scholarly journals Antecedents and Consequences of Status Consumption Among Urban Vietnamese Consumers

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai ◽  
Siok Kuan Tambyah
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Status Consumption ◽  
Qualitative Focus Groups ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

This study examines the antecedents and consequences of status consumption in the transitional economy of Vietnam. Both qualitative (focus groups and in-depth interviews) and quantitative methods (survey) were employed in this investigation. To test the proposed model and hypotheses, a large consumer survey was conducted in the two biggest cities in Vietnam. The results of Structural Equation Modeling provided empirical evidence for the significant impact of most of the proposed antecedents of status consumption. Specifically, modern status orientation, the ‘success’ component of materialism, and both the individualistic self and collectivistic self were found to have a positive impact on status consumption. Traditional status orientation and consumer ethnocentrism were found to be negatively related to status consumption. The findings also suggested the positive consequences of status consumption on satisfaction with status consumption and satisfaction with life in general. Discussion of the research findings and managerial implications are also provided.

Consumer Confusion in Mobile Application Buying

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tathagata Ghosh ◽  
Venu Gopal Rao
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Consumer Confusion ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Research Findings

This study aims to examine effects of consumer confusion proneness on two consumer behavior variables, word of mouth and buying decision, in a confusion prone product market like smartphone and mobile applications (app). Additionally, the study examines the moderating influence of a personality trait variable pertinent to information processing – need for cognition, on the afore-mentioned relationships. Data were collected via a survey from 254 post-graduate students and analyzed with the help of structural equation modeling with a partial least square (PLS) approach using SmartPLS 2.0. Research findings indicate that the dimensions of consumer confusion proneness behave differently in terms of their linkages with consumer behavior. Further, as expected, consumers' need for cognition also play a major moderating role which helps to fathom the concept of consume confusion in the context of mobile and smartphone applications. Academic and managerial implications as well as scope for future research are also discussed.

scholarly journals Conflict Management Model of Organization from Molucca’s Cultural Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Albertus Fenanlampir
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Foreign Products ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Using Data

The purpose of this research is to examine the influence of consumer sentiments on purchase intention toward foreign products and to determine which personality traits are responsible for the formation of consumer sentiments. In this study, we employed Structural Equation Modeling to test the research model using data collected from a survey of 400 young Vietnamese consumers in Ho Chi Minh City. The results provide empirical evidence of the positive impact of consumer cosmopolitanism and xenocentrism on consumers’ purchase intention toward foreign products. Furthermore, through this study, we indicated that certain personality traits shape consumer sentiments. Generally speaking, in the context of foreign consumption, there is an enhanced link between personality traits and purchase intention via the mediating role of consumer sentiments. Theoretical and managerial implications are also discussed.

An Empirical Study of Building Social Relationships within Virtual Teams

2011 ◽  
pp. 271-291
Author(s):  
Ying Chieh Liu
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Relationship Model ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Positive Direct

Although virtual teams have been widely utilized nowadays, social relationships are considered highly problematic within virtual teams. This study addresses social dimensions to provide suggestions for mangers to improve the performance and satisfaction of virtual teams. We build a model derived from a comprehensive literature review and conduct an experiment to validate it through Structural Equation Modeling. The results reveal: (1) communication has a direct positive impact on relationship building, but indirect positive effects on performance and satisfaction; (2) relationship building impacts directly with strong and positive impacts on cohesion and trust, but indirectly with strong impacts on performance and satisfaction ; (3) cohesion has a direct, strong and positive impact on performance but a strong indirect impact on satisfaction; (4) trust has a positive direct impact on performance but an indirect positive impact on satisfaction; (5) performance has a strong and positive impact on satisfaction. In addition, this study confirms that relationship building is a vital mediator in the social relationship model. Managerial implications and future research directions are identified.

