• 제목/요약/키워드: website shopping

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전자상거래에서 전자대리인의 법적 문제점과 개선방안 (Legal Issues and Proposed Solutions of Electronic Agents in Electronic Commerce)

  • 우광명;조현숙
    • 통상정보연구
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.197-216
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    • 2011
  • 정보기술의 발달은 상거래 분야에서 인간이 아닌 기계 장치 소프트웨어 간의 거래가 이루어지도록 하였다. 이는 자율성이나 대화성 등의 능력을 갖추고 대리인의 기능을 하고 있다. 또한 기술이 발달함에 따라 이의 역할은 더욱더 확대될 것으로 예측된다. 그러나 그럼에도 불구하고 전자대리인에 대한 법적 지위에 대해서는 지금까지도 논란이 지속되고 있다. 특히 상거래에 있어서는 계약의 유효성과 귀속의 문제 등이 발생한다. 따라서 본 논문은 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 두 가지 제안을 하고 있다. 첫째, 법규의 제정과 보완이다. 전자대리인에 의해 이루어지는 전자적 의사표시의 성립과 효력 등의 내용을 민법에 수용하여 이에 대한 규정을 두고 귀속의 문제에 대해 전자대리인을 장기적으로 대리법적 접근 방법을 취하여 이에 대한 책임문제를 본인에게 귀속시켜야 한다. 둘째, 실무적 측면에서 쇼핑몰과 같은 웹사이트를 운영하는데 있어 거래와 계약의 효력에 대해 일반 협정조건을 제공하여 사용자로 하여금 계약에 구속됨을 명시할 수 있어야 한다.

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투명 캐시에서의 사용자 인증 시스템 구현 (Implementation of Client Authentication System on Transparency Cache)

  • 김성락;구용완
    • 정보처리학회논문지C
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    • 제9C권2호
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    • pp.181-188
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    • 2002
  • 최근의 프록시 서버에서 사용자 인증에 의한 접근제어를 위해서는 각 사용자 브라우저마다 프록시 서버 설정을 해주어야만 하는 불편함이 있다. 본 논문에서 구현한 투명캐시에서의 사용자 인증 기술은 간단히 캐시서버 상에 인증기능 옵션을 설정함으로써 모든 사용자에게는 투명하게 인터넷을 사용할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 관리자 측면에서는 각 사용자의 트래픽을 감시하고 보안성을 한층 강화하는 효과를 보인다. 그리고 사용자의 인터넷 사용습관을 모니터링 할 수 있어 쇼핑몰과 같은 전자상거래 분야에서 사용자의 성향에 따른 인터넷 전자 고객관계관리(eCRM) 서비스에 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다 단 기술은 별도로 보안장비의 추가설치 없이 보안이 필수적인 기업 부설 연구소, 전자상거래 웹사이트, 군부대의 인터넷 환경 등에서도 적용할 수 있는 기술이라 하겠다.

온라인 의류 쇼핑 사이트의 제품 사이즈 정보 실태 분석 - 여성용 바지를 중심으로 - (Sizing Communications on Online Apparel Retail Websites - Focusing on Ready-to-Wear Women's Pants -)

  • 이아람;김희은
    • 한국의류산업학회지
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    • 제24권1호
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    • pp.117-126
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to analyze the sizing information of women's ready-to-wear pants as indicated on online retail websites and to suggest better sizing communication that can assist customers in making successful apparel size selections. We gathered size specifications and size reference information for basic straight pants from 34 online apparel retail websites. Although the Korean standard recommends labeling the body dimension-based sizing code and specification, most websites preferred to use various types of sizing codes. Body measurements were only used by a few websites, and garment dimension descriptions were the most common method to indicate product size. Many websites provided size reference information through customer review boards and fit model images, however, there was insufficient body size information to allow customers to infer the fit of their body type. When using the size guidance tools, the major data input points were stature and weight measurements. However, the waist measurements of pants sizes guided only by stature and weight values revealed inconsistent ease allowance for corresponding body size populations, especially in the overweight group. Based on our findings, we propose a more effective method of communicating the size information of pants online. We expect that this will contribute to the efficiency of online apparel product display and build a better shopping environment that satisfies both sellers and consumers.

