Open this publication in new window or tab >>2019 (English)In: Journal of business & industrial marketing, ISSN 0885-8624, E-ISSN 2052-1189, Vol. 34, no 7, p. 1468-1481Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to call for a scrutiny of the dualist approach to business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) marketing in industries driven by consumer-generated content. It posits that individual consumer-centric factors are influential for B2B marketing as well in sectors such as the travel industry and investigates the determinants of tourists’ intention to use social media websites for travel planning.
Design/methodology/approach
Integrating constructs from IS and marketing literature, the paper proposes information quality and perceived enjoyment as antecedents of perceived usefulness, attitude and intention to use. The research model is tested using data from social media users with experience in travel planning.
Findings
Results show that perceived usefulness and information quality are stronger predictors of attitude and behavioral intention than perceived enjoyment. Enjoyment was not found to be strongly influential. Relevancy and reliability of information and its usefulness concerning travel-planning needs were found more influential.
Research limitations/implications
Data were collected from social media users, raising possible issues of representativeness.
Practical implications
The paper offers clarity regarding antecedents of downstream user behavior which can be of significant value. Demarcations in B2B and B2C perspectives blur in the context of social media, enabling more effective integration.
Originality/value
The paper brings in and validates the roles of information quality and enjoyment as influencers of behavior. Identifying the travel industry as a sector having greater likelihood of B2BC convergence, the paper extends IS adoption research to user-interactive sites in the travel-planning context, which can benefit the consumer as well as the supply side.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019
Keywords
perceived enjoyment, information quality, behavioral intention, B2B B2C convergence
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Industrial Marketing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-76545 (URN)10.1108/JBIM-11-2018-0329 (DOI)000489029000008 ()2-s2.0-85068414665 (Scopus ID)
Note
Validerad;2019;Nivå 2;2019-10-29 (johcin)
2019-10-292019-10-292020-06-05Bibliographically approved