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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,187 Views
27 Pages

20 May 2025

This study investigates the influence of digital skills, personal innovativeness, and attitudes toward smart home adoption on digital consumer behavior in Poland, as well as the relationship between digital activity and environmental awareness. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,213 Views
24 Pages

From E-Commerce to the Metaverse: A Neuroscientific Analysis of Digital Consumer Behavior

  • Alessandro Fici,
  • Marco Bilucaglia,
  • Chiara Casiraghi,
  • Cristina Rossi,
  • Simone Chiarelli,
  • Martina Columbano,
  • Valeria Micheletto,
  • Margherita Zito and
  • Vincenzo Russo

13 July 2024

The growing interest in consumer behavior in the digital environment is leading scholars and companies to focus on consumer behavior and choices on digital platforms, such as the metaverse. On this immersive digital shopping platform, consumer neuros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,033 Views
20 Pages

Retailers of digital goods often use discount pricing to attract consumers. To make an effective promotion, they naturally want to understand consumers’ valuation. Nonetheless, rigorous research is lacking on how to use consumer ratings on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,900 Views
20 Pages

In this era, the global COVID-19 pandemic has hit the economy hard. In the context of great challenges to sustainable economic development, it is of great practical significance to study how digital payment can promote consumer demand and sustainable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
12,133 Views
16 Pages

Is There an Impact of Digital Transformation on Consumer Behaviour? An Empirical Study in the Financial Sector

  • Giovanna Patzy Uribe-Linares,
  • Cristian Armando Ríos-Lama and
  • Jorge Alberto Vargas-Merino

Digital transformation has become a notorious topic in the financial sector, as its implementation brings about a positive change in the user experience. Its relevance is seen in how scientists study it from different points of view, while it attract...

  • Article
  • Open Access
571 Views
21 Pages

Modelling Consumer Demand for Organic Agricultural Products: Sustainable and Digital Marketing Approach

  • Nataliia Parkhomenko,
  • Peter Štarchoň,
  • Lucia Vilčeková and
  • František Olšavský

1 January 2026

This paper examines the forecasting and modelling of consumer demand for organic agricultural products in the context of sustainable development and digital marketing. The study is based on an online survey of 423 consumers in Ukraine and Slovakia an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,283 Views
28 Pages

The aim of this research was to examine the impact of digitalisation on the use of banking products among consumers in the Republic of Croatia, with a particular focus on analysing habits, perceptions, and barriers related to digital banking. The stu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
14,715 Views
21 Pages

The Role of Digital Marketing in Online Shopping: A Bibliometric Analysis for Decoding Consumer Behavior

  • Natália Figueiredo,
  • Bruno M. Ferreira,
  • José Luís Abrantes and
  • Luis F. Martinez

Over the past two decades, digital evolution has radically transformed how consumers interact with brands and purchases. Highly informed consumers actively seek news, knowledge, and inspiration and often interact with multiple touchpoints over an ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,374 Views
18 Pages

Influencing Path of Consumer Digital Hoarding Behavior on E-Commerce Platforms

  • Zhikun Yue,
  • Xungang Zheng,
  • Shasha Zhang,
  • Linling Zhong and
  • Wang Zhang

26 November 2024

Although digital hoarding behavior does not directly affect physical space, with the popularization of cloud storage services, its impact on energy consumption has become increasingly significant, posing a challenge to environmental sustainability. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,814 Views
18 Pages

In this article, we reflect on how practices of children’s consumer culture interfere with the exercise of rights by children who are consumers and producers of content on digital platforms. It is our aim to offer a communicational perspective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,887 Views
25 Pages

21 March 2025

Blockchain is a secure, digital ledger that enables faster transactions, reduces fraud, lowers costs, and enhances transparency. The blockchain is capable of changing the face of digital payments by providing greater opportunities for transformation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
22,074 Views
20 Pages