탐색쾌악주의대망상소비자행위적조절작용(探索快乐主义对网上消费者行为的调节作用) (Investigating the Moderating Impact of Hedonism on Online Consumer Behavior)

  • Mazaheri, Ebrahim;Richard, Marie-Odile;Laroche, Michel
    • 마케팅과학연구
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    • 제20권2호
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    • pp.123-134
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    • 2010
  • 考虑到消费者和供应商的利益, 公司利用网络为媒介来沟通并向消费者销售产品. 这一趋势使得很多研究者和实践者都关注网上购物环境这一领域. 本文测试了网上消费者行为和具有不同快乐主义水平的网址的模型. 与以往的研究不同, 我们包括了所有三种情绪(激励, 快乐和支配)并将此运用到模型中. 本研究中, 我们假设网址的外观, 例如背景颜色, 音乐和字体在消费者最初接触到网址时均影响三种情绪(Mazaheri, Richard, and Laroche, 2011). 反之, 这些情绪会影响消费者对网址氛围的感知–网址信息量, 效率和娱乐性的感知. 这些假设与Zajonc (1980)的研究一致. 他认为情感的作用是独立于感性的和认知操作并且可以影响回应. 我们因此提出网址氛围和流量的感知影响消费者对网址和产品的态度, 网址卷入和购买意图. 另外, 我们研究网址的快乐主义水平对模型中所有关系的调节作用. 因此, 我们比较享乐网址路径系数 "高" 和 "低". 我们用39个真实的网站涵盖了12种产品类别(8种服务和4种实物产品)来测试模型. 这其中, 回复者认为20个是高享乐, 19个为低享乐. EQS6.1的结果支持整体模型: x2=1787 (df=504), CFI=.994; RMSEA=.031. 所有假设都是显著的. 另外, 多群组分析表明在高享乐和低享乐网址群组之间的几个非不变量结构路径. 这些结果支持三种情绪影响消费者对网址氛围, 流量和其他消费者行为变量的认知. 我们发现快乐极大的影响这网址态度和网址娱乐性的认知. 激励积极的影响其他两种情绪, 网址信息量的认知和网址卷入. 而且, 激励对流量的影响非常显著. 这些结果说明在支配和消费者对网址效率的认知之间有很强的相关. 支配同时和网址态度和流量相关. 另外, 结果还表明网址卷入和对产品的态度是购买意图最重要的两个因素. 网址信息量和流量也积极的影响购买意图. 多群组分析的结果支持网址快乐主义的调节作用. 与低(高)享乐网址相比, 实用(享乐)属性对其他变量的影响比高(低)享乐网址更强. 在这三种情绪中, 支配(控制感)影响在高享乐网址中更强. 快乐影响在低享乐网址中更强. 而且, 网址信息量的影响对高享乐网址更强. 另一方面, 信息效率对网址信息量认知的影响和网址卷入对产品态度的影响在低享乐网址中更强.

서비스제공자와 사용자의 인식차이 분석을 통한 소셜커머스 핵심성공요인에 대한 연구: 한국의 티켓몬스터 중심으로 (A Study on the Critical Success Factors of Social Commerce through the Analysis of the Perception Gap between the Service Providers and the Users: Focused on Ticket Monster in Korea)

