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Facebook is one of major social networking sites that can create an interpersonal communication platform which exchange experiences and interact with others easily. In recent years, Facebook becomes a new channel to touch customers, and group-buying exploits its’ interface to offer products and services. The issues with the interactions between customers and group-buying sites that creating value in Facebook are worth and interesting. This study tries to examine the context of causal relationship for group-buying sites’ value (technology value, content value, and social value), customer satisfaction, commitment, stickiness, and purchase intention through literature review, and then provides the relevant hypotheses as the basis of empirical research through a questionnaire survey. Structure equation modeling (SEM) will be applied to examine the correlations among group-buying sites’ value, customer satisfaction, commitment, stickiness, and purchase intention. 395 questionnaires are collected from the main purchasers of group-buying communities in Facebook. Based on 211 effective questionnaires with a valid response rate of 53.41%, the results show that: 1. group-buying sites’ value positively affects customer satisfaction; 2. group-buying sites’ value doesn’t positively affect commitment; 3. customer satisfaction positively affects commitment; 4. customer satisfaction positively affects purchase intention; 5. customer satisfaction positively affects stickiness; 6. commitment positively affects stickiness; 7. commitment positively affects purchase intention. Generally, content value can reflect effects of group-buying sites’ value. Group-buying sites should transform technology value and social value into a configuration of value activities. Moreover, rapid response and problem saving can increase intensity of customer satisfaction to keep customer stickiness and purchase intention. Further, focusing on customer needs or giving an impetus to community management and customization services could increase the effects of commitment to develop high quality relationships on group-buying sites.
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