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Assessing multi-channel consumers' convenience expectations of online order/in-store pickup service

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  • Hao Ma
  • Yong Su
  • Lih-Bin Oh

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'Online order/in-store pickup (OOIP)' service allows customers to self-collect their online orders from the retailers' physical store at their convenience. This service brings unprecedented control to multi-channel consumers in the order fulfilment process. This paper examines how the need for control, a fundamental psychological trait, impacts multi-channel consumers' expectation of the level of service convenience that OOIP provides. Data were collected from 351 Chinese consumers to assess the effect of a need for control on decision convenience, access convenience, transaction convenience and post-benefit convenience. Findings suggest that consumers' need for control positively affected their expectations on all four types of service convenience. We provide theoretical and managerial implications arising from the findings.

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  • Hao Ma & Yong Su & Lih-Bin Oh, 2014. "Assessing multi-channel consumers' convenience expectations of online order/in-store pickup service," International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(1/2), pages 146-159.
  • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:14:y:2014:i:1/2:p:146-159
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    1. Saghiri, Soroosh & Wilding, Richard & Mena, Carlos & Bourlakis, Michael, 2017. "Toward a three-dimensional framework for omni-channel," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 53-67.
    2. Mirzabeiki, Vahid & Saghiri, Soroosh Sam, 2020. "From ambition to action: How to achieve integration in omni-channel?," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 1-11.

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