英文摘要 |
The advancement and popularization of information and communications technology has made traditional industry business models face unprecedented challenges. This research mainly explores: how auto parts brand company can utilize social influence mechanisms to persuade the automotive aftermarket channel members, including parts dealers and service workshops, to adopt Internet marketing strategies and satisfy the needs of today's customers who tend to obtain diversified products and services through multiple channels. From the perspective of marketing strategy, this strategic change is the basis of long-term competitive advantage. Based on Social Influence Theory and the concept of Change Readiness, this research proposes a new integrated theoretical framework and indepth exploration on the influence process of auto parts company towards the automotive aftermarket channel members to adopt Internet marketing strategy. This research combines qualitative and quantitative empirical research methods, and cooperates with a well-known auto parts brand manufacturer to verify the theoretical model of this research. The empirical results indicate that the effective social influence mechanisms of auto parts company, including social compliance, social identification, and social internalization, will enhance the ''perceived change appropriateness'' and ''perceived change efficacy'' of automotive aftermarket channel members, and lead to their intention and adoption of Internet marketing strategy. Finally, this research explores the moderating effect of ''technology readiness''. The result shows that the individuals with optimism bias towards Internet technology tend to overestimate their actual performance in adopting Internet marketing strategies. In addition to deepening the research on social influence and social marketing, the results of this research also provide managers with suggestions on management practices on the integration of online and offline marketing. |