Social e-atmospherics in practice (or not): a French and Turkish web designers’ perspectives

Little is known about the development of social e- atmospherics. And yet, e-atmospherics havemotivated an emerging body of research which reports that both better layouts and‘recognized’ atmospherics encourage consumers to modify their shopping habits. While the literature has analyzed mainly the functional (design) aspect of e-atmospherics, little has been done in terms of linking its characteristics’ to social (co-) creation. This paper attempts to redress the imbalance by exploring the anatomy from a website designer perspective of the social dimension of design in relation to e-atmospherics, which includes factors such as the aesthetic design of space and the influence of visual cues as a socially constructed meaning. We identify the challenges that web designers as social agents, who interact within intangible social reference sets, restricted by social standards, value, beliefs, status and duties, face daily within their work. We aim to review the current understanding of the importance and voluntary integration of social cues displayed by web designers from a mature market and an emerging market, and provides an analysis based recommendation towards the development of an integrated e-social atmospheric framework. Results report exploratory findings from questionnaires with 10 French and 16 Turkish web designers. These allow us to re-interpret the web designers’ reality regarding social e-atmospherics. We contend that by comprehending (before any consumer/client input) social capital, daily micro practices, habits and routine of designers, a deeper understanding of social e-atmospherics possible functions in the future will be unpacked

Premium e-grocery: exploring value in logistics integrated service solutions

E-grocery is gradually becoming viable or a necessity for many families. Yet, most e-supermarketsare seen as providers of low value “staple” and bulky goods mainly. While each store has a large number of SKU available, these products are mainly necessity goods with low marginal value for hedonistic consumption. A need to acquire diverse products (e.g., organic), premium priced products (e.g., wine) for special occasions (e.g., anniversary, birthday), or products just for health related reasons (e.g., allergies, diabetes) are yet to be served via one-stop e-tailers. In this paper, we design a mathematical model that takes into account consumers’ geo demographics and multi-product sourcing capacity for creating critical mass and profit. Our mathematical model is a variant of Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW), which we extend by adding intermediate locations for trucks to meet and exchange goods. We illustrate our model for the city of Istanbul using GIS maps, and discuss its various extensions as well as managerial implications.TÜBİTAK ; Migros T.A.Ş

De provincie en de burger: Een spannend avontuur? Monitoring en evaluatie pilots Burgerparticipatie, provincie Noord-Holland

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Grey market e-shopping and trust building practices in China

In the last decade, the wide use of the Internet, particularly through the proliferation of broadband, has dramatically changed the behaviour and lifestyle of many people. China, as a fast-growing emerging economy with a different shopping culture, different ideology, very large population, increasingly industrial and high-tech society (Gong et al. 2004; Li et al. 2004) forms an interesting case. By the year 2004, there were 94 million Internet users in Mainland China. In the most developed urban areas, such as Beijing and Shanghai, more than 25 per cent of the population are reported to be regular Internet users, a level almost equal to that of Spain or the Czech Republic. The China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) (2005) survey indicated that about 62 per cent of Chinese Internet users frequently or sometimes access online shopping websites and about 40 per cent of Chinese Internet users have purchased goods or services through online shopping websites

An actor-network theory (ANT) approach: analysis of Turkish e-government gateway initiative

There are various models proposed in the literature to analyze trajectories of e-Government projects in terms of success and failure. Yet, only the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective (Heeks and Stanforth, 2007) considers the interaction factors among network actors and actants. This paper proposes the ANT for approaching to the Turkish e-Government Gateway initiative as a case study. In doing so, it provides valuable insight in terms of both local and global actornetworks which surround the initiative.TÜBİTA

An actor-network theory (ANT) approach: analysis of Turkish e-government gateway initiative

There are various models proposed in the literature to analyze trajectories of e-Government projects in terms of success and failure. Yet, only the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective (Heeks and Stanforth, 2007) considers the interaction factors among network actors and actants. This paper proposes the ANT for approaching to the Turkish e-Government Gateway initiative as a case study. In doing so, it provides valuable insight in terms of both local and global actornetworks which surround the initiative.TÜBİTA

Synthesis, characterization, and crystal structure of bis[4-(3 '-benzoyl)thiocarbamidophenyl]ether

ARSLAN, N. Burcu/0000-0002-1880-1047WOS: 000345382900005The title compound, bis[4-(3'-benzoyl)thiocarbamidophenyl]ether, was synthesized by the reaction of benzoylisothiocyanate with 4,4'-diaminodiphenylether in aprotic solvent. The structure was determinated by means of elemental analysis and FT-IR, H-1-NMR, (1)3C-NMR and MS spectroscopic techniques. The crystal structure was characterized by X-ray syngle crystal analysis: orthorhombic, sp. gr. Pnna, Z = 4. In crystal packing, there are intramolecular hydrogen bond N-Ha <-O generating S(6) motif, and intermolecular hydrogen bond N-Ha <-S forming R (2) (2) (8) ring.Canakkale Onsekiz Mart UniversityCanakkale Onsekiz Mart University [BAP 2008/35]This work was supported by Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Research Fund Project BAP 2008/35