Document Type
Article
Abstract
The global recession caused by the financial tsunami has seriously impacted numerous industries. Although the market scale of global e-commerce market has declined, global online shopping continues to grow. Many previous researches focused on the effect of website design characteristics on online impulsive buying behavior, and few have explored such behavior from consumer individual internal factor perspectives. This paper aims to explore and integrate individual internal factors influencing consumer online buying impulsiveness, and further to recognize the relationships among these factors. The results showed as follows: (1) hedonic consumption needs, impulsive buying tendency, positive affect and normative evaluations positively influence buying impulsiveness, respectively; (2) hedonic consumption needs positively influence positive affect; (3) impulsive buying tendency positively influences normative evaluations; (4) normative evaluations positively influence positive affect.
Recommended Citation
Chih, Wen-Hai; Wu, Cedric Hsi-Jui; Li, Hung-Jen; Liao, Hsiao-Chun; and Lin, Ching, "The Study on Antecedents of Consumer Buying Impulsiveness in an Online Context" (2010). ICEB 2010 Proceedings (Shanghai, China). 48.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/iceb2010/48