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Language | English |
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Pages | 285-299 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of Business Economics and Management |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
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Keywords
- Digital shadow economy
- consumers
- concept of digital shadow economy
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Concept, motives and channels of digital shadow economy : consumers’ attitude. / Gasparėnienė, Ligita; Remeikienė, Rita ; Schneider, Friedrich Georg.
In: Journal of Business Economics and Management, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2017, p. 285-299.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Concept, motives and channels of digital shadow economy
T2 - Journal of Business Economics and Management
AU - Gasparėnienė, Ligita
AU - Remeikienė, Rita
AU - Schneider, Friedrich Georg
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The purpose of this article is to define the concept of digital shadow economy and identify its determinants and channels from consumers’ position. In order to fulfil the defined purpose, the method of snowball sampling was employed. The results of the research revealed that consumers interpret digital shadow economy as an illegal opera - tion in the Internet space, which generates illegal money flows for commodity/service providers or purchasers, and deprives legal traders/service providers from the revenue that could be officially accounted, calculated and declared. E-shops, social networks and websites are the channels, most commonly engaged for acquisition of goods/services in digital space; the categories of goods/services acquired by these channels include clothing and footwear, trips and entertainment, cosmetics and perfume. Purification of the concept of digital shadow economy from consumers’ position allowed to define the concept of digital shadow economy, which is a significant contribution to the evolution of the theory of digital shadow economy, and can enable to develop an instrument for measuring the scopes of digital shadow economy in further research.
AB - The purpose of this article is to define the concept of digital shadow economy and identify its determinants and channels from consumers’ position. In order to fulfil the defined purpose, the method of snowball sampling was employed. The results of the research revealed that consumers interpret digital shadow economy as an illegal opera - tion in the Internet space, which generates illegal money flows for commodity/service providers or purchasers, and deprives legal traders/service providers from the revenue that could be officially accounted, calculated and declared. E-shops, social networks and websites are the channels, most commonly engaged for acquisition of goods/services in digital space; the categories of goods/services acquired by these channels include clothing and footwear, trips and entertainment, cosmetics and perfume. Purification of the concept of digital shadow economy from consumers’ position allowed to define the concept of digital shadow economy, which is a significant contribution to the evolution of the theory of digital shadow economy, and can enable to develop an instrument for measuring the scopes of digital shadow economy in further research.
KW - Digital shadow economy
KW - consumers
KW - concept of digital shadow economy
U2 - 10.3846/16111699.2016.1214620
DO - 10.3846/16111699.2016.1214620
M3 - Article
VL - 18
SP - 285
EP - 299
JO - Journal of Business Economics and Management
JF - Journal of Business Economics and Management
SN - 1611-1699
IS - 2
ER -