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Gender-Based iTrust in E-Commerce: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Innovativeness

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  • Osama Sohaib

    (School of Information, Systems and Modelling; Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia)

  • Kyeong Kang

    (School of Information, Systems and Modelling; Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia)

  • Mohammad Nurunnabi

    (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF, UK
    Department of Accounting, Prince Sultan University, P.O. Box 66833, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia)

Abstract

Despite the extensive academic interest in e-commerce, cognitive innovativeness in e-commerce context has been neglected. This study focuses on the moderating role of consumer cognitive innovativeness on the influencing factors of interpersonal trust (iTrust) towards online purchase intention of new product in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce. Data were collected in Australia from consumers who has had prior online shopping experience. Variance-based structural equation modeling such as partial least squares (PLS-SEM) is used to test the research model. The results show men and women have different perceptions of what is important to be provided by an online store to make a positive shopping experience. We highlighted that in-addition to the e-commerce web design aspects; the individual cognitive innovativeness can influence females more to purchase online. Practitioners should adjust their online business strategies, considering consumer cognitive innovativeness to enhance their e-commerce desirable outcomes. This means online business should not treat their consumers as a uniform group with a ‘one-design-fits-all’ web design strategy but need to consider the individual needs of their male and female consumers.

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  • Osama Sohaib & Kyeong Kang & Mohammad Nurunnabi, 2018. "Gender-Based iTrust in E-Commerce: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Innovativeness," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-16, December.
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