Intentions In Context Research Articles

A Comparative Study of Baby Boomers and Gen Z on Virtual Reality Adoption for Travel Intentions: A PLS-MGA and GRNN Model

This research delves into the adoption of Virtual Reality (VR) technology for travel intentions, with a specific emphasis on understanding generational disparities between Baby Boomers and Gen Z. This study focuses on two pivotal elements necessitating further examination: the role of virtual experiences and content quality in shaping travel intentions within the realm of virtual reality. Our investigation delves into the influence of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness on virtual experiences and the impact of information access and novelty on content quality with travel intention for VR. Utilizing the Partial Least Squares Multigroup Analysis (PLS-MGA) and Generalized Regression Neural Network (GRNN) models, we scrutinize these factors. This study aims to illuminate the technological and generational dimensions of VR adoption within the context of travel intention. The study underscores generational distinctions, yielding an intriguing outcome: virtual experiences distinctly shape the travel intentions of Gen Z but do not find favor among Baby Boomers. Conversely, the influence of content quality is evident, decisively affirming the travel intentions of Baby Boomers while lacking substantiation in the case of Gen Z. This finding provides valuable insights into how different generations engage with and adopt VR technology.

The Consequences of Gamification in Mobile Commerce Platform Applications

Gamification in mobile apps has a research gap, given the potential for gamification to enhance user repurchase intention in a mobile commerce context. This research investigates the concept of gamified m-commerce platform application through the lenses of customer experience and repurchase intention. The study proposes an empirical model to examine the relationship between hedonic value, utilitarian value, customer experience, and repurchase intention in the context of mobile commerce platform application. It is underscoring the importance of exploring the application of gamified m-commerce platforms and their impact on customer experience and repurchase intention. The findings contribute to the existing body of literature on online retail by offering new insights into the implications of gamified m-commerce platform applications. A quantitative research approach was employed, and an online questionnaire was used to gather data. The collected data from a sample of 270 mobile commerce shoppers was analyzed. The results supported all direct hypothesized associations among variables.

Analysis Of The Influence Of Electronic Word Of Mouth (E-Wom) And Social Media On Purchase Intentions Mediated By Brand Image In E-Shopping

This study aims to analyze the influence of Electronic Word of Mouth (E-WOM) and social media on consumers' purchase intention in the context of e-shopping, with the mediation of brand image. The research was conducted by collecting data from respondents actively engaged in online shopping and, through appropriate statistical analysis, identifying the relationships between these variables. This research employed a quantitative approach, using questionnaires as the data collection technique. According to Sugiyono (2022:8), quantitative research is a method with the objective of testing predetermined hypotheses, using numerical data and statistical analysis in the testing process. The study provides a profound understanding of the relationships between Social Media, E-WOM, Brand Image, and Purchase Intention in the e-shopping context. It also underscores the crucial role played by Brand Image as a mediator in the influence of E-WOM and Social Media on consumers' purchasing decisions. This research can serve as a strategic guide for e-commerce businesses to enhance consumer trust and sales through better management of social media and their brand reputation.

Collective Communicative Intentions in Context

What are the objects of speaker meaning? The traditional answer is: propositions. The traditional answer faces an important challenge: if propositions are the objects of speaker meaning then there must be specific propositions that speakers intend their audiences to recover. Yet, speakers typically exhibit a degree of indifference regarding how they are interpreted, and cannot rationally intend for their audiences to recover specific propositions. Therefore, propositions are not the objects of speaker meaning (Buchanan 2010; MacFarlane 2020a; 2020b; and Abreu Zavaleta 2021). In this paper I do two things. Firstly, I outline a collective analogue of this challenge that undermines the most prominent responses to the original challenge. Secondly, I provide a new solution: typical utterances are backed by a cluster of partial communicative intentions. This response resolves both individual and collective variants of the problem and allows us to retain the traditional propositional view of speaker meaning.

THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND INFORMAL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION ON RETENTION INTENTION AND INNOVATION BEHAVIOR - A STUDY BASED ON CHINESE R&D EMPLOYEES

This study establishes a comprehensive framework where employee innovation behavior serves as the dependent variable, while organizational culture and informal organizational communication act as independent variables, and retention intention functions as the mediating variable. The foundational conceptual framework extends to include demographic variables such as gender, age, and education. Based on this structure, the study presents the following hypotheses: 1. Positive relationship between organizational culture and retention intentions. 2. Positive impact of informal organizational communication on retention intentions. 3. Mediating role of retention intentions in the organizational culture-innovative behavior link. 4. Mediating role of retention intentions in the informal organizational communication-innovative behavior link. 5. Within the context of retention intentions as a mediator, this hypothesis asserts that both organizational culture and informal organizational communication positively affect the innovative behavior of Chinese R&D personnel. The research methodology involved the distribution and retrieval of 500 questionnaires through a stratified sampling approach within the Chinese R&D workforce, encompassing both public and private organizations across the technology, pharmaceutical, automotive, and electronics sectors. The study's findings indicate a robust positive relationship between organizational culture and employees' inclination to remain within the organization. Similarly, a strong positive association exists between informal organizational communication and the willingness of employees to stay. Through an empirical exploration of Chinese R&D personnel across diverse industry domains, this research delves into the intrinsic dimensions of organizational culture, informal organizational communication, retention intentions, and employee innovative behavior. These findings contribute valuable insights to organizations' developmental endeavors.

Consumers’ digital self-extension and pro-brand social media engagement – the role of culture

PurposeDigital self-expression, recently one of the most important research themes, is currently under-researched. In this context, this study aims to propose a parsimonious research model of self-extension tendency, its drivers and its outcomes. The model is tested in the context of social media engagement intentions (liking, sharing and commenting) with focal brands and across individualist versus collectivist cultures.Design/methodology/approachThe model is tested in two individualist cultures (N = 230 and 232) and two collectivist cultures (N = 232 and 237) by conducting surveys in four countries (Australia, USA, Qatar and India). Nike and Ray-Ban are the focal brands studied, with Facebook serving as the targeted social networking site (SNS) platform.FindingsSelf-monitoring and self-esteem are found to drive the self-extension tendency across cultures, with stronger effects in the individualist culture than in the collectivist culture. The self-extension tendency has a relatively stronger positive influence on social media engagement intentions in the individualist culture than in the collectivist culture. This tendency is also found to mediate the link between self-monitoring, self-extension and social media engagement intentions across both cultures, albeit in different ways. In collectivist culture, self-monitoring’s influence on the self-extension tendency is moderated by public self-consciousness. The study’s findings have important theoretical and practical implications. In individualist culture, self-monitoring’s influence on the self-extension tendency is moderated by public self-consciousness.Research limitations/implicationsThe present findings confirm that the tendency to incorporate the brand into one’s self-concept and to further extend the self is indeed contingent on one’s cultural background. The role of public self-consciousness may vary between individualist and collectivist cultures, something recommended by past research for empirical testing.Practical implicationsManagers can leverage this research model to entice pro-brand social media engagement by nurturing consumers’ digital selves in terms of maneuvering their self-extension tendency and its drivers, namely, self-monitoring and self-esteem. Second, promoting the self-extension tendency and its drivers varies across cultures, with this finding offering practical cultural nuances supporting marketing managers’ decisions.Originality/valueThis is one of the pioneering studies that tests a cross-cultural parsimonious model based on theories of self-extension, self-monitoring and self-esteem, especially within the context of brand engagement intentions on an SNS platform.

Exploring the relationship between trusts, likability, brand loyalty, and revisit intentions in the context of Airbnb

研究目的协作消费由于其快速增长而引起了研究人员的关注。 基于文献中对于认知、情感和意向与协作消费之间的因果关系, 本文调查了 Airbnb 背景下品牌忠诚度和重访意图的驱动因素。研究设计/方法/途数据是通过在线调查从 399 名 Airbnb 用户那里收集的。 PLS-SEM 用于检验假设。 中介测试通过多重中介分析进行。研究发研究表明, 客户对房东和 Airbnb 的信任增强了品牌喜爱度, 从而提高了满意度、品牌忠诚度和重访意愿。 此外, 满意度通过品牌忠诚度的全面调节影响重访意愿。究原创性然已有文献从消费者的角度讨论信任并将其分为两种类型, 但信任对品牌好感度的影响从未被检验过。 基于认知、情感和意向之间的因果关系, 本文首次调查了平台和房东的信任作为品牌好感度的关键驱动因素, 从而提高了 Airbnb 背景下的客户满意度、品牌忠诚度和重访意愿。

