Key values driving continued interaction on brand pages in social media: An examination across genders

Si Shi*, Yang Chen, Wing S. Chow

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    Abstract

    Brand pages in social media provide companies with a competitive marketing tool to create added value for their firms and customers. Past studies suggest that understanding what customers really value in brand pages is the most vital step in promoting their continued interaction, and that the relative impacts of customer values on continued interaction are contingent on individual demographic factors such as gender. However, little research has examined the relationships between customer values and their intention to engage in continued interaction, and how these relationships are moderated by gender, in the context of brand pages. This study identified eight value factors to measure customer values on brand pages, then examined their impacts on customers' continued interaction intention, and studied gender effects on the latter relationship. Our proposed hypotheses are mostly supported by data collected from users of Sina Microblog brand pages and analyzed by partial least squares.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)578-589
    Number of pages12
    JournalComputers in Human Behavior
    Volume62
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2016

    Scopus Subject Areas

    • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • General Psychology

    User-Defined Keywords

    • Brand page
    • Continued interaction
    • Customer value
    • Gender
    • Social media

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