Online Information Review: Volume 43 Issue 5

The impacts of evaluation duration and product types on review extremity

Huawei Zhu, Rungting Tu, Wenting Feng, Jiaojiao Xu

Extreme online reviews can have great impacts on consumers’ purchase decisions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate when users are more likely to provide extreme ratings…

Fostering brand love in Facebook brand pages

Mariola Palazon, Elena Delgado-Ballester, Maria Sicilia

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how brand love is built in the context of brand pages by proposing a model in which brand love depends on relationships ties with other…

The interaction effects of information cascades, system recommendations and recommendations on software downloads

JiHye Park, JaeHong Park, Ho-Jung Yoon

When purchasing digital content (DC), consumers are typically influenced by various information sources on the website. Prior research has mostly focused on the individual effect…

Share, comment, but do not like: The effect of politicians’ facial attractiveness on audience engagement on Facebook

Dana Markowitz-Elfassi, Moran Yarchi, Tal Samuel-Azran

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of politicians’ facial attractiveness on their online popularity as reflected in audience engagement with their Facebook posts…

The academic web profile as a genre of “self-making”

Helena Francke

The activities of academic researchers are increasingly regulated by neo-liberal ideals, including expectations that researchers are visible online and actively promote their…

Examining the intellectual capital web reporting by Spanish universities

Yolanda Ramirez, Elena Merino, Montserrat Manzaneque

The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to know the views of university stakeholders concerning intellectual capital (IC) reporting; second, to examine the quality of…

Extended model of online privacy concern: what drives consumers’ decisions?

Ivan-Damir Anic, Jelena Budak, Edo Rajh, Vedran Recher, Vatroslav Skare, Bruno Skrinjaric

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between individual and societal determinants of online privacy concern (OPC) and behavioral intention of internet…

The effects of outward and inward negative emotions on consumers’ desire for revenge and negative word of mouth

Chih Wen-Hai, Chien-Yun Yuan, Ming-Te Liu, Jiann-Fa Fang

All previous research seldom considered the proliferation process from the perspective of consumers or from a negative perspective to examine the desire for revenge and negative…

Investigating the brand evangelism effect of community fans on social networking sites: Perspectives on value congruity

Li-Chun Hsu

Many enterprises recognize that social media is a valuable source of information propagation for brands. Using the self-congruity and social identity theories as theoretical…

Clothing brand purchase intention through SNS

Jordi Pujadas-Hostench, Ramon Palau-Saumell, Santiago Forgas-Coll, Javier Sánchez-García

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the intention to purchase products through clothing brands’ social network sites (SNS) based on the theory of planned behavior and uses…

Is online disclosure the key to corporate governance?

Francisco J. López-Arceiz, Lourdes Torres, Ana J. Bellostas Ana J. Bellostas

The economic literature shows contradictory results when the relationship between corporate governance and financial position is assessed. The purpose of this paper is to analyze…

Online information disclosure in Spanish municipal-owned enterprises: A study based on the compliance with transparency requirements

Javier Andrades, Domingo Martinez-Martinez, Manuel Larran, Jesus Herrera

The purpose of this paper is to examine the amount of online information reported by Spanish municipal-owned enterprises (MOEs) according to the legal requirements indicated in…