Understanding the influences of story elements in service businesses |
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Authors: | Yi-Ching Hsieh Hung-Chang Chiu Yun-Chia Tang Chen-Hao Liu |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Information Management,National Central University,Jhongli City,Taiwan, ROC;2.Institute of Technology Management,National Tsing Hua University,Hsinchu,Taiwan, ROC;3.Department of International Business,Tunghai University,Taichung,Taiwan, ROC |
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Abstract: | With the advances of the roles of business stories in marketing, two issues remain unclear: How do consumers evaluate story elements on services? Do usefulness and affect mediate the relationships between business story elements and brand attitude in services? Therefore, to answer these questions, this study conducted between-subjects experiments to investigate the roles of business story elements, usefulness, and affect in financial and restaurants services. The results indicate that the elements of authenticity, reversal, and humor are generally useful in engaging consumers’ usefulness and affect; besides, conciseness is useful in engaging consumers’ usefulness but is not for affect and brand attitude; finally, usefulness and affect are mediators of the relationship between business story elements and brand attitude. These findings provide a framework to design business story and investigate the mediation of usefulness and affect on the relationship between business story elements and brand attitude for services and practitioners. |
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