Customers' attitude toward online shopping

Internet has become increasingly popular. Online shopping is a business medium for transactions among entrepreneurs and customers. As a new channel for marketing, online shopping played a significant role. It provides satisfaction for customers seeking convenience and speed when they purchase produ...

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Main Author: Chong, Wen Jun
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Chong, Wen Jun
Customers' attitude toward online shopping
description Internet has become increasingly popular. Online shopping is a business medium for transactions among entrepreneurs and customers. As a new channel for marketing, online shopping played a significant role. It provides satisfaction for customers seeking convenience and speed when they purchase products. Customers’ online shopping attitudes refers to customers’ psychological state of decision making on internet, and customers’ attitudes will affect customers’ intention to make purchases online. Therefore, understanding the behaviour of the consumers, what they buy from online shops, why they choose online shopping becomes a vital issue for online entrepreneurs. The scope of this study is to examine the factors influenced on customers’ attitudes towards online shopping in terms of customers’ shopping orientation, website quality and psychological perception. This study comprised of respondents who are graduate students in University Utara Malaysia and Qin Hai University of China. The study shows that the three independent variables have significant influence on customers’ attitudes towards online shopping.
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title_short Customers' attitude toward online shopping
title_full Customers' attitude toward online shopping
title_fullStr Customers' attitude toward online shopping
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spelling my-uum-etd.59472021-04-05T02:09:05Z Customers' attitude toward online shopping 2016 Chong, Wen Jun Thi, Lip Sam Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HF5415.33 Consumer Behavior. Internet has become increasingly popular. Online shopping is a business medium for transactions among entrepreneurs and customers. As a new channel for marketing, online shopping played a significant role. It provides satisfaction for customers seeking convenience and speed when they purchase products. Customers’ online shopping attitudes refers to customers’ psychological state of decision making on internet, and customers’ attitudes will affect customers’ intention to make purchases online. Therefore, understanding the behaviour of the consumers, what they buy from online shops, why they choose online shopping becomes a vital issue for online entrepreneurs. 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