Online purchase intentions: A multi-channel store image perspective

  • Authors:
  • Tibert Verhagen;Willemijn van Dolen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Knowledge, Information and Networks, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands;Department of Business Studies, University of Amsterdam Business School, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Information and Management
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The advantages of the bricks-and-clicks retail format in the battle for the online customer has been widely discussed but empirical research on it has been limited. We applied a multi-channel store image perspective to assess its influence on online purchase intentions. Drawing on a sample of 630 customers of a large music retail store in the Netherlands, the results demonstrated that offline and online store perceptions directly influenced online purchase intention. In addition, our findings confirmed that offline store impressions were used as references for their online store counterparts. Synergy and reference effects are discussed.