  • 김일중;이대철;임규건
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제24권2호
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    • pp.211-232
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    • 2014
  • Recently, there is a growing interest toward social commerce using SNS(Social Networking Service), and the size of its market is also expanding due to popularization of smart phones, tablet PCs and other smart devices. Accordingly, various studies have been attempted but it is shown that most of the previous studies have been conducted from perspectives of the users. The purpose of this study is to derive user-centered CSF(Critical Success Factor) of social commerce from the previous studies and analyze the CSF perception gap between social commerce service providers and users. The CSF perception gap between two groups shows that there is a difference between ideal images the service providers hope for and the actual image the service users have on social commerce companies. This study provides effective improvement directions for social commerce companies by presenting current business problems and its solution plans. For this, This study selected Korea's representative social commerce business Ticket Monster, which is dominant in sales and staff size together with its excellent funding power through M&A by stock exchange with the US social commerce business Living Social with Amazon.com as a shareholder in August, 2011, as a target group of social commerce service provider. we have gathered questionnaires from both service providers and the users from October 22, 2012 until October 31, 2012 to conduct an empirical analysis. We surveyed 160 service providers of Ticket Monster We also surveyed 160 social commerce users who have experienced in using Ticket Monster service. Out of 320 surveys, 20 questionaries which were unfit or undependable were discarded. Consequently the remaining 300(service provider 150, user 150)were used for this empirical study. The statistics were analyzed using SPSS 12.0. Implications of the empirical analysis result of this study are as follows: First of all, There are order differences in the importance of social commerce CSF between two groups. While service providers regard Price Economic as the most important CSF influencing purchasing intention, the users regard 'Trust' as the most important CSF influencing purchasing intention. This means that the service providers have to utilize the unique strong point of social commerce which make the customers be trusted rathe than just focusing on selling product at a discounted price. It means that service Providers need to enhance effective communication skills by using SNS and play a vital role as a trusted adviser who provides curation services and explains the value of products through information filtering. Also, they need to pay attention to preventing consumer damages from deceptive and false advertising. service providers have to create the detailed reward system in case of a consumer damages caused by above problems. It can make strong ties with customers. Second, both service providers and users tend to consider that social commerce CSF influencing purchasing intention are Price Economic, Utility, Trust, and Word of Mouth Effect. Accordingly, it can be learned that users are expecting the benefit from the aspect of prices and economy when using social commerce, and service providers should be able to suggest the individualized discount benefit through diverse methods using social network service. Looking into it from the aspect of usefulness, service providers are required to get users to be cognizant of time-saving, efficiency, and convenience when they are using social commerce. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the usefulness of social commerce through the introduction of a new management strategy, such as intensification of search engine of the Website, facilitation in payment through shopping basket, and package distribution. Trust, as mentioned before, is the most important variable in consumers' mind, so it should definitely be managed for sustainable management. If the trust in social commerce should fall due to consumers' damage case due to false and puffery advertising forgeries, it could have a negative influence on the image of the social commerce industry in general. Instead of advertising with famous celebrities and using a bombastic amount of money on marketing expenses, the social commerce industry should be able to use the word of mouth effect between users by making use of the social network service, the major marketing method of initial social commerce. The word of mouth effect occurring from consumers' spontaneous self-marketer's duty performance can bring not only reduction effect in advertising cost to a service provider but it can also prepare the basis of discounted price suggestion to consumers; in this context, the word of mouth effect should be managed as the CSF of social commerce. Third, Trade safety was not derived as one of the CSF. Recently, with e-commerce like social commerce and Internet shopping increasing in a variety of methods, the importance of trade safety on the Internet also increases, but in this study result, trade safety wasn't evaluated as CSF of social commerce by both groups. This study judges that it's because both service provider groups and user group are perceiving that there is a reliable PG(Payment Gateway) which acts for e-payment of Internet transaction. Accordingly, it is understood that both two groups feel that social commerce can have a corporate identity by website and differentiation in products and services in sales, but don't feel a big difference by business in case of e-payment system. In other words, trade safety should be perceived as natural, basic universal service. Fourth, it's necessary that service providers should intensify the communication with users by making use of social network service which is the major marketing method of social commerce and should be able to use the word of mouth effect between users. The word of mouth effect occurring from consumers' spontaneous self- marketer's duty performance can bring not only reduction effect in advertising cost to a service provider but it can also prepare the basis of discounted price suggestion to consumers. in this context, it is judged that the word of mouth effect should be managed as CSF of social commerce. In this paper, the characteristics of social commerce are limited as five independent variables, however, if an additional study is proceeded with more various independent variables, more in-depth study results will be derived. In addition, this research targets social commerce service providers and the users, however, in the consideration of the fact that social commerce is a two-sided market, drawing CSF through an analysis of perception gap between social commerce service providers and its advertisement clients would be worth to be dealt with in a follow-up study.

