Online Shopping Experience (OSE) : a new conceptual framework

What is the ‘online shopping experience’ (OSE) lived by the consumers? Early works suggest that the OSE is a construct incorporating four constituent dimensions: physical characteristics, ideological aspect, pragmatic aspects, and social aspect. The aim of this search is to enrich this conceptual framework though a qualitative investigation done in the US (summer 2017), and to propose a robust model of the OSE.Results analysis enables to identify interesting new aspects that conduct to propose a new conceptual model. Specifically, we propose that OSE is a three-order construct and distinguish the hedonic / utilitarian values from the components of the experience itself. An augmented conceptualization of the OSE is designed. Finally, new items on some characteristics such as loss of self-consciousness, rituals or interactions with others have to be further tested, in order to fine-tune some of the scales. The research project as a whole is still in progress and next steps are under process both in France and in the US.