Asmita Shukla

Broschiertes Buch

BEHAVIOR IN CYBERSPACE

ROLE OF WEBSITE AND USER CHARACTERISTICS

Beschreibung

This book demonstrates website and user characteristics as important variables predicting purchase intention, affect and word of mouth and the mediating role of website satisfaction. Website and user characteristics comprised information and entertainment profiles of users and websites. Users and websites were categorized into four categories of information and entertainment. Data were collected online (801 participants) as well as offline (253 participants) and analyzed using multivariate statistical techniques. Results revealed significant main effects of users and website characteristics on website satisfaction, purchase intention, affect and word of mouth. Interaction effects were obtained for offline method but not for the online method. The results indicated that in offline method, website satisfaction and word of mouth of the users were highest when users were given respective category of websites. Analyses revealed partial mediating effect of website satisfaction.

Autor

Dr. Asmita Shukla, gold medalist, is a PhD from IIT Kanpur and is currently Asst Professor at IIT Bhubaneswar. She has diversified experience of academia and industry. Her research is multi- disciplinary with particular focus on psychology and online consumer behavior. She has international conferences and journal publications to her credit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9783838372471
• ISBN-10: 3838372476
• Artikelnr.: 30273556