A literature review on users' behavioral intention toward chatbots' adoption

PurposeDespite the fact that chatbots have been largely adopted for the last few years, a comprehensive literature review research focusing on the intention of individuals to adopt chatbots is rather scarce. In this respect, the present paper attempts a literature review investigation of empirical studies focused on the specific issue in nine scientific databases during 2017-2021. Specifically, it aims to classify extant empirical studies which focus on the context of individuals' adoption intention toward chatbots.Design/methodology/approachThe research is based on PRISMA methodology, which revealed a total of 39 empirical studies examining users' intention to adopt and utilize chatbots.FindingsAfter a thorough investigation, distinct categorization criteria emerged, such as research field, applied theoretical models, research types, methods and statistical measures, factors affecting intention to adopt and further use chatbots, the countries/continents where these surveys took place as well as relevant research citations and year of publication. In addition, the paper highlights research gaps in the examined issue and proposes future research directions in such a promising information technology solution.Originality/valueAs far as the authors are concerned, there has not been any other comprehensive literature review research to focus on examining previous empirical studies of users' intentions to adopt and use chatbots on the aforementioned period. According to the authors' knowledge, the present paper is the first attempt in the field which demonstrates broad literature review data of relevant empirical studies.

Factors influence user’s intention to continue use of e-banking during COVID-19 pandemic: the nexus between self-determination and expectation confirmation model

PurposeInternet banking services are proven to be much advantageous and convenient during COVID-19 pandemic. However, vibrant networking designs and dynamic changes in software development have made these services bit complex. Thus, the current study seeks to investigate Internet banking user continuance intention with factors underpinning self-determination theory (SDT) and expectation confirmation model (ECM) theory. The moderating role of image is studied between user intention to continue use of Internet banking and intention to recommend Internet banking service in social networks during COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe quantitative research approach is applied and data collected through a research survey. For inferential analysis, 360 responses were collected from active Internet banking users. The integrated information system model was empirically tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) approach.FindingsFindings indicate that integrated IS research model has substantial explanatory power, i.e. 57.8% to predict continuance intention of Internet banking users. Within integrated research model, intrinsic regulation was found the most influential factor in order to determine Internet banking user continuance intention. Beside two theories integration, this study confirmed that the relationship between user continuance intention and intention to recommend Internet banking is moderated by image.Practical implicationsThe fundamental contribution of this study is the integration of technological and motivational factors in Internet banking user continuance intention context. Theoretically, integration of both theories ECM and SDT in technology continuance intention context will enrich the emerging e-commerce literature. Concerning with managerial implications, intrinsic regulation was identified as an important factor among other factors. Therefore, managers and software developers need to understand user’s intrinsic motivational factors in order to boost continuance intention of Internet banking users. It is also suggested that managers and marketing personnel should pay special attention to create a positive image of Internet banking services among Internet banking users.Originality/valueWithin information system literature the concept of user continuance intention has yet to be examined especially in Internet banking context. Thus, current research fills research gap and proposes an integrated technology motivational framework that combines motivational factors and technology factors altogether to investigate Internet banking user continuance behavior.

Sustainable Marketing: Studying the Effects of Environmental Consciousness and Involvement Degree on Purchasing Behavior of Consumers

Concerns and consumers’ awareness of the environment has increased significantly, and their perception of environmental concerns now represents one of the major factors in consumer decision making. The main aim of this study is to determine the relationship of environmental consciousness and involvement degree on consumers’ purchasing behavior. Factors affecting environmentally friendly behaviors will be explained within the context of attitude, intention, and behavior with a holistic approach. TRA Model (Theory of Reasoned Action) will be expanded by adding variables that express individual consumer characteristics. Besides, the data will be gathered via an online survey from various participants who live in Metro Manila, where people from different socio-economic backgrounds are thought to be heavily dispersed and located. Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) was used to study the relationship and analyze the connection between variables. Results of PLS-SEM revealed that environmental consciousness (ß = 0.38; p = 0.001) and involvement degree (ß = 0.311; p = 0.001) have significant effects on respondent’s attitude in purchasing eco-friendly products. Moreover, both the environmental consciousness (ß = 0.423; p = 0.001) and involvement degree (ß = 0.46; p = 0.001) have direct significant effects in respondent’s behavior in purchasing eco-friendly products. Based on the statistical analyses, this paper offers some further research directions to advance the extent of the literature. This study offers valuable insights for eco-friendly brands that offer products by indicating two important dimensions, which are the environmental consciousness and involvement degree of consumers upon purchasing.

