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Impact of product description and involvement on purchase intention in cross-border e-commerce

December 2019
Industrial Management & Data Systems ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print)

DOI:10.1108/IMDS-05-2019-0280

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of product description and involvement on purchase intention in a cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) setting from a psychological perspective. Design/methodology/approach This study proposes a research model of purchase intention in CBEC based on the involvement theory and commitment-involvement theory. The research model was tested using the covariance-based structural equation modeling technique. Data were collected from consumers on a popular CBEC platform in China. Findings A high-quality product description has no significant positive effect on purchase intention, but it has significant positive effects on product cognitive involvement, product affective involvement, platform enduring involvement and platform situational involvement. In addition, product affective involvement, platform enduring involvement and platform situational involvement all have significant positive effect on purchase intention, but this effect is not significant in the relationship between product cognitive involvement and purchase intention. Practical implications This study calls for sellers to optimize product descriptions on CBEC platforms in order to attract more buyers and generate more profits. Originality/value This study integrates two theories of involvement into the research model in the CBEC context. Based on this model, the authors analyzed how product description affects purchase intention under the joint influence of two involvement factors.

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Although cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) has experienced rapid development, severe issues remain, including information asymmetry and uncertainty. Social commerce platforms have emerged to provide consumers with new approaches to solving these issues and enabling shopping decisions. However, there is still a dearth of knowledge about the underlying mechanism that explains why and how CBEC consumers employ social commerce platforms to facilitate information processing. To address this critical issue, we employed SEM and ANN analytical approaches to examine the research model developed from the motivation-opportunity-ability (MOA) framework. The results revealed associations between the identified motivational factors (information seeking, serendipity, relaxation, and symbolic motivation), opportunity factors (time availability, platform empowerment, and electronic Word-of-Mouth), the ability factor (self-efficacy), involvement, and purchase intentions. In addition, an importance ranking of the most critical drivers of consumers’ shopping decisions was derived from various antecedents.

Gain-framed product descriptions are more appealing to elderly consumers in live streaming E-commerce: Implications from a controlled experiment

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Nov 2022

Live streaming e-commerce has become increasingly popular among elderly consumers. This new form of online shopping allows the elderly, who might be less effective in making purchase decisions than younger people, to better understand the products sold through the comprehensive descriptions provided by the anchors. This study is interested in investigating the effects of the gain-loss framing of product descriptions on the elderly's purchase intention. A total of 36 participants between the ages of 60 and 70 were invited to watch a number of live streaming videos involving either gain- or loss-framed product descriptions in a controlled experiment. The results show that the gain-framed descriptions of the products engendered significantly higher purchase intention among the participants than the loss-framed ones. In particular, the gain-framed descriptions were effective for the participants with high approach motivation, but not for those with low approach motivation, which suggests the significant moderating effect of approach motivation. This study focused on the elderly customers whose life quality can be greatly enhanced by live streaming e-commerce. The findings not only add to the knowledge about the effects of message framing, but also provide useful implications for live-streaming e-commerce practitioners to increase the persuasiveness of their product descriptions.

Impact of seller- and buyer-created content on product sales in the electronic commerce platform: The role of informativeness, readability, multimedia richness, and extreme valence

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Sep 2022
J Retailing Consum Serv

Highlights • Review informativeness fully mediated the influence of product description informativeness on product sales. • Review readability increases product sales and enhances the relationship between review informativeness and product sales. • Multimedia richness, either from seller-created or buyer-created content, is positively associated with product sales. • Extreme positive review valence enhances the relationship between review informativeness and product sales. • As a product of the research process, the lexicons of video game attributes are developed.

Use of MaxDiff method in selecting green packaging attributes that influence purchase decisions in online shops

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Aug 2022

The aim of this research was to investigate how retailers advertise the green packaging of green products offered in online shops and which packaging attributes should be given more attention when advertising products in online shops. For this purpose, we first conducted a preliminary analysis of 31 green products sold in Slovenian online shops. We found that green packaging is generally poorly advertised in online shops, although it could be a competitive advantage for retailers. To prove that there are attributes of green packaging in relation to other attributes when purchasing green products, we conducted a questionnaire using the included MaxDiff method. The questionnaire was answered by 134 Slovenian respondents. Based on the results, we found that less than one‐third of the respondents trust the manufacturer's information about green products, two‐thirds of the respondents are willing to pay more for green products as they believe that the quality of these products is higher than of comparable non‐green products, and that our respondents have trust in the labels “Made in Slovenia” and “Locally grown,” although more than one‐third of the respondents buy green products regardless of the country of origin. The results of the MaxDiff analysis showed that three attributes associated with green packaging are more important when buying green products and should be highlighted in the description of a product also in online shops, that is, the material of the packaging, the possibility of its reuse, and ecolabels. When it comes to green products, green packaging is the last element that consumers in the research think of. However, when purchasing green products, packaging that is made of environmentally friendly materials is the most preferred attribute for them.

Information Sharing in a Cross-Border E-Commerce Supply Chain Under Tax Uncertainty

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Feb 2022
INT J ELECTRON COMM

This study explores the optimal information-sharing strategy in a cross-border e-commerce supply chain with uncertain tax rates, in which an overseas manufacturer invests in product quality and a cross-border e-retailer holds private demand information. By establishing a game-theoretical model, we investigate the e-retailer’s motivation for sharing information with the overseas manufacturer and further explore the role of information sharing under tax uncertainty. Our results show that when quality elasticity is high, the e-retailer chooses to share its information voluntarily. However, under medium quality elasticity, the e-retailer shares information voluntarily only when the probability of the high tax rate is below a certain threshold. Moreover, the e-retailer could be more likely to share information under higher tax uncertainty. When quality elasticity is low, the e-retailer is unwilling to share information, but the overseas manufacturer can design a contract to incentivize the e-retailer to share information to realize a win–win outcome. Finally, we reveal that information sharing can mitigate the negative effect of tax fluctuation on the e-retailer’s profit. These findings provide useful implications for cross-border e-retailers on how to formulate information-sharing strategies under tax uncertainty arising from trade policy adjustment. Our study also supplements the information-sharing literature by discussing tax uncertainty, which is an important factor affecting the operation of cross-border e-commerce supply chain.

Exploring consumer purchase intention in cross-border e-commerce: evidence from ‘belt and road’ countries

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May 2022
Asia Pac J Market Logist

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of consumer purchase intention (CPI) of cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) in the countries of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Design/methodology/approach This study proposes a research model of the antecedents of CPI on CBEC in BRI countries. Study participants were consumers with CBEC shopping experience in BRI-associated countries ( n = 278). Structural equation modeling was used to test the research model. Findings Trust has the greatest effect on CPI, while perceived security has the least effect. In addition, in BRI-associated countries, in contrast to the previous study, product presentation was found to have a significant positive influence on CPI in CBEC. Platform simplicity and logistic service have a significant positive influence on CPI. Practical implications These findings offer important implications for CBEC. Consumers' trust in product providers has the greatest impact on CPI. Simplicity, timely shipment tracking and the fast delivery speed of the platform will increase CPI. The results suggest a highly successful tactic for enhancing consumers' perceptions of product authenticity and interest. Finally, this study provides insights into BRI. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature on CBEC. It explores the multilevel (i.e. product presentation, platform simplicity, logistic service, perceived security, and trust) determinants of CPI on CBEC. The study provides insights into the determinants of CPI in BRI countries.

