Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate the impact of social media influencers (SMI) on Taiwanese customers' intent to buy, using sequential mediating effects of parasocial interaction, perceived value, and brand image. Research Design & Methods: The study focused on Taiwan and...

The study investigated the impact of social media marketing activities on green consumption intention. The study used the survey method to describe this impact in five countries (Brazil, Egypt, India, South Africa, and Turkey). The analysis was applied to the leading platforms of electric car...

Pharmaceutical companies have been forced to change their approach to selling over-the-counter medicines (OTC) because of increased pressure on sales margins. The development of Web 2.0, Web 3.0, and social media technologies allow low-cost online marketing, including e-commerce. An...

Facebook with the largest group of daily active user on social network was the largest subset of digital divide. Facebook native were user who joined Facebook as student, and Facebook immigrant were those who joined Facebook in later days after school. The two groups of people who were opt-in...

Social media usage in the world and especially in Pakistan has a high growth due to which it (social media) has a potential of becoming an effective marketing tool. Despite its comparatively low cost and significance, marketers are not effectively utilizing social media. Thus the aim of this...

The purpose of this paper is to identity the consumer-based antecedents of online Consumer Engagement Behavior (online-CEB). CEB refers to non-transactional behavior focusing on brands, products or firms, with a direct or indirect impact on firm performance. In an interconnected world,...

With the proliferation of social media, questions have begun to emerge about its role in providing marketing insights. In this research, we investigate the potential to “listen in” on social media conversations as a means of inferring brand sentiment. Our analysis employs data collected from...

Models of distance education have evolved over decades, just in time to collide with modern pedagogies in which communication, interaction, student engagement, and active learning are of critical importance. The social media technologies encompass a wide variety of Web-based technologies such as...

The purpose of this study was to determine the motives, the brakes and the ways of using Social Networking Sites (SNS) based on dimensional models that describe national cultural values explaining and predicting behavior. The study used a qualitative method, we conducted face-to-face in-depth...

Social media marketing strategies have transformed how organizations interact with their audiences and customers. Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are being utilized for communications by nearly every organization. This study looks at how educational organizations who provide...