Research on the Impact of Multi-channel Integration Quality on Customers’ Engagement Behavior

Abstract

In the face of increasingly fierce market competition, many new retailers adopt online and offline multi-channel integration to enhance their attractiveness and competitiveness, and customer engagement behavior not only provides a new way of marketing management for new retailers, but also contributes to the increase of actual performance level. To elucidate the mechanism of the multi-channel integration quality of new retail companies on customer engagement behavior, a pioneering model was constructed by introducing product involvement as a mediating variable and regulatory orientation (promotion orientation and defense orientation) as a moderating variable. 510 consumers with shopping experience in the same new retail company were selected for the empirical study. The findings of the study are as follows: the multi-channel integration quality (transparency of service construction, freedom of channel choice, process consistency and information consistency) significantly affects customer engagement behavior; new retail companies should enhance product involvement by improving the attractiveness of the product itself, so that consumers can enhance product involvement and thus influence customer engagement behavior; compared with defense orientation consumers, product involvement has a more significant positive impact on promotion-oriented consumers and is more likely to lead to customer engagement behavior. The above findings imply rich managerial insights that new retailers in different categories can further enhance their competitiveness by improving the multi-channel integration quality and thus influencing customer engagement behavior.