This study is expected to change the perception of coupon users as the shopping environment changes, such as O2O service. To this end, we will examine the types of coupon value in O2O service, and examine the impact of the value type on wise consumer ...
This study is expected to change the perception of coupon users as the shopping environment changes, such as O2O service. To this end, we will examine the types of coupon value in O2O service, and examine the impact of the value type on wise consumer perception and tight consumer perception. Existing coupon studies suggest that when consumers decide whether to use coupons, there is a conflict between economic and psychological benefits and social costs. This is because consumers experience economic benefits through price discounts and the psychological satisfaction of being a smart consumer, but also experience the social cost of being economically stingy consumers of trying to save as much as the par value of the coupon when presenting a coupon. However, in the O2O service situation, economic and psychological benefits will be perceived higher than those of existing offline coupons, and social costs of worrying about being viewed negatively by others will be relatively reduced.
On the other hand, in mobile shopping, consumers can gain shopping efficiency by further reducing the cost of searching for product information. That is, since O2O service users can quickly search and share product reviews at the time of purchase, product reviews play an important role in evaluating service alternatives.
Therefore, even if the coupon's par value is low, O2O users have low search costs, so the positive economic benefits of the existing coupons and the psychological satisfaction of being a smart consumer will play a decisive factor in choosing a service provider. On the contrary, due to the nature of sharing consumption experiences with others, it is believed that the social cost of being economically stingy consumers will not be incurred.
Previous studies suggest that collecting coupons will benefit psychologically. This study proposes that coupons obtained as compensation for product reviews requested by service providers in O2O service can perceive social benefits as well as psychological benefits, and discuss this through empirical verification. In other words, it is believed that users will perceive social benefits as they create content called product use reviews and expect such content to be read by a large number of others. On the other hand, O2O service providers ask users for consumption experiences such as product reviews and offer discount coupons as compensation. This is an effort to intentionally generate the positive effects of mobile word of mouth, and users spend time and effort writing product reviews in exchange for rewards for obtaining coupons. It is believed that users' perceptions of economic and psychological values for coupons obtained as rewards for writing such product reviews will also change.
Compared to offline coupons, I would like to suggest that the value of O2O coupons can have a greater impact on satisfaction. Therefore, this study examines the economic and psychological benefits and social costs, which are coupon values of O2O users, by comparing them with offline coupon values.