Is corporate blogging a good way to spread word-of-mouth? The role of the information source and comments of others on consumers' attitudes and word-of-mouth intentions

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Francois Belisle ◽  
Sylvain Senecal ◽  
Lionel Bohbot
Keyword(s):  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Information Source

Conflicting Electronic Word-of-Mouth :The Role of Subsequent Message Exposure

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
송지희 ◽  
Feisal Murshed ◽  
Judy Harris
Keyword(s):  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Electronic Word Of Mouth

EXPRESS: Religious Belief, Religious Priming, and Negative Word-of-Mouth in Everyday Service Failure Encounters

2021 ◽  
pp. 002224372110111
Author(s):  
Riza Casidy ◽  
Adam Duhachek ◽  
Vishal Singh ◽  
Ali Tamaddoni
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Service Failure ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Negative Word ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Fairness Norms ◽  
Strategic Variable

This research examines the effects of religious belief and religious priming on negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) behavior. Drawing on social exchange and norm paradigms, we theorize and find evidence of the unique effects of religious belief and religious priming on NWOM in everyday service failure encounters. Specifically, we find that religious belief is associated with higher NWOM, driven by a greater sensitivity to violations of fairness norms, which in turn reduces forgiveness. However, exposure to religious priming attenuates NWOM among more religious consumers by reducing sensitivity to violations of fairness norms, which in turn enhances forgiveness. A field study involving over 1.2 million online reviews of actual restaurant experiences, in addition to four lab studies, provides support for our theorized effects. Our study sheds light on the religion–forgiveness discrepancy by establishing the mediating role of sensitivity to fairness violations on the relationship between religion and forgiveness in the NWOM context. Further, our results demonstrate the importance of religion as a strategic variable in the management of service failure experiences, providing theoretical implications for the literature on the effects of religion on consumer behavior.

Impact of word-of-mouth, job attributes and relationship strength on employer attractiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 721-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faiz Ahamad
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Differential Impact ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Job Attributes ◽  
Relationship Strength ◽  
Job Information ◽  
Employer Attractiveness ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Job information through word-of-mouth (WOM) has a crucial impact on employer attractiveness. The phenomenal rise of social media offers alternate WOM platforms for sharing job information, which is quite different from traditional face-to-face WOM. The purpose of this paper is to examine the differential impact of traditional word-of-mouth (t-WOM) and social media word-of-mouth (s-WOM) on employer attractiveness along with the difference in the job attributes and relationship strength with the information source. Design/methodology/approach A 2 × 2 × 2 experiment was conducted to examine the impact of information source (t-WOM and s-WOM), job attributes (tangible and intangible) and relationship strength (strong and weak), on employer attractiveness. Source expertise and source trust were treated as the control variable. Findings The result shows the differential impact of t-WOM and s-WOM on employer attractiveness. Moreover, t-WOM from strong relation source found to have a high impact on employer attractiveness than s-WOM. No significant difference due to job attributes was found. Research limitations/implications Use of only positive WOM and not the negative one, student as the subjects, etc. Practical implications The present study suggests using t-WOM and s-WOM to attract talented job seekers. Originality/value This is the first study to analyze the differential impact of t-WOM and s-WOM on employer attractiveness.

scholarly journals Activity in the brain’s valuation and mentalizing networks is associated with propagation of online recommendations

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa C. Baek ◽  
Matthew Brook O’Donnell ◽  
Christin Scholz ◽  
Rui Pei ◽  
Javier O. Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Opinion Change ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Mentalizing System

AbstractWord of mouth recommendations influence a wide range of choices and behaviors. What takes place in the mind of recommendation receivers that determines whether they will be successfully influenced? Prior work suggests that brain systems implicated in assessing the value of stimuli (i.e., subjective valuation) and understanding others’ mental states (i.e., mentalizing) play key roles. The current study used neuroimaging and natural language classifiers to extend these findings in a naturalistic context and tested the extent to which the two systems work together or independently in responding to social influence. First, we show that in response to text-based social media recommendations, activity in both the brain’s valuation system and mentalizing system was associated with greater likelihood of opinion change. Second, participants were more likely to update their opinions in response to negative, compared to positive, recommendations, with activity in the mentalizing system scaling with the negativity of the recommendations. Third, decreased functional connectivity between valuation and mentalizing systems was associated with opinion change. Results highlight the role of brain regions involved in mentalizing and positive valuation in recommendation propagation, and further show that mentalizing may be particularly key in processing negative recommendations, whereas the valuation system is relevant in evaluating both positive and negative recommendations.

FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MENDORONG PERILAKU GETOK TULAR DI MEDIA SOSIAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Pramatatya Resindra Widya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Repurchase Intentions ◽  
Customer Involvement ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Simple Regression Analysis ◽  
Positive Effect

This study aims to examine the role of social media as a means of electronic word of mouth. The variables studied in this study are customer satisfaction and customer involvement as antecedents and repurchase intentions as a consequence variable (Consequences). The sample in this study amounted to 206 respondents spread in Yogyakarta, Central Java, West Java, East Java, Bali, and Ambon with surveys conducted in a connected and unrelated. Hypothesis testing is done by multiple regression analysis and simple regression analysis. The results of this study suggest that in the Indonesian context, customer satisfaction does not affect the act of social media and customer involvement have a positive and significant effect on electronic act of speech through social media. Electronic speech act through social media has a positive effect on repurchase intentions.Keywords: social media, electronic word of mounth, repeat purchase, regression  ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji peran media sosial sebagai sarana getok tular elektronik. Variabel yang diteliti dalam penelitian ini adalah kepuasan pelanggan dan keterlibatan pelanggan sebagai anteseden dan niat membeli kembali sebagai variabel konsekuensi (Konsekuensi). Sampel dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 206 responden yang tersebar di Yogyakarta, Jawa Tengah, Jawa Barat, Jawa Timur, Bali, dan Ambon dengan survei yang dilakukan secara terhubung dan tidak terkait. Pengujian hipotesis dilakukan dengan analisis regresi berganda dan analisis regresi sederhana. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dalam konteks Indonesia, kepuasan pelanggan tidak mempengaruhi tindakan media sosial dan keterlibatan pelanggan memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap tindak tutur elektronik melalui media sosial.Kata Kunci: media sosial, getok tular elektronik, pembelian ulang, regresi

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