The Effects of Situational Factors, Consumer Purchasing Involvement, and Innovativeness on Online Bidding Intention

• Main Authors: Chiang, Tsung-Nan, 蔣宗男
• Other Authors: Chu, Fong-Kang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47178906864531349964

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 廣告學系 === 89 === The appearance of Internet has contributed to rapid growth of both surfer population and business applications. As a result, the Internet-based E-commerce has become a new business practices in the information society. Under the impact, the new consumption trend of online bidding is growing rapidly. This thesis takes a look into the new online transaction-online bidding in terms of the perspective of consumer behavior. This thesis compiles documents such as current foreign and domestic online bidding status, relevant researches, and related theories, to construct the operating framework on it, which is to study the impact of situational factors, consumer purchasing involvement, innovativeness, and demographic variation on online bidding intention. The following points are the major discoveries of this thesis: 1.Among all the factors of communication situation, "product variety," "efficiency in product searching," and "accessibility to product information" are the most influential factors on consumers'''''''' online bidding intention. 2.Among all the factors of purchase situation, consumers are most interested in online bidding when "prices of desired products are lower than personal budget" and "deadlines for bidding are approaching." 3.Consumers with higher purchasing involvement have higher online bidding intention than those who with lower purchasing involvement. 4.Consumers inclined to adopt innovations are more willingly to participate in online bidding. 5.Consumers who have experiences of online bidding and those who spend more time surfing on the Internet have higher intention on online bidding. Based on the findings, this thesis proposes several reference suggestions and approaches for online bidding websites. 1.To provide products women need or establish websites designed exclusively for women. 2.To accept various ways of payment. 3.To strengthen functions and publicity of websites. 4.To shorten the bidding term of popular products. 5.The marketing strategy to attract consumers with high purchasing involvement. 6.The marketing strategy of appealing to consumers with low innovativeness.