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This article examines how consumers determine what is edible through an analysis of people's experiences with “extreme,” or unusual, foods. Data from semi-structured interviews are analyzed to explore how people define “extreme” foods, the meanings that people derive from encounters with these foods, and the social contexts under which people are most likely to sample new foods. The findings underscore the influence of psychosocial forces on food tastes, with neophilic/neophobic tendencies and the formation, maintenance, and alterations of identities and relationships informing encounters with novel foods. 相似文献
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Stephen A. Stuart Monika Schrder Alan Hughes John Bower 《International Journal of Consumer Studies》2004,28(2):135-146
This article discusses some weaknesses in current research into young consumers’ abilities to comprehend and successfully manipulate food label information and describes the development of a research project through to an analysis of the pilot phase. The research programme identifies a method of measuring the effectiveness of state education in enabling the next generation of consumers to make informed food choices through the provision of appropriate tools and skills, both of which are necessary to fully understand a label's informational elements within a marketing context. The article also discusses the appropriateness of a quantitative questionnaire to measure the abilities and skills of individuals through the identification of some key comprehension dimensions required by modern food consumers. Finally, the article questions the appropriateness of the context in which information is provided to food consumers. Through a continuing programme of research, it is envisaged that a more appropriate context for certain elements important in the choice of a diet that is relevant to an individual's lifestyle may be proposed. 相似文献
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This study investigates Western Australia’s consumer attitudes toward and preferences for locally produced food products signified by a state-funded campaign logo, Buy West Eat Best (BWEB). A choice experiment using both a fresh and a processed food product (skinless chicken breast and fruit yogurt) is conducted to assess willingness to pay for a local production attribute and other label claims. We find that consumer awareness and preference for local foods is high. However, this high preference is not because the product is locally produced but because of the local attributes associated with high-quality products. The study highlights the importance of successfully differentiating products through credible labeling schemes in order to capture market premium. 相似文献
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Daleen Van Der Merwe Elizabeth L. Kempen Sophia Breedt Hanli De Beer 《International Journal of Consumer Studies》2010,34(1):11-18
Food label information theoretically facilitates consumer decision‐making and food choice, but the extent to which consumers actually use this information during decision‐making is a subject of considerable debate. Therefore, this study focused on the importance of label information in student consumers' decision‐making process when exposed to limited label information food in a cafeteria environment. Because of a paucity of research in this area, a qualitative research approach that was exploratory in nature was used, accompanied by semi‐structured interviewing and a vignette. Undergraduate students from the North‐West University, Potchefstroom Campus, in South Africa served as the target population. The findings suggest that internal and product‐related strategies are applied when food choices are made whereby the importance of label information only features in the latter strategy. Student consumers with a label interest were more inclined to use label information strategies in the absence of complete label information to base food choice on. Those with a lack of label interest made use of alternative strategies using product and personal‐related information, such as freshness and product knowledge to make decisions. The decision‐making process was more complex because of insufficient label information and product appearance, and thus previous experiences and habitual purchasing became more important to participants. Student consumers should be supported to make healthier food choices through food manufacturers supplying cafeteria products with more complete label information and by providing students with the knowledge to use label information correctly through educational programmes. 相似文献
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This work analyses the motivations behind consumers' online shopping intentions for specific tourism services, such as hotel reservations, across both Internet shoppers and Internet surfers (i.e. those who exit the website before completing the reservation). A structural equation analysis features a sample of 1289 Spanish Internet users (530 shoppers and 759 surfers). The results indicate that perceived usefulness is the most important aspect conditioning the intention to buy online for Internet shoppers, whereas the role of convenience is more significant for Internet surfers. The empirical findings suggest different managerial guidelines for encouraging online reservations by Internet surfers and can help facilitate decision making processes for managers in this industry. 相似文献
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Henrik Selsøe Sørensen Lotte Holm Peter Møgelvang-Hansen Daniel Barratt Françoise Qvistgaard Viktor Smith 《International Review of Retail, Distribution & Consumer Research》2013,23(3):291-304
The ‘average consumer’ is referred to as a standard in regulatory contexts when attempts are made to benchmark how consumers are expected to reason while decoding food labels. An attempt is made to operationalize this hypothetical ‘average consumer’ by proposing a tool for measuring the level of informedness of an individual consumer against the national median at any time. Informedness, i.e. the individual consumer's ability to interpret correctly the meaning of the words and signs on a food label is isolated as one essential dimension for dividing consumers into three groups: less-informed, informed, and highly informed consumers. Consumer informedness is assessed using a 60-question test related to information found on a variety of Danish everyday food products and divided into factual questions and informedness about signpost labels. A test was made with 407 respondents who participated in four independent studies on fairness in consumer communication, and the average score for all was 57.6% of correct answers. A score of 64% and beyond would place a consumer in the upper quartile (the group of highly informed consumers), whereas a score of 52% or below would place the individual in the lower quartile (the group of less-informed consumers). Female respondents performed better than males on label recognition, and those around 40 years of age irrespective of gender performed best on factual knowledge, whereas those aged around 30 performed best on label recognition. It is foreseen that independent future studies of consumer behavior and decision making in relation to food products in different contexts could benefit from this type of benchmarking tool. 相似文献
