To read this content please select one of the options below:

Impulse buying in social commerce: bundle offer, top reviews, and emotional intelligence

Abaid Ullah Zafar (School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China)
Jiangnan Qiu (School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China)
Mohsin Shahzad (School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China)
Jie Shen (Shenzhen-Audencia Business School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China)
Tahseen Ahmed Bhutto (School of Business Administration, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China)
Muhammad Irfan (Department of Business Administration, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan)

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

ISSN: 1355-5855

Article publication date: 23 August 2020

Issue publication date: 18 March 2021

4955

Abstract

Purpose

Considering the rapid adoption of social media among consumers and organizations, this study intends to examine the impact of online bundle promotions and contextual interactions on impulse buying as consumers encounter them synchronously. Hence, a research model is proposed with the integration of perceived transaction value, perceived acquisition values, top reviews information, impulse buying tendency and emotional intelligence following the stimulus-organism-response framework, promotional framing effect, and theory of selective attention.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected from the active social media members of organization pages and selling groups by utilizing the self-administered questionnaire. This study employed the partial least squares structural equation modeling to evaluate the data of 358 individuals.

Findings

Results reveal the positive impact of targeted constructs on the urge to buy impulsively with complementary partial mediation of impulse buying tendency. Besides, emotional intelligence dissuades users' impulse buying tendencies, but unexpectedly, its moderating effect is insignificant. Further, importance-performance map analysis highlights the highest importance of impulse buying tendency and better performance of perceived transaction value for the urge to buy impulsively.

Originality/value

This research is one of the early studies to explore the influence of social media advertising and contextual social factors (e.g. bundle offers and top reviews information) on impulse buying with the moderation of emotional intelligence and mediation of impulse buying tendency. This research is imperative for scholars and managers with pertinent suggestions to arouse impulse buying.

Keywords

Acknowledgements

The work described in this paper has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71573030) & (No. 71533001), the Social Science Planning Fund Program, Liaoning Province (No. L19BGL001), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. DUT20RW207). Further, the authors want to extend their gratitude toward the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their indispensable and valuable suggestions that significantly improved the quality of the manuscript.Conflict of interest: The authors declared that they have no conflict of interest.

Citation

Zafar, A.U., Qiu, J., Shahzad, M., Shen, J., Bhutto, T.A. and Irfan, M. (2021), "Impulse buying in social commerce: bundle offer, top reviews, and emotional intelligence", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol. 33 No. 4, pp. 945-973. https://doi.org/10.1108/APJML-08-2019-0495

Publisher

:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited

Related articles