사이트 포트폴리오 구성을 위한 사용자 관점의 웹사이트 클러스터링 (User Perspective Website Clustering for Site Portfolio Construction)

  • 김민규;김남규
    • 인터넷정보학회논문지
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    • 제16권3호
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    • pp.59-69
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    • 2015
  • 많은 사용자들이 인터넷을 통해 정보검색, 쇼핑, 커뮤니티 참여 등의 일상 생활을 영위하고 있으며, 이들 인터넷 사용자들로부터 수익을 창출하기 위한 웹사이트들의 경쟁은 점점 치열해지고 있다. 각 사이트의 운영자 및 마케팅 담당자들은 경쟁 우위를 차지하기 위해 다양한 전략을 수립하고 있으며, 이 과정에서 타 사이트와의 제휴가 이루어지는 경우도 비일비재하다. 이는 타 사이트와의 제휴를 통해 타사의 고객 정보를 부분적으로 공유할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 포인트 공유, 상호 추천 등 보다 다양한 전략의 운용이 가능하기 때문이다. 제휴를 통해 긍정적인 성과를 거두기 위해서는 현재 자사의 고객은 아니지만 미래의 자사 고객이 될 수 있는 잠재 고객을 다수 확보하고 있는 타 사이트를 제휴 대상으로 선정하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 하지만 많은 사이트 중 이와 같이 자사에 도움이 되는 제휴 대상 사이트를 식별하는 것은 쉬운 일이 아니다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 방문 고객의 유사성 관점에서 사이트 클러스터링을 수행하고, 이에 근거하여 유사 고객군을 공유하고 있는 제휴 사이트 대상을 식별할 수 있는 방안을 제시한다. 또한 제안 방법론의 실무적용 가능성을 평가하기 위해, 웹사이트 150,295개에 대한 패널 5,000명의 실제 방문 기록 약 1억 4천만 건에 대해 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 제시한다.

제품 사용 중 표출되는 사용자의 대표감성 추출에 관한 연구 (Extraction of user's representative emotions expressed while using a product)

  • 정상훈;이건표
    • 디자인학연구
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    • 제18권1호
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    • pp.69-80
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    • 2005
  • 지금까지 감성어휘에 대한 연구는 감성공학분야에서 많이 진행되었는데, 기존의 감성어휘에 대한 연구들은 대부분 제품의 외관에서 느끼는 인간의 감성을 표현하는 어휘나 제품의 외관 자체를 감성적으로 표현할 수 있는 어휘들에 관련된 것이 많았다. 하지만 제품을 사용하면서 표출되는 인간의 감성에 관련된 감성어휘에 대한 연구는 아직 많이 이루어지고 있지 않는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에 써는 사용자가 제품을 사용하는 도중에 유발될 수 있는 인간의 감성 변화를 나타낼 수 있는 감성어휘들을 추출해 보았다. 우선 심리학, 언어학, 감성공학 등의 분야에서 수집된 기존의 감성어휘들을 조사하여 통합하는 과정을 거쳤다 또한 쇼핑몰 사이트 및 매니아들을 대상으로 하는 전문 사이트 등에서 사용자들이 남긴 제품 사용후기를 통해 감성어휘를 수집하였다. 마지막으로 소리내어 생각하기(Think Aloud)를 활용하여 실험실에서 사용자들로 하여금 일련의 태스크를 수행하게끔 하고 제품을 사용하면서 느끼는 자신의 감성을 말로 표출하게 하였다. 수집된 어휘들을 일정한 기준에 따라 삭제 또는 통합하고, 적합성 평가를 위한 두 차례의 설문조사를 실시하여 최종적으로 제품을 사용하는 도중에 유발될 수 있는 인간의 감성을 파악하기 위한 88개의 감성어휘를 추출하였다. 추출된 감성어휘들을 요인분석을 통해 '심미성', '사용적 만족성', '신규성', '불편성', '유쾌성', '우수성' 등 6개 감성 카테고리로 구분하여 사용자들이 제품을 사용하면서 표출하는 대표감성을 추출하였다. 본 연구를 통해 추출된 감성어휘와 대표 감성은 제품을 사용하면서 표출되는 인간의 감성을 측정하는 데에 필요한 주관적 평가자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

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웹 기반 가격할인 수준과 희소성이 영향을 주는 지각된 제품 가치와 태도 변화 (Perceived Product Value and Attitude Change Affecting Web-based Price Discount Level and Scarcity)

