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The number of users of computer as well as on-line international communication networks is growing increasingly and utilization of the modern communication technology has become the integral part of life at present.
The World Wide Web is the most impactful invention of our time. Even as it grows in size and complexity, its future is to continue to rapidly evolve. Here, the author describes driving factors for the future of the Web.
Online information search is often seen as a highly utilitarian task but consumers' diverse ways of using the web have brought forth more hedonic information search patterns. At the same time, the impact of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) on consumer purchase decisions is increasing. The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences between hedonic and utilitarian eWOM search in the light...
the emergence of the Internet and electronic commerce development expedites network behavior, thus appear a large number of professional engaged in network service specialized website, based on the influence factors of groupon development summarized analysis to find the key factors influence the development of the future, and give advice to the business model development, marketing function using...
Ever since the Internet first emerged as a viable medium for commercial and informational purposes, the scholars began to focus on the users' online visit behavior, in order to obtaining some yardsticks to gauge the success of online retail and content sites. However, owing to the difficulty of accessing the transaction logs, academically the click stream gold mine is underexploited. Especially, the...
In order to reveal the implementation efficiency of tour e-commerce, factor analysis is used in this paper. By quality measurement system design of tour e-commerce website, pretest and pilot test, single-dimension scale test, reliability analysis and validity testing, factor analysis can effectively reveal the correlation between web site design elements, web site content elements, web site feature...
This paper investigates the advantages of using web data to forecast white liquor market demand. The authors constructed the corresponding relationship between web information structure and white liquor market demand, explored the methods of using web data mining techniques to analyze and predict white liquor market demands, and established the principles of constructing knowledge base based on the...
The purpose of this study is to provide a direction on developing effective web site marketing strategy for China hotels by evaluating, analyzing and comparing the web sites between China hotels and U.S. hotels. In the article, the web site marketing attributes were identified and categorized into four groups “information”, “communication”, “distribution” and “transaction” based on the ICDT model...
Since B-to-B commercial websites play a decisive role in electronic business and trade, the evaluation and selection of them are very important. There have existed many methods for evaluation on commercial websites nowadays. But there are very few patterns of evaluation that are widely recognized and accepted so far. To tolerate subjective and objective factors that might influence evaluation results,...
This paper introduces a requirements framework intended to guide novice web developers. The work is based on two earlier studies which found that the requirements phase is not well served in web development methods and that there is no agreed set of requirements from practitioners as to what they would like to see in a web development method. The requirements framework outlined here is developed by...
This paper attempts to activate a large scale shopping streets (shotengai) using Internet technique. A new web architecture is made for activation of shotengai, which is a typical Japanese shopping streets in the city and towns. Recently, decline of shotengai is a serious problem by development of shopping centers. "Osu" is one of the most famous shotengai in Nagoya, Japan, which includes...
The appearance of Electronic commerce (E-commerce) makes new changes both in the course of economic activity and in the relation of economy, Chinese E-commerce is growing at a quick clip, but as an industry, it has many problems and gaps both in application fields and transaction scales. The paper mainly analyze the way to develop industrialized E-commerce in China and provides support to the development...
This study analyzed Internet word of mouth of resort hotel customers, using web mining technology to capture data from Yam blog, for the research period from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009. A total of 385 effective samples were collected for empirical study by text processing and correspondence analysis methods. The research results indicated that, customers of scenic area hotels are most concerned...
Based on the review of the e-service quality research in web 2.0 environment. This paper explored current customer's quality evaluation by utilizing the content analysis. The authors found that customers took much concern on the personal interaction and true information available when they evaluated the service quality of the web-site. Therefore, the paper pointed that the core task of the web-site...
Previous studies on hotel website performance have relied on frequency counting, content analysis or user behavioral approaches. These studies cannot accurately calculate hotel website performance in terms of user assessments of dimension/ attribute weighting and performance ratings. The aim of this research is to develop a scientific model that integrates a set of website evaluation dimensions for...
Be based on the method of citing systematic and comprehensive assessment, this paper attempts to establish the evaluating indictor system of agricultural websites and puts the 40 agricultural enterprises' websites into practical analysis. What's more, this paper applies the cluster analyzing software of SPSS into these samples. However, the information of websites and the level of function will play...
E-business is the more and more important channel for travel & hotel booking and payment especially in China for the fast development of cyber industry and a rapidly increases number of netizens in the country. The paper selects top 20 tourism e-business websites in China. Then evaluate the effectiveness of the websites with the purpose-value framework of evaluation on the content delivery performance...
Managers in service sector are under pressure to demonstrate that their services are customer-focused and that continuous performance improvement is being delivered. Also in recent years, there exists web based or electronic service quality (e-sq) concepts. With the birth of electronic commerce, it has become important to be able to monitor and enhance e-sq. Therefore, this study examines the e-sq...
Online market has grown continually. Travel websites and hotels have pursued alliance opportunities to provide hotel services for customers on travel websites. Previous studies focused on a single physical or virtual channel. The study examines the multiple channels alliances between travel websites and hotels. The results are as following: First, the service quality of travel websites has a positive...
Collaborative networks involving a variety of stakeholders, e.g. senior professionals, intermediary entities, and beneficiaries have the potential of inducing more effective integration of seniors in the socio-economic system. Based on an extensive analysis of current and emerging organizational models and the analysis of a future scenario, a number of strategic actions are identified to properly...
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