Understanding the Selection of Cross-Border Import E-Commerce Platforms Through the DANP and TOPSIS Techniques: A Multi-Study Analysis

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Jan 2022

The platform of cross-border e-commerce has gained momentum in recent years. It is of paramount importance to fathom the factors influencing consumers’ choice of the platform and the relationships among the underlying factors. Departing from the theoretical lens of perceived value and our comprehensive review of the literature, this paper proposes a selection model including four dimensions and twelve criteria of cross-border import e-commerce platform. We propose a multi-study approach, in which the DANP technique is leveraged to extract and analyze the influence of the relationships between dimensions and criteria to determine their weight; then we use the TOPSIS technique to further evaluate three cross-border import e-commerce platforms in China, including Tmall Global, Koala and JD Global, to validate our model. The results show that when consumers choose a cross-border import e-commerce platform, products and experience are the most salient elements, while services and risks are the effective elements, with the greatest impact of risks.

Supply–Demand Docking Joint Decision of Cross-border E-commerce under the Influence of Internet Celebrity

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Jan 2022

While cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) is booming in the world today, there are many obstacles hindering the development of the market, such as fake commodities and inferior goods, unreliable and lengthy transit times, and so on. The emergence of Internet celebrity brings new vitality to CBEC, as they build a bridge of trust between brand merchants and consumers. At the same time, the more complex CBEC supply chain with Internet celebrity involved needs to be integrated. This study propose a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) supply–demand docking business model and accordingly four incentive mechanisms (namely high-quality production incentive, Internet celebrity marketing incentive, equity sharing incentive and cooperative voting mechanism) to achieve the CBEC supply chain vertical integration. Our analysis shows that a higher commission proportion of CBEC platform results in lower quality improvement level and demand, and higher sale price and consumer experience level. We also find that joint decision-making actually realizes Pareto improvement of decentralized decision-making. Moreover, the introduction of cooperative voting mechanism ensures the fair expression of the interest demands of participants in the joint decision, providing a win-win situation for all parties. This study provides a sufficient basis for the vital role of Internet celebrity in CBEC. © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Patients need emotional support: Managing physician disclosure information to attract more patients

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Dec 2021
INT J MED INFORM

Background: Information asymmetry causes barriers for the patient’s decision-making in the online health community. Patients can rely on the physician’s self-disclosed information to alleviate it. However, the impact of physician’s self-disclosed information on the patient’s decision has rarely been discussed. Objectives: To investigate the impact of the physician’s self-disclosed information on the patient’s decision in the online health community and to examine the moderating effect of the physician’s online reputation. Methods: Drawing on the limited-capacity model of attention, we develop a theoretical model to estimate the impact of physician’s self-disclosure information on patient’s decision and the contingent roles of physician’s online reputation in online healthcare community by econometric methods. We designed a web crawler based on R language program to collect more than 20000 physicians’ data from their homepage in Haodf—a leading online healthcare community platform in China. The attributes of the physician’s information disclosure are measured by the following variables: emotion orientation, the quantity of information and the semantic topics diversity. Results: The empirical analysis derives the following findings: (1) The emotion orientation in physician’s self-disclosure information is positively associated with patient’s decision; (2) Both excessive quantity of information and semantic topics diversity can raise barriers for patient’s decision; (3) When the level of physician’s online reputation is high, the negative effect of the quantity of information and semantic topics diversity are all strengthened while the positive effect of the emotion orientation is not strengthened. Conclusions: This study has a profound importance for a deep understanding of the impact of physician’s self-disclosure information and contributes to the literature on information disclosure, the limited capacity model of attention, patient’s decision. Also, this study provides implications for practice.

Use Intention of Aggregator Medical Mobile Apps’ (M-apps) and Revealing Reasons for Non-Use. Journal of Alexandria University for Administrative Sciences, 58(5), 171-201.

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Sep 2021

Sally Garas

The current study has two main objectives. The first, is to examine the impact of perceived ease of use, usefulness, risk and product involvement on intention to use aggregator medical mobile apps. The second objective is to reveal factors which might make some healthcare consumers not use aggregator medical mobile apps. Thus, a single cross sectional descriptive research was employed, and questionnaires were used to gather data from 111 app users over two months (March and April 2021) from Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. Multiple regression was used to test the research hypotheses. Results indicate that perceived usefulness, product involvement and perceived ease of use have significant positive impacts on intention to use aggregator medical mobile apps, while perceived risk has no significant impact on intention. Moreover, the responses of nonusers shed light on reasons which discourage them from using this type of medical mobile apps.

A Cross-Continent Analysis of the Invariance of Product Information in Cross-Border Electronic Commerce

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Jan 2021
J GLOB INF MANAG

Cross-border electronic-commerce (CBEC) is growing. However, due to differences in culture, habits, history and language among other factors, consumers in different regions may have different perception towards the same product information on CBEC platforms, which may lead to differences in their cognition of the product with implications for purchase intentions. Presently, little research has attempted to understand whether there are such differences between global consumers through the examination of measurement invariance (MI) in CBEC environments. By using multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA), this study explored the invariance of two product information cognitions on CBEC platforms, namely product description and product awareness, among consumers in North America, Europe, Latin America and Oceania. Data was collected from users of a popular CBEC platform in China. We find no significant differences in understandings and levels of awareness of product information across the four groups of consumers.

Exploring the core factors of online purchase decisions by building an E-Commerce network evolution model

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Jan 2022
J Retailing Consum Serv

With the continuous development of the Internet and information technology, online shopping has become a popular purchase mode. The in-depth analysis of consumer decision-making in online shopping is an important issue. Our purpose is to study how the factors of the shopping web pages corporately affect online purchase decisions and determine which are the core factors that affect consumer purchase decisions. We screen the influencing factors on the shopping webpage and deploy e-commerce network evolution based on various weight combinations of these factors to generate sales distributions of online products. By comparing these simulated sales distributions to the real data, the optimal weight of each factor is obtained. The results show that sales volume and the number of high-quality negative comments are the most important factors influencing consumers' decision-making, the number of comments and the number of comments with pictures are relatively minor factors, store type and video presentation of the products have the least impact. The optimal simulated sales distribution is very close to the real case and verifies that the introduced network evolution technology is applicable. The proposed model can be used as a uniform evaluation platform for correlational study, which is an important link in the purchase research chain.

Online Shopping Behavior during COVID-19 Pandemic: An Indian Perspective

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Jun 2021

This study was focused to inspect the main components to determine the behavior of customer towards online shopping from various ecommerce company during COVID-19 pandemics. The study explores about the rapid use of internet, mobile, etc.in lockdown that imposed in the country. Online shopping is now a days considered to be the most convenient way of shopping to get away free from the spreading virus and keep ourselves in safe and secure environment. The study involves quantitative research in the form of linear regression to evaluate the effects online shopping attributes on customer purchase behavior. The findings indicated that the main components like Social Media, Product Quality, Return and Exchange Policy, Product Descriptions and Seller Information significantly influence the customer purchase intention during the lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. Some suggestions were also made to study further and predict the customer online buying preferences or behaviors in future post pandemic.

Beauty matters: reducing bounce rate by aesthetics of experience product portal page

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Jun 2021
IND MANAGE DATA SYST

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of experience product portal page aesthetics on bounce rate. Design/methodology/approach This research collected data from an online shop selling original design furniture on Taobao.com. It employed deep learning algorithm and manual coding to operationalize image and text aesthetics. Findings The empirical results indicate that text aesthetics has a U-shaped relationship with bounce rate, whereas the relationship between image aesthetics and bounce rate is insignificant. Moreover, the U-shaped relationship between text aesthetics and bounce rate is weakened by image aesthetics. Originality/value This study addresses an important but understudied topic – the bounce rate of experience products in the context of e-commerce. Although the high bounce rate has increasingly gained attention from practitioners, there remains a scarcity of research that addresses the effect of product portal page aesthetics in the specific context of experience products. The authors theorize product portal page aesthetics as the design elements of an e-commerce website and deeply analyzed the role of product portal page aesthetics by classifying it into text aesthetics and image aesthetics. The authors’ findings provide implications for online sellers and platforms to effectively design product profile pages to reduce the bounce rate.

