From "ancient" to "modern": a cross-cultural investigation of electronic commerce adoption in Greece and the United States.

Autor: Lin Chai, Paul A Pavlou
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Zdroj: Journal of Enterprise Information Management; 2004, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p416-423, 8p
Abstrakt: Globalization and the ubiquitous nature of the Internet facilitate e-commerce activities across nations. An empirical study was conducted using data from Greek and US consumers in order to obtain a better understanding of cross-cultural e-commerce adoption. The results give support for the proposed hypotheses, emphasizing the moderating role of cultural differences on consumer e-commerce adoption. The unique contributions of this paper are three fold. First, we introduce Hofstede's cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance to the study of cross-cultural e-commerce adoption model. Second, we apply the theory of planned behavior perspective to capture behavioral intentions to transact online in two dissimilar countries - Greece and the US. Finally, the paper discusses several insights from this exploratory study that enrich the cross-cultural e-commerce literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index