19 March 2025

This study introduces a novel construct, Spendception, which conceptualizes the psychological impact of digital payment systems on consumer behavior, marking a significant contribution to the field of consumer psychology and behavioral economics. Spe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
17,350 Views
19 Pages

What Is Next for Consumer-Based Brand Equity in Digital Brands? Research Itineraries and New Challenges

  • Yuri de Souza Odaguiri Enes,
  • Gisela Demo,
  • Rafael Barreiros Porto and
  • Thaiyan Sun Zulato

26 June 2024

Considering the expanding e-commerce in the social media landscape and the increasing importance of brand management in the online sphere, our primary goal was to comprehensively review existing research on consumer-based brand equity in digital bran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,279 Views
19 Pages

27 November 2024

This study examines how digital marketing characteristics—namely interactivity, ubiquity, and credibility—affect green consumer brand engagement and loyalty in Nigeria’s five-star hotel industry. This study advances relationship mar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,427 Views
24 Pages

In recent years, the fashion industry has undergone a significant transformation driven by digital innovations, particularly with the emergence of the digital retail theater (DRT). A DRT integrates augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and 3D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
14,558 Views
16 Pages

Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing: Enhancing Consumer Engagement and Supporting Sustainable Behavior Through Social and Mobile Networks

  • Carmen Acatrinei,
  • Ingrid Georgeta Apostol,
  • Lucia Nicoleta Barbu,
  • Raluca-Giorgiana Chivu (Popa) and
  • Mihai-Cristian Orzan

21 July 2025

This article explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital marketing through social and mobile networks and its role in fostering sustainable consumer behavior. AI enhances personalization, sentiment analysis, and campaign autom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,709 Views
15 Pages

Data-Driven Insights into Consumer Satisfaction in E-Learning: Implications for Sustainable Digital Marketing

  • Daniel Moise,
  • Elena Goga,
  • Georgiana Rusu,
  • Raluca-Giorgiana Chivu (Popa) and
  • Mihai-Cristian Orzan

14 July 2025

This study investigates consumer satisfaction in e-learning services by addressing a specific gap in the literature: the limited integration of sustainability principles and behavioral modeling in understanding satisfaction drivers in online educatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,272 Views
13 Pages

Consumer Behavior after COVID-19: Interpersonal Influences, eWOM and Digital Lifestyles in More Diverse Youths

  • Jessica Müller-Pérez,
  • Ángel Acevedo-Duque,
  • Pilar Valenzuela Rettig,
  • Elizabeth Emperatriz García-Salirrosas,
  • Mirtha Mercedes Fernández-Mantilla,
  • Sandra Sofía Izquierdo-Marín and
  • Rina Álvarez-Becerra

13 April 2023

COVID-19 caused a major shift in consumer behavior online at companies that focused on offering products to a traditional and more diverse (LGBTTTQI+) market. For this reason, an online survey was carried out through the digital platforms Facebook an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,610 Views
36 Pages

In light of increasingly prominent environmental issues, inspiring green supply chain (GSC) members to engage in collaborative innovation is crucial to improve environmental performance. In this paper, in relation to a two-level GSC consisting of man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,487 Views
41 Pages

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of integrity-related considerations, such as ethics, privacy, protection, security, and trust, on online consumer shopping intention within the interactive marketing environment. To achieve this, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,758 Views
28 Pages

16 December 2025

This paper examines the effects of AI-based digital nudges on consumers’ sustainable purchase intentions and behaviors, using an integrated framework that combines the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Nudge Theory. Previous studies hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
18,892 Views
13 Pages

28 January 2023

Human beings are strongly influenced by their emotions; so, it is believed that building a close relationship between consumers and brands is a key factor for success. In this way, car brands are no exception, and despite facing numerous challenges a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,941 Views
22 Pages

Local Energy Market-Consumer Digital Twin Coordination for Optimal Energy Price Discovery under Thermal Comfort Constraints

