The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context

The impact of negative eWOM about certain products on consumers is remarkable. This research is aiming to answer the impact of negative eWOM whether negative eWOM has any specific motives and how it effects over consumers’ purchase intention. A quantitative approach will be employed while questio...

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Main Authors: Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Rahman, Moshiur Mohammad, Kabir, SMH, Abdullah, Shakif
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 2019
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spelling iium-780552020-03-04T08:25:19Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78055/ The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul Rahman, Moshiur Mohammad Kabir, SMH Abdullah, Shakif HF5001 Business. Business Administration HF5437 Purchasing. Selling. Sales personnel. Sales executives The impact of negative eWOM about certain products on consumers is remarkable. This research is aiming to answer the impact of negative eWOM whether negative eWOM has any specific motives and how it effects over consumers’ purchase intention. A quantitative approach will be employed while questionnaire data will be collected from more than 250 Malaysian consumers and test empirically a model that incorporates both motives of negative eWOM towards impact on purchase intention. Structural equation modelling will be used to test the research hypotheses. The findings will also show the different forms of negative word-of-mouth behaviors which will be labelled advice seeking, dissonance reduction and altruism while venting negative feelings proved to be ineffective motive. However, it will show how each of these behaviors varies in terms of the target consumers towards the motivational analysis. The result will be able to confirm that negative eWOM motives the consumers and have a significant impact on purchase intention. This will contribute insights into the neglected area of consumers negative word-of mouth and argues for identification in the forms of consumers which is an important step towards consumers purchase intention. While in the article, a series of propositions will develop which future researchers may find useful in advancing research in this area. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78055/18/78055%20%20%20%20%20%20The%20Impact%20of%20Negative%20e-WOM%20%20abstract.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78055/16/78055%20proceeding.pdf Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul and Rahman, Moshiur Mohammad and Kabir, SMH and Abdullah, Shakif (2019) The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context. In: IIUM International Conference on Business Management (IICBM 2019), 10th-11th July 2019, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
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English
topic HF5001 Business. Business Administration
HF5437 Purchasing. Selling. Sales personnel. Sales executives
spellingShingle HF5001 Business. Business Administration
HF5437 Purchasing. Selling. Sales personnel. Sales executives
Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul
Rahman, Moshiur Mohammad
Kabir, SMH
Abdullah, Shakif
The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context
description The impact of negative eWOM about certain products on consumers is remarkable. This research is aiming to answer the impact of negative eWOM whether negative eWOM has any specific motives and how it effects over consumers’ purchase intention. A quantitative approach will be employed while questionnaire data will be collected from more than 250 Malaysian consumers and test empirically a model that incorporates both motives of negative eWOM towards impact on purchase intention. Structural equation modelling will be used to test the research hypotheses. The findings will also show the different forms of negative word-of-mouth behaviors which will be labelled advice seeking, dissonance reduction and altruism while venting negative feelings proved to be ineffective motive. However, it will show how each of these behaviors varies in terms of the target consumers towards the motivational analysis. The result will be able to confirm that negative eWOM motives the consumers and have a significant impact on purchase intention. This will contribute insights into the neglected area of consumers negative word-of mouth and argues for identification in the forms of consumers which is an important step towards consumers purchase intention. While in the article, a series of propositions will develop which future researchers may find useful in advancing research in this area.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul
Rahman, Moshiur Mohammad
Kabir, SMH
Abdullah, Shakif
author_facet Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul
Rahman, Moshiur Mohammad
Kabir, SMH
Abdullah, Shakif
author_sort Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul
title The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context
title_short The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context
title_full The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context
title_fullStr The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context
title_full_unstemmed The impact of negative e-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention: The Malaysian context
title_sort impact of negative e-wom on consumers’ purchase intention: the malaysian context
publishDate 2019
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/78055/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/78055/18/78055%20%20%20%20%20%20The%20Impact%20of%20Negative%20e-WOM%20%20abstract.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/78055/16/78055%20proceeding.pdf
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