Influencing Factors of Cross-Border E-Commerce Consumer Purchase Intention Based on Wireless Network and Machine Learning

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Jun 2021

In recent years, with the continuous development of Internet technology and the deepening of economic globalization, cross-border e-commerce has become a new international trade model and an important growth point of foreign trade. With the popularity of international trade, domestic consumers have a deeper understanding of foreign products and brands and willingness to purchase, but at this stage, cross-border e-commerce transactions are not as close to domestic online shopping, and a few have business opportunities. PortUnity is the first among overseas consumers and some avant-garde consumers with a sense of consumption. Most people have not yet reached real cross-border e-commerce, so cross-border e-commerce has broad development potential on a global scale. As a high-tech field, cross-border e-commerce has few relevant theories and literature. Therefore, this article aims to explore the influencing factors of consumer purchase intention of cross-border e-commerce based on a wireless network and machine learning and to provide decision support for the management and operation of e-commerce in order to promote the better development of cross-border e-commerce. This article analyzes the influencing factors of consumers' intention in cross-border e-commerce shopping by combining literature research and empirical research. With the support of wireless networks and machine learning, perceptual-based ease of use and perceived usefulness of the original TAM, the individual influencing factors of cross-border e-commerce consumers' purchase intention and e-commerce platform factors are summarized according to the characteristics and technology acceptance model of cross-border e-commerce. In this questionnaire survey, the author fully explored the survey value of each respondent, and all the 100 questionnaires were successfully recovered, with a 100% utilization rate of data. The research results of this article show that in addition to the originally perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, consumers' income level, education level, age, gender, service, safety index and price of cross-border e-commerce platform, and other factors also affect the cross-border consumption frequency of consumers. 1. The Introduction Since the 1980s, China has become increasingly connected with various economies in the world, and commercial trade has become more and more frequent. Correspondingly, in recent years, China's e-commerce trade has also developed rapidly, and various policies have been issued to support the development of cross-border e-commerce enterprises [1]. More and more traditional enterprises have started to enter the industry, fully driving the rapid growth of the economic index [2–4]. According to statistics, just in 2018, the overall transaction scale of cross-border e-commerce in China reached an astonishing 4.3 trillion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 37%, and the transaction volume of imported e-commerce also reached 723.7 billion yuan [5]. With the increasingly close links between countries, cross-border e-commerce is showing a trend of booming development [6, 7]. Relevant surveys indicate that about 75% of online shoppers in China have ever intended to buy or browse goods provided by cross-border e-commerce companies [8]. Furthermore, some surveys indicate that about 30% of domestic e-commerce companies or self-employed people intend to engage in cross-border e-commerce [9]. The development of the Internet has also driven the development of Internet-related industries, among which the most important contributor is e-commerce. China has a big population and a huge amount of online consumption. At the present time, many consumers in China reached an astonishing 500 million, ranking first in the century with great advantages [10–12]. At the international import expo held in 2018, China stated its position of continuing to open up to the outside world. Therefore, in the foreseeable next decade, China's e-commerce revenue and expenditure will inevitably keep growing [13–16]. Compared with the previous closed period, the country is more concerned about the improvement of people’s living standards at this stage. People’s demand for consumer goods has changed from only pursuing usability in the past to focusing on the quality of goods. To put it simply, there are more and more consumer groups focusing on high-quality products in the international market [17]. In fact, since the outbreak of 2008 domestic milk time, the cross-border electricity showed powerful security advantages; this is mainly because the domestic consumer demand upgrade helped cross-border e-commerce development and the economic contacts between our country and trading nation culture also influence each other, thus affecting people's consumption idea [18, 19]. After decades of development and evolution, cross-border e-commerce has changed from overseas personal online shopping in the past to today’s e-commerce platform resale, gradually overcoming the problems of the past trading methods, for example, product quality problems cannot be guaranteed , consumers cannot purchase goods as they wish, the delivery period is too slow, and the handling fee is too high. Nowadays, the experience of cross-border e-commerce consumers has been gradually improved and expanded [20, 21]. In view of this background, this article intends to conduct a comprehensive analysis and study on the factors influencing the purchase intention of cross-border e-commerce consumers when they engage in consumption activities from the perspective of consumers. It cannot be ignored that data and communication security is paramount in the communication of many networks [22]. Because there are so many risk factors on the Internet, targeted measures must be taken to prevent leaks. First, if multiple networks are not allowed to communicate with each other, the host with multiple network cards is not allowed to install routing and data exchange protocols, let alone configure related protocols. Second, users connected to this computer cannot actively connect to other networks through this software. Finally, when transmitting data, the data must be processed, as required, to enhance security. Due to the early start of information and the long development of e-commerce in foreign countries, foreign scholars have studied cross-border e-commerce earlier. Among them, foreign scholars have pointed out that cross-border e-commerce can play a very important role in promoting international trade [23]. Paul Krugman took the iceberg model as a research method and studied the impact of e-commerce on international trade by combining e-commerce with the international trade model [24]. Research showed that e-commerce can affect the price of products, corporate profits, product production, and global trading volume. Martens and Turlea in the 27 EU Member States of Consumer Research Data, and by constructing B2C e-commerce, analyzed the data collected by the cross-border commercial model and concluded that the electronic payment system, the accounting model, and cost-effectiveness are the main reasons for the impact of cross-border e-commerce growth on the conclusion; they also suggested, through perfect laws and regulations, refinement of the financial system and parcel delivery method to improve the speed of cross-border e-commerce [25–27]. Experts at home and abroad also have many studies on the purchase intentions of cross-border e-commerce customers. Wang believed that my country has certain advantages compared with other countries. For example, my country has international e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba, which can be used at the same time. There are also many electronic payment methods, and the cost of various express logistics is relatively low. Cai Jing believed that cross-border e-commerce has reduced operating costs, broadened overseas marketing channels, and helped small- and medium-sized enterprises to go global. It has gradually become a new trend in my country's import and export trade. Xu analyzed the management of the cross-border online shopping market from the Chinese government and found that my country is gradually liberalizing the cross-border e-commerce market and has provided policy support and improved relevant laws. MOU proposed a research model of CBEC purchase intention and, from the perspective of psychology, studied the impact of product description and participation on purchase intention in the cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) environment. The research model was tested using structural equation modeling technology based on covariance. As a result, high-quality product description has no obvious positive influence on purchase intention but has an obvious positive influence on product cognition, product emotion, platform persistence, and platform contextuality. In addition, product emotional participation, platform persistent participation, and platform contextual participation all have a significant positive impact on purchase intention, but this effect is not significant in the relationship between product cognitive participation and purchase intention. The research method has ambiguity. These studies provide some references for this article, but due to the imperfect samples and methods of the study, it is difficult to reproduce the study. In recent years, due to the rapid economic development and the continuous and in-depth development of foreign trade, domestic experts and scholars engaged in e-commerce research have also done a lot of research. For example, Professor Wang Xingping explained the development status of cross-border e-commerce and third-party payment and put forward the theory that strengthening risk management and control pilot management can promote the healthy and stable development of e-commerce [28]. From the perspective of the rapid development of global e-commerce, Zhang Xiaheng pointed out that the main factors affecting China's e-commerce are marketing factors, social and cultural factors, logistics, e-commerce platforms, payment methods, tariffs, and six major factors. For recommendations related to the development of e-commerce [29], Yuan Xuli, a scholar, introduced the current development of e-commerce at home and abroad and raised malignant problems. He believed that malicious competition, payment risks, and inconsistencies in the logistics chain are the main problems that need to be resolved in development of e-commerce in China [30, 31]. In the research of e-commerce at home and abroad, it is not difficult to find that it focuses on the existing e-commerce research, which involves the impact of international trade, e-commerce logistics issues, and e-commerce payment security. However, it does not break things for e-commerce, and for cross-border e-commerce research, the influencing factors of consumer purchase intention are basically still in the blank stage [32]. This article tries to break through the limitations of existing researches and analyzes the influencing factors of consumers' willingness in cross-border e-commerce shopping by combining literature research and empirical research. The main innovation of this article is to put forward the concept that consumers' willingness to purchase cross-border e-commerce is affected by multiple factors from the technical support of wireless network and machine learning and explore the factors that influence consumers' choice of goods in the process of cross-border shopping. From a practical point of view, in terms of the selection of research objects, young and energetic consumers are carefully selected as the main research objects. They are easy to accept emerging electronic technologies and dare to pursue cutting-edge shopping methods. Moreover, this group is the important interactor of e-commerce and has a strong representation. 2. Theoretical Review of Factors Influencing Purchase Intention of Cross-Border E-commerce Consumers 2.1. Research Route In order to facilitate readers to understand the research context and research methods of this study, the author used descriptive statistics to describe the samples in the research process and conducted correlation analysis and regression analysis on the experimental samples to verify the research theme using relevant analysis reliability and validity tests. The research route of this article can be summarized as a flowchart, and the research roadmap is shown in Figure 1.

