Article
An empirical investigation of online consumer purchasing behavior
Communications of the ACM
(2003)
Abstract
This article is focused on examining the factors and relationships that influence the browsing and buying behavior of individuals when they shop online. Specifically, we are interested in individual buyers using business-to-consumer sites. We are also interested in examining shopping preferences based on various demographic categories that might exhibit distinct purchasing attitudes and behaviors for certain categories of products and services. We examine these behaviors in the context of both products and services. After a period of decline in recent months, online shopping is on the rise again. By some estimates, total U.S. spending on online sales increased to $5.7 billion in December 2001 from $3.2 billion in June of 2001 [3, 5]. By these same estimates, the number of households shopping online increased to 18.7 million in December.
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2003
DOI
10.1145/953460.953494
Citation Information
Manju Ahuja, Babita Gupta and Pushkala Raman. "An empirical investigation of online consumer purchasing behavior" Communications of the ACM Vol. 46 Iss. 12 (2003) p. 145 - 151 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/babita-gupta/35/