scholarly journals Are social media bad for your employees? : effects of at-work break activities on recovery experiences, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Yi-Sung Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Recovery Experiences ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Despite the alleged importance of work breaks, little is known about antecedents and consequences of social media break activities besides non-social media break activities. Since individuals use social media to contact friends and families, find information, and be entertained, this study theorized that engaging in social media break activities while at work can help employees to experience psychological detachment and relaxation during work hours. The purpose of this study was to explore this growingly popular topic of social media use at work by focusing on job demands that may explain why employees perceive social media are vital for them at work. Further, this study seeks to understand when and how employees use social media at work to experience recovery, which, in turn, increases their job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Questionnaires were collected from current hospitality non-managerial and managerial employees in the United States. Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze data. Results of the study confirm that at-work break activities including social and non-social media break activities can be a channel for employees to experience recovery and deal with job demands. Moreover, the results suggest that when employees reported their perceptions of recovery experiences, positive perceptions had a positive impact on job satisfaction and life satisfaction. The findings also indicate that employees who are happy at work have a high life satisfaction. The results fill an empirical gap in the theoretical literature on at-work break activities and recovery. This study offers further insight and empirical evidence about the positive outcomes of both social and non-social media break activities to researchers, practitioners, and human resource professionals.

scholarly journals Linking Information Sharing And Supplier Network Responsiveness With Delivery Dependability Of A Firm

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish A. Thatte ◽  
Vikas Agrawal ◽  
Shahnawaz Muhammed
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
First Century ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Delivery Performance ◽  
Research Findings

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The twenty first century organization is required to provide accurate on time deliveries in addition to providing high quality products at low costs. This can be achieved if various processes within and between the organizations are streamlined and well defined. Several studies have indicated the significance of various manufacturing (or internal) practices that are instrumental in creating time-based competitive capability. Collaborative relations and information sharing practices with suppliers have long been believed to positively impact the responsiveness and delivery performance of organizations and supply chains. Responsive suppliers can play a key role in affecting a firm&rsquo;s own delivery performance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>This research investigates and tests the relationships between information sharing practices of a firm, supplier network responsiveness, and delivery dependability of a firm. The large scale web-based survey yielded 294 responses from industry professionals in the manufacturing and supply chain area. The proposed relationships were tested using structural equation modeling. The research findings point out that higher level of information sharing practices can lead to improved supplier network responsiveness, and higher levels of supplier network responsiveness can have a direct positive impact on delivery dependability of a firm. The implications of our findings are discussed and directions for future research are provided.</span></span></p>

Impulse Buying’s Antecedents and Consequences in the Context of Vietnam, an Asian Transitional Economy

2016 ◽  
pp. 74-91
Author(s):  
Thanh Nguyen Tat ◽  
Mai Nguyen Thi Tuyet ◽  
Khang Nguyen Trong
Keyword(s):  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Transitional Economy ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Impulse Buying ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Shopping Enjoyment

In this study, we develop and test a full model examining several antecedents and consequences of impulse buying behavior for urban consumers in Vietnam, an Asian transitional economy. The hypotheses are empirically tested using survey data obtained from consumers in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The results of structural equation modeling show support for most of our hypotheses. The findings indicate that shopping enjoyment tendency and modern self are significant predictors of impulse buying, while traditional self is not found to have an impact on this buying behavior. Impulse buying is found to be positively related to customer satisfaction, and subsequently, to customer loyalty. The research findings are discussed and implications for managers and policy makers are provided.

scholarly journals Visual eWOM Usefulness and Credibility: The Antecedents and Consequences

