收货时间对搜索型商品的追加评论有用性感知的影响

本研究基于归因理论的视角,探讨搜索型商品收货时间与评论效价的交互作用对追加评论有用性感知的影响。实验对比分析了5种不同时间间隔对评论有用性影响的差异。结果表明:追评发表时收货时间的不同对负面效价的评论影响的差异不显著,只对正/正类评论的影响有显著差异。阅读者对评论的归因在上述关系中起到中介作用。     

在线评论对消费者购买意愿的影响研究

随着网购平台的繁荣发展,网购行为发生时消费者与实物产品的空间割裂使得消费者在作出购买决策前极为依赖关于产品的在线评论。为了研究在线评论与消费者购买意愿的关系,利用实证研究,从在线评论特征以及评论的感知有用性出发,基于技术接受模型探讨在线评论对消费者购买意愿的影响,提出了影响消费者购买意愿的一些建设性意见。     

在线口碑数量、效价及情绪传递对产品价值感知的影响

通过控制在线口碑的数量分别进行两个实验,实证分析在线口碑的数量、在线口碑的效价以及在线口碑中传递的情绪如何影响消费者对产品的价值感知,研究发现:负面口碑中的消极情绪在少量在线口碑时会被归因评价者本身的非理性行为而降低在线口碑信息的有用性,促使消费者对于产品的负面感知降低;正面口碑的积极情绪会被归因于产品本身而使得口碑中传递的情绪不会影响产品的价值感知;当在线口碑的数量足够多时,多个在线口碑形成趋同情绪会增加在线口碑所包含信息的有用性,而极化消费者对产品的价值感知。     

电子商务在线评论有用性影响因素研究

本文分别从评论者属性和评论自身属性两个角度展开实证研究,引入产品类型作为调节变量,深入探讨在线评论有用性的主要影响因素和影响作用,以及在不同类型产品中的影响效应差异。并通过京东商城上的两种类型的产品评论来对模型中的各变量进行操作化定义,使用SPSS等统计软件进行变量的相关性分析和多元线性回归分析。发现,来自发评者和评论自身的诸多属性对在线评论有用性水平具有显著的影响作用,并且在不同类型产品中存在显著差异。     

在线评论对农民合作社产品创新的影响

在线评论作为线下口碑的网络延伸方式,不仅对消费者购买决策起到重要作用,还能为合作社制定产品改进和创新策略提供重要的参考依据。本文采用实验研究的方法,探究在线评论及其正面与负面评论对合作社产品创新意愿的影响,并从产品的功能、包装、品牌维护、服务和成本5个维度衡量创新意愿水平及变化。结果表明:在线评论对合作社产品创新具有显著的正向影响;相较于正面评论,负面评论对产品创新影响更为显著;正面评论对农民合作社产品创新具有负向影响;相比于产品功能和包装方面的评论,合作社对于品牌维护、服务和成本方面的评论感知更为明显。     

在线评论对购买意愿一定产生影响吗——论产品类型的调节作用

本文通过研究产品类型和在线评论对消费者购买意愿的影响,意在揭示产品类型与在线评论对消费者购买意愿之间的关系。研究发现,产品类型起着调节作用,当为体验品时,在线评论对消费者购买意愿影响显著;当产品为实用品时,其对购买意愿影响不显著,并通过实验设计验证了这个观点,最后对这一研究的意义做了阐述。     

什么样的评论更可信？心理模拟视角下在线评论类型对感知在线评论可信性的影响研究

在线评论及其可信性已成为消费者网购决策重要的依据。以往研究多关注在线评论自身属性对在线评论可信性的影响,忽视了消费者心理认知的作用。文章从消费者心理角度,结合爬虫数据和实验研究发现,消费者对搜索品属性型评论感知可信性更高,对体验品体验型评论感知可信性更高;心理模拟在感知在线评论可信性影响过程中具有中介作用,搜索品属性型评论通过结果模拟引发更高的感知评论可信性,体验品体验型评论则通过过程模拟引发更高的感知评论可信性。研究结论对网络购物平台及商家制定更精准的营销策略和评论管理机制有帮助。     

