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From traditional gaming to mobile gaming: video game players' switching behaviour
(Elsevier, 2021) Cai, Xiaowei; Cebollada Calvo, Javier; Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
This paper intends to uncover whether mobile gaming is complemental or substitutable to traditional gaming. A human migration framework, the Push-Pull-Mooring, is adopted to the context of video game switching. A total of 340 valid samples were collected from Chinese video game forums. We applied K-mean clustering to find different video game player segments. We also applied Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to estimate linear regression models for the whole sample and the identified segments. Results demonstrate that 7 of the 13 variables included in the conceptual model have a significant impact on the switching intention, which are Perceived expensiveness of traditional gaming(PE), Perceived flexibility of mobile gaming(PF), Perceived cost of lost benefits(PCLB), Perceived high performance of traditional gaming(PGP), Past traditional gaming experience(EXPT), Past mobile gaming experience(EXPM), and Ownership of hybrid consoles(OHC). Moreover, results from the clustering analysis show that there are two segments in our sample, labelled Unshakable stayer and Moderate intentional emigrant. Switching intention from traditional to mobile gaming is low across the whole sample, although there are differences between the segments. We conclude that traditional gaming is not being substituted by mobile gaming. In turn, mobile gaming serves a complementary role for the players of traditional gaming.
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The impact of expert opinion in consumer perception of wines
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013) Chocarro Eguaras, Raquel; Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
Purpose – This paper aims to examine the way in which consumers integrate experts' opinions into their own evaluations of a selection of red wines. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conduct an experiment to measure the influence of experts' opinions in relation to the complexity of the information, the level of consensus between different experts, and the consumer's level of category knowledge. Findings – Confirmation is found for the effect of received information on consumers' product evaluations. Variation is found in relation to the consumer's level of category knowledge. Expert ratings have a stronger influence on individuals with low knowledge of the wine category than on those with high knowledge. The level of consensus between experts and the complexity of the information in this case have no effect on the impact of their opinions. Originality/value – This paper takes a deeper look into the effect of “weak‐tie” personal information sources, particularly the opinions of experts regarding wine. Scientific research into the effect of expert judgments on consumer perceptions is still scant and businesses also need to assess the factors underlying its impact, given that the influence of expert judgment can be as crucial as quality to a product's success. The main feature that distinguishes this paper from the previous literature is that it integrates all three moderating effects in a single experiment: level of expert consensus, the complexity of the information provided and the prior knowledge of the consumer.
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Editorial: the impact of AI-enabled technologies in e-commerce and omnichannel retailing
(Frontiers Media, 2021) Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Berné, Carmen; Chocarro Eguaras, Raquel; Niilssen, Frode; Rubio, Natalia; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
Organization's adoption of technology has been an important topic over decades. There is also little doubt that technology influence and has an impact on how organization work and to some extent also on how they are organised. Various disciplines have addressed this issue and many perspectives have been applied over time. The rapidly growing interest for studying technology adoption strategies and outcomes of the implementation of these strategies have led to a wide range of contributions across disciplines. The richness of contributions illustrates the need for knowledge development in this field. At the other side, there is also time and need for some consolidation and review for future directions of the research effort.
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Customer heterogeneity in the development of e-loyalty
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015) Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Chocarro Eguaras, Raquel; Villanueva Orbaiz, María Luisa; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Gobierno de Navarra / Nafarroako Gobernua: 228/2008
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify customer-specific differences in a general model of e-loyalty taking into account the existence of unobserved heterogeneity. Specifically, we aim to 1) test for the presence of customer heterogeneity 2) assess the impact of potential bias when there is no control for heterogeneity; 3) analyze the distinct customer segments that emerge from the empirical estimation of the model, and 4) describe the segments by their demographic and psychological characteristics. Design/methodology/approach: Panel data from a survey of online shoppers is used in a post hoc segmentation method, which will enable us to identify segments, while estimating the parameters by means of structural equation models; Findings. Three distinct consumer segments emerge. The relative importance of e-loyalty and e-satisfaction is significantly determined by consumers’ shopping styles. Originality/value This study highlights the need to consider unobserved customer heterogeneity when attempting to explain satisfaction and loyalty development processes in the retail context in general, and e-commerce in particular. To our knowledge, this is the first time this approach has been used to analyze the impact of customer heterogeneity on e-satisfaction and e-loyalty.
