Stosunek konsumentów rynku IT do zależnych i niezależnych internetowych źródeł informacji zakupowej

Consumer behaviour, defined as a set of activities people undertake prior to and while obtaining, consuming, and disposing of products and services is shaped and influenced by a significant number of factors, both external and internal. There is no denying that information should be considered as one of the most important of these determinants, since it enables consumers to build and evaluate a set of alternatives and, as a consequence, make a more or less rational decision. This article, based on a survey of polish IT market consumers’, discusses buyers’ perception of different, available forms of information, their willingness to include those forms in decision making processes as well as consumers’ criteria for evaluating their usefulness. Additionally, aforementioned variables were employed in an attempt to reveal, using cluster analysis, similarities between different categories of consumers in terms of their approach to information sources and gathering.