在线促销限制对消费者购买决策的影响研究——基于精细加工可能性视角

文章基于精细加工可能性理论探究了在线购物情景中不同促销限制类型（时间限制和数量限制）对消费者购买决策行为的影响。通过2（产品涉入度：高vs低）×2（限制类型：限时vs限量）的组间因子实验设计进行了实证研究,结果发现：在线促销情境下,促销限制对消费者购买决策的影响受到消费者产品涉入度的调节。当产品涉入度高时,消费者偏好时间限制促销,购买意向更高,感知控制感起了中介作用。当产品涉入度低时,偏好数量限制促销,购买意向更高,感知稀缺性起了中介作用。文章丰富了促销理论和消费者购买决策理论,同时为商家进行有效的在线促销提供了直接指导。     

四种网购评论类型的有用性感知研究

随着电网购行业的发展,网络评论成为消费者决策的重要依据。网络购物评论类型主要可分为好评、差评、追评以及带图评论,不同类型的评论有用性感知程度不同。根据问卷调查结果,带图评论的有用性感知最高,其次分别为差评和追评,最低的是好评。     

“互联网+”背景下在线评论对消费者购买意愿的影响因素分析

随着移动互联网的飞速发展和移动支付的技术支持,消费者逐渐选择网购这种更加快捷和便利的消费方式,但是网购的最大不足就是消费者无法感知商品,这时,其他已购消费者的在线评论就成为欲购该商品的消费者的一个有力参考。在互联网+的背景下和已有相关学者的研究,本文通过对自变量评论可读性、评论质量、评论极端性、评论时效性、评论者专业性、评论者可信性、接受者专业性、接受者趋同性分析其对中间变量感知有用性和因变量消费者行为意向的影响程度,利用SPSS数据统计软件进行信度分析、效度分析、相关分析和回归分析。     

Addressing negative product attribute reviews: The case of advertising product attributes and corporate social responsibility information

Negative product reviews are bad for businesses. They can adversely affect product sales, brand evaluations, and brand loyalty. To attend to negative reviews, one approach is through advertising products or company virtues. The current study examines the efficacy of different advertising approaches (core product attribute advertising vs. non-core product attribute advertising vs. corporate social responsibility [CSR] advertising) in helping dilute the negative effect of dissimilar negative product attribute reviews (negative core product attribute reviews vs. negative non-core product attribute reviews). Through four experiments, we found that when the non-core attribute of a product had negative reviews, a core attribute advertising approach weakened the effect of negative reviews. However, CSR advertising was less effective. Furthermore, when the core attributes of a product had negative reviews, a non-core attribute advertising effort did not weaken, but actually augmented the impact of negative reviews. In addition, when the core attributes of a product received negative reviews, CSR advertising decreased the influence of negative reviews. Our findings provide theoretical and managerial implications for managing negative online reviews of product attributes.     

How online reviews and coupons affect sales and pricing: An empirical study based on e-commerce platform

With rapid economic growth largely fueled by digital technologies, online reviews are among the new wave of technologies that still make a significant contribution to this new digital economy. However, there is scarce academic research in promoting or responding online reviews using reduction coupons with threshold issued by sellers and pricing decisions. We employ a three-stage least squares (3SLS) model to estimate the effects of online reviews and coupons on online product sales and price. We also extend our research using the data of two product categories. Our results mainly include: (1) Negative impact of negative online reviews on sales is moderated by price, and consumers are more tolerant of negative reviews of high-priced products. (2) Consumers' perceived usefulness of online coupons helps promote more sales and weaken the relationship between negative reviews and sales. (3) Positive online reviews weaken the negative relationship between online negative reviews and the price of product. (4) Consumers’ increased perceived usefulness of online coupons will encourage sellers to set a higher price and weaken the negative relationship between negative reviews and the price of product. (5) Compared with the search product, sellers regard negative reviews from the product with experience attributes as less helpful and apply less effective coupon promotion to response to negative reviews. Our study clarifies the interaction between online reviews and online coupons on e-commerce platforms under the operation scenario. We also provide empirical support for accurate promotion and higher sales revenue through reasonable pricing decisions and specified reduction coupons.     

