Abstract
This study enhances the existing literature on the role of trust and online perceived risk in shaping consumer purchase decision-making in social commerce. The aim of this article is to investigate consumers’ purchase decision-making process, the determinant components of social commerce purchase intentions and attitudes, the effect of perceived risk on intention to go shopping in online settings, and consumer trust and buying behavior on online retailing platforms. The insights obtained from our research extend current knowledge as regards determinants of consumer attitudes and intentions toward online purchases, consumers’ perceived shopping risk and repurchase behavior when buying products online, and perceived consumer online trust and purchase decisions. Limited research has considered consumers’ decision-making processes on social commerce platforms by investigating how their perceptual attitudes, behavioral intentions, and immediate gratifications affect the purchase of products and services online. Our study addresses this gap and extends prior research by focusing on the relationship between online consumer purchase intention, social commerce adoption behavior, and consumers’ trust together with risk factors affecting online buying decisions, in light of the characteristics of source credibility. Our findings point toward important avenues of research on psychological determinants of consumer engagement in social media, decision mechanisms lying behind evaluation of prices, the types of perceived risk incurred, and online repurchasing behavior and intention on social commerce platforms. Subsequent directions should clarify whether adoption of mobile payment services may shape online consumers’ impulsive buying behavior and decision-making, especially under the influence of online product reviews.
Highlights
Our study cumulates evidence that consumers’ decision-making process is a dynamic performance (Hollowell et al, 2019; Popescu and Ciurlau, 2019; Westbrook et al, 2019), but that the determinants of social commerce intention and online consumer choice behavior (Kovacova et al, 2019; Tuyls and Pera, 2019) can be clarified
The empirical evidence we reviewed supports the belief that social platform users’ purchase intentions can be constituted taking into account the relationship between online trust and perceived risk
Decision-making processes on social commerce platforms by investigating how their perceptual attitudes, behavioral intentions, and immediate gratifications affect the purchase of products and services online
Summary
Our study cumulates evidence that consumers’ decision-making process is a dynamic performance (Hollowell et al, 2019; Popescu and Ciurlau, 2019; Westbrook et al, 2019), but that the determinants of social commerce intention and online consumer choice behavior (Kovacova et al, 2019; Tuyls and Pera, 2019) can be clarified. We focus on how the antecedents of trust in social. Decision-Making on Social Commerce Platforms commerce can be predicted, developing on the role of social experience and information accuracy on consumer purchase decision. Using exclusively empirical sources published recently (2017– 2019) in Web of Science- and Scopus-indexed journals, our paper fills the gap in the literature by elucidating consumers’ evaluation, commitment, and choice throughout online decisionmaking, insisting on their cognitive processing behaviors and on how expectations shape their pre-purchase and postpurchase satisfaction
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