2011
DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2011010103
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Adoption of Social Media by Online Retailers

Abstract: In the online environment, the absence of social presence may prevent consumers from purchasing online, while it can enhance their trust, loyalty and enjoyment toward the e-retailer. Thus, today many online retailers try to create social presence by adopting media-rich technologies. In this paper, the authors assess to what degree social media cues are currently adopted by thriving web-vendors and on that basis speculate about future developments. To this purpose, 210 top B2C e-commerce websites have been cont… Show more

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“…A positive relationship exists between social influence and consumer trust in online purchasing intention [59]. Social influence is a vital factor that determines consumer behavior in social networking sites [40].…”
Section: Social Influencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…A positive relationship exists between social influence and consumer trust in online purchasing intention [59]. Social influence is a vital factor that determines consumer behavior in social networking sites [40].…”
Section: Social Influencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Due to these implications, and a lack of real social interaction, it has been reported that a significant number of transactions fall through due to negative customer satisfaction [55,56]. Additionally, due to COVID-19, customers are now frightened or prefer not to go into physical stores [57,58].…”
Section: Customer Satisfaction In Online Commercementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, the use of recommender systems is essential for the service providers and not only the users (Polatidis & Georgiadis, 2013;Karimov & Brengman, 2011). The reasons that e-businesses use such systems are (Polatidis & Georgiadis, 2013):…”
Section: The Importance Of Recommender Systems For E-businessesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Studies by Karimov (Karimov & Brengman, 2011) recommender systems can bring gain to an e-business. However the same scholar found that only 1.4% of 210 top revenue websites used recommender systems, which is disappointing.…”
Section: The Importance Of Recommender Systems For E-businessesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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