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Understanding the Adoption of Incentivized Word-of-Mouth in the Online Environment
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Anastasiei, Bogdan Dospinescu, Nicoleta Dospinescu, Octavian |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Nowadays, word-of-mouth is a very important component of e-commerce activity because consumers are very sensitive to other people’s opinions. Depending on the companies’ politics, these opinions can be incentivized or non-incentivized. One of the major dilemmas consists in establishing which kind of word-of-mouth has more influence on customers’ perceptions. The purpose of this study is to assess the relationships between perceived argument quality (PAQ) and perceived source expertise (PSE), on the one hand, and electronic word-of-mouth adoption intention on the other hand, for an incentivized message compared to a non-incentivized message. We processed answers from two different random groups by using adapted PAQ and PSE inventories of questions. The constructs, latent variables and items were analyzed in IBM Amos software, and our findings confirm the hypotheses regarding the relationship between the attributes of the message (argument quality and source expertise) and message credibility. Additionally, we found a significant positive relationship between message credibility and electronic word-of-mouth adoption intention. Our research also explores the moderating role of the message type (incentivized vs. non-incentivized) in the relationships above, and we discovered that the message type significantly moderates the relationship between perceived argument quality and credibility, but the type of message does not moderate the relationship between message credibility and eWOM adoption intention. |
| e-ISSN | 07181876 |
| DOI | 10.3390/jtaer16040056 |
| Journal | Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 16 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-03-10 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research Information and Library Science Incentivized Word-of-mouth Message Type in E-commerce E-wom Message Credibility |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
