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Title:	Consumer choice of multichannel shopping The effects of relationship investment and online store preference
Authors:	邱志聖 Chiou, Jyh-Shen;Chou, Szu-Yu;Shen, George Chung-Chi
Contributors:	國貿系
Keywords:	Customer-sales associate relationship;Multichannel customer management;Multichannel shopping attitude;Receptiveness to online store shopping
Date:	2017-03
Issue Date:	2017-07-12 11:06:07 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	Purpose-Consumers display complex shopping behaviors in the multichannel environment, which includes traditional retail stores and the internet. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of the customer-sales associate relationship, customers’ receptiveness to online store shopping, and their interaction effects on the customer’s attitude toward multichannel shopping behavior when the firm decides to establish an online store as the online channel. The authors also examine how customers’ multichannel shopping behavior affects their future spending intentions. Design/methodology/approach-Survey data were collected by soliciting 231 customers who purchased cosmetics in department stores within the past three months. Subjects were asked to give their overall evaluation of their offline and online shopping experiences in the last three months. Findings-Results show that the customer-sales associate relationship significantly reduces customers’ attitude toward searching offline but purchasing online. Receptiveness to online store shopping has significant effects on customers’ attitude toward multichannel shopping behaviors regardless of whether they search or purchase via the online channel. The customer-sales associate relationship also moderates the relationship between customers’ receptiveness to online store shopping and multichannel shopping behaviors. Finally, unlike other types of online and offline multichannel shoppers who display higher future spending intentions when the physical store decides to open an online store, those who prefer physical stores for both information searching and product purchasing display lower spending intentions. Originality/value-To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to use customer-sales associate relationships to investigate consumers’ attitude toward multichannel shopping behavior. The findings provide meaningful implications for service providers that use sales associates to increase consumers’ value via face-to-face service, but find it challenging to go online.
Relation:	Internet Research, 27(1), 2-20
Data Type:	article
DOI link:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IntR-08-2013-0173
DOI:	10.1108/IntR-08-2013-0173
Appears in Collections:	[Department of International Business] Periodical Articles

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