The paper examines factors influencing online purchase intention of Vietnamese. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the study develops a theoretical model including four explanatory variables of online purchase intention: performance expectancy (PE), social influence (SI), effort expectancy (EE) and facilitating condi-tions (FC). The empirical results obtained in a sample of 204 valid interviewees reveal the statistically significant and concurrent impact of the mentioned determinants on the intention to purchase online. Among them, performance expectancy (PE) and social influence (SI) exert the most significant influence. The findings provide guidance for online firms to improve their conditions and develop marketing strategies in order to highlight efficiency, ease of use, and convenience; become a trend of social communities and then encourage the online purchase.

Digital divide, trust towards e-commerce system, and facilitating conditions as the factors impacting the use intention of the international trade center were examined in this study, through a survey carried out on 500 Jordanian students. The proposed conceptual model was empirically tested, and significant impact of trust and facilitating conditions on intention to use the international trade center was affirmed. Meanwhile, the digital divide did not impact the intention to use the international trade center. Being limited to the Jordanian context, the study findings may not be generalizable to other countries.

The prime concern of the current research effort is to assess the role of social media marketing efforts to explain the consumer-based brand equity among the restaurant industry of the United Arab Emirates. The study incorporated the facilitating conditions, customer experience and brand loyalty that influence the utilization of social media marketing that further develop the consumer-based brand equity. The restaurants are an important element of the hospitality sector in UAE and important due to the huge number of visitors. Therefore, the importance of social media marketing becomes more evident due to effective approaches in attracting the customers remotely. The collected data was analyzed on Smart-PLS and results depict that facilitating conditions, customer experience and brand loyalty influence social media marketing and consumer-based brand equity. However, the mediating role of social media marketing remained insignificant.

Nowadays, transactions on e-commerce platforms (e-payment) utilizing a credit card are popular. Using credit cards for electronic purchases over the Internet is much different from offline purchases in traditional stores; only online transactions do not include either physical credit card or a signature. The e-payment has become a common mode of payment for online transactions made. It is an electronic billing system that gives clients the ability to make payments using the Internet. The objective of this paper was to analyze the associations among continuance intention e-payment, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, performance expectancy, social influence, and actual usage of e-payment. The data was tested empirically on data collected from 667 Generation Z e-payment users in Malaysia. The results found that facilitating conditions, performance expectancy, and social influence impacted the actual usage of e-payment. Surprisingly, effort expectancy was not significantly associated with the actual e-payment usage. The findings of this study have several implications for managers and point the way towards future research. No prior empirical study has investigated the role of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model on e-payment usage among Generation Z in Malaysia to the best of the authors’ knowledge. These results provide valuable contributions that can help decision-makers formulate or adjust their strategies associated with e-payments.

Educational institutions worldwide are using online learning to provide students with continued education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main purpose of this paper was to ascertain how facilitating conditions, social media, and ease of use, affect students’ perception towards online learning. During this pandemic, secondary school students were required to participate in full-time online learning. This study included 350 students from three regions in Jordan as a sample, and the results generated from the survey data were analyzed. Policy implications were established in this study to provide guidance to government agencies and schools on how to improve the delivery of online learning. Prospective research paths for future online learning research were suggested as well.