Happy grocery shopper: The creation of positive emotions through affective digital signage content

Author(s)
Marion Garaus, Udo Wagner, Sandra Manzinger
Abstract

Recent research has identified digital signage (DS) as a promising element for creating atmospheric value. However, extant studies have explored shoppers' reactions to DS showing advertising content in hedonic shopping environments. Considering the potential of utilitarian shopping situations to evoke negative emotions, the current research investigates whether DS positively affects consumers' responses in task-oriented shopping situations. In doing so, it incorporates assumptions from the limited capacity model and resource matching theory into a theoretical framework to explain how task-relevant DS content influences impulse purchases and store loyalty. This relationship is mediated by emotional and cognitive processes. By drawing on findings from prior studies, this research further differentiates the effects of cognitive, affective, and mixed DS content on consumer responses. A field experiment tests the theoretically derived responses. The findings suggest that affective DS content creates positive emotions and increases impulsive purchases and store loyalty.

Organisation(s)
Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy
Journal
Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Volume
124
Pages
295 - 305
No. of pages
11
ISSN
0040-1625
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.09.031
Publication date
11-2017
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
502020 Market research, 502019 Marketing
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Management of Technology and Innovation, Business and International Management, Applied Psychology
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/happy-grocery-shopper-the-creation-of-positive-emotions-through-affective-digital-signage-content(2969af80-7663-448a-b0ec-bd2f19cb4d98).html