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APPENDIX B
Summary of the Findings of the Online Vendor and Product Characteristics on Online Shopping Adoption
Factor types
Individual factors Surveyed
Studies
Major
findings
Risk reduction
measure
Money-back
guarantee( risk
relievers)
(Kim and Kim 2004);(Van den Poel and Leunis 1999)
+
Store reputation ( risk
relievers)
(Jarvenpaa
et al.
2000);(McKnight
et al.
2002) ;(Van den Poel and Leunis 1999); (Lee
et al.
2011a);(Mark and
Harris 2007)
+
Reduced-price ( risk
relievers)
(Kim and Kim 2004); (Van den Poel and Leunis 1999)
+
Security protection
(Ha and Stoel 2012); (Ranganathan and Ganapathy 2002);(O’cass and Fenech 2003);(Belanger
et al.
2002);(Liao and Cheung 2001);(Ranganathan and Grandon 2002);(Swaminathan
et al.
1999);(Grewal and
Dharwadkar 2002); (Mark and Harris 2007)
+
Privacy
protection/assurance
(Ha and Stoel 2012); (Kim and Kim 2004);(Ranganathan and Ganapathy 2002); (Ranganathan and Grandon
2002); (Belanger
et al.
2002); (Swaminathan
et al.
1999);(Tsai
et al.
2011);(Lee
et al.
2011a)
+
Online
store
feature
Information
content/quality
(Bigne-Alcaniz
et al.
2008);(Ha and Stoel 2012); (Kim and Kim 2004);(Ranganathan and Ganapathy
2002);(Perdue 2002);(Ranganathan and Grandon 2002); (Pearson
et al.
2012)
+
Online store design
(Kim and Kim 2004); (Liang and Lai 2002); (Mark and Harris 2007); (Ranganathan and Ganapathy
2002);(Quick 1999);(States 1999);(Zimmerman 2002); (Verhagen and van Dolen 2009);(Chau
et al.
2000);(Childers
et al.
2001);(Bank 1997);(Bell and Gemmell 1996);(Cho
et al.
2003);(Fram and Grandy
1997);(Hoffman
et al.
1996);(Iacobucci 1998);(Peterson
et al.
1997);(Powell 2001);(Weinberg 2000);(Udo
and Marquis 2002); (Eroglu
et al.
2003a);(Childers
et al.
2001) (Yoon 2002);
+
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Online
store image
(Verhagen and van Dolen 2009);(Van der Heijden and Verhagen 2004); (Fan
et al.
2013b)
+
(Aghekyan-Simonian
et al.
2012)
+ (indirectly by decreasing
risk perceptions)
E-service
quality
Overall e-service
quality
(Ahn
et al.
2004);(Chen and Tan 2004); (Clemes
et al.
2013);(Lee and Lin 2005); (Liao and Cheung
2001);(Shih 2004);(Hsu
et al.
2011);(Schneider and Bowen 1999);(Udo
et al.
2010);(Sousa and Voss 2012);
(Pearson
et al.
2012)
+
(Verhagen and van Dolen 2009)
0
Reliability
(Ahn
et al.
2004);(Koyuncu and Bhattacharya 2004);(Raijas 2002);(Cho 2004);(Kim and Kim 2004); (Lee
et
al.
2011a); (Mark and Harris 2007)
+
Tangibility (Vijayasarathy and Jones 2000)
0
Empathy
(Vijayasarathy and Jones 2000)
0
Customer service
quality
(Anthes 1999);(Burroughs and Sabherwal 2002);(Jarvenpaa and Todd 1997);(Totty 2001) (Kunz 1997);
(Schneider and Bowen 1999); (Kim and Kim 2004); (Ha and Stoel 2012); (Chung 2001); (Wingfield 2002)
+ (reliability, responsiveness,
personalization)
(Mathwick
et al.
2001)
0
Providing good pre-
order
information
(Vijayasarathy and Jones 2000)
0
Providing good post-
selection information
(Vijayasarathy and Jones 2000)
+
Product
characteristics
Low vs.
high cost
(Product type)
(Phau and Poon 2000)
People
are more likely to buy
low cost and frequently
purchased
products
(Vijayasarathy 2002)
0
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Tangible vs. intangible
(Product type)
(Vijayasarathy 2002);(Vijayasarathy 2003); (Phau and Poon 2000)
People are more likely to buy
intangible products
Low vs. high
differentiation (Product
type)
(Phau and Poon 2000)
People are more likely to buy
highly differentiated products
Product value
(Lee
et al.
2011a);(Guenzi
et al.
2009); (Chen
et al.
2010);(Jarvenpaa and Todd 1997);(Mathwick
et al.
2001);
(Vijayasarathy and Jones 2000)
+
Merchandising (Anand
2007);(Schaupp
and
Belanger 2005);(Szymanski and Hise 2000);(Cho 2004);(Sin and Tse 2002);(Park
et al.
2011);(Verhagen and van Dolen 2009)
+
Product brand image
(Aghekyan-Simonian
et al.
2012)
+ (directly and indirectly by
reducing risk perceptions)
Asset
specificity
(Liang and Huang 1998)
0