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Analizando el comportamiento de búsqueda de información de un servicio
(Instituto Português de Administração de Marketing, 2010) Chocarro Eguaras, Raquel; Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Villanueva Orbaiz, María Luisa; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
Entender el uso de los canales de información durante el proceso de compra es vital para el marketing por sus efectos en el proceso de toma de decisiones del consumidor y por sus implicaciones en la planificación de las estrategias de comunicación de las empresas. Este artículo examina cómo se pueden utilizar la capacidad y el atractivo de cada canal y una serie de variables situacionales e individuales para predecir la probabilidad de uso del canal cuando se decide acudir al cine. También se hace hincapié en los efectos marginales para detectar efectos sustitución entre canales de información. Aplicando el método estadístico Logit Multinomial se obtiene, por un lado, que cuanto mayor sea la percepción del valor de los canales (capacidad y atractivo), mayor será la probabilidad de que los consumidores accedan a esos canales y que, por otro lado, variables situacionales como la frecuencia de compra de entradas de cine moderan la elección de cada uno de los medios de información, mientras que las variables individuales apenas influyen. Los resultados sobre los efectos de sustitución entre canales indican que los canales de información operan como sustitutivos con respecto a la capacidad y al atractivo de cada canal.
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Impact of seller- and buyer-created content on product sales in the electronic commerce platform: the role of informativeness, readability, multimedia richness, and extreme valence
(Elsevier, 2023) Cai, Xiaowei; Cebollada Calvo, Javier; Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE; Gestión de Empresas; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
This research aims to verify: (1) whether the impacts of the informativeness in seller-created and buyer-created content (product description informativeness/review informativeness) on product sales are complementary or substitutionary. (2) the moderating role of the readability of seller-created and buyercreated content (product description readability/review readability) between the corresponding informativeness (product description informativeness/review informativeness) and product sales. (3) the moderating role of the multimedia richness in seller-created and buyer-created content (product multimedia richness/review multimedia richness) between the corresponding informativeness (product description informativeness/review informativeness) and product sales. (4) the moderating role of valence in buyer-created content (review valence) between the informativeness (review informativeness) in buyer-created content and product sales. To achieve the mentioned goals, we created a conceptual framework combining the dual processing theory (Chaiken and Trope, 1999) and the dual coding theory (Paivio, 1990), through which the hypotheses were proposed. To test the hypotheses in our conceptual framework, we collected data of video game products from Amazon.com using a third-party API service: the Rainforest API. Then, we operationalised the constructs and measured the variables, including creating the lexicons of video game attributes. Finally, we estimated the empirical model using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). This research makes several contributions to the e-commerce literature as well as to practitioners and researchers in this field. On the theoretical side, our empirical findings suggest that review informativeness fully mediates the influence of product description informativeness on product sales, which complements the previous normative model of the interactions between seller-created and buyer-created content (Chen and Xie, 2008). On the practical side, based on the empirical results, we provide concrete guidance for marketers to enhance their strategies on e-commerce platforms. Moreover, as an additional product of the research process, we developed the lexicons of video game attributes, which can help practitioners and researchers to understand and study the attributes of video game products.
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Situational variables in online versus offline channel choice
(Elsevier, 2013) Chocarro Eguaras, Raquel; Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Villanueva Orbaiz, María Luisa; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Gobierno de Navarra / Nafarroako Gobernua: 228/2008
Since the advent and rapid diffusion of the Internet, the subject of consumer channel choice has attracted a large amount of research, mainly focused on the influence of channel, consumer and product category characteristics as its drivers. The interaction between channel choice and the purchase situation has been largely ignored, however. This paper is an attempt to fill this gap by identifying the key purchase situation variables and conducting an experiment to assess their impact on the choice between the traditional retail outlet and the online store. The results show that the key determinants of channel choice relate to time and distance. Distance-to-store and time pressures are among the factors affecting the probability of online purchase. Using a conceptual framework to explore differences in the impact of situational variables across product categories (high/low involvement, search/experience good), we show that distance-to-store has more influence on the likelihood of online purchase in situations involving search goods, while social variables are found to play a role only in the context of high-involvement goods.
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The impact of market environments on marketing relationships
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2014) Betancourt, Roger R.; Chocarro Eguaras, Raquel; Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Elorz Domezain, Margarita; Múgica Grijalba, José Miguel; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
This paper addresses two issues empirically that have been somewhat neglected in the marketing literature. The first one is whether or not basic marketing relationships at the establishment level are robust or stable to the realization of major events that change the market environm ent. The second one is whether after these events take place the marketing relationships for new establishments are the same or different from those of existing establishments. What allows us to address these issues is a combination of factors af fecting the operation of gas stations in Pamplona, Spain. We conducted a survey of gas stations in 1998 when prices of gasoline products were fixed by the government and a similar survey in 2007 when gas retail prices were set by market participant. This major change in market environment was the result of a price liberalization law. A comparison of the same establishments in the two surveys allows us to address the first issue identified above. A comparison of new establishments and existing ones in the most recent survey allows us to addr ess the second issue identified above. Briefly put, customer satisfaction and its determinants prove to have a robust, stable relationship with respect to the changed market environment during this nine year period. On the other hand, some aspects of the relation between future patronage intentions and its determinants are subs tantially altered by the changed market environment. The aspects that remain the same in both comparisons are, thus, geographically as well as inter-temporally stable. Those that change often can be associated with specific changes in the nature of the market for gas stations in Pamplona during this nine year period.
