In this article, the authors investigate consumers' consideration of media channels during different usage situations. They develop a model that explains consumers' media channel consideration as a function of the media channel's perceived benefits. In addition, they hypothesize that the usage...

This study addresses the process by which differences in web site benefit salience arise in consumers' minds for different anticipated usage situations. We investigate two routes by which situation may determine consumer benefit salience and find support for both route structures. The results...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine communication channels for in‐home service provision. In particular, it aims to focus on the joint effect of two converging trends: the increase of in‐home services involving high degrees of customer participation;and the extension of the number of...