Consumers increasingly search for, evaluate, and buy items via social media and websites, but little is known about how these activities affect their level of trust, attitudes toward online retailing, and online shopping behaviors. Therefore, this study focuses on how online shopping via Facebook, peer recommendations, and website service quality affect consumer trust, attitudes and loyalty intentions in e-tailing. An online survey was conducted with Generation Y Italian consumers who used Facebook searches of various websites to shop for clothing online. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the constructs, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to test the hypotheses. Findings confirm that website service quality and consumers’ predispositions to use Facebook for online shopping directly and positively affect consumer trust toward an e-tailer. In contrast, peer recommendations affect attitude directly rather than indirectly via trust. The results further indicate that peer recommendations have a significantly stronger influence on attitudes of females than they do on attitudes of males.

(2015). Engaging consumers online through websites and social media: A gender study of Italian Generation Y clothing consumers [journal article - articolo]. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/47067

Engaging consumers online through websites and social media: A gender study of Italian Generation Y clothing consumers

ANDREINI, Daniela;
2015-01-01

Abstract

Consumers increasingly search for, evaluate, and buy items via social media and websites, but little is known about how these activities affect their level of trust, attitudes toward online retailing, and online shopping behaviors. Therefore, this study focuses on how online shopping via Facebook, peer recommendations, and website service quality affect consumer trust, attitudes and loyalty intentions in e-tailing. An online survey was conducted with Generation Y Italian consumers who used Facebook searches of various websites to shop for clothing online. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the constructs, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to test the hypotheses. Findings confirm that website service quality and consumers’ predispositions to use Facebook for online shopping directly and positively affect consumer trust toward an e-tailer. In contrast, peer recommendations affect attitude directly rather than indirectly via trust. The results further indicate that peer recommendations have a significantly stronger influence on attitudes of females than they do on attitudes of males.
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Nadeem, Waqar; Andreini, Daniela; Salo, Jari; Laukkanen, Tommi
(2015). Engaging consumers online through websites and social media: A gender study of Italian Generation Y clothing consumers [journal article - articolo]. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/47067
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