Qualidade da informação, desconfiança, risco percebido e intenção de compra no contexto de compras on-line

Abstract

Consumer behavior, facing the new options that the internet and online channels offer, has changed the way consumers act and search for the best purchase option. Therefore, the understanding of the antecedents or determinant factors of customers’ purchase intention is necessary, what is opportune to be studied in the online purchase context, since such context is disseminating among customers. Therein, from this research, a Theoretical Model has been elaborated and tested, considering the constructs Information Quality, Distrust and Perceived Risk as antecedents of Purchase Intention, aiming at analyzing the relation among these constructs in the online purchase context. Continuing the study, a quantitative research was performed, by means of the application of a survey. Multivariate statistics technics were applied for data analyses, including Structural Equation Modeling, to test and analyze the proposed research hypotheses. The results showed that information quality positively influences distrust in the website; distrust negatively influences perceived risk; information quality positively influences customer purchase intention in the website; and distrust negatively influences customer purchase intention in the website. Therefore, this study contributes with the evolution of the empirically tested concepts, in the sense of a greater individual understanding of each construct presented in the Theoretical Model, as well as the relation among them as determinants of purchase intention, indicating that meaningful relations be found between Information Quality, Distrust and Perceived Risk as determinants of Purchase Intention in the online purchase context, that may impact greater profitability and, consequently, greater competition for online retailers.