E-commerce Informational Incentives,Perceived Unethical Promotion, and Customer Trust
(1.China University of Mining &Technology, Xuzhou,Jiangsu221116,China;2.Tongling Polytechnic,Tongling, Anhui244061,China) Abstract:In recent years,the promotion of e- commerce is in full swing,and various of short- term informational incentives have achieved some effects in improving the popularity and utilization rate. In order to test the long- term effects of unified planning e-commerce promotion activities on customer trust,Tmall consumers are selected as research objects,and 654 questionnaires are tested by SEM. The research results show that both promotional information and review information have a positive effect on customer trust;online review incentive has a significantly negative effect on perceived unethical promotion,but the promotional information is not significant;perceived unethical promotion has a significantly negative impact on customer trust;and perceived unethical promotion plays a partial mediating effects between informational incentives and customer trust. Accordingly,ecommerce ventures can continue to optimize information incentive strategies to avoid abuse of price promotion, accelerate the brand building of e- commerce promotion activities,improve the identification of promotion activities,avoid a flash in the promotion campaign,use online review system to improve the construction of virtual community,strengthen communication with internet consumers,and continuously deliver utilitarian and hedonic values to customers.
Key words:informational incentives;perceived unethical promotion;customer trust;e-commerce ventures;mediating effects