INTERNATIONAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON ONLINESHOPPING BEHAVIOR
Thomas F. Stafford, University of Memphis, USA
Aykut Turan, University of Memphis, USA
Mahesh S. Raisinghani, University of Dallas, USA
This paper compares and contrasts the differences of gender on online shopping in threedistinctive consumer markets: the United States, Finland and Turkey. These nations spanthe present range of cultural differences in the online world: developed nations,emerging technological niches, and emerging markets in the secular East; comparisonscan also be made between free market capitalism, European centralized planning andsocial consciousness, and the emerging consumerism of secular Moslem society. Theintent is to discern likely gender and age differences between these three areas of theworld.