scholarly journals Understanding the intention to use bike-sharing system: A case study in Xi’an, China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0258790
Author(s):  
Xiaonan Zhang ◽  
Jianjun Wang ◽  
Xueqin Long ◽  
Weijia Li
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Customer Participation ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Bike Sharing

Bike-sharing is widely recognized as an eco-friendly mode of transportation and seen as one of the solutions to the problem of air pollution and congestion. With the emphasis on sustainability in transportation, bike-sharing systems is an emerging topic of urban transport and sustainable mobility related research. Existing studies mainly explored the factors affecting individuals’ initial intentions to start using a shared bicycle, but few looked at the likelihood that a user would continue using one This study proposed a structural equation model with bike-sharing purchase decision involvement as independent variable, bike-sharing willingness to use as dependent variable, traveler participation and traveler perceived value as intermediary variables by introducing the concepts of purchase decision involvement, customer participation and perceived value in consumer psychology and behavior. A survey on bike-sharing users in Xi’an was conducted online and offline, and 622 effective responses were collected. The research model was tested by Amos 24.0 and the empirical results showed that All influencing factors including bike-sharing’s purchase decision-making involvement, traveler participation and traveler’s perceived value are found to be significantly and positively associated with usage intention; traveler perceived value play a chain-mediating role between bike-sharing purchase decision involvement and usage intention; bike-sharing purchase decision involvement have indirect effects on traveler perceived value through traveler participation. The results of this study enrich the current research’s in the field of sharing economy, and it is certain guiding significant for how to obtain and maintain stable customers in bicycle-sharing industry.

A Study on Factors Affecting on Customer Intention to Use the Express Bus

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5E) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phuong Nguyen Van ◽  
Hieu Trung Nguyen ◽  
Toan Bao Le
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Organizational Image ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Managerial Implications

The improvement of transit service quality is an essential role in developing urban and interstate transportation. The local government, as well as bus service companies, should understand the behavioral intention of passengers to meet their expectation and requirements. This paper aims to highlight such behavioral decision and investigate dominant factors that influence the customers’ decision to use the express bus. The study explores the case of express bus companies in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. By using the structural equation model approach to analyze the data collected from 295 passengers, who have experienced in using the express bus, the results reveal that service quality has a significantly positive relationship with both perceived value and corporate image. Specifically, customer satisfaction and organizational image also positively influence behavioral intention. Meanwhile, service quality indirectly affects on behavioral intention throughout perceived value and corporate image. Based on the findings, we provided some insightful managerial implications and recommendations to managers of bus carriers, and valuable practical suggestions to policymakers in the local government of Tay Ninh province to improve the service quality to encourage more citizens to use the express bus.

Relationships Among Perceived Value, Satisfaction, and e-Trust: An e-CRM View of Online Restaurant Consumption

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 458-475
Author(s):  
Gang Zhang ◽  
Zongshui Wang ◽  
Hong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Production Quality ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Price Fairness ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Affective Experiences

AbstractThis paper aims to propose a new trend in research which integrates the online customer relationship management through the perspectives of perceived value, satisfaction, and e-trust regarding the online restaurant in Chinese e-CRM business backgrounds. This study constructs a structural equation model to analyze the online restaurant marketing with the research perspective of the relationships among perceived value, satisfaction and e-Trust, corresponding to the cognitive belief, affective experiences and cognitive behavior of e-CRM. This model proposes six hypotheses concerning the relationships among perceived value, satisfaction and e-trust, aiming to demonstrate the predominant factors affecting the online restaurant sales and further to have a better understanding of the customers’ preferences on placing orders and purchases in the online context. The results show that there is a series of connections among perceived value, satisfaction and e-trust, and most of them are important. First, the perceived value has an incentive effect on satisfaction, e-trust, and customers’ commitment to a relationship. Second, satisfaction has a positive impact on e-trust and leads to the commitment to a relationship. Third, e-trust positively affects the consumer commitment to a relationship. In addition, production quality, service quality and price fairness have a significant impact on the perceived value.

scholarly journals Sustainable Governance of the Sharing Economy: The Chinese Bike-Sharing Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1195
Author(s):  
Yongrok Choi ◽  
Eun Jin Choi
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
Input Variables

