... Fashion retail metaverse Internet marketing Purchase intention Self-efficacy Social networks Young consumers In 1992, Neal Stephenson, the famous American science fiction writer, introduced the concept of the metaverse in his book “Snow Crash” (Stevenson, 1994). However, it recently gained...

... evolutionary patterns of teams' membership, TSC, and effectiveness. team social capital Effectiveness Fitness Evolution Social networks Gaming clans As technology has become a more integral part of daily life, virtual teams have attracted increasing research attention. Virtual teams allow us...

... around the peak. Crane and Sornette (2008) classify social networks according to the susceptibility of the system. Social networks act as the crucial channel to transmit social influence. If the social network is easy to be activated, it is critical; otherwise, it is subcritical. Their findings from...

.../methodology/approach The approach used is a design model for concluded campaigns in a Mexican crowdfunding platform, which determines social capital from operating social networks (Facebook and Twitter). By using this model, the associations between the dimensions are revealed, verifying how social capital...

... provide a better understanding of FOMO, a psychological factor that significantly contributes to social media fatigue. Privacy Advertising Social networks Attitudes Information processing Media fatigue Casting a cursory glance at today’s society, even the untrained eye can see media...

.... This definition excludes extreme pornographic content and extreme versions of commercial speech, such as ads selling drug paraphernalia. The study relies on a working definition since one of the study’s goals is to understand how individual internet users define the concepts of extreme speech on social networks...

...Jin-Young Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and describe different viewpoints on the use of social networking sites (SNSs). It analyzes perceptional typologies of SNS users and the characteristics of each type, which has similarities and differences. It also examined possible...

... 06 2017 13 06 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social networks Marketing-finance interface Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) Tweets Social media and Web 2.0 applications are fundamentally changing...

...Louis Yi-Shih Lo; Sheng-Wei Lin This study extends prior research on the motives for eWOM dissemination and elaborates an approach to initiate eWOM intention through deal evaluation. Internet marketing Social networks eWOM intention Facebook friend Homophily-driven website Value...

... specifically addressed NPOs’ current use of this platform, and fewer still have analyzed the factors that motivate them to use this tool. Social media Twitter Communication Social networks Non-profit organizations H1. Donor dependence positively influences the development of NPOs...

...Yaniv Gvili; Shalom Levy Practitioners should adjust their eWOM media strategy to their objectives; blogs and social networks are more effective for brand attitude formation, whereas web forums enhance message credibility. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first...

... the cross-cultural effect of brand engagement on social network sites. The third most significant relevant strand in OBC research lead by Leimeister et al. (2006) has focused on building relationships with current and potential consumers to solicit innovative ideas for products or services...

.... The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of work performance containing four dimensions (capacity, opportunities, willingness, and performance) to investigate how the capabilities of social network sites enhance user creative performance through collective social capital and information capital...

...Yean-Fu Wen; Ko-Yu Hung; Yi-Ting Hwang; Yeong-Sung Frank Lin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish a social-network sp.orts lottery system to support users in predicting and simulating sports lottery betting. The community data were generated to support user decision and featured...

... sharing Social networks Social capital Work performance Media synchronicity theory (MST) Social media have revolutionized communication in people’s lives with their explosive growth and widespread application (Chang and Hsiao, 2014). The ubiquity of social media has even penetrated...

...Hong-Youl Ha; Joby John; J. Denise John; Yong-Kyun Chung Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the temporal effects of perceptions of information obtained from social networks (SNS) on online shopping behavior using trust as a mediator. The model adopts the two dimensional view...

... among customer engagement, presumption, and Web 2.0 in a context of service-dominant (S-D) logic; and to identify social networks created by prosumers. To this end, the study employed data mining techniques. Tweets about IKEA were used as a sample. The resulting algorithm based on 300 tweets was applied...

... Facebook Education Social networks Information systems success model Social influence Currently, there are few studies on social networking sites (SNSs) although several studies on this subject have focused on identification, network structures, privacy, electronic commerce...

... sharing web sites. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Web sites Social networks Based on UGT and SCT, the research model and hypotheses were proposed from the perspectives of need, person, and environment to understand the relationships among the impact factors, web site...

..., academic self-efficacy and social networking habits on inconsistent responding was examined. Design/methodology/approach – A gaming application on Facebook was used to collect data. A repeated-measures design was conducted with 806 respondents in two online survey administrations. After inconsistent...