Intention to Adopt E-Commerce: A Comparative Review Across Developed and Developing Economies Developed and Developing Economies

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Mousa Albashrawi

The purpose of this study is to conduct a comprehensive literature review of online purchase intention and present a comparative case between developed and developing economies over a 20-year period to reveal insightful implications for academia and industry. Online purchase intention refers to the intended behavior of an individual to buy a product or service from an online store. Prior research has failed to present a review that compares an individual's online purchase intention across developed and developing economies in order to disclose the largest and smallest influencing factors, theories, and models in e-commerce. Our sample consists of 97 relevant articles focusing on online purchase intention retrieved from various quality databases, specifically from 53 peer-reviewed and validated journals. This research, in brief, will show different phases of analysis to better understand the current landscape of e-commerce behavioral intention and provide useful insights to researchers and professionals.

Understanding the Current Research of Cross-Border E-Commerce: A Systematic Literature Review

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Jan 2021

Companies face more challenges when their businesses enter into the global market, especially in an online environment. This situation is also true due to the different cultures, laws, regulations, habits, languages, technological levels, and even infrastructures for any firm that plans to utilize CBEC for gaining economic benefits. This study applies a systematic review method to present a literature review on the topic of CBEC. By reviewing 26 influential journal articles, this study provides details for the features, the methodologies, and the main themes and findings of selected articles. In the end, an integrated research framework on CBEC is proposed. This framework not only contains the major research focus of CBEC researches, but also includes the overall influential factors, the research gaps, and future research foci for CBEC. The last part of this chapter summarizes the theoretical contributions of the work, the practical implications, and the limitations of CBEC researches.

The Impact of Consumers' Satisfaction and Repurchase Intention on E- commerce Platform: A Case Study of the Top Three E-commerce in Bangkok

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Oct 2020

This study is proposed to determine factors impacting Consumers' Satisfaction and Repurchase Intention on the E-commerce Platform in Bangkok, Thailand. The objectives of this research also to determine the impact of consumers' satisfaction on repurchase intention, the impact of different genders and age groups on consumers' satisfaction and repurchase intention, and to determine the consumer behavior towards E-commerce after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is a quantitative research with several testing such as Cronbach's Alpha, Descriptive and Inferential Statistic to analyze the reliability of questionnaires and test hypotheses. The questionnaires were distributed to 400 samples who are Thai, live in Bangkok and have purchased online in the past six months. This study used a non-probability purposive sampling technique for data collection. In this research, the results presented that consumer behavior towards E-commerce after the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be changed. The most influencing factor impacting consumers' satisfaction on the E-commerce platform was platform quality, perceived value, perceived brand popularity and perceived innovativeness respectively at a significant level of 0.05, which further impacts the repurchase intention. Different age groups have different impacts on consumers' satisfaction and repurchase intention. http://online.anyflip.com/nmtug/tbvo/mobile/index.html == Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): AU Virtual International Conference 2020

Analysing impulse purchasing in cross-border electronic commerce

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Oct 2020
IND MANAGE DATA SYST

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of product information on impulse purchases in a cross-border electronic commerce (CBEC) setting from the perspective of cue stimulation. Design/methodology/approach This study proposes a research model of impulse purchases in CBEC based on the cue utilization theory and Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model. The research model was tested using covariance-based structural equation modelling. Data were collected from the consumers of a popular CBEC platform in China. Findings A high-quality product description has a significant positive effect on concentration but not on curiosity and autotelic experience. A high-quality product display has a significant positive effect on concentration, curiosity and autotelic experience. High-quality product content has a significant positive effect on curiosity and autotelic experience but not on concentration. Curiosity and autotelic experience both have a significant positive effect on impulse purchases; however, concentration has no such effect on an impulse purchase. Curiosity and autotelic experience have a full mediation effect between product display and impulse purchases and between product content and impulse purchases, respectively. Originality/value This study integrates the S-O-R model and cue utilization theory to construct a theoretical model of product information-flow experience-impulse purchases. According to the model, we can understand how product information influences consumers' impulse purchases in CBEC.

Research on Classification of Cross-Border E-Commerce Products Based on Image Recognition and Deep Learning

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Chen Rui

Cross-border e-commerce is a concrete manifestation of "Internet + foreign trade", which is conducive to improving the people’s material living standards and quality, and is also the key to promoting my country’s industrial transformation and upgrading. E-commerce platform is the carrier of cross-border e-commerce, and product classification plays a very important role in the e-commerce platform. Aiming at the shortcomings of existing product classification, this paper develops a new classification technology. First, obtain the relevant parameters of the product image through image recognition technology. Secondly, a cross-border e-commerce product classification model is constructed through deep learning technology, and Gray and RGB features of convolution and recursive networks are combined when training the classifier to enhance feature expression. Finally, the applicability and efficiency of related models are verified through performance and functional tests. This technology can effectively improve the rationality of the functional design of the e-commerce platform, thereby improving the efficiency of cross-border commerce business.

Understanding information system success model and valence framework in sellers’ acceptance of cross-border e-commerce: a sequential multi-method approach

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Electron Commerce Res

As cross-border e-commerce becomes more popular among global consumers and more important to global trade, there is a growing need for e-commerce research that explores the factors contributing to the success of global electronic markets. Yet, most extant literature on cross-border e-commerce is carried out from a buyer’s perspective. In this study, we contribute by arguing that the success of cross-border e-commerce is also determined by the behavior of sellers and their decision on which platforms to participate. To accomplish our research, we apply a sequential multimethod approach and draw on the information system success model and valence framework to conceptualize our work. We carried out interviews in a qualitative study of Chinese cross-border e-commerce sellers to uncover the key factors about which these sellers may be concerned, and the reasons why they engage in cross-border e-commerce. Our work then develops new operational definitions for concepts of system quality, service quality, perceived benefit and perceived cost relevant to the context of cross-border e-commerce. Next, we develop and test a research model to identify the most salient factors using data collected from a sample of 198 sellers in a Chinese cross-border e-commerce platform. Our quantitative results explain over 67% of seller intentions to participate in cross-border platforms, with trust and perceived benefits most important to that decision process. While other factors such as service quality were also found important, perceived costs had no direct effect. The theoretical contributions of the work and the practical implications for cross-border platforms are presented.

