Title :
Impact of perceived risk on purchase intention in product-harm crisis
Author :
Liang Jian-ming ; Wei Hai-ying
Author_Institution :
Manage. Sch., Jinan Univ., Jinan, China
Abstract :
The perceived risk plays an important role in customers´ buying decision. For increasing the customer´s purchase intention ,decreasing the customer´s perceived risk is the most usual way. Most of the previous researches related with the perceived risk focused on the normal buying environment, while this article mainly discusses the specific dimensions of the perceived risk including: financial risk, function risk, the body risk, the social risk and the psychological risk which have significant influence on the customer´s purchase intention in the context of the product-harm crisis, thus validated the hypothesis that the perceived risk were made of the above five dimensions and made targeted marketing suggestions for enterprises to deal with the product-harm crisis.
Keywords :
consumer behaviour; decision making; psychology; purchasing; risk analysis; body risks; customer buying decision; customer perceived risks; customer purchase intention; financial risks; function risks; marketing; product-harm crisis; psychological risks; social risks; Business; Correlation; Educational institutions; Psychology; Reliability; Buying decision; Perceived risk; Product-harm crisis; Purchase intention;
Conference_Titel :
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Harbin, Heilongjiang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0369-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCRAM.2011.6184090