Role of multidimensional customer brand engagement on customer behavior for online grocery shopping

This study aims to understand the relationship between environmental consciousness and multidimensional (i.e., cognition, affection, and activation aspects) of customer brand engagement (CBE) in relation to online grocery shopping. It also investigates the moderating effect of customer characteristics on the associations among environmental consciousness, CBE, and behavior intention. 358 Korean respondents took part in this research using an online survey to assess the impacts of multidimensional CBE for online grocery. The outcomes reveal that environmental consciousness positively influences cognition and activation aspects of CBE. Additionally, activation, affection, and cognition aspects of CBE positively affect behavioral intention. Multi-group analysis is performed to identify the difference among customers in low and high customer characteristics. In addition, by demonstrating a role for CBE, this study adds to the existing literature on online grocery. Furthermore, the outcomes of this research provide direction for building marketing strategies for online groceries for marketers and practitioners.     

Exploring the mediating role of utilitarian value and hedonic value in the formation of oppositional loyalty in online communities

Our research expands the scope of the research on oppositional loyalty from brands to online communities. Online communities allow members to freely express their opinions and promote the occurrence of oppositional loyalty behaviours towards the communities. Oppositional loyalty is defined in this article that, for the purpose of strengthening the market position of their preferred community, members of the online community may express negative views or even show oppositional behaviour towards adversarial communities. In view of social capital theory, the study examines the effect of hedonic value and utilitarian value on oppositional loyalty in online communities. The results show that only hedonic value significantly affects oppositional loyalty; hedonic value mediates the effect of the three dimensions of social capital (network ties, identification, and common language) on oppositional loyalty. The study identifies that community type moderates the impact of social capital (identification and common language) on hedonic value but does not moderate the effect of social capital on utilitarian value. Finally, we find that members' oppositional loyalty towards their community can promote their community participation. This research provides recommendations for online community managers to manage and benefit from members' oppositional loyalty.     

Give your hunger a new option: Understanding consumers' continuous intention to use online food delivery apps using trust transfer theory

The recent growth of online food delivery apps (OFDAs) centralized the restaurant's business in electronic distribution platforms. Recently, a few researchers have attempted to understand consumer behaviour towards using OFDAs. However, various aspects related to the usage of OFDAs have not been explored. Drawing from trust transfer theory, the purpose of this study is to fill this gap by investigating the trust transfer from OFDAs to restaurants and to address the boundary condition of trust transfer by examining the moderating effect of perceived effectiveness of dispute resolution (PEDR) between trust in OFDAs and trust in a restaurant. The model was tested via structural equation modelling (SEM) using data obtained from 836 users of OFDAs through structured questionnaire. The results show that trust in OFDAs positively influence the trust in restaurant, which ultimately leads to the consumers' continuous purchase intention. Further, PEDR positively moderates the relationship between trust in OFDAs and trust in a restaurant. Additionally, disposition to trust and online reviews significantly develops consumer trust in OFDAs. The present research makes substantial theoretical and practical contributions as it develops a trust transfer mechanism by considering an emerging mobile-commerce field. The study provides a first theoretical outlook on consumers' continuous intention to use OFDAs, using trust transfer theory, which has not been considered so far. The findings provide information for food delivery platforms on how to manage conflict resolution to succeed in the market and help restaurants in selecting the most effective food delivery platforms with which to collaborate.     

Analysing customers' reviews and ratings for online food deliveries: A text mining approach

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between online reviews and ratings through text mining and empirical techniques. An Indian food delivery portal ( Zomato.com ) was used, where 50 restaurants on Presence Across Nation (PAN) basis were selected through stratified random sampling. A total of 2530 reviews were collected, scrutinized, and analysed. Using the NVivo software for qualitative analysis, seven themes were identified from collected reviews, out of which, the ‘delivery’ theme was explored further for identifying sub-themes. Linear regression modelling was used to identify the variables affecting delivery ratings and sentiment analysis was also performed on the identified sub-themes. Regression results revealed that hygiene and pricing (delivery subthemes) demonstrated lower delivery ratings. These variables can be established as indicators for restaurants and related online food delivery services to build their business model around them. Similarly, negative sentiments were observed in pricing and hygiene sub-themes. Restaurants and online food services can enhance hygiene levels of their food delivery process in order to receive higher delivery ratings. Similarly, pricing of food items can be modified such that customers are not deterred from ordering the items—food and ordering service do not become cost-prohibitive. This study devised a standardized methodology for analysing vast amounts of online user-generated content (UGC). Findings from this study can be extrapolated to other sectors and service industries such as, tourism, cleaning, transportation, hospitals and engineering especially during the pandemic.     

C2C顾客忠诚度影响因素分析及对策

在C2C电子商务环境下,电子商店之间的竞争越来越激烈,顾客忠诚度尤为重要,是电子商店谋求长期发展的保证。本文分析了C2C时代消费者特征和影响C2C顾客忠诚度的因素,并提出了提升顾客忠诚度的相关建议。     

基于价值工程的客户订单分离点定位冲突消解

提出了一种基于价值工程理论和多目标决策算法的即时顾客化定制(IC)下客户订单分离点(CODP)定位冲突消解方法。首先分析了最优CODP定位涉及的利益相关方,从成本、定制化程度和时间等方面研究了CODP定位的影响因素;然后基于价值工程理论,提出了IC生产模式下顾客价值的表达式,将顾客价值的功能因素数量化,综合运用价值指数法和求解多目标决策问题的优化算法,构造CODP定位冲突消解问题的优化算法,并给出该算法的具体实现步骤;最后应用该算法对某企业的典型案例问题进行求解,表明了该算法的有效性。     

在线购买信任模式的中国实证研究

信任的缺失是使消费者不愿在线购买的主要原因之一。为提供中国在线购买信任问题一个有效的解决方案,基于对Cheung and Lee(2000)和Kit Lui(2003)等在线购买信任模式实证研究结果和局限性的认识,本论文提出一个修正模式并在中国大陆的情境下开展实证研究。研究结果显示,在所有网上购买信任的前置变量中,网上商店的有用性和消费经历与在线购买信任表现出更为强烈的正相关。并且,消费经历与有用性不但通过在线购买信任变量积极影响在线购买意图,并且对在线购买意图的产生也有较强的、直接的积极作用。另外,在线信任等变量在人口统计学特征上和消费习惯上表现出一定的差异,男性、学历较高、上网时间长、网购次数多、每次花费金额多、预测未来两年在线消费比例上升的在线消费者群体,其对在线购买的信任更多地表现在有用性和安全控制的良好认知上。     

物流是实现客户服务的管理活动

对传统储运业的概念、资产等关键问题发表了见解，提出了物流是整合从应链一体化，实现客户服务的管理活动。商流与物流的结合是最有价值的流通形式。     

客运企业服务品质综合评价模型研究——基于顾客满意度理论

本文将顾客满意度理论应用于交通运输行业,建立了用于衡量旅客运输企业服务品质的旅客满意度评价理论框架,框架由6个因素组成,其中预期质量、感知质量和感知价值是旅客满意度的原因变量,旅客抱怨和旅客忠诚则是旅客满意度的结果变量。基于上述6变量本文分别设计了评价指标体系,并设计了评价流程。     

基于顾客让渡价值的异地品牌消费经济价值分析

在品牌消费市场存在着本地和异地二元市场的情况下,企业因发展需要会不断寻求顾客让渡价值与企业让渡价值的均衡值。企业的发展行为会改变产业的市场格局和竞争状态,进而影响市场价格的波动。当激烈的市场竞争造成企业让渡价值小于零的情况时,通过分析和认识品牌消费价值的组成,企业可以通过品牌价值交换平台来分别评估和出让各自的异地市场,以本地消费市场的扩大来变相实现异地品牌消费市场的价值,从而实现顾客让渡价值与企业让渡价值的再均衡。