  • 장옥도;임현아;최재원
    • 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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    • 제27권2호
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    • pp.157-173
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    • 2018
  • Purpose Product characteristics and price value in website have strongly effects on customer satisfaction. Especially, in the online shopping site, the scarcity limits the customer's opportunity to purchase the product. Thus scarcity has been proposed as a important factor that makes the customer highly aware of the merchantability of the product. The scarcity in the web store is used as an important variable to make purchasing decisions of users easier by psychological pressure. In the case of scarce products with price discounts in online commerce, advertising formats that highlight scarcity value in the web commerce market are very effective in enhancing purchase intentions of consumers. Unlike offline stores, the importance of scarcity becomes more important when reflecting the characteristics of online commerce. Therefore, this study intends to confirm the influence of the degree of price discounts and scarcity information presented by Web sites on consumer purchase behavior in Web purchase behavior. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted a web-based experimental study on price sensitivity and price discount. Therefore, we created experimental web-sites that offer two stimuli according to the discount rate. The 200 respondents were randomly assigned. The stimuli were fictitious based on tourism products. The first stimulus presented the price discount(15% discount) with basic explanation about the package of the tourist package. The stimuli assigned to the second group were used for groups with high price discount intensity(65% discount). In this way, the two stimuli clearly distinguished the level of price discount intensity. This paper conducted t-test analysis and structural equation to analyze the experiemental results after confirming the reliability and validity. Findings The results of this study are as follows. The difference in price discount intensity (15% vs 65%) with scarcity showed the mean difference among all the variables. Therefore, this study concluded that there is a significant difference between the price discount of 15% and 65% for the acquisition value and transaction value of users. In particular, consumers' purchase intention is greater and product recommendation intensity is stronger when the price discount is 65%. As a result, the high degree of the price discount intensity with scarcity exerts a greater influence on consumers' purchase intentions. Product scarcity also have a significant impact on perceived value of users. Therefore, purchase intention of customers increases when perceived value increases their profit and pleasure feeling.

온라인 커뮤니티 특성과 충성도 간의 관계에 대한 연구: 자아일치성, 소비자 체험, 상호작용성의 매개적 역할을 중심으로 (A Study on the Relationship Between Online Community Characteristics and Loyalty : Focused on Mediating Roles of Self-Congruency, Consumer Experience, and Consumer to Consumer Interactivity)

  • 김문태;옥정원
    • 마케팅과학연구
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    • 제18권4호
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    • pp.157-194
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    • 2008
  • 온라인 커뮤니티에 대한 연구는 학자들과 실무자들의 많은 관심을 받아온 분야이다. 과거 많은 연구자들이 온라인 커뮤니티를 통해 큰 상업적 성과를 거둘 수 있다고 했지만 현실은 그렇지 못하며, 마케팅 연구 분야에서도 상업적 성공을 이끄는 변수들에 대한 연구가 많이 이루어지지 못한 것이 사실이다. 이러한 점에서 본 연구는 온라인 커뮤니티 사이트들이 콘텐츠 관련 마케팅 노력을 통해 소비자들의 자아일치성을 높이고, 긍정적 체험을 유도하면서 커뮤니티 사이트 내에서 소비자 간 상호작용성 등을 높여 결국, 커뮤니티 사이트의 방문충성도 및 구매충성도를 실현시킬 수 있는 프레임 웍을 제시하였다. 연구결과 온라인 커뮤니티 사이트에서 소비자 간 상호작용성이 방문충성도 그리고 특히 구매충성도의 구축에 매우 중요한 요인으로 밝혀졌고, 온라인 커뮤니티 사이트에 대한 자아일치성 지각 및 긍정적인 소비자 체험 또한 소비자의 상호작용성, 방문충성도 그리고 커뮤니티에 대한 애정에 상당히 중요한 요인임을 알 수 있었다. 또한 이러한 매개변수에 주된 영향요소로서 콘텐츠 우수성, 사이트 생동감, 네비게이션용이성, 고객화 등의 콘텐츠 관련 마케팅 노력의 역할의 중요성을 강조하였다.

