The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of the factors affecting consumer foreign online purchase process when taking country of origin, the company’s website and the company itself into account. Four narrative stories were used to describe consumers’ buying process before the purchase, during the purchase and after the purchase. The results show that the website level and country of origin level played a significant role only during the pre-purchase and purchase phase when the factors included in the company level were not known to the consumer. However, when the consumer was familiarized with factors related to the company level, the website level and country level factors lost significance. The factors concerning the company seemed to be the most important during the majority of the foreign online purchase processes.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-227081 |
Date | January 2014 |
Creators | Sundberg, David, Tomic, Radenko |
Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen |
Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
Format | application/pdf |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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