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Cross-industry Collaboration and Word-of-mouth Communication: The Effect of User Experience and Product Innovativeness——Taking Enterprise Collaboration under “Internet Plus” for Example

Zhang Qianfan1, Wang Chengjue2, Zhang Yajun3   

  1. 1. School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074;
    2. School of Business, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093;
    3. School of Business Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang 550025
  • Received:2016-05-10 Online:2018-09-28 Published:2018-09-29

Abstract:

This paper aims to investigate the mechanism of how cross-industry collaboration influences customers' intentions of word-of-mouth communication, focusing on the mediating effect of user experience and the moderating effect of product innovativeness. Empirical research shows that there is an inverted U shape relationship between cross-industry collaboration and customers' intentions of word-of-mouth communication; user experience plays a totally mediating role in the relationships between cross-industry collaboration and customers' intentions of word-of-mouth communication; and product innovativeness positively moderates the relationships between cross-industry collaboration and customers' intentions of word-of-mouth communication, that is, the higher the product innovativeness is, the stronger the positive relationship between cross-industry collaboration and customers' intentions of word-of-mouth communication and the later the occurrence time of diminishing effect would be.

Key words: word-of-mouth communication, cross-industry collaboration, user experience, product innovativeness, internet plus