A Role Theory Perspective on Dyadic Interactions: The Service Encounter

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J MARKETING

This article proposes that the dyadic interaction between a service provider and a customer is an important determinant of the customer's global satisfaction with the service. Based on role theory, a theoretical framework is presented which abstracts some of the critical components of service encounters across industries.

Searching for Logistics and Regulatory Determinants Affecting Overseas Direct Purchase: An Empirical Cross-National Study

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Cross-border e-commerce has been very successful in the last decade. Merchants and consumers have been encouraged to participate in e-commerce, including B2C or B2B. B2C is not limited to a domestic market anymore. Consumers across countries are interested in overseas direct purchases. They are willing to purchase products from major online shopping sites such as Amazon and eBay. We aim at gaining a better understanding of overseas direct purchases. Determinants of overseas direct purchases based on cross-national data are identified. Accordingly, we investigate logistics and regulatory determinants. Furthermore, external environments such as regulatory institutions and globalization are discussed in terms of overseas direct purchases. This study incorporates theoretical foundations into empirical findings. Specifically, the institutional theory and the resource-based view are applied to explain the internal and external determinants to increase overseas direct purchases. We conduct an empirical test using panel data for each country to identify the various determinants associated with overseas direct purchases.

Factors Influencing Consumer Intention in Social Commerce Adoption

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Inform Tech People

Purpose Social media remarkably changed the way of interaction between the consumers and organizations. The increased acceptance of social media has given rise to social commerce (s-commerce) and s-commerce usage is gradually increasing over the last few years. The progressive development of technologies suggests that s-commerce will become the mainstream for marketing and a literature survey indicates that there have not been many studies in this area. The purpose of this paper is to predict the factors influencing consumer intention towards the adoption of s-commerce. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a survey approach with reference to important behavioural factors such as satisfaction, ethics, trust, enjoyment/easiness, social pressure and awareness. The research model was developed to be in line with the available literature. The data were collected using a five-point Likert scale and the research model was tested using least square regression. Findings The results showed that user intention is significantly and positively related to perceived trust, enjoyment/easiness, social pressure, satisfaction and awareness. Also, “intention” was found to be a significant mediating factor for actual usage. Research limitations/implications First, the questionnaire was a “snap-shot” instead of longitudinal study. Second, future research should use other moderating variables that may affect the usage of social media. Also the study could apply a variant of research methods to include other techniques such as interviews, which allow for deeper understanding of the problem and issues. Practical implications Social media represents an important platform for electronic commerce and has one of the most metamorphic impacts on business. Therefore, investigating the usage of s-commerce with reference to important behavioural factors could provide valuable information for companies in establishing policies and strategies. It could also be useful for management studies and researchers in understanding the consumers’ attitude towards usage of social media for commercial purposes. Social implications S-commerce creates opportunities for firms. Based on findings this research provides insights with major implications for marketers, who would like to generate direct sales on social network platforms. Originality/value Existing literature focusses largely on the effectiveness of social media. Only a handful has endeavoured to analyse s-commerce systems and the literature on consumers’ behaviour in using s-commerce is not mature yet. This study is one of the few studies in this field, and aims to predict and explain the user acceptance of social media for commercial purposes.

Product Fit and Consumer Attitude Toward Brand Extensions: The Moderating Role of Product Involvement

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J Market Theor Pract

It is proposed that product involvement provides a situational motivation for consumers to discount the importance of product fit in brand extension evaluations. An experimental study with multiple brand extensions was conducted to test this hypothesis. It is found that the hypothesis holds in the case of complementarity between parent brand and extension product. A personality variable, need for cognition (NFC) is further applied to test the underlying principle and results support the argument.

The elaboration likelihood model: Review, critique and research agenda

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EUR J MARKETING

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review, critique and develop a research agenda for the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM). The model was introduced by Petty and Cacioppo over three decades ago and has been modified, revised and extended. Given modern communication contexts, it is appropriate to question the model’s validity and relevance. Design/methodology/approach – The authors develop a conceptual approach, based on a fully comprehensive and extensive review and critique of ELM and its development since its inception. Findings – This paper focuses on major issues concerning the ELM. These include model assumptions and its descriptive nature; continuum questions, multi-channel processing and mediating variables before turning to the need to replicate the ELM and to offer recommendations for its future development. Research limitations/implications – This paper offers a series of questions in terms of research implications. These include whether ELM could or should be replicated, its extension, a greater conceptualization of argument quality, an explanation of movement along the continuum and between central and peripheral routes to persuasion, or to use new methodologies and technologies to help better understanding consume thinking and behaviour? All these relate to the current need to explore the relevance of ELM in a more modern context. Practical implications – It is time to question the validity and relevance of the ELM. The diversity of on- and off-line media options and the variants of consumer choice raise significant issues. Originality/value – While the ELM model continues to be widely cited and taught as one of the major cornerstones of persuasion, questions are raised concerning its relevance and validity in 21st century communication contexts.

Understanding the consumer's online merchant selection process: The roles of product involvement, perceived risk, and trust expectation

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INT J INFORM MANAGE

Ilyoo Hong

Generation Y vs. Baby Boomers: Shopping behavior, buyer involvement and implications for retailing

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J Retailing Consum Serv

Anders Parment

The Role of Brand Image, Product Involvement, and Knowledge in Explaining Consumer Purchase Behaviour of Counterfeit: Direct and Indirect Effects

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Feb 2011
EUR J MARKETING

Purpose – Counterfeiting has become a significant economic phenomenon. Increased demand for counterfeit branded products (CBPs) makes the study of determinants of consumers CBPs purchase behaviour more worthwhile than ever before. Existing studies have largely neglected brand influence on consumer purchase behaviour of CBPs. This research seeks to examine the impact of perceived brand image, direct and indirect effects (mediator and moderator effects) of product involvement and product knowledge on consumer purchase intention of counterfeits in the context of non-deceptive counterfeiting. Design/methodology/approach – The current study tests the conceptual model and hypotheses developed based on the existing literature. Four focus groups (ranging from six to eight participants in each group) are used to construct the research instrument. The conceptual model and hypothesis are tested using hierarchical regression analyses with survey data from 321 consumers in the UK. Findings – This research is the first in the literature on counterfeits to establish that perceived brand personality plays a more dominant role in explaining consumers' purchase intention of CBP than other influential factors (e.g. benefit and product attribute). Involvement/knowledge has no significant influence on counterfeit purchase intention. Evidence of involvement as a moderator does not exist. Brand image is not a mediator of the effects of involvement/knowledge on purchase intention. Research limitations/implications – This research only investigates one brand of one product category (watches) in the context of non-deceptive counterfeiting, although this has not prevented the emergence of significant results. Practical implications – The results of this study hold important implications for both practitioners and academics. They help to alert practitioners to the factors that truly affect consumer proneness of CBPs, for example, brand personality. For academics, they demonstrate that brand influence should not be further ignored in the study of consumer behaviour in relation to CBPs. Originality/value – This research is one of the few which investigate CBP not only as a product but, more importantly, also as a brand – a counterfeit brand.