The influence of green packaging on consumers’ green purchase intention in the context of online-to-offline commerce

Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a theoretical framework to explore the influence of green packaging on green purchase intention in the context of online-to-offline (O2O) commerce and to discuss the indirect effects of perceived value, perceived risk and green satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach To cast light on the factors affecting consumers’ intention to purchase in the context of O2O commerce, 295 valid questionnaire responses of O2O consumers in China were collected via an online survey. Data analysis was performed based on structural equation modeling. Findings The empirical results indicated that green packaging significantly affects consumers’ green purchase intention in the O2O commerce context indirectly through perceived value, perceived risk and green satisfaction. Moreover, green loyalty positively and significantly moderates the effects of perceived value, perceived risk and green satisfaction on green purchase intention. Originality/value Research on product packaging has mainly focused on investigating packaging materials, designs, functions and applications but has rarely examined how product packaging affects consumers’ purchase intention in the context of O2O commerce. Moreover, although previous studies have explored the roles of perceived value and perceived risk on purchase intention, they have not investigated the effects of environmental concerns and commerce context. This study attempts to fill these research gaps.

Impacts of Personality on Job Performance Through COVID-19 Fear and Intention to Quit.

Recent studies have examined the association between personality and job performance; however, this relationship remains to be elucidated within the context of COVID-19 fear and intention to quit. Therefore, we aimed to develop a structural equation model (SEM) by exploring the effects of personality on job performance through COVID-19 fear and intention to quit. Accordingly, 447 employees participated in the study and completed the Job Performance Scale, the Scale of Intention to Quit, the COVID-19 Fear scale, and the Big Five Inventory. It was revealed that extroversion, conscientiousness, and neuroticism predicted job performance via COVID-19 fear, as well as intention to quit.

Analyzing the role of values, beliefs and attitude in developing sustainable behavioral intentions: empirical evidence from electric power industry

Energy conservation is an economic, social, and environmental issue that offers various academic, practical, and policy implications. The growing magnitude, complexity, and relevance of energy wastage have attracted the attention of scholars and practitioners. There is a lack of consumer awareness towards electricity conservation practices of household consumers in the context of developing countries. This research utilized the theory of planned behavior to explain sustainable behavioral intentions in the context of electricity conservation. This research aims to measure the effect of beliefs, values, and attitudes on sustainable behavioral intentions in the energy conservation context. This research hypothesized awareness, compatibility, perceived value, resistance to change, and actual gain as predictors of attitude towards energy conservation and sustainable behavioral intentions. Using survey methodology, purposive sampling techniques were used to collect the data from young household consumers. Data of 246 electricity consumers of Pakistan were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM). Results of the study validate a significant relationship between attitude towards energy conservation and sustainable behavioral intentions. Based on results, it has been established that the amount of actual gain intentions and awareness are the main contributors to attitude towards energy conservation and sustainable behavioral intention. Compatibility and resistance to change were also significant precipitators of attitude towards energy conservation and sustainable behavioral intention. Perceived value was found a significant predictor of attitude towards energy conservation while insignificant towards sustainable behavioral intention. The study findings have a significant impact on government, policymakers, marketers, and academics interested in developing strategies to mitigate the effects of energy wastage. Prevention of resource wastage depends upon the awareness and consumption practices of the customers.

신규 간호사의 직장 내 괴롭힘이 이직의도에 미치는 영향

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore workplace bullying and turnover intention among new nurses whose career was less than 12 months. Method: Survey was performed using structured questionnaire which consisted of general characteristics, workplace bullying and results, turnover intention. Study participants were new nurses from a University hospital located in G-district. Total 163 questionnaires out of 180 were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, correlation, multiple regression as appropriate. Results: Overall bullying level was rather low, yet it was true that at least some new nurses were bullies. One factor affecting both bullying and turnover intention consistently was ward assignment. Working period, working ward, mistrust were predictive factors of turnover intention among new nurses. Conclusion: Factors revealed from this study and previous studies need to be into account when developing strategies to help new nurses in adjusting working environment. In addition, qualitative studies are called for further insight regarding the context of bullying and turnover intention.

Antecedents of Travel intention in rental taxi services post Coronavirus-19 Lockdown

The novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has had a tremendous impact on the travel and tourism industry worldwide. This study investigates the various factors that affect travel intention (TINT) in public taxi services post COVID-19 lockdown in Chennai City. The primary data was collected from 296 respondents through a questionnaire survey, mainly from frequent travellers that use rental taxis in Chennai. This study extended the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in the travel intention context. The respondents' data was analysed using reliability, multi-collinearity, factor analysis, and regression techniques. The results show that perceived severity harms travel intention, which offers travellers a hesitation to travel because of the COVID-19 threat. Based on the research data, travellers' feedback and suggestions, strategies to improve the taxi rental service in Chennai City are proposed.

