 Social influence on endorsement in social Q&A community: Moderating effects of temporal and spatial factorsLingfeng Dong, Jie Zhang, Liqiang Huang and Yuan Liu International Journal of Information Management, 2021, vol. 61, issue C Abstract: This study examines the impacts of social influence, which are manifested by popularity and source credibility, on social endorsement in social Q&A community; and how the relationship is impacted by temporal-spatial factors. By collecting panel data from a large platform, the results of an econometric model demonstrate that popularity and source credibility are positively associated with social endorsement. With respect to the moderation effects, the results further show that time distance strengthens the effect of popularity on the social endorsement, but undermines the effect of source credibility; while crowdedness plays the role that strengthens the impact of popularity on the social endorsement, it has no significant moderating effect on the relationship between source credibility and social endorsement. Both theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Keywords: Social Q&A community; Popularity; Source credibility; Time distance; Crowdedness (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ininma:v:61:y:2021:i:c:s026840122100089x DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102396 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Information Management is currently edited by Yogesh K. Dwivedi More articles in International Journal of Information Management from Elsevier |
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