Socialist countries, such as China, have stressed the importance of an equitable society where citizens work together. Thus, the sharing economy (e.g., the bike-sharing industry) could be one of the challenges determining the future of China, as the initial bubble of the bike-sharing industry collapsed in 2017, with many problems stemming from the users’ deposits that were lost and the depletion of the investment funds, resulting in numerous malfunctioning bikes every day. This paper evaluates the bike-sharing industry in terms of sustainable governance in the future and identifies its factors. Therefore, we use the structural equation model based on survey questionnaires and find that most of the input variables of the perceived rational (PRV) and emotional values (PEV), perceived risk (PR), and externalities (EXT) are not very successful in promoting the sustainable governance of the bike-sharing industry. However, using the bootstrapping simulation approach, we find that the role of modulators such as satisfaction and sustainable management factors are statistically significant. The modulating effect of a user’s satisfaction on the intention of continuous use based on all four inputs of PRV (0.304), PEV (0.298), PR (−0.156), and EXT (0.263), as well as the other indirect variables of sustainable management, such as environmental factors (0.284), is shown to be statistically significant. Based on these modulating effects, we conclude that the sharing economy, represented by the bike-sharing industry, could be one of the most important business cases for the future of China, but only if it is strongly supported by the public. Therefore, to help the industry get out of its current slump, we propose that the bike-sharing companies put in more diverse efforts to employ multi-use types of innovation with practical benefits such as coupons for the nearest shops, and social functions that enhance the quality of life such as mileage contribution from bike sharing for disabled people. Evidently, the Chinese government should eliminate “the over-supply issues” through appropriate market governance and increase its efforts toward a better public–private partnership (PPP), as the sharing economy should be based on the harmonization of all interest groups to eventually create value.

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5783
Author(s):  
Jia-Ming Wang ◽  
Pin-Chao Liao ◽  
Guan-Biao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Behavioral Compliance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Chinese Company ◽  
Job Competence

The effective improvement of employee behavioral compliance and safety performance is an important subject related to the sustainable development of the construction industry. Based on data from a Chinese company (n = 290), this study used a partial least squares-structural equation model to clarify the relationship among safety participation, job competence, and behavioral compliance. Empirical analysis found that: (1) safety participation had a significant positive impact on employees’ behavioral compliance; and (2) job competence played a partial mediating role between safety participation and behavioral compliance. By selecting two new perspectives of safety participation and job competence, this study derived new factors affecting behavioral compliance, constructed a new theory about safety management, and conducted an in-depth discussion on improving behavioral compliance theoretically. Practically, the research put forward a new decision-making model, deconstructed the mechanism between safety participation and behavioral compliance, and provided new guiding strategies for improving employee behavioral compliance.

scholarly journals Structural Equation Model for Evaluating Factors Affecting Quality of Social Infrastructure Projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahid Hussain ◽  
Zhu Fangwei ◽  
Ahmed Siddiqi ◽  
Zaigham Ali ◽  
Muhammad Shabbir
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Factors Affecting

scholarly journals Design, Explanation, and Evaluation of Training Model Structures Based on Learning Organization—In the Cement Industry with a Nominal Production Capacity of Ten Thousand Tons

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Hamid Rahimian ◽  
Mojtaba Kazemi ◽  
Abbas Abbspour
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Cement Industry ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting

This research aims to determine the effectiveness of training based on learning organization in the staff of cement industry with production capacity over ten thousand tons. The purpose of this study is to propose a training model based on learning organization. For this purpose, the factors of organizational learning were introduced by qualitative research in the form of open codes, axial codes, selective codes and the resulted observations, and then the final model was obtained by structural equation model. The data were collected from the staff of three cement companies of Abyek, Tehran, and Sepahan, with a statistical population of 1719 staff of cement industry. The qualitative research sample included 29 experienced experts in the field of cement industry, and the quantitative research sample included 326 staff and experts, who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. A self-made questionnaire consisting of 72 questions was used to measure quantitative variables. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.93 and its content and face validity was determined by expert colleagues and professors, the structural equation model and regression was used to analyze the quantitative data. The results showed that the status of learning organization in cement companies is in average level. Finally, the obtained model consisted of both individual and organizational factors. The individual factors affecting organizational learning include teaching scientific content, perception, trust, and self-efficacy of training. The organizational factors affecting organizational learning include organizational culture, forming the structure, the method of management and leadership, preparing human resource (identity), adaption to the environment, policies, rules, and regulations, and achieving a viable product. The share of individual factors on learning organization is higher than the effect organizational factors; the share of each factor is also determined.

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