IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-00194657.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A European Panel Approach to the E-Consumer

Author

Listed:
  • David Flacher

    (CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (ancienne affiliation) - UP13 - Université Paris 13 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Retail consumption on Internet did not experienced until now the radiant future that was predicted. Should we conclude that the low take-off of B2C means that Internet is not the core of a revolution of exchange forms? The question should probably be raised in a different way. Internet can play various roles in intermediation between consumers, producers and distributors. The notion of "quasi-consumption", introduced here, seems to be more suitable than the one of "consumption". From the Netvalue panel in four European countries (England, France, Denmark and Italy) and over two periods (April 2001 and April 2002), we investigate the navigation and quasi-consumption habits in these countries using data-mining tools. Constant facts can be exhibited, but also learning, specializing and lassitude phenomena. The four countries appear to be at four different evolution phases of the Internet usages.

Suggested Citation

  • David Flacher, 2003. "A European Panel Approach to the E-Consumer," Post-Print hal-00194657, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00194657
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00194657. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.