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Customer’s Choice of Purchasing Channel: Do Channel Characteristic, Brand, and Loyalty Matter When Shopping in Hybrid Retailers?

BAUEROVÁ, Radka and Veronika BRACINÍKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Customer’s Choice of Purchasing Channel: Do Channel Characteristic, Brand, and Loyalty Matter When Shopping in Hybrid Retailers?

Authors

BAUEROVÁ, Radka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Veronika BRACINÍKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Sustainability (Switzerland), 2021, 2071-1050

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50202 Applied Economics, Econometrics

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Webová stránka, ze které je dostupný plný text článku

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19520/21:A0000197

Organization unit

School of Business Administration in Karvina

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052453

UT WoS

000628585000001

Keywords in English

purchase channel; online shopping; consumer behavior; customers’ choice; omnichannel; sustainability; brand; loyalty

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Změněno: 12/4/2022 14:18, Miroslava Snopková

Abstract

V originále

This paper is focused on investigating the importance of factors that affect customers in both environments. Data were obtained from 1021 respondents using an online panel from the IPSOS research company in Czechia in 2019. Two content analyses were used to obtain results. Attention was also focused on the perception of brand/loyalty in shifting retailers to the online environment or offline environment. The aim of the paper is to find out what factors and how they influence customers when deciding of purchasing channel. The results show the choice of channel is influenced by factors given by channel benefits, the product, brand perception, loyalty, and customer characteristics. Within hybrid retailers, the most preferred purchasing channel is still the offline channel. However, the results also show a significant impact of brand perception and loyalty in the transition of hybrid retailers to a purely online or offline environment, which significantly opens up opportunities for retailing management within sustainable brand management.
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