How does convenience impact showrooming intention? Omnichannel retail strategies to manage global retail apocalypse

Shankar, Amit, Gupta, Manish, Tiwari, Aviral Kumar and Behl, Abhishek (2021) How does convenience impact showrooming intention? Omnichannel retail strategies to manage global retail apocalypse. Journal of Strategic Marketing. ISSN 0965254X (In Press)

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Abstract

This study, based mainly on the stimulus–organism–response (S-O-R) model, investigates the role of offline search convenience (decision convenience, attentiveness convenience, and evaluation convenience) and online purchase convenience (transaction convenience, possession convenience, and post-purchase convenience) in motivating consumers’ showrooming behaviour. Additionally, it examines the intervening roles of consumers’ perceived values and product involvement in the said relationship. Data were collected from 303 Indian consumers through an online survey. The results from structure equation modelling and PROCESS Macro indicate that attentiveness convenience, evaluation convenience, possession convenience, and post-purchase convenience play a significant role in forming consumers’ showrooming intention. The perceived values significantly mediate the relationship between convenience and showrooming intention and these effects varied depending on the level of consumers’ product involvement. The results contribute to the S-O-R model by not only identifying the S-O-R specific factors in the present context but also provide the evidence for the ways in which the global retail disaster can be managed in the omnichannel retailing industry. The findings of the present study encourage retailers to enhance their service convenience to manage consumers’ channel switching behaviour.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Convenience | Omnichannel Retailing | Perceived Values | Product Involvement | Showrooming Intention
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Business, Management and Accounting > Marketing
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Business School
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2022 09:38
Last Modified: 14 Feb 2022 06:16
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0965254X.2021.1965189
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/1121

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