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Los canales de distribución en Navarra: estructuras, relaciones y mecanismos de comunicación
(Gobierno de Navarra, Departamento de Economía y Hacienda, 2002) Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Elorz Domezain, Margarita; Goñi García, Pablo; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
El objetivo de este trabajo es ampliar, desde una perspectiva descriptiva, el conocimiento sobre el funcionamiento de los canales de distribución en Navarra en distintos sectores de actividad. Los aspectos que vamos a analizar son tres: 1. El tipo de estructura de canales de distribución más frecuente (número de intermediarios, tipo de intermediarios). 2. El tipo de relaciones con los clientes que se mantienen: relaciones estables frente a relaciones de compraventa puntuales y la influencia de la estructura del canal en estas relaciones. 3. Los mecanismos de comunicación entre miembros de estos canales. Para analizar estos aspectos, se va a utilizar una base de datos sobre los canales de distribución utilizados por empresas fabricantes navarras de cada uno de los sectores que componen las Tablas Input-Output. La tabla de datos, obtenida en colaboración con el Instituto de Estadística de Navarra, recoge información sobre la situación de 200 empresas en el año 1999. De acuerdo con estos datos, se va a analizar la influencia que en los tres aspectos anteriormente citados tienen variables como tipo de bien producido, destino final de los productos, cifra de ventas, número de productos fabricados, etc. Con este análisis se pretende contribuir a la comprensión, por un lado, del funcionamiento de los canales de distribución en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra, determinando los factores que inciden en la mayor o menor importancia del sector comercial y, por otro lado, del posible efecto de las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación sobre el tipo de relaciones que se establecen en estos canales de distribución. Los resultados del trabajo se estructuran, en primer lugar, en un apartado en el que se describe la longitud de los canales de distribución empleados por las empresas navarras de los distintos sectores industriales y la posible relación que guarda esta longitud con distintos factores que describen a las empresas fabricantes. En segundo lugar, se plantea el tipo de relaciones que se da entre los integrantes de los canales de distribución en Navarra, así como los factores que explican el grado de intensidad de la relación. Por último, se expone la implantación de las diferentes tecnologías de la comunicación en las empresas navarras y algunos de los factores que pueden incidir en la adopción de nuevos mecanismos de comunicación.
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Impact of process and outcome quality on intention for continued use of voice assistants
(Emerald, 2023) Saavedra Montejo, Álvaro; Chocarro Eguaras, Raquel; Cortiñas Ugalde, Mónica; Rubio, Natalia; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
Objetivo: Este artículo tiene como objetivo entender cómo la utilidad percibida de los Asistentes de Voz (AV) se ve afectada por la calidad percibida del proceso (interacción) y el resultado (información). Asimismo, busca determinar hasta qué punto la utilidad percibida de los AVs mejora la privacidad percibida asociada con su uso y, consecuentemente, la intención de los usuarios de seguir utilizándolos. La innovación tecnológica se incluye como moderador personal para comparar los resultados entre innovadores tecnológicos y no tecnológicos. Para este propósito, utilizamos la Teoría de Usos y Gratificaciones (U>). Diseño Se realizó una encuesta a 467 usuarios de AVs, y se utilizó la modelización de ecuaciones estructurales (SEM) para analizar los datos. Resultados La calidad del proceso y la calidad del resultado son antecedentes claros de la utilidad percibida de los AVs, que afecta a la intención de los usuarios de seguir usándolos. La influencia de ambos factores difiere entre usuarios según su nivel de innovación tecnológica. Los resultados muestran que los innovadores tecnológicos valoran más la experiencia interactiva y la calidad del proceso, mientras que los no innovadores tecnológicos se enfocan en obtener respuestas satisfactorias de los AVs. Además, la influencia positiva de la utilidad percibida en la privacidad percibida es más pronunciada en los innovadores tecnológicos. Originalidad Este estudio enriquece la literatura sobre la utilidad percibida de los AVs dentro del marco de la U>. Identifica dos factores previos (calidad del proceso y calidad del resultado) de la utilidad percibida y observa diferencias significativas basadas en la innovación tecnológica.