  • Nikos Andriopoulos,
  • Konstantinos Plakas,
  • Christos Mountzouris,
  • John Gialelis,
  • Alexios Birbas,
  • Stylianos Karatzas and
  • Alex Papalexopoulos

30 January 2023

The upward trend of adopting Distributed Energy Resources (DER) reshapes the energy landscape and supports the transition towards a sustainable, carbon-free electricity system. The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) in Demand Response (DR) enabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,823 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2025

The rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing has reshaped how consumers interact with digital content and evaluate ethical aspects of firms. The present study examines how familiarity with and trust in AI shape consumers’ ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,866 Views
30 Pages

Against the backdrop of accelerating global trade and rising consumer expectations, cross-border e-commerce must urgently increase consumers’ willingness to reuse them. This study uses social exchange theory (SET) and resource dependency theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,503 Views
25 Pages

18 April 2019

This research investigated the use of consumer neuroscience to improve and determine the effectiveness of action/emotion-based public health and social cause (HSC) advertisements. Action-based advertisements ask individuals to ‘do something&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
23,572 Views
22 Pages

25 January 2022

WitchTok describes a sub-section of the social media platform TikTok, which caters to Contemporary Pagans and other practitioners of modern Witchcraft. Through short micro-videos, users share snapshots of their lives, providing a window into their re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
518 Views
23 Pages

27 January 2026

Digital sustainable marketing (DSM) is increasingly deployed to convey firms’ environmental initiatives via social media and e-commerce platforms; however, evidence of its effectiveness in influencing green consumer choices (GCC) in emerging ma...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2,892 Views
46 Pages

Design and use of wearable technology have grown exponentially, particularly in consumer products and service sectors, e.g., healthcare. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive understanding of wearable technology in consumer acceptance. This sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,760 Views
25 Pages

19 July 2022

Creating sustainable and effective management strategies is one of the main goals for companies in today’s digitalized world. To achieve that, companies need to understand the social capital for which the strategies will be generated, especiall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,173 Views
20 Pages

17 September 2020

Today’s smart consumers are intelligent consumers with multiple roles in the digital consumption environment. Consumer smartness refers to the multi-dimensional qualities that support various roles. Aiming to discover who the smart consumers ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
381 Views
34 Pages

20 January 2026

This study aimed to develop a typology of consumers based on their behavior in the areas of sustainable consumption and digitalization in the pharmaceutical market. The analysis considered factors including (i) Schwartz’s universal values, (ii)...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,766 Views
2 Pages

COVID-19, caused health and economic problems in almost all countries. This crisis has caused unprecedented supply and demand shocks and led to significant changes in people’s behavior and spending. Demand depends on consumer behavior, which ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
14,022 Views
21 Pages

Connecting Digital Channels to Consumers’ Purchase Decision-Making Process in Online Stores

  • Paulo Botelho Pires,
  • José Duarte Santos,
  • Pedro Quelhas de Brito and
  • David Nunes Marques

3 November 2022

This research establishes the relationship between the digital channels that organizations use to communicate with their audience and the stages of the consumer buying decision process in online stores. Researchers have not treated this relationship...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,505 Views
17 Pages

21 December 2024

Agricultural digitalization and short food supply chains (SFSCs) are considered to be different avenues for transitioning to more sustainable agrifood systems. Can these avenues be put together, or are they parallel and, hence, not compatible? The an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
14,469 Views
15 Pages

30 April 2021

The role of digital technostress and self-efficacy in digital marketing research is seldom discussed and even more rarely examined among Gen Z consumers. This study investigates the relationships between four sub-dimensions of technostress (complexit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,962 Views
19 Pages

Digital fashion may instill transformative power into the fashion industry as it can simultaneously deliver fashionability and sustainability. Renowned for their innovativeness and creativity, luxury brands embrace digital fashion and achieve market...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,938 Views
17 Pages

Green Consumers’ Responses to Integrated Digital Communication in the Context of Multichannel Retail

  • Ionica Oncioiu,
  • Iustin Priescu,
  • Geanina Silviana Banu and
  • Narcis Chirca

