• DocumentCode
    2545410
  • Title

    Driving effect on price variety from involvement degree and price perception experience

  • Author

    Chang, Xue

  • Author_Institution
    Int. Econ. & Trade, Shandong Univ. of Finance, Jinan, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    21-23 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    2091
  • Lastpage
    2094
  • Abstract
    Consumer price behavior is the practical origin of price variety. Consumer price overall perception can be jointly expressed by price cheapness, price fairness and price variety. Price variety is an important dimension of price evaluation, and consumer´s involvement degree and price perception experience as price environmental factor can affect price evaluation. In order to explore the relationship between price behavior and price evaluation, this research examines the influential characteristics on price variety evaluation from involvement degree and perception experience, which chooses consumer price behavior in using mobile phone as testing object. Result shows that involvement degree positively impacts price variety, whereas price perception experience negatively influences price variety. This contribution brings theoretical researcher and practitioner from qualitative perception of consumer price behavior character up to quantitative evaluation and managerial level.
  • Keywords
    consumer behaviour; pricing; consumer price behavior; price perception; price variety; Cognition; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Environmental factors; Finance; Humans; Mobile handsets; Pricing; Quality management; Testing; Involvement Degree; Mental Accounting; Perception Experience; Price Variety;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2009. IE&EM '09. 16th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3671-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3672-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIEEM.2009.5344246
  • Filename
    5344246