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Swipe, Shop, Signal: Exploring The Dynamics Of Status-Seeking And Mobile Engagement In The Luxury Market, Aaron C. Lawry, Niland Mortimer Feb 2024

Swipe, Shop, Signal: Exploring The Dynamics Of Status-Seeking And Mobile Engagement In The Luxury Market, Aaron C. Lawry, Niland Mortimer

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

This paper explores the dynamics of luxury mobile experiences and focuses on status-seeking as a key driver of engagement. By synthesizing the luxury research and mobile commerce literature, the authors argue that fashion opinion leaders and younger consumers shown to exhibit status-seeking propensities and demonstrate high involvement with fashion and smartphones, which likely increases their adoption of luxury mobile apps. Therefore, five hypotheses were drawn from Vigneron and Johnson's (1999) prestige-seeking consumer behavior framework to develop a theoretical model and empirically test these assumptions. This model enabled the researchers to conceptualize and investigate the relationships between fashion opinion leadership, age, …


Will The Scarcity Of Ai-Designed Clothing Influence Consumers To Purchase?, Choi Dooyoung, Ha Kyung Lee Jan 2024

Will The Scarcity Of Ai-Designed Clothing Influence Consumers To Purchase?, Choi Dooyoung, Ha Kyung Lee

STEMPS Faculty Publications

This study explores how perceived scarcity of AI-designed clothing influences purchase intention, mediated by perceived monetary value. Fashion involvement's moderating role is also examined. Participants (N = 311), sourced from Amazon Mechanical Turk, watched an AI clothing design video, and evaluated a jacket that is designed by AI. Responses on perceived scarcity, monetary value, purchase intentions, and fashion involvement were collected using Likert scales. Analyzing data with SPSS 28.0 and the PROCESS Macro Model 8 with 5,000 bootstrap samples suggested that although the scarcity of an AI-designed clothing alone may not significantly increase purchase intentions, fashion brands can leverage the …