11 January 2023

Because of the fast rise of Internet commerce, a firm now has access to a plethora of new communication channels in addition to conventional ones and the problem is determining the best balance of physical and online channels. Due to the fact that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,190 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2024

As digital content increasingly moves away from free access, microtransactions may provide an alternative. There is a need for research on microtransactions as a general digital content payment mechanism. Businesses can capitalize on this technologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,178 Views
18 Pages

This study aimed to test, through empirical investigation, how the rapid advancement of digital transformation (DT) has impacted the price of financial services. To this end, we compiled a set of macro-level indicators on the aggregate outcomes of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,441 Views
22 Pages

Digital Marketing and Fast-Food Intake in the UAE: The Role of Firm-Generated Content among Adult Consumers

  • Ali Ahmed Ali-Alsaadi,
  • L. Javier Cabeza-Ramírez,
  • Luna Sántos-Roldán and
  • Halder Yandry Loor-Zambrano

10 November 2023

In the contemporary digital marketing context, this study aimed to investigate the influence of firm-generated content and social media advertising on fast-food consumption patterns among the adult population. Utilizing a questionnaire distributed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,869 Views
29 Pages

Digital food-ordering apps make it simple to buy indulgent drinks yet hard to judge their health risks. We conducted five online experiments (N = 1048) to compare two messages for sugary beverages: self-promotion that stresses taste and self-disclosu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,278 Views
26 Pages

22 September 2025

This study addresses the growing importance of peer influence in digital marketing by examining how various forms of social interaction affect Generation Z’s purchase intentions, particularly in relation to newly launched technological products...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,081 Views
30 Pages

2 July 2025

Family structure has long been regarded as an important determinant of household saving, yet the empirical evidence for developing economies remains limited. Using the 2018–2022 panels of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), a nationwide surv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
961 Views
19 Pages

4 December 2025

As the fashion industry accelerates its digital and sustainable transformation, the European Union’s policy development on Digital Product Passports (DPPs) has attracted growing attention. However, there is still a lack of systematic research i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
16,724 Views
30 Pages

An Empirical Evidence Study of Consumer Perception and Socioeconomic Profiles for Digital Stores in Vietnam

  • Sonia Singh,
  • Subhra Mondal,
  • Lata Bajpai Singh,
  • Kalyan Kumar Sahoo and
  • Subhankar Das

25 February 2020

Digital stores are spreading their tentacles slowly in Vietnam, the most upcoming economy of the ASEAN region, so it is a relevant and contemporary study to know the perceptual thought and socioeconomic profiles of customers. Since there is a lack of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
17,241 Views
19 Pages

Consumer Empowerment in the Digital Economy: Availing Sustainable Purchasing Decisions

  • Patrizia Gazzola,
  • Gianluca Colombo,
  • Roberta Pezzetti and
  • Luminița Nicolescu

27 April 2017

The advent of the digital economy and, implicitly, of competition in the online marketplace has triggered new challenges in terms of consumer protection approaches. Online, consumer skills are expected to be improved and the level of consumer awarene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,186 Views
17 Pages

22 April 2021

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an ever-evolving concept in the field of business management. Even in 2021, its boundaries are evolving and researchers are linking the concept of CSR to different variables to achieve different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,996 Views
29 Pages

9 July 2014

The increasing prominence of new Internet and social media technologies and their growing importance as a source of health information are pushing the pharmaceutical industry towards digital channels. This paper explores the potential impacts of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,534 Views
10 Pages

The Impact of Flexographic and Digital Printing of Fruit Drinks on Consumer Attention at the Point of Sale

  • Rupert Andrew Hurley,
  • Julie Christine Rice,
  • David Cottrell and
  • Drew Felty

24 July 2015

Package labels play a critical role in communicating product benefits to consumers. On a package, labels are used to provide useful information about the product as well branding for the company. Labels need to not only be eye catching to the consume...

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