Although risk cannot be entirely eliminated, it is managed through strategic allocation based on investor preferences....

This study aims at shedding light on how e-commerce contributes to climate change in European Union countries. To explore this relationship, we introduced a novel index designed to measure the evolution of climate change as the dependent variable, while considering e-commerce activities as the...

Purpose: To ensure customer satisfaction, e-retailers have focused on providing a last-mile service that includes time windows. Due to the sustainable challenge this posed, the purpose of this article is to define a method that can be used to evaluate the impact of time windows on sustainability...

Purpose - Identify the relationship between the amount of taxes and their payment by a digital enterprise and develop recommendations for improving the quality of e-commerce taxation. Research methodology - On the basis of dialectical and systematic methods, the influence of the amount of the...

Digital technology and broad Internet access have significantly changed consumer behaviour, primarily through the rise of online shopping and improved information-sharing channels. Objectives: The COVID-19 epidemic fuelled the adoption of digital technologies, leading to a significant increase...

Background: nowadays, traditional delivery options are challenging to the urban last-mile logistics and sustainability goals. The purpose of this study is to investigate the practical factors that drive frequent e-shoppers to actively switch their intention from conventional delivery options to...

Research background: It is important for companies to pay attention to the value of co-creation in order to encourage innovation and the development of new products where the source of ideas for innovation and new products comes from consumers. Participation in value co-creation is voluntary and...

With the growing number of mobile device users and the rise of engaging social media platforms, the mobile advertising industry is evolving rapidly, presenting marketers with new challenges in reaching customers while maintaining positive attitudes toward advertising. In this paper, we...

Many studies have considered online consumer behaviour topics. The growth of e-commerce and social media leads us to examine their effects on online customer behaviour, especially online impulsive buying behaviour. In addition, online customers buying commercial and social enterprise (SE)...

This study attempts to examine the role of health consciousness and Covid-19 protocol on attitude towards online shopping followed by its effect on purchase intention. The framework of the study is derived from TPB theory. Data for the study are collected from the online shoppers during the...

Rapid digitalization and explosive growth of e-commerce have elevated the need for effective supply chain and logistics management in the online retail sector. Consequently, third-party logistics (3PL) providers are becoming indispensable to online retailers as a way to satisfy customers'...

Digital trade is one of the promising areas for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and a factor of success of the African Union Digital Transformation Strategy (DTS) for Africa (2020-2030). However, the benefits of digital trade are not automatic and require an adequate regulatory...

Requiring firms, rather than individuals, to remit sales taxes improves tax compliance. In the U.S., this shift toward firm-based remittance rules for remote purchases occurred gradually after South Dakota v. Wayfair. Using comprehensive and high-frequency local sales tax revenue data, we show...

The adoption of financial technology (fintech) has the potential to make banking and financial services more accessible and convenient for all, but there are significant barriers preventing the adoption of fintech by street vendors and hawkers in India. This study aims to identify and analyse...

This paper investigates the impact of four demographic variables and four perceptual drivers identified through a review of the existing literature on adopting subscription-based e-commerce models. Seven hypotheses were tested on a convenience sample of 202 respondents from Croatia. Significant...

With the development of network technology, electronic money as a payment and settlement tool based on the network has been developing at an unprecedented speed. Based on the background of e-commerce, this study uses the data from June 2012 to June 2022 to establish a vector autoregressive model...