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인지된 위험의 유형이 소비자 신뢰 및 온라인 구매의도에 미치는 영향 (The Impact of Perceived Risks Upon Consumer Trust and Purchase Intentions)

  • 홍일유;김우성;임병하
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제21권4호
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    • pp.1-25
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    • 2011
  • Internet-based commerce has undergone an explosive growth over the past decade as consumers today find it more economical as well as more convenient to shop online. Nevertheless, the shift in the common mode of shopping from offline to online commerce has caused consumers to have worries over such issues as private information leakage, online fraud, discrepancy in product quality and grade, unsuccessful delivery, and so forth, Numerous studies have been undertaken to examine the role of perceived risk as a chief barrier to online purchases and to understand the theoretical relationships among perceived risk, trust and purchase intentions, However, most studies focus on empirically investigating the effects of trust on perceived risk, with little attention devoted to the effects of perceived risk on trust, While the influence trust has on perceived risk is worth studying, the influence in the opposite direction is equally important, enabling insights into the potential of perceived risk as a prohibitor of trust, According to Pavlou (2003), the primary source of the perceived risk is either the technological uncertainty of the Internet environment or the behavioral uncertainty of the transaction partner. Due to such types of uncertainty, an increase in the worries over the perceived risk may negatively affect trust, For example, if a consumer who sends sensitive transaction data over Internet is concerned that his or her private information may leak out because of the lack of security, trust may decrease (Olivero and Lunt, 2004), By the same token, if the consumer feels that the online merchant has the potential to profit by behaving in an opportunistic manner taking advantage of the remote, impersonal nature of online commerce, then it is unlikely that the merchant will be trusted, That is, the more the probable danger is likely to occur, the less trust and the greater need to control the transaction (Olivero and Lunt, 2004), In summary, a review of the related studies indicates that while some researchers looked at the influence of overall perceived risk on trust level, not much attention has been given to the effects of different types of perceived risk, In this context the present research aims at addressing the need to study how trust is affected by different types of perceived risk, We classified perceived risk into six different types based on the literature, and empirically analyzed the impact of each type of perceived risk upon consumer trust in an online merchant and further its impact upon purchase intentions. To meet our research objectives, we developed a conceptual model depicting the nomological structure of the relationships among our research variables, and also formulated a total of seven hypotheses. The model and hypotheses were tested using an empirical analysis based on a questionnaire survey of 206 college students. The reliability was evaluated via Cronbach's alphas, the minimum of which was found to be 0.73, and therefore the questionnaire items are all deemed reliable. In addition, the results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) designed to check the validity of the measurement model indicate that the convergent, discriminate, and nomological validities of the model are all acceptable. The structural equation modeling analysis to test the hypotheses yielded the following results. Of the first six hypotheses (H1-1 through H1-6) designed to examine the relationships between each risk type and trust, three hypotheses including H1-1 (performance risk ${\rightarrow}$ trust), H1-2 (psychological risk ${\rightarrow}$ trust) and H1-5 (online payment risk ${\rightarrow}$ trust) were supported with path coefficients of -0.30, -0.27 and -0.16 respectively. Finally, H2 (trust ${\rightarrow}$ purchase intentions) was supported with relatively high path coefficients of 0.73. Results of the empirical study offer the following findings and implications. First. it was found that it was performance risk, psychological risk and online payment risk that have a statistically significant influence upon consumer trust in an online merchant. It implies that a consumer may find an online merchant untrustworthy if either the product quality or the product grade does not match his or her expectations. For that reason, online merchants including digital storefronts and e-marketplaces are suggested to pursue a strategy focusing on identifying the target customers and offering products that they feel best meet performance and psychological needs of those customers. Thus, they should do their best to make it widely known that their products are of as good quality and grade as those purchased from offline department stores. In addition, it may be inferred that today's online consumers remain concerned about the security of the online commerce environment due to the repeated occurrences of hacking or private information leakage. Online merchants should take steps to remove potential vulnerabilities and provide online notices to emphasize that their website is secure. Second, consumer's overall trust was found to have a statistically significant influence on purchase intentions. This finding, which is consistent with the results of numerous prior studies, suggests that increased sales will become a reality only with enhanced consumer trust.