Beyond presence: Creating attractive online retailing stores through the cool AR technology

Augmented reality (AR) is increasingly coming into the spotlight for its potential to improve the consumer experience through the creation of presence. This research aims to explore the theoretical mechanisms through which AR-based product presentation influences online store attractiveness and whether the effects differ in the purchasing contexts of hedonic and utilitarian product types. From the perspective of consumers' bidimensional experience, we find that AR increases online store attractiveness by creating perceived coolness (intrinsic attribute) and spatial presence experience (extrinsic attribute), which would further have a positive impact on consumers' purchase intention. The mediating mechanisms are different in purchasing contexts of various product types: for hedonic products, perceived coolness and spatial presence are parallel mediating factors leading to the improvement of online store attractiveness; while for utilitarian products, only the mediation effect of spatial presence presents. Our findings enrich the literature on AR marketing by proposing an insightful mediating force (i.e., perceived coolness) to complement the effect of presence, and explore the different purchasing contexts. We also provide managerial guidance for e-retailers to differentiate AR interface design for diverse product types to apply AR technology effectively.     

The influence of anthropomorphic appearance of artificial intelligence products on consumer behavior and brand evaluation under different product types

While artificial intelligence products are widely used in the market, their anthropomorphic appearance design is becoming a frontier issue in product strategy and consumer behavior research. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of anthropomorphic appearance on consumer behavior and brand evaluation under different AI product types. It was conducted in China, a new but rapidly-growing country in the field of Internet, AI technology and AI product consumption. This study conducted four situational experiments with a 2 (anthropomorphic design: anthropomorphic vs. non-anthropomorphic) × 2 (product type: hedonic vs. utilitarian) between subjects’ experimental design. Data was collected from 1172 Chinese “Digital Natives” by using a structured questionnaire. The findings revealed that for hedonic AI products, anthropomorphic appearance improves consumers' purchase intention and brand evaluation through perceived entertainment, and intelligence level significantly moderates the mediating effect of perceived entertainment; while for practical AI products, anthropomorphic appearance improves consumers' purchase intention and brand evaluation through perceived usefulness, and intelligence level does not significantly moderate the mediating effect of perceived usefulness. There is no significant moderating effect of intelligence level on perceived usefulness. The study contributes to development and validation of a more comprehensive understanding and theoretical foundation of anthropomorphism, and furthermore explores the impact of anthropomorphic appearance on consumer behavior and brand evaluation under different AI product types. This study also provides insights for companies to apply anthropomorphic strategies.     

Designing multi-channel technologies – the mediating role of risk perceptions

ABSTRACT

The integration of online and offline distribution channels has become a major topic in practice and research. Several studies reveal beneficial outcomes for retailers if consumers use multiple channels. Therefore, many retailers offer multi-channel technologies (MCTs), i.e. click & collect, check & reserve and the availability check, which encourage this behavior. However, research is still sparse on how retailers should design these MCTs to provide the highest usefulness for consumers. Our study thus analyzes the impact of different MCT design characteristics on consumers’ perceived usefulness of these MCTs. Moreover, we examine how consumers’ perceived time and product availability risk mediate these effects. The results show that some MCT design characteristics exhibit the expected positive impacts on consumers’ perceived usefulness of the MCTs, while others seem to be less relevant and even counterproductive. In particular, a certain (vs. unspecified) product pick-up time and a high (vs. low) displayed inventory status lead to a higher perceived usefulness of the MCTs via the two risk dimensions. However, the immediate (vs. delayed) confirmation of product reservations does not have any positive effects. In fact, it even decreases the perceived usefulness of click & collect. These findings provide implications for the design of MCTs.     