Intention as a Context: An Activity Intention Model for Adaptable Development of Applications in the Internet of Things

End-users, such as aging people, look for dynamic applications to help them in their daily activities while usually assisted by domain experts (e.g., physicians) in performing these activities. Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) augments applications with a changing context based on the activities, environments, and services. Unfortunately, most IoT application development tools are restricted to specific scenarios or involve technical challenges. We propose an activity intention model for quick application development, targeting domain experts who are not traditional software developers. Our model is based on the ContextAA micro context-awareness approach with autonomic computing-based components providing pervasive adaptations. Unlike other Internet of Things application definitions, our model promotes elicitation of the activity semantics and provides mechanisms to compute the semantics. We then generate intention as a context (IaaC), which contains a self-described activity intention context with compiled knowledge ready to be assessed in pervasive smart environments for augmented adaptations. Experimental results show a potential resource optimization for dynamic Internet of Things applications in smart homes and smart cities.

The impact of motivation, intention, and contextual factors on green purchasing behavior: New energy vehicles as an example

AbstractGreen purchasing behavior is of great significance to the realization of carbon reduction goals. Through in‐depth interviews, this study uses new energy vehicles to explore the driving factors of green purchase. It applies grounded theory for a qualitative analysis, the results of which show that behavior motivation, behavior intentions, residential characteristics, social norms, behavior ability, and institutional and technological context are the main factors of green purchase, albeit in inconsistent ways. It is found that behavior motivation indirectly affects green purchase through behavior intention; residents' characteristics, behavioral ability, social norms, and the institutional and technological context have moderating effects on the relationship between behavior intention and green purchase, indicating the existence of an “intention–behavior” gap. The study proposes the comprehensive model of Motivation–Intention–Context–Behavior to explain the driving factors for green purchase and provides policy implications on marketing strategy to companies producing green products.

(Non-)Intentional Readings of Labile Object Experiencer Psych-Verbs in Polish: Insights from a Self-Paced Reading Study

Labile Object Experiencer psych-verbs are well-known to be compatible with intentional and non-intentional readings. When used in intentional contexts, labile OE psych-verbs exhibit properties of canonical agentive verbs. Previous studies on the agentive nature of labile OE psych-verbs indicate that it varies cross-linguistically. This article aims at investigating the properties of Polish labile OE psych-verbs in terms of their usage in non-intentional and intentional contexts, and in contrast to canonical agentive verbs. The results of the self-paced reading experiment showed that (i) processing of Polish labile OE psych-verbs in non-intentional and intentional contexts, as well as (ii) processing of labile OE psych-verbs as compared to canonical agentive verbs result in significantly faster reading times. The differences were, however, observed in different clause regions and therefore are argued to result from two distinct underlying causes.

Factors Affecting Coproduction Resentment within a Self-checkout Environment

ABSTRACT Self-service technologies allow organizations to shift work from employees to the consumer, creating a coproduction environment where the consumer is an active participant in the delivery of a service, which they ultimately consume. While these technologies can have benefits for both consumers and the organizations, they can also present challenges (e.g., value erosion, feelings of coercion) that may give rise to consumer resentment. This study, using the theory of reasoned action as its theoretical lens, is one of the first in information systems to explore coproduction resentment. In particular, this study investigates the coproduction resentment within the context of self-checkout continuance intention. The study also investigates the effect of technology anxiety, fear of confrontation due to misuse, and technology-driven job losses on coproduction resentment. The study found support for the seven proposed hypotheses.

Metafisika Mediasi Teknologis: Kritik Atas Filsafat Teknologi Klasik

This paper aims to propose philosophical criticism toward 'classical' thinking on philosophy of technology. This set of thinking tends to be trapped in the distinction between subject-object and romantic-pessimisms on the existence of technological dominance. The authors objective is to provide comprehensive understanding through contemporary approaches in philosophy concerning technological mediation. The study employs factual historical analysis and philosophical reflection to understand technological mediation patterns. The result maps point of view that develops a metaphysical orientation of technological mediation in terms of several approaches. Postphenomenological approaches technological mediation in a relational and intentional context rather than providing a subject-object distinction. Actor-network theory improves the asymmetrical relation of humans and non-humans. Simondon and Harman provide for ontological analysis of tools and technology in human relationships. Critical theory of technology opens the chance that technological relations are not only neutral-instrumental but have transformative and emancipatory power. Therefore, the technological mediation approach can become a new subject in the metaphysics of technology discourse in overcoming the limitations of the classical philosophy of technology.