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What makes consumers purchase apparel products through social shopping services that social media fashion influencers have worn?

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  • Shin, Eonyou
  • Lee, Jung Eun

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Given the huge success of fashion influencer marketing in the social media context, it is important to understand which image components of social media fashion influencers (SMFI) are effective in the new fashion adoption process when using a social shopping service such as LIKEtoKNOW.it. Using a 2 × 2 between-subject design in two studies, we investigatedthe joint effects of apparel product type (novel vs. familiar) and the degree of the SMFIs'high socioeconomic status (HSS) (moderately vs. extremely) on consumers' intentional mimicry consumption process from the curiosity perspective. The results showed that for SMFIs with moderately HSS, consumers' curiosity was higher for novel than familiar fashion products. In contrast, for SMFIs with extremely HSS, consumers had a similarly high level of curiosity for both novel and familiar products. Further, product curiosity was positively related to purchase intentions and intentions to use the social shopping service.

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  • Shin, Eonyou & Lee, Jung Eun, 2021. "What makes consumers purchase apparel products through social shopping services that social media fashion influencers have worn?," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 132(C), pages 416-428.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:132:y:2021:i:c:p:416-428
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.04.022
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