The Effect of Perceptual Fluency and Enduring Involvement on Situational Involvement in an Online Apparel Shopping Context

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Purpose – Casual online shoppers without a strong intention to purchase items can easily leave web sites within seconds. However, there is little research examining how and why consumers are engaged momentarily when they are exposed to a target stimulus in a low involvement shopping situation. This online experiment study seeks to investigate the possibility of enhancing situational involvement with personal and stimulus factors, namely enduring involvement and perceived perceptual fluency, and to determine how enjoyment contributes to the relations among enduring involvement, perceptual fluency, cognitive effort, and situational involvement, in a low‐involvement online shopping context. Design/methodology/approach – An online experiment was conducted to test the conceptual model. Two mock web sites with different levels of perceptual fluency were developed to test effects of perceptual fluency on situational involvement, and participants completed an online survey after viewing one on the web site. Findings – Structural equation modeling was performed to test the proposed model (n=657). The result confirmed that perceived perceptual fluency elicited enjoyment, which in turn positively affected situational involvement, purchase intention, and cognitive effort. Enduring involvement influences enjoyment, cognitive effort, and purchase intention in a web‐browsing situation. Enjoyment plays a key role by mediating the perceptual fluency effect and enduring involvement effect on purchase intention and cognitive effort. The findings of the current study demonstrated that perceptual fluency of a stimulus could engage people by enhancing enjoyment. Originality/value – The current study provides an insight into comprehensively understanding how situational involvement can be created through visual information display/web site design as well as a personal factor. The study uniquely approaches the issue of involvement and engagement through internal, psychological process of consumers. Also, the empirical support for the proposed model successfully extends the perceptual fluency hypothesis, contributing to the field of literature.

The Impact of Advertising Creativity on the Hierarchy of Effects

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This study examines how advertising creativity affects consumer processing and response. First, traditional hierarchy-of-effects (HOE) models are reviewed and then augmented with new developments in advertising and persua- sion research to identify fi ve major stages: brand awareness, brand learning, accepting/rejecting ad claims, brand liking, and brand intentions. Theoretical links are identifi ed that predict ad creativity will impact 13 key variables in all fi ve HOE stages. An experiment is conducted that manipulates the two major determinants of ad creativity: divergence and relevance. Results confi rm the expected divergence-by-relevance interaction effect for 12 of the 13 variables demonstrat- ing the potency of creative ads (and the ineffectiveness of ads with low creativity). In addition, a test is conducted using structural equations modeling (SEM) to see whether all the effects of ad creativity are mediated through each successive HOE stage. Results show that the HOE's assumptions hold up reasonably well, although divergence is powerful enough to exert direct (unmediated) effects on brand awareness and brand liking.

Antecedents of Online Shopping Behavior in India: An Examination

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The current research was undertaken to understand Indian students' intention to purchase through online shopping Web sites. A survey of 325 students studying in Indian universities was conducted. The results indicate that Indian students' intention to purchase online is influenced by utilitarian value, attitude toward online shopping, availability of information, and hedonic values. Male students have a more positive attitude toward online shopping compared to female students.

Conceptualizing Involvement

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Judith Lynne Zaichkowsky

Discusses the construct of involvement, outlining prior studies that show the antecedents of involvement to be due to personal, object, and/or situational characteristics. Research approaches for advertising, products, and purchase decisions are linked (e.g., situation and stimulus factors). A summary of empirical involvement studies is included in table form. It is proposed that a systematic research stream that isolates and measures the impact of the antecedents on involvement levels would be a major step in understanding how advertisers might use this concept for more effective communication strategies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Influences of online store perception, shopping enjoyment, and shopping involvement on consumer patronage behavior towards an online retailer

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Mar 2007
J Retailing Consum Serv

Online apparel retailers have adopted various types of image interactivity technology (IIT), such as close-up pictures or zoom-in functions, mix-and-match functions, and 3D virtual models to enhance consumers’ online shopping experience. The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of level of IIT on consumer perception of online retail environment, shopping enjoyment, shopping involvement, a desire to stay, and patronage intention. Significant structural relationships between these research variables were found, supporting a pleasure-oriented conceptual model of consumer patronage behavior in the online retailing environment. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

Converting Web Site Visitors into Buyers: How Web Site Investment Increases Consumer Trusting Beliefs and Online Purchase Intentions

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J MARKETING

The authors investigate the impact of Web site design investments on consumers' trusting beliefs and online pur-chase intentions. Such investments signal the component of trusting beliefs that is most strongly related to online purchase intentions: ability. These effects were strongest when consumers' goals were to search rather than to browse and when purchases involved risk.

Culture, product type, and price influences on consumer purchase intention to buy personalized products online

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Jan 2008
J BUS RES

With personalization, consumers can choose from various product attributes and a customized product is assembled based on their preferences. Marketers often offer personalization on websites. This paper investigates consumer purchase intentions toward personalized products in an online selling situation.The research builds and tests three hypotheses: (1) intention to purchase personalized products will be affected by individualism, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, and masculinity dimensions of a national culture; (2) consumers will be more likely to buy personalized search products than experience products; and (3) intention to buy a personalized product will not be influenced by price premiums up to some level. Results indicate that individualism is the only culture dimension to have a significant effect on purchase intention. Product type and individualism by price interaction also have a significant effect, whereas price does not. Major findings and implications are discussed.

Advertising to Bilinguals: Does the Language of Advertising Influence the Nature of Thoughts?

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Sep 2008
J MARKETING

When targeting bilingual consumers, advertisers have a choice to advertise in a bilingual's native language or in the country's dominant language. Within the Hispanic community in the United States, for example, Kellogg has a choice to advertise Frosted Flakes in English or in Spanish. But which is the better choice and why? This research considers whether the choice of language in advertising to bilinguals influences the types of thoughts they have in response to an advertisement. In other words, for a bilingual, can the exact same selling message cue different associations depending on the language in which it is presented? The underlying issue is whether advertisers can use language of execution as a strategic variable with which to generate certain types of associations that may facilitate persuasion. The authors consider this issue from a social cognition perspective. They hypothesize that a native-language advertisement is more likely to elicit self-referent thoughts about family, friends, home, or homeland, which in turn may lead to more positive attitude measures and behavioral intentions. Furthermore, the authors show that these effects are moderated by the consumption context presented in the advertisement.

Trust, Risk and Alternative Website Quality in B-Buyer Acceptance of Cross-Border E-Commerce

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Jan 2020

Cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) has become an imperative mode for global trade. Research on cross-border e-commerce historically focuses mainly on the customer's behavior intention to purchase on a CBEC platform. However, B-buyers are more important compared with C-buyers for CBEC platforms. This is because B-buyers can contribute more gross merchandise volume (GMV) in a CBEC platform, and thus more margin for the firm. The authors apply trust transfer theory, perceived risk, and alternative website quality to study repurchase intention, focusing on B-buyers. The results show that perceived risk, trust in provider, and trust in the website affect repurchase intention significantly, where trust in website is found to be the most important factor. In addition, the authors found that the dimensions of perceived risk in CBEC context can be classified as the following: customer duties risk, confiscation risk, delivery risk, financial risk, and privacy risk. The contributions of the study are addressed lastly.

Introduction to the special issue: electronic commerce in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

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Nov 2019

J. Christopher Westland

Exploring purchase intention in cross-border E-commerce: A three stage model

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Nov 2019
J Retailing Consum Serv

Cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) has been thriving in recent years, generating economic benefits for sellers and consumers. To keep up with this trend, sellers need to improve product cognition in order to improve consumers’ interest and behavior. Little research has focused on the influence of product cognition on purchase intention in CBEC. This study employs the hierarchy-of-effects model and the commitment-involvement theory to develop a three-stage model to evaluate the impact of product cognition on purchase intention in CBEC. Data was collected on a popular Chinese CBEC platform. The analysis shows that product description and product awareness have a positive effect on trust beliefs, and both platform enduring involvement and platform situational involvement positively affect trust. Purchase intention is subject to the positive impact of platform situational involvement and trust beliefs in addition to platform enduring involvement. Finally, perceived trust plays a full mediation effect in the three-stage model, which indicates that, on CBEC platforms, consumers’ processing and response is a sequence from product cognition to platform emotion and from platform emotion to behavior intention. The theoretical contribution of this study is a three-stage model involving two types of platform involvement in CBEC settings. Such model allows CBEC platform providers to increase consumers’ purchase intentions by improving product description, product awareness and platform involvement.

