...Qing Huang; Xiaoling Li; Dianwen Wang Purpose Previous studies on social influence and virtual product adoption have mainly taken users’ purchase behavior as a dichotomous variable (i.e. purchasing or not). Given the prevalence of competing versions (basic vs upgraded) of a virtual product...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Helpfulness ratio Helpfulness magnitude Trust Helpfulness voting system Social influence Opinion evaluation takes place in widely used participatory platforms, ranging from social media sites to third-party review websites (e.g. Yelp.com...

...Cheng-Jun Wang; Jonathan J.H. Zhu There exists a bell-shaped relationship between social influence and diffusion size. However, the large network threshold, limited diffusion depth and intense bursts become the bottlenecks that constrain the diffusion size. The practice of viral...

.... Browsing demonstrates a stronger effect on urge to buy impulsively for consumers with high impulsiveness. Originality/value This study is one of the early studies to investigate the relationship between social influence (e.g. influence of online reviews) and impulse buying. It draws upon...

... the impact mechanism of psychological motivations, social influence and institutional influence on individuals’ continuance intention of MOOCs, and further, to explore if there exist behavioral differences between males and females. Although MOOCs have obtained rapid development over the past three...

... of the movie, and this effect is greater in the early stage of a movie release than in the later stage. Research limitations/implications This study analyzes, from electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) and social influence perspectives, the effects of video-sharing activities on social media and their impact...

... among the competing models. Originality/value – Drawing on ECM, this research proposes a model by incorporating three online group-buying characteristics (perceived price advantage, perceived reputation and perceived web site quality) and two social influence factors (subjective norm and perceived...

...Christy Cheung; Zach W. Y. Lee; Tommy K. H. Chan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative impacts of perceived cost, perceived benefits, and social influence on self-disclosure behaviors in social networking sites under an integrated theoretical framework. Design...

...Chih-Hung Wu; Shih-Chih Chen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise a framework that integrates information quality, system quality, function quality, and social influence based on the information system (IS) success model, to explore the relationship among these factors, which...

...) and mobile value (utilitarian and hedonic value), and social influence (social norms and number of peers) to examine factors affecting user intention toward mobile social networking sites (SNSs). Design/methodology/approach – The proposed model was empirically evaluated using survey data collected from...

... cultural offerings by drawing upon associative learning theory and social influence theory. Design/methodology/approach – This study used a 2 (cultural offerings: elite vs mass)×2 (commentators: professional vs consumer) between-participants factorial design to examine the proposed hypotheses...

...June Lu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report a study investigating the impact of personal innovativeness in information technology (PIIT) and social influence on user continuance intention toward mobile commerce (m-commerce) in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – A survey...