نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 پردیس فارابی دانشگاه تهران
2 دانشگده مدیریت، پردیس فارابی، دانشگاه تهران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
While the contributions of online technologies to tourism industry and consumers have been largely researched, little research attention has been paid to the possible negative aspects, such consumer confusion in the website. Consumer confusion has negative consequences such as abandon the purchase that is the worst case for tourism website. The purpose of this study was to identify and investigate the potential antecedents of consumer’s online confusion focusing on online purchasing tourism products. Data for this study were collected through questionnaires from 382 tourism website users that buy tourism product from this website and Structural Equation Modeling was used in order to test model using smart PLS software. The findings confirm the influence of individual characteristics, website characteristics and services and product characteristics on consumers’ confusion. The main recommendation of this research is that the marketers and managers of the website should concentrate on security of the site and improve it.
کلیدواژهها [English]
امیر حسینی،سید احسان،روشنی،فاطمه وفتحی، فریبرز 1396. تأثیر سردرگمی مصرف کننده بر تعویق تصمیم گیری و وفاداری به برند پوشاک ورزشی، فصلنامه پژوهش ها ی کاربردی در مدیریت ورزشی ،سال ششم.دوره سوم، پیاپی 23، ص 87-100 ، ،
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