The aim of this study is to examine the role of hedonic value (HV), utilitarian value (UV), and customer satisfaction (CS) in individuals' willingness to pay a price premium (WTP a price premium) and repurchase intention (RI) to smartwatches. This study is unique and important as it only deals with smartwatches, unlike other studies on wearable technology products that often focus on the general situation. The research sample includes smartwatch users aged 18 years and above. An online survey was used to collect research data from 420 people identified using the convenience sampling method. After checking the missing values, 401 valid surveys were retained for further analysis. Hypotheses were analysed using the Structural Equation Modelling. The research findings revealed strong relationships between HV and UV and CS. HV and UV were found to positively affect the CS. The results showed that CS also had a positive influence on both WTP a price premium and RI.

This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the factors that influence consumers' brand loyalty to smartphone brands. The main aim of the study is to analyze the relationship between hedonic value, utilitarian value, brand passion, and brand loyalty based on consumers' loyalty at the smartphones market. Accordingly, the study focuses on brand loyalty as a consequence of brand passion and reveals it in a holistic framework as it emphasizes the direct relationship between the two variables. In this context, this study is different from others in literature in a way that it focuses on smartphones, which are at the upper ranks of the technological product category. The fact that this study only deals with mobile phones makes it different and essential as studies on electronic and technological products often focus on the general situation. Researchers used positivist research as a quantitative research design in this study, which deals with factors that influence brand loyalty to smartphone brands. The study universe involves 18-year-old and older consumers with a purchase capacity. In this context, the study sample comprises smartphone users at or over the age of 18. The conceptual model and associated hypotheses are tested with a sample of 330 consumers. Researchers collected the study data with a convenience sampling method with the help of an online survey. In the study, data were analyzed through structural equation modelling. The results demonstrate strong relationships between the two antecedents (hedonic value and utilitarian value) and brand passion and between brand passion and its consequence (brand loyalty). Study results indicate that hedonic value (β=0,506; p<0,001) and utilitarian value (β=0,202; p<0,001) have a positive influence on brand passion. Study results also show that brand passion (β=0,683; p<0,001) has a positive influence on brand loyalty. On the other hand, the study also reveals that brand passion mediates the relationship between hedonic and utilitarian value and brand loyalty. Study results point out that hedonic value, utilitarian value, and brand passion have a positive influence on the development of consumers' loyalty to smartphone brands. Keywords brand loyalty, brand passion, hedonic value, smartphone, utilitarian value

This study focuses on purchase intention and willingness to pay based on consumer innovativeness, novelty seeking, and trustworthiness. In the study, the authors revealed the above in a holistic framework by emphasizing the direct relationships among the five variables. As this study focuses on consumers seeking novelty for cosmetics and personal care products in a constantly developing and growing sector, the study is different from the others and deemed necessary. This study seeks to examine the effect of consumer innovativeness, novelty seeking, and trustworthiness on purchase intention and willingness to pay for cosmetics and personal care products. It is quantitative research. The sample of the study consists of consumers aged 18 and over. The data of the study were collected from 407 people selected by convenience sampling via an online questionnaire. In the study, hypotheses were developed based on the conceptual framework and were tested via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results of the study showed that consumer innovativeness had a positive effect on both purchase intention (β= 0.154; p <0.05) and willingness to pay (β = 0.317; p <0.05). While it was found that Novelty seeking had a positive effect on purchase intention (β = 0.312; p <0.05), it did not yield a statistically significant effect on willingness to pay (β = 0.018; p> 0.05). The results also indicated that trustworthiness had a positive effect on both purchase intention (β = 0.427; p <0.05) and willingness to pay (β = 0.410; p <0.05). The structural equation model employed in the study explains 55% of the variance in consumers' purchase intention and 39% of the variance in willingness to share, respectively. The research results revealed that consumer innovativeness, novelty seeking, and trustworthiness are among the important determinants of purchase intention for cosmetics and personal care products and that consumer innovativeness and trustworthiness are influential on the formation of willingness to pay for these products.

Tüketicilerin bilgisayar teknolojilerini kullanmaya yönelten unsurların belirlenmesi ve bu unsurların bir davranış modeli temelinde açıklanması önem arz etmektedir. Bu bağlamda bu araştırmada, bilgisayar teknolojileri tüketicisi olan mali müşavir ve muhasebe ofis elemanlarının kullandıkları muhasebe programlarını değiştirme niyetleri Teknoloji Kabul Modeli (TKM) temelinde incelenmiştir. Bu araştırmada, kullanılan muhasebe programının değiştirme niyetinin oluşumunda tutumun etkisi temel alınmış, buradan hareketle öncelikle kullanılan muhasebe programına yönelik tutum üzerinde etkili olan değişkenlerden algılanan değer, algılanan kullanım kolaylığı ve algılanan yarar incelenmiştir. Araştırma, nicel araştırma tasarımına uygun olarak dizayn edilmiş ve araştırmanın verileri online anket aracılığıyla kolayda örnekleme yöntemi benimsenerek Sakarya'daki mali müşavir ve muhasebe ofis elemanlarından toplanmıştır. Örneklemin özelliklerini sağlayan katılımcılara gönderilen online anketlerden eksik ve hatalı olanlar çıkarıldıktan sonra 293 katılımcının cevapları analiz edilmiştir.