Customers on the web are not all created equal: the moderating role of internet shopping experience

Autor: Ipshita Ray, Larry Chiagouris
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research. 20:251-271
ISSN: 1466-4402
0959-3969
DOI: 10.1080/09593961003701767
Popis: Consumers' previous shopping experience has been found to be an important influence on future shopping intentions. Prior internet shopping experience, however, has been largely overlooked as a moderator of attitudes and online-retail outcomes. Specifically, key influences on online retail buying behavior such as site reputation, advertising likeability, site security and hedonic and utilitarian shopping values can be expected to have differential effects on intentions to repatronize an e-commerce website based on the level of internet shopping experience by prospective buyers. This study proposes and tests an integrated model in which level of prior internet shopping experience is treated as a moderator of relationships among attitudinal variables and repatronage intentions with the variable attitude toward the site as a mediator of buying intentions. Findings are consistent with the proposed model with an interesting exception. Perceptions of site security were in the opposite direction of the model pred...
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