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Whony Rofianto ◽  
Desta Atasyah Kornelys ◽  
Muhammad Rifkhansyah
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Communication Framework ◽  
Endogenous Variables ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Nowadays the practice of spreading and utilizing eWOM increasingly prevalent. A lot of examination on eWOM effectiveness has been done, but it is still fragmented and overlook the potential of Visual eWom (VeWOM). Departing from the electronic word-of-mouth communication framework this research attempts to provide empirical evidence on the eWOM credibility-forming aspect and its implications toward eWOM adoption rate in the context of VeWOM video "unboxing". This research was conducted by a descriptive-explanatory approach using primary data, collected through a cross-sectional online survey. The hypothesis testing is performed by analyzing structural model estimation result through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach on 105 sample data of YouTube video-sharing site viewers. The proposed structural model involves three exogenous variables and three endogenous variables. The estimation results of the structural model indicate that VeWOM argument quality has a positive impact on VeWOM usefulness. Meanwhile, communicator expertise and trustworthiness proved to encourage the formation of VeWOM credibility. On the other hand, this study also proved the positive impact of VeWOM credibility on VeWOM adoption, however, the positive effect of VeWOM usefulness on VeWOM adoption was not proven in this study

Enlivening the Effect of Tourists' Knowledge and Involvement on Malaysian Heritage Food (MHF) Towards Food Tourism Image in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
pp. 268-290
Author(s):  
Siti Radhiah Omar ◽  
Shahrim Ab Karim ◽  
Siti Suriawati Isa ◽  
Siti Nazirah Omar
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Consumption Experience ◽  
International Tourist ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Food Tourism ◽  
Tourism Image ◽  
Cultural Involvement

This current article aims to empirically test the relationship between international tourist knowledge and Malaysian Heritage Food (MHF) cultural involvement on Malaysia's Food Tourism Image and secondly, to analyze the mediating effect of knowledge for both relationships. A quantitative survey of 719 international tourists with previous MHF consumption experience was conducted and analyzed via a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. Results demonstrated that the following variables have significant associations with Food Tourism Image while knowledge mediated the subsequent links positively with partial mediation. Regardless of the theoretical and managerial implications and research findings, supplementary investigations are warranted to enhance the growth of food cultural tourism.

scholarly journals Customer agility and firm performance in the tourism industry

Tourism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
Vu Minh Ngo ◽  
Hieu Minh Vu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Organizational Agility ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Medium Enterprises

The growing importance of agility in any business process is universally accepted and extensively investigated in different disciplines. However, lacking empirical pieces of evidence for the suggested theoretical framework of agility hinders its application in the practices. Thus, this study attempts to address this issue by empirically testing a framework of customer agility’s antecedents and consequences using the tourism industry context. The framework is tested on data collected from 231 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism industry in Vietnam and analyzed using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Findings suggest that not all attributes of customer agility exert positive impacts on the firm’s performance and human factors are posited as the most important antecedents for organizational agility. A number of practical implications are also suggested from the research findings

scholarly journals Digital twin-based progress monitoring management model through reality capture to extended reality technologies (DRX)

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepehr Alizadehsalehi ◽  
Ibrahim Yitmen
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Progress Monitoring ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Construction Progress Monitoring

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to develop a generic framework of a digital twin (DT)-based automated construction progress monitoring through reality capture to extended reality (RC-to-XR).Design/methodology/approachIDEF0 data modeling method has been designed to establish an integration of reality capturing technologies by using BIM, DTs and XR for automated construction progress monitoring. Structural equation modeling (SEM) method has been used to test the proposed hypotheses and develop the skill model to examine the reliability, validity and contribution of the framework to understand the DRX model's effectiveness if implemented in real practice.FindingsThe research findings validate the positive impact and importance of utilizing technology integration in a logical framework such as DRX, which provides trustable, real-time, transparent and digital construction progress monitoring.Practical implicationsDRX system captures accurate, real-time and comprehensive data at construction stage, analyses data and information precisely and quickly, visualizes information and reports in a real scale environment, facilitates information flows and communication, learns from itself, historical data and accessible online data to predict future actions, provides semantic and digitalize construction information with analytical capabilities and optimizes decision-making process.Originality/valueThe research presents a framework of an automated construction progress monitoring system that integrates BIM, various reality capturing technologies, DT and XR technologies (VR, AR and MR), arraying the steps on how these technologies work collaboratively to create, capture, generate, analyze, manage and visualize construction progress data, information and reports.

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