NDLI: The influence of information cascades on online purchase behaviors of search and experience products

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Liu, Qihua Huang, Shan Zhang, Liyi
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Online users usually observe or refer to others’ behaviors and discount their own information when purchasing products online. This research employed a fixed-effect regression model to elucidate how information cascades could influence online purchase behaviors and how they moderated the influence of online word-of-mouth and product prices. To uncover the underlying mechanisms behind informational cascades, we compare search products and experience products. In particular, we utilize publicly available data from a B2C e-commerce site in China, i.e., Tmall.com. Our results indicate that online users’ choice of products was heavily driven by changes in product rankings after controlling for cumulative sales, online user reviews and product price, as predicted by informational cascades theory. Due to the information cascades effect, review volume had no impact on online users’ choice of products with high rankings, whereas it did exert a significant positive impact on consumer purchase decisions of products with low rankings. User rating had no impact on online users’ purchase decisions. Product price had a significant and negative impact for products with high rankings, but had a significant and positive influence on users’ choice for products with low rankings. Moreover, information cascades were more prominent for experience goods than for search goods.
Starting Page	553
Ending Page	580
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13895753
Journal	Electronic Commerce Research
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15729362
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-03-29
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Information cascades Online purchase behaviors Online word-of-mouth Product price Product types Electronic commerce IT in Business Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory Operation Research/Decision Theory Computer Communication Networks Business and Management e-Commerce/e-business
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance Human-Computer Interaction

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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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