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The authors surveyed consumers for preferences on allergen advisory statements on food labels (N = 1,243). They also conducted an experiment to assess how consumers use advisory statements (N = 4,049) to make food consumption decisions. Results show that food allergic individuals, including caregivers to food allergic individuals, and a control group of nonallergic people preferred “Allergen Information: May Contain …” over three other statements tested. The experiment revealed measurable differences among the statements in how they are used to make food consumption decisions. Statements rated as more believable and more helpful also received higher ratings on a “likelihood of eating/serving” measure. 相似文献
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《Journal of Internet Commerce》2013,12(1):13-34
ABSTRACT Despite the importance of mobile commerce (m-commerce) as an emerging channel of communication, marketing, and sales in business, few studies address how consumers decide to use m-commerce. In this study, we develop a conceptual framework for investigating the role of the perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived enjoyment in determining consumers' intention to use m-commerce. We also investigate the importance of social influence in determining intention to use m-commerce. We draw on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to develop our theoretical model. The empirical examination of our research model indicates that extrinsic and intrinsic motivations positively impact intention to use m-commerce. The current research model and its results could provide a rigorous basis for understanding consumers' behavior in wireless contexts. 相似文献
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Mobile advertising, influenced by the current growth in smartphone applications, creates new opportunities for the advertising industry. This study identified motivations for the use of smartphone applications as well as lifestyle clusters of users and examined their influences on the relationships between perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude and intentions to use. This research used a face-to-face survey and empirical analyses to investigate key questions about how and why consumers use smartphone applications, illustrating the imperative roles that motivations and lifestyle clusters play in an important advertising context. This study represents a step toward clarifying how different lifestyle clusters influence different relationships between motivations, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude and intentions to use applications as advertising media, offering implications for advertising academics and practitioners. 相似文献
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Chuleeporn Changchit Ravi Lonkani Jomjai Sampet 《Journal of Organizational Computing & Electronic Commerce》2017,27(3):239-261
As accessibility of technology, availability of information, and ability to interact through the Internet increase and evolve, more people are gravitating toward increasing their use of the Internet. Although the number of Internet banking users has grown rapidly in recent years, not all customers are ready to accept mobile banking services. It remains a challenge for banks to explore how to attract more customers to adopt the use of banking services via a mobile channel. This study examines the factors that impact acceptance of the use of mobile banking. A total of 309 subjects participated in this study. Data were collected via a survey instrument. A multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings suggest factors that banks should consider when implementing mobile banking services, thus allowing them to design services that meet the needs of their customers. 相似文献
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《商对商营销杂志》2012,19(3-4):245-264
ABSTRACTPurpose: B-to-B marketers in emerging countries still lag behind compared to peers in developed countries in terms of the use of social media sites. Recent literature calls for a further understand the factors influencing social media sites’ use by B-to-B firms in emerging countries. This paper builds on this literature to map and investigate the factors influencing B-to-B marketers’ intention to use social media sites in an emerging country.Methodology/Approach: The designed model was tested by implementing a survey. Snowball sampling method was used to select B-to-B marketers from 158 firms in Jordan. Structural equation modeling (SEM) using PLS was implemented to investigate the various influences and relationships. A discussion of the results compared with those of existing research conducted mainly in Western countries, with very few conducted in emerging countries, is provided.Findings: The results highlight similarities in the factors affecting the intention to use social media sites in emerging countries: perceived usefulness and perceived utility were found to significantly influence the intention to use social media sites in Jordan and also in China and South Korea. However, the perceived usability of social media sites did not have any influence on Jordanian B-to-B marketers’ intention to use those sites. In addition, result demonstrability, of less importance in developed countries, was found to significantly influence Jordanian B-to-B marketers’ intention to use social media sites. Image and subjective norms were found to influence perceived usefulness. Efficiency has no significant influence on perceived usability, whereas error, satisfaction, learnability, and memorability were found to significantly influence Jordanian B-to-B marketers’ perceived usability of social media sites.Research Implications: This research contributes to the technology acceptance research field and particularly the area of B-to-B firms’ use of social media sites. It combined (i) the extended technology acceptance model and (ii) the attributes of system acceptability model, to further the understanding of the factors that influence on the use of social media sites by B-to-B firms in emerging countries.For practitioners, this research provides guidance on how to increase social media use by B-to-B marketers in emergent countries through enhancing the factors that stimulate the use of social media sites in this particular context.Originality/Value/Contribution of the paper: Very few studies conducted in emerging countries highlights differences in the factors influencing the use of social media sites compared to those identified in studies conducted in developed countries. This research adds value to the growing research area on B2B firms’ use of social media sites as well as to the technology acceptance research field, by identifying and discussing the most important factors influencing B-to-B marketers’ intention to use social media in emergent countries contexts. 相似文献