Born Unequal: A Study of the Helpfulness of User-Generated Product Reviews

Online user-generated product reviews have become an indispensible tool for consumers and thus for retailers who want to attract and retain consumers. Yet, relatively little is known about what causes consumers to find an online peer review helpful to their shopping tasks. Prior research examines mostly the effects of product reviews on consumer product attitude, product choice, and product sales. This paper, however, provides an analysis of the determinants of review helpfulness. In two studies, we examine the effects of review characteristics, product type, and reviewer characteristics on perceived review helpfulness. With data collected from a real online retailer, we provide empirical evidence to support our conceptual predictions. Specifically, both review valence and length have positive effects on review helpfulness, but the product type (i.e., experiential vs. utilitarian product) moderates these effects. Using content analysis of reviews, we develop a measure of expressed reviewer innovativeness (i.e., the predisposition toward new products as revealed in review content). A curvilinear relationship exists between expressed reviewer innovativeness and review helpfulness. These findings lead to pertinent managerial implications.     

Too Popular to Ignore: The Influence of Online Reviews on Purchase Intentions of Search and Experience Products

Consumers assess the credibility of online product reviews to guide their purchase decisions. However, little is known about how consumers determine the credibility of online product reviews. This article examines the effect of the level of detail in a product review and the level of reviewer agreement with it on the credibility of a review and consumers' purchase intentions for search and experience products. Overall, the results indicate that more credible reviews lead to higher purchase intentions. Interestingly, the findings also demonstrate that consumers determine the credibility of a review differently for search and experience products. For search products, consumers deem online reviews to be more credible when the reviews contain detailed information about the product. However, for experience products, consumers determine the credibility of a review by assessing the level of reviewer agreement with a review. The lack of diagnosticity of detailed information in online reviews of experience products is attributed to the idiosyncratic nature of experiences. Implications for research and practice are discussed.     

在线品牌社群成员参与程度对其社群认同的影响——产品类型和品牌熟悉度的调节

文章根据互动和非互动划分社群成员参与程度的高低，通过两个实验探究了在不同产品类型和品牌熟悉度的情境下，在线品牌社群成员参与程度对其社群认同的影响差异。研究发现：对于搜索品，社群参与程度较低时，其社群认同更强；对于体验品，社群参与程度较高时，其社群认同更强。另外，对于低熟悉度品牌，产品类型的调节作用仍然存在。但对于高熟悉度品牌，无论是搜索品还是体验品，社群参与程度较高时，其社群认同更强。最后，文章为企业在线品牌社群管理提出了营销建议。     

The Impact of Mobile App Adoption on Cross-buying: The Moderating Roles of Product Category Characteristics and Adoption Timing

With more and more companies introducing mobile apps and consumers using them during the purchase journey, it is increasingly important to understand the consequences of app adoption on behavioral outcomes. This paper investigates the impact of app adoption on the number of additional products purchased by customers (i.e., cross-buying) and how this effect varies across different product categories and different customers. We focus on two key product category characteristics (utilitarian vs. hedonic nature and perceived risk) and on adopters who vary in their adoption timings (early vs. late adopters). Using data from an online retailer and a combination of propensity score weighting with difference-in-differences and Heckman correction estimation techniques, the results show that app adoption has a positive effect on cross-buying overall, but the effect varies greatly across products and consumers. App adoption promotes additional product purchases for hedonic products but leads to less cross-buying for utilitarian products. In addition, early adopters purchase a higher number of additional product categories than late adopters, with this difference decreasing over time and for new consumers compared to existing customers. These results offer novel insights into the behavioral consequences of app adoption and provide managers with useful recommendations for improving the effectiveness of their mobile app investments.