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Chapter 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3430-7.ch014
ABSTRACT
This research-based chapter investigates the impact of social media marketing on consumers’ online
purchase intention in the context of luxury brands. Against the theory of planned behavior, theory of
reasoned action, and social exchange theory, a conceptual framework was constructed with social
media marketing as an independent variable, luxury perception as mediator, and online purchase inten-
tion as the dependent variable. This study employed an explanatory research and quantitative method.
Empirical data was collected using self-administered online questionnaire and data was collected from
sample of 211 Malaysian online shoppers of luxury brands using snowball sampling. The collected data
was subjected to normality and reliability assessment followed by confrmatory factor analysis (CFA),
validity assessment, and structural equation modelling (SEM) using AMOS 24. Findings suggests that
social media marketing positively infuences online purchase intention, and luxury brand perception
mediates this relationship.
The Effect of Social Media
Marketing on Luxury Brand
Purchase Intention
Wenyi Leong
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Omkar Dastane
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9921-859X
UCSI Graduate Business School, UCSI University, Malaysia
Herman Fassou Haba
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada