scholarly journals Online Purchase Intentions for Product Categories -The Functions of Internet Motivations and Online Buying Tendencies-

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 890-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun-Young Kim
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3268
Author(s):  
Farhad Aliyev ◽  
Ralf Wagner ◽  
Stefan Seuring

Luxury is often blamed for creating social inequality and hampering sustainability, especially in the social and environmental realms. For instance, luxury goods entice people to conspicuous consumption that may result in showing off. However, study results show that luxury and environmental sustainability have common features. Notably, previous research mainly examined motivations for green purchases in general without relating to the specific product categories such as durables. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between these two—green and luxury automobile buying intentions—by analyzing the survey results of 1601 respondents relating to more than 60 nationalities. In contrast to a substantial effect on luxury buying intentions, perceived conspicuousness has no significant positive effect on green auto purchase intentions, and that price value has a limited influence compared with the effect on luxury automobile purchase intentions. Furthermore, hedonism has a less positive impact on green auto purchase intentions compared to its impact on luxury automobile buying intentions. The ‘extended self’ and the perception of high quality have been found to be drivers of luxury and green automobile purchase intentions, while unique value appears to have no impact on purchase intentions for green and conventional luxury automobiles. The present study contributes to the extant research by investigating common and contradictory motivations for luxury and green buying intentions of automobiles. Furthermore, it suggests a reconsideration of the traditional view that luxury and environmental consumption are inconsistent and contradictory concepts. The complementary managerial implications of this study guide practitioners in positioning the situatable variants of their automobiles as ethical luxury.


2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ranganathan ◽  
Sanjeev Jha

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 5153-5160

Social media is very popular media in glob for communication as well as transaction for millions of people. As social media is widely and effectively use for commercial, marketers have also emphasized on utilization of social media like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Blogs for promoting their products as well as services. However, instead of having wide utilization of social media for promotion, Indian marketers don’t have concrete idea on users’ attitudes towards SMM (social media marketing) and influence of social media advertisement. Moreover, few researches have been carried out in this regards. There is a gap of understanding on social media user’s drive that affect their attitudes and intension of purchase of products in the sense of SMM and social media advertisement with special focus. The reason behind carrying out this research is to focus on influence of social media users’ drive on the intentions of online purchase in the context of SMM in the fashion business of India. In addition, it examines affection of social media advertisement on online buying intension. Data was congregated from 414 respondents through convenience sampling from the major cities of Gujarat and defined premises were measured with multiple regression method. The outcomes revealed that functional drive, entertainment drive and social media use have significant influence on social media user’s attitudes towards social media marketing. Further, results also revealed that there is influence of attitude towards SMM and social media advertisement on intension of online purchase by social media users. The results of the research study would be used by Industry in taking decisions regarding social media strategies. Markers in Industry would know attitude of users towards social media better and perform well as far as social media marketing is concern. Finally, theoretical and functional suggestions are also mentioned. The research study ends up with some shortcomings and direction for further study in discussed area.


2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans van der Heijden ◽  
Tibert Verhagen ◽  
Marcel Creemers

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prateek Kalia

To remain profitable, managers and researchers want to gain insights about products bought by e-shoppers in past and their future shopping interests. They also want to know, “what factors are creating difference in shopping behavior of these buyers.” This article addresses above situation by presenting product category-wise demographic comparison of past and future e-purchase intentions of e-shoppers. Results revealed significant differences in past e-purchases within gender, marital status, age, city of residence and occupational categories with respect to different product categories, surprisingly no such differences were observed in educational and family income categories. For future e-purchases intentions, significant differences were found within gender, city of residence, marital status, age and education categories. Here differences within occupational and family income groups were not observed. Maximum demographic differences were observed in product categories like clothing, books and auto parts.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Valentini ◽  
Stefania Romenti ◽  
Grazia Murtarelli ◽  
Marta Pizzetti

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of visual communications on Instagram users’ propensity to engage with image-based content through online behaviors such as liking, sharing, commenting and following, and their intention to purchase the product depicted in the visual communications.Design/methodology/approachAn experimental design was used to measure the effect of branded Instagram images on a sample of active Instagram users. Two features of Instagram images (subject’s gaze: direct vs indirect; product salience: low vs high) were manipulated and their interactive effect tested on online behaviors.FindingsThe paper offers empirical evidence that direct gaze and high product salience positively affect digital visual engagement. Moreover, digital visual engagement influences intention to purchase.Research limitations/implicationsThe hypotheses were tested on a single product category and on only two image-based features. Further studies might replicate the experiment on different product categories and include different image-based features.Practical implicationsThis empirical study can offer communication managers important information on the image-based features that are most effective in increasing digital visual engagement and positively influencing purchase intentions in visual communications.Originality/valueThe study empirically demonstrates that the choice of specific image-based features in visual communication matters for increasing digital visual engagement among Instagram users.


2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolande Piris ◽  
Nathalie Guibert

Purpose – This paper aims to apply intuition theory to clarify consumers’ assortment evaluations. For each decision process, this paper explores how perceptions of organization and variety influence consumers’ attitudes and purchase intentions. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 504 observations were collected across three product categories. Perceived choice, time and expertise in the product category provide proxies to distinguish between intuitive and deliberative systems. The intuitive system further consists of intuition based on either expertise or heuristics. Findings – It was revealed that distinct decision processes (deliberative, intuitive based on expertise and intuitive based on heuristics) affect the link between assortment perceptions and consumers’ assortment evaluations. Consumers’ evaluations in deliberative- and heuristic-based intuitive systems rely more on perceptions of organization than of variety; whereas intuitive judgments based on expertise depend almost equally on both perceptions. Research limitations/implications – Some limitations have to be underlined. The approximations used could be more precise and are subjective in nature. Moreover, the ordinary product categories that were studied might encourage more intuitive decisions by consumers. If so, the deliberative mode of thinking might have been underrepresented in this sample. Originality/value – Despite the limitations, this research is, to our knowledge, the first to explore the influence of intuition theory on ordinary shopping and in particular on assortment perception. As such, it contributes to a deeper understanding of this theory in the field.


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