“…A thematic approach was utilized to analyze the data because it optimises conceptualization of socially constructed empirical studies (Buzova, Sanz‐Blas, & Cervera‐Taulet, ; Eze, Duan, & Chen, ; Ozuem, Howell, & Lancaster, ; Quach & Thaichon, ). Braun and Clarke (, p. 80) implied that socially constructed experiences go beyond the interviewees' voices, highlighting the inclusion of the researchers' “own theoretical positions and values,” As such, the researchers did not “subscribe to a naïve realist view” (Braun & Clarke, , p. 80); instead, the new knowledge was an aggregate of the researchers' theoretical insight and experiential knowledge of online nWOM.…”