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Consumer Adoption of Internet of Things
ABSTRACT The Internet of Things (IoT), a pivotal technology in enhancing user connectivity, faces a paradox: its widespread potential yet limited consumer adoption. This study addresses this dichotomy by synthesizing a large‐scale meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) and hierarchical linear meta‐analysis (HiLMA) of 2736 effect sizes from ...
Wagner Junior Ladeira +6 more
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ABSTRACT Consumers' increasing environmental concerns are prompting a shift in fashion consumption, fueling the remarkable growth of the second‐hand market. Over the last decade, this trend has spurred the emergence of a plethora of online platforms dedicated to the resale of pre‐loved fashion items.
Gabriele Murtas, Giuseppe Pedeliento
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ABSTRACT While personality traits often influence individuals' willingness to engage in prosocial and pro‐environmental behaviours, psychological entitlement tends to undermine such actions. Although extensive research has highlighted the negative social consequences of entitlement, including its impact on pro‐environmental behaviours, its potential to
Alexandra Polyakova
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ABSTRACT Online fan communities are important peripheral arenas for sports consumption. However, the psychological and social mechanisms that sustain engagement across these digital spaces are not sufficiently understood. This study thus investigates how Orientation Toward Sporting Events (OSE) drives fan page engagement and, subsequently, satisfaction.
Hamid Shaker +3 more
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ABSTRACT Highlighting diversity‐related attributes has become an increasingly prominent marketing communication strategy in virtual influencer endorsement practices. Prior research has largely focused on commercial endorsement contexts, conceptualized diversity as a homogeneous and single‐dimensional construct, and emphasized its predominantly positive
Chi‐Cheng Luan, Su Zhang, I‐Lien Li
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Latent Profiles of Primary Emotional Systems and Their Associations with PTSD, CPTSD, Attachment, and Childhood Adversity. [PDF]
Ferrajão P, Rocha RF, Martins AQ.
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All Quiet on the Luxury Front: How and When Sustainability Labels Influence Purchase Behavior
ABSTRACT As luxury brands launch sustainability initiatives and products, they face significant challenges, including the need to effectively communicate their practices to consumers. The current research draws on semiotics theory to explore how and when distinct types of sustainability labels, indexical and iconic, enhance brand authenticity ...
Shelly Rathee +2 more
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AI Chatbots Versus Human Agents for Customer Service: A Social Belonging Perspective
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed customer service, leading to the widespread adoption of AI‐driven chatbots. Despite these advances, consumers consistently prefer human agents over AI chatbots, as documented in both academic research and industry reports. This research proposes a Social Belonging Perspective to explain this
Linwan Wu, Chi Zhang, Kai Tian
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Consumption environment, fan engagement, and social diffusion in non-professional football: an S-O-R study of China's Su Chao league. [PDF]
Xu M, He W, Wei L.
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Mitigating Chatbot Service Failures: The Roles of Anthropomorphism, Acknowledgment, and Apology
ABSTRACT This study examines how chatbot anthropomorphism shapes consumer responses to service failure by distinguishing between process failure and outcome failure and by testing alternative recovery responses. Across three pretests (N = 30, 120 and 240) and two scenario‐based experiments (Study 1: N = 346; Study 2: N = 778), consumers evaluated ...
Juyon Lee, Wujin Chu, Rajat Roy
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