Perceived Information Transparency in B2C e-commerce: An Empirical Investigation

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Apr 2018
INFORM MANAGE-AMSTER

Social media, information presentation, consumer involvement, and cross-border adoption of pop culture products

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Dec 2017
ELECTRON COMMER R A

Sungjoon Yoon

In view of the rapidly increasing influences of mass-cultures of foreign origin on multi-facets of domestic consumption behavior, which has been saliently demonstrated by “Korea Wave” in its global cultural influences, this study attempts to validate the key factors affecting the cross-border adoption of arguments made in social media concerning mass-orientated, pop cultural products (drama, movie, music, and food, etc.) of foreign origin. This study examines whether social network traits (tie strength and centrality) of Chinese consumers influence the adoption of arguments about Korean cultural products in the social media context. Further, an experimental study confirms that argument presentation (text versus image) and the consumer's involvement level affect the adoption. Finally, the adoption of arguments on Korean cultural products is found to influence Chinese consumers’ intention to purchase products made in Korea, suggesting the presence of the country-of-cultural-origin effect.

Cross border B2C e-commerce to Greater China and the role of logistics: a literature review

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Aug 2017
Int J Phys Distrib Logist Manag

Purpose This paper reviews scientific publications in the field of logistics underlying cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) to China. A focus on the role played in this complex process by other countries of the Greater China is carried out. The purpose of this paper is to outline directions for future research to encourage CBEC development. Design/methodology/approach The review is based on 32 papers published from 2002 to 2016 in international peer-reviewed journals or proceedings of international conferences, retrieved from bibliographic databases and science search engines. Findings CBEC to China is gaining increasing interest, as shown by the rising amount of publications from 2013 onwards. Within these contributions, however, studies specifically investigating the relation between logistics and e-commerce, commonly acknowledged as critical, seem to lack. Many contributions are descriptive and do not provide specific insights on how to manage the complexities of CBEC logistics in this region. Stemming from the review, a set of possible development areas are identified, including distribution network design, i.e. deciding how to shape the CBEC distribution structure, and logistics outsourcing, i.e. determining whether to manage logistics activities in-house or through third parties. Originality/value To the extent of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first one to classify the existing body of knowledge on logistics supporting CBEC. Its main contribution is the critical identification of current research gaps and the proposal of key themes for future research. From a managerial perspective, it helps export and logistics managers identify the key challenges of managing CBEC logistics to Greater China.

Cross-Border Electronic Commerce: Distance Effects and Express Delivery in European Union Markets

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Apr 2017
INT J ELECTRON COMM

This empirical study examines distance effects on cross-border electronic commerce and in particular the importance of express delivery in reducing the time dimension of distance. E-commerce provides suppliers with a range of opportunities to reduce distance as perceived by online buyers. They can reduce psychological barriers to cross-border demand by designing websites that simplify the search for and comparison of products and suppliers across countries. They can reduce cost barriers by applying pricing strategies that redistribute transportation costs, and they can overcome time barriers offering express delivery services. This study of 721 regions in five countries of the European Union shows that distance is not “dead” in e-commerce, that express delivery reduces distance for cross-border demand, and that e-demand delivered by express services is more time sensitive and less price sensitive than e-demand satisfied by standard delivery. The willingness of e-customers to pay for express services is shown to be affected by income and by the relative lead-time benefits and express charges. Furthermore, the adoption of express delivery is positively associated with e-loyalty in terms of repurchase rates. The results confirm the importance for e-suppliers of cleverly designed delivery services to reduce distance in order to attract online customers across borders.

Mechanism of government policies in cross-border e-commerce on firm performance and implications on m-commerce

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Jan 2017

Cross-border e-commerce has progressed in the businesses of foreign trade enterprises in recent years. This paper proposes and validates that cross-border e-commerce as enterprise innovation should include businessmode innovation, not just institutional innovation or technological innovation, thus expanding the connotation of e-commerce. For enterprises, according to an analysis using data from 203 foreign trade companies, cross-border e-commerce as enterprise innovation plays a mediating role between government's pro-innovation supportive policy and firm performance, in particular, institutional innovation and business-mode innovation as components play full mediating roles. This study is of great value to other countries promoting cross-border e-commerce. Implications on m-commerce of the findings are discussed.

Redress procedures expected by consumers during a business-to-consumer e-commerce dispute

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May 2016
ELECTRON COMMER R A

Redress is concerned with internal complaint-handling procedures through which consumers seek compensation or to rectify the problems that occur during e-commerce transactions. It also serves as an important determinant of consumer confidence and trust. Studies of redress have received much attention, where the focus is largely in the context of traditional litigation procedures in offline business. This paper focuses on the types of redress procedures consumers expected in response to B2C e-commerce complaints, by analysing the experiences and viewpoint of a select group of online consumers and merchants located in Melbourne, Australia. The research reveals that when problems occur in B2C e-commerce transactions, consumers require and expect an immediate accessible and responsive redress procedure from merchants. This suggests that traditional litigation to seek redress is impractical and not a favourable option for consumers or merchants.

How do the services of low cost carriers affect passengers' behavioral intentions to revisit a destination?

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Apr 2016
J AIR TRANSP MANAG

Understanding the main factors that affect travelers' behavioral intentions are essential for countries that intend to develop their tourism industry. This research investigates how the services of low cost carriers (LCCs) affect travelers' behavioral intentions to revisit and a willingness to recommend the destination to others. The results show that the perceived services of LCCs have a significantly positive effect on the destination's image, and the destination's image has a significantly positive effect on behavioral intentions.

Online dispute resolution: Settling data protection disputes in a digital world of customers

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Dec 2015
Comput Law Secur Rep

In this article online dispute resolution (ODR) and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) are assessed in relation to the protection of personal data. ODR and ADR schemes are mechanisms to settle low-cost e-commerce disputes out-of-court. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the suitability of online dispute resolution as an additional means to the existing mechanisms for data protection enforcement. In this discussion particular attention is given to services offered to users as ‘free’, but which instead process personal data as a condition on access (e.g. social networking sites). The second section examines data protection in the digital age, highlighting the key principles of data protection and the challenges associated with the existing enforcement mechanisms. The third section questions the suitability of online dispute resolution as a solution for data protection enforcement in the European Union. In order to avail of the EU regulated ODR mechanism to resolve data protection issues, data protection disputes must fall under the scope of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Directive and the Online Dispute Resolution Regulation. Following an analysis of the applicability of the framework in this context, the final part of this article focuses on the challenges associated with the application of ODR schemes to the enforcement of online data protection disputes.

Analyses of Mediating Effects: The Development of Methods and Models

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Jan 2014

Mediation models are frequently used in the research of psychology and other social science disciplines. Mediation indicates that the effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable is transmitted through a third variable, which is called mediator. In most applied research, Baron and Kenny's(1986) causal steps approach has been used to test mediating effect. In recent years, however, many methodological researchers questioned the rationality of the causal steps approach, and some of them even attempted to stop its use. Firstly, we clarify the queries on the causal steps approach one by one. Secondly, we propose a new procedure to analyze mediating effects. The new procedure is better than any single method that constitutes the procedure in terms of Type I error rate and power. The proposed procedure can be conducted by using observed variables and/or latent variables. Mplus programs are supplied for the procedure with observed variables and/or latent variables. Finally, this article introduces the development of mediation models, such as mediation model of ordinal variables, multilevel mediation, multiple mediation, moderated mediation, and mediated moderation.

