移动端到PC端的微信跨渠道使用行为研究

[目的/意义]探究微信用户从移动端到PC端的跨渠道使用行为影响因素,丰富多渠道环境下用户渠道扩展行为研究,为相关企业更好地发挥多渠道优势提升服务品质提供参考和建议。[研究设计/方法]通过日记研究追踪30位用户三天内不同渠道的微信使用情况,发现微信用户从移动端到PC端的跨渠道使用行为与使用情景和感知差异的关系;构建使用情景、感知差异、感知整体性以及使用意愿的结构方程模型,探索微信用户从移动端向PC端扩展的内在机理。[结论/发现]多渠道环境下,使用情景、感知差异和感知整体性都显著影响微信跨渠道使用,其中使用情景通过感知差异发挥作用,感知差异比感知整体性更为强烈,且性能差异和硬件差异是感知差异四个维度中影响力较强的两个。[创新/价值]同时从探索性角度和验证性角度对微信用户从移动渠道扩展到PC渠道的影响因素展开研究,可为之后的研究提供方法借鉴。     

An investigation of consumers’ webstore shopping: A view of click-and-mortar company

Consumers’ shopping intention is central to a Webstore's success. While past information system (IS) studies have examined this phenomenon extensively, they have focused on examining the single channel of e-tailing only. Knowledge of consumers’ cross-channel shopping behavior, which is common nowadays, was scarce. This study has empirically investigated a research model proposing how consumers’ brand loyalty in the retailing channel may impact on their shopping intentions at the same brand's Webstore. Specifically, in contrast to the system approach examined by past IS studies, this study has undertaken a brand perception approach and uncovered that by shaping consumers’ online perceptions of brand familiarity and Webstore reputation, consumers’ offline brand loyalty directly and indirectly enhances their trust in Webstore and lead to a higher shopping intention. Practical suggestions for click-and-mortar companies in building their channel strategies were proposed accordingly.     

Cross-channel information architecture for a world exposition

This paper reports an investigation and assessment of the digital information, provided via multiple channels, for the 2015 World Exposition (Expo) in Milan. Using emerging theoretical constructs in cross-channel information architecture as a lens, the researchers examined aspects of the digital information ecology that supported the Exposition event. This study focused, firstly, on how well information and its structure maintain a coherence that is useful and meaningful to its target audience across various technologies and platforms. Secondly, it attended to the means and mechanisms for moving from one information artefact to another and it comments on the ease with which global audiences traversed the multiple channels that formed the information environment of Expo 2015.