Determinants of E-WOM Influence: The Role of Consumers’ Internet Experience

Research has widely demonstrated that personal sources of information are more influential than firm-generated sources. The potential impact of others’ opinions has dramatically increased with the development of the Internet. However, very little is known about what makes certain opinions...

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Autores principales: López,Manuela, Sicilia,María
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad de Talca 2014
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-187620140001000042018-10-12Determinants of E-WOM Influence: The Role of Consumers’ Internet ExperienceLópez,ManuelaSicilia,María E-WOM Internet experience Source credibility Valence Volume Research has widely demonstrated that personal sources of information are more influential than firm-generated sources. The potential impact of others’ opinions has dramatically increased with the development of the Internet. However, very little is known about what makes certain opinions more influential than others. The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) influence. We demonstrate that the influence of e-WOM depends on source credibility, valence, and the volume of information obtained from e-WOM. More interestingly, we also find that there exists a quadratic relationship between consumers’ Internet experience and e-WOM influence.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de TalcaJournal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research v.9 n.1 20142014-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-18762014000100004en10.4067/S0718-18762014000100004
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topic E-WOM
Internet experience
Source credibility
Valence
Volume
spellingShingle E-WOM
Internet experience
Source credibility
Valence
Volume
López,Manuela
Sicilia,María
Determinants of E-WOM Influence: The Role of Consumers’ Internet Experience
description Research has widely demonstrated that personal sources of information are more influential than firm-generated sources. The potential impact of others’ opinions has dramatically increased with the development of the Internet. However, very little is known about what makes certain opinions more influential than others. The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) influence. We demonstrate that the influence of e-WOM depends on source credibility, valence, and the volume of information obtained from e-WOM. More interestingly, we also find that there exists a quadratic relationship between consumers’ Internet experience and e-WOM influence.
author López,Manuela
Sicilia,María
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Sicilia,María
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title Determinants of E-WOM Influence: The Role of Consumers’ Internet Experience
title_short Determinants of E-WOM Influence: The Role of Consumers’ Internet Experience
title_full Determinants of E-WOM Influence: The Role of Consumers’ Internet Experience
title_fullStr Determinants of E-WOM Influence: The Role of Consumers’ Internet Experience
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of E-WOM Influence: The Role of Consumers’ Internet Experience
title_sort determinants of e-wom influence: the role of consumers’ internet experience
publisher Universidad de Talca
publishDate 2014
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