User acceptance of wearable devices: An extended perspective of perceived value

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May 2016

Understanding Reliability: A Review for Veterinary Educators

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Nov 2015
J VET MED EDUC

Veterinary medical faculty and administrators routinely administer student assessments and conduct surveys to make decisions regarding student performance and to assess their courses/curricula. The decisions that are made are a result of the scores generated. However, how reliable are the scores and how confident are you of your decisions? Reliability is one of the hallmarks of validity evidence, but what does this mean and what affects the reliability of scores? The purpose of this paper is to provide veterinary medical educators and administrators with fundamental information regarding the concept of reliability. Specifically, we review what sources of error reduce the reliability of scores and we describe the different types of reliability coefficients that are reported.

Enduring Involvement, Situational Involvement, and Flow in Leisure and Non-Leisure Activities

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Jun 2005
J LEISURE RES

This research was conducted to investigate relationships between enduring involvement (EI), situational involvement (SI), and flow. It was hypothesized that the constructs would be related and that SI would mediate relationships between EI and flow. In addition, the relationships were examined in both leisure and non-leisure contexts. The sample consisted of 46 recently unemployed adults, diverse with respect to gender, age, pre-unemployment income, and education. Respondents completed a Dumber of experiential sampling forms (ESF) as part of a larger study. Flow and SI were measured at this time. Three months later respondents completed EI scales related to 2 leisure and 2 non-leisure activities for which they had completed ESFs. Structural equation modeling suggested that in both leisure and non-leisure activities participants with higher levels of EI were more likely to experience higher levels of flow ( p < .05) and that SI mediated these relationships. This study is the first to establish links between EI, SI, and flow.

Toward a Theory of Involvement Propensity for Collective Behavior

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Aug 1971
Socio Focus

Kenneth E. Hornback

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Why do people participate in Web surveys? Applying survey participation theory to Internet survey data collection

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Jan 2015

Florian Keusch

In recent years Web surveys have emerged as the most popular mode of primary data collection in market and social research. To improve our understanding about the influence of different societal-level factors, characteristics of the sample person, and attributes of the survey design on participation in Web surveys, this paper establishes a systematic link between theoretical frameworks used to explain survey participation behavior and state-of-the-art empirical research on online data collection methods. The concepts of self-perception, cognitive dissonance, commitment and involvement, social exchange, compliance, leverage-salience, and planned behavior are discussed and their relationship with factors that have empirically proven to influence Web survey participation are analyzed using data from an expert survey. This paper will help researchers and practitioners to make informed decisions about the use of techniques increasing participation in Web surveys.

The effects of product involvement and impulse buying on purchase intentions in mobile text advertising

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Sep 2014
ELECTRON COMMER R A

While research in mobile advertising is abundant, limited attention has been paid to date to how consumers respond to mobile advertisements for different product categories and in which way impulsivity affects intentions to purchase. In this paper, we study the dimensionality of the product involvement construct and its effects on consumers’ purchase intentions via a simulated field experiment (N = 736). We show that the cognitive dimension of product involvement and impulsiveness significantly affect purchase intentions. We also present that the relationship between product involvement and purchase intention is moderated by the consumers’ impulse buying personality traits. These findings progress the current state-of-the-art in mobile advertising research, while also having significant practical consequences for the design of effective mobile SMS advertising campaigns.

Online experiences and virtual goods purchase intention

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Jun 2012
INTERNET RES

Echo Huang

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of interactive and social features on users' online experiences and their purchase intention of virtual goods from a social network site. Design/methodology/approach A banner with a hyperlink that connected to the author's web survey was posted on the homepage of Facebook. Of the 258 responses returned, 176 were fully completed. Measurement items were adapted from previous literature. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to evaluate the research model and hypotheses testing. Findings The results of an empirical study supported the use of the stimuli‐organism‐response (S‐O‐R) model in a social networking site and showed how environmental features should be incorporated to enhance users' online experiences and purchase intentions. Specifically, social identity showed the strongest influence on involvement and flow. More specifically, affective involvement showed the greatest influence on purchase intention compared to flow and cognitive involvement. Practical implications The relative importance of both interactivity and social identity in platform features in shaping consumers' online experiences should not be ignored. The author suggests online games or apps. Additionally, platform providers should advance social identity features that show a strong positive impact on users' online experiences. Originality/value With the proliferation of online social gaming, there is growing evidence for virtual goods consumption; however, relatively few studies have discussed this phenomenon. This paper draws on hypotheses from environmental psychology; specifically, users' intentions to purchase are modeled on user responses to the online stimuli of a Web platform and the online experience that such an environment elicits.

Why smartphone advertising attracts customers: A model of Web advertising, flow, and personalization

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Apr 2014
COMPUT HUM BEHAV

The Measurement of Advertising Involvement

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Dec 1966

Herbert E. Krugman

In an earlier paper in this journal,* the author suggested that the processes of attitude change underlying mass communication impact are of two kinds: with low involvement to persuasive stimuli one might look for gradual shifts in perceptual structure, aided by repetition, activated by behavioral choice situations, and followed at some time by attitude change, while with high involvement one could look instead for the classic and familiar conflict of ideas at the level of conscious opinion and attitude that precedes changes in behavior. The present paper describes the development and application of a workable tool to measure this involvement, a necessary step if the study of communication impact along these lines is to proceed further.

Determinants of Mail-Survey Response: Survey Design Factors and Respondent Factors

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Mar 2002
PSYCHOL MARKET

With the use of a hierarchy-of-effects model, the decision to complete a mail survey was modeled as a process moving through several stages. A set of variables thought to influence the survey-completion decision process was examined. These variables include survey design factors, which were manipulated by the researchers, and respondent factors, such as attitudinal and personal constructs. Based on the research findings, the hierarchy-of-effects model is an appropriate way to model the mail-survey-response process. The data indicate that among the survey design factors included in the study, the monetary incentive had the most effect on the decision process, with a pervasive impact throughout the process. Importantly, respondent factors such as attitude toward research were of critical importance in moving respondents through the survey-response process. Research into the response-rate phenomenon is likely to benefit by considering how both survey design and respondent factors affect specific stages of the response process and enhance participation in surveys. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Effects of the risk sources and user involvement on e-commerce adoption: Application to tourist services

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Aug 2012

Past research has focused on the dimensions (consequences) of perceived risk and the effect of global risk on e-commerce adoption by consumers. This paper uses a new approach to examine the influence of perceived risk on e-commerce adoption and, on the basis of the Theory of Planned behaviour (TPB), develops an integrative model that includes the effect of three risk sources (i.e. technology, vendor and product) on the attitude towards the website use and online purchasing intention of users. In addition, this study examines how involvement, one of the main determinants of consumer behaviour, affects the role of these sources of perceived risk in e-commerce adoption. The results obtained in a sample of 1083 users of tourist services suggest that technology risk is the main determinant of online purchasing intention, which is also influenced by the variables from the TPB model. For its part, the technology risk and vendor risk have a negative influence on attitude towards the website use. In addition, both types of risk have a higher negative effect on attitude in the case of high-involvement users, supporting the moderating influence of involvement on e-commerce adoption. From a practical point of view, the findings of this research help managers to implement actions aimed at reinforcing the users’ trust in their websites and, consequently, at fostering the online purchase.

Customer Knowledge Management and E-commerce: The role of customer perceived risk

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Apr 2008
INT J INFORM MANAGE

The present research is designed to gain a deeper understanding of Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) tools inside the e-commerce context. The relationship between the CKM literature and the e-commerce literature is evaluated through several user characteristics such as risk preference, Internet preference and Internet knowledge and their impact on customers’ online perceived risk and purchase intentions depending on the presence of certain CKM tools on the web site. The empirical study is based on a survey of 276 customers with previous online experience. By using multidimensional analysis, this study shows that the customers’ perceived risk associated with different CKM tools plays an important role in explaining certain customer online behaviour. Therefore, the implications of CKM tools for e-commerce activity are demonstrated and the managerial implications are highlighted.

Impact of product description and involvement on purchase intention in cross-border e-commerce

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