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Although mobile apps are already an influential medium in the new media industry as a whole, these apps have received little academic attention within the communication and marketing literature. This study develops and tests a hypothesized model to explain antecedents affecting app usage among smartphone users. The analysis of the structural equation model determined a final model with four significant factors (perceived informative and entertaining usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user review). Cost-effectiveness, a key variable of this study due to the particularity of 99-cent app price, had no influence on app usage. This study not only includes marketing implications but also offers insight into various theoretical applications to the field of mobile communication research by suggesting a conceptual model for the acceptance of mobile apps. 相似文献
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Emi Moriuchi 《心理学和销售学》2023,40(1):169-189
Voice conversation agents (VCAs) have moved beyond simple tasks such as information gathering. The integration of VCAs in smart technologies for security has grown in the consumer market. This paper investigates consumers' motivation to use smart technologies controlled by voice conversational agents and how that impacts their perceived hedonic and utilitarian value, which eventually leads to their satisfaction with smart technologies usage. Two cross-sectional studies and a netnography were conducted. The findings showed that the variables measuring technology acceptance mediate the relationship between consumers' motivation and the perceived value of the VCA-controlled smart technologies. Study 1 results show that ease of use and usefulness of the VCA-controlled smart technologies have a more substantial mediating effect between motivation and hedonic value than utilitarian value. For study 2, results show that the mediators had a stronger influence on hedonic and utilitarian values for outdoor voice conversational agent-controlled smart technologies than indoor smart technologies. Study 3 showed that smart technologies have both risks and benefits and depend on whether they are being used for themselves or others. The results suggest that marketers need to consider consumer's emphasis on the products' features including its ease of use and usefulness, and strategically complement it with consumers' prevention and promotion focus for each product. 相似文献
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近年来社会化媒体迅速发展,逐渐成为比传统媒体更有效的传播渠道。社会化媒体营销通过互联网和移动互联网传播得以实现。在网络情境中,个体、技术、质量和环境等因素均与线下购买情境截然不同。以技术接受模型为理论基础研究在网络情境中社会化媒体对网络消费者购买意愿的影响机制,以结构方程模型的研究方法探索信息丰富度、用户真实性、兼容贯通性和隐私保密性等因素对网络消费者购买意愿的影响,以及感知有用性、感知易用性和信任的中介作用。研究发现,在以上因素影响购买意愿的过程中,感知易用性是兼容贯通性、信息丰富度和用户真实性的中介因素,感知有用性是信息丰富度的中介因素,信任是信息丰富度和用户真实性的中介因素。同时发现,信任在感知易用性影响感知有用性中起中介作用,且信任直接影响网络消费者的购买意愿。 相似文献
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《食品市场学杂志》2013,19(4):17-37
Abstract Consumer psychology suggests that fat intake and search for fat information on food labels may be mutually dependent. This study extends previous research by using a simultaneous-equation model to measure the relationship between fat intake and label use. Using the 1994–6 USDA CSII and DHKS data, our results suggest individuals who consume a higher percentage of calories from fat are less likely to report searching for fat information on food labels. We also identified the roles played by several psychological variables on information search and fat intake. These findings have important implications on nutrition education and effectiveness of food labels. 相似文献
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Retailers frequently place private labels (PLs) next to the top-moving sales national brands (NBs) and utilize comparative pricing that is related to the national brands. There is thus always an external reference price between the private labels and the national brands. In this study, two categories of products were selected, and a hierarchical non-linear model used to study the impact of external reference prices on consumers’ choice of private labels. In addition, the effects of package size and average disposable income (ADI) were introduced into the analysis for the relationship between external reference price and consumers’ choice of private label. The findings show an inverted U-shaped curve between consumers’ choice of private labels and the external reference price discrepancy. Consumers in areas with high ADI are more likely to buy private labels. Package size and ADI have different direct and moderating effects on two categories of products. This study contributes to reference dependence theory and category management. 相似文献
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Liz Wang Julie Baker Kirk Wakefield Robin Wakefield 《Journal of Promotion Management》2017,23(1):1-23
Web designers often advise online retailers against incorporating background music on websites. However, the effect of music in brick-and-mortar retail settings has generally been found to be favorable. The research on the effects of music has been mixed. Our study aims to examine whether congruent music on the website homepage influences online consumers. Using the responses of 290 visitors to two different commercial websites, we test the influence of background music on consumers’ arousal and pleasure perceptions. The results indicate congruent background music on a website's homepage will generate positive affective responses of arousal and pleasure within users, and will enhance users’ perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment as well. The findings reveal the effects of respondent’ affective responses to the music differed by gender. Website music produces significant affective and cognitive responses in high web skill/low web challenge users and explains more of website enjoyment. 相似文献
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The objective of the present study was to examine the effect of friendly food labels on packaged food consumption intention. A questionnaire method was adopted for data collection. The data were collected from 14 Pakistani universities. The systematic random sampling technique was used to draw the required sample size. The sample size was 365, where 730 questionnaires were distributed among students of 14 universities to achieve the required sample. Findings disclosed that a friendly food label has a positive and significant relation with packaged food consumption intention. But in the intervening effect of personality traits between exogenous and endogenous variables, only three personality traits have positive significant mediation—extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness—whereas no mediation was found with neuroticism and agreeableness. Studies have unveiled the fact that there is need to investigate the decisiveness of personality traits for the selection of healthy food (Friedman & Kern, 2014). 相似文献