What is it about?

Consumer behavior, facing the new options that the internet and online channels offer, has changed the way customers act and search for the best purchase option.

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Why is it important?

The understanding of the antecedents or determinant factors of customers’ purchase intention is necessary, what is opportune to be studied on the online purchase context, since such context is disseminating among customers. As a result, the aim of this study was to look at the existing literature about online purchase intention and identify possible antecedents that could explain such outcome. Therein, from this research, a Theoretical Modelhas been elaborated from previous theoretical research considering the constructs Information Quality, Distrust and Perceived Risk as antecedents of Purchase Intention, aiming at analyzing the relation among these constructs in the online purchase context.

Perspectives

From this research, it is possible to conclude that there is still research opportunity to understand and explain consumer behavior and the empirical application of this research theoretical model is one of them.

PhD Gabriel Sperandio Milan
Unisinos - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

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This page is a summary of: Information Quality, Distrust and Perceived Risk as Antecedents of Purchase Intention in the Online Purchase Context, Journal of Management Information System & E-commerce, January 2015, American Research Institute for Policy Develeopment,
DOI: 10.15640/jmise.v2n2a2.
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