“…There are many studies that suggest family, peers and school are important CS agents among children and adolescents (cf., Moschis, 1985;Shim, 1996;Lachance et al, 2003). The CS perspective has been applied to a wide variety of topics to gain insight into consumer behaviour (c.f., Grossbart and Crosby, 1984;Grønhaug and Venkatesh, 1986;Rose, 1999;Sherry et al, 1999;Thomson, 2003;Lachance and Choquette-Bernier, 2004). The CS perspective is used in this study to better understand teenagers' adoption of a particular shopping and purchasing channel.…”