The Social Side of Brick and Mortar: The Impact of Brand-Related User-Generated Content on Different Consumer Typologies in Food Retailing
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2020-01-07
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Social media influences most off-line purchasing decisions, thereby impacting the relationship between retailers and (prospective) customers. User-generated content (UGC) is a means of engaging with consumers and shaping their trust perception and loyalty. Based on a sample of 967 food retail customers, we identify four segments into which brand-related UGC consumers can be categorized: Brand Lovers, True-Blues, Detached Customers, and Confiding Customers. These clusters are distinct in terms of trust toward brand-related UGC, loyalty, brand-related UGC involvement, and demographics. Our findings add to the understanding of digital content marketing consequences by mapping four different brand-related UGC consumer typologies. From a managerial point of view, our findings suggest how to best engage with the determined consumer typologies and highlight the importance of social media for off-line businesses.
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Decision Making in Online Social Networks, consumer typologies, retail, social media, trust, user-generated content
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10 pages
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Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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