Cost Effective Evaluation of Companies’ Storytelling on the Web

Torkil Clemmensen () and Morten Vendelø
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Morten Vendelø: Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Postal: Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Howitzvej 60 , DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark

No 2004-8, Working Papers from Copenhagen Business School, Department of Informatics

Abstract: In this paper we present a cost effective and simple procedure for evaluating company web sites. Our assumption is that such sites are places for companies’ self-presentation and that customers are readers of these texts. Web site texts with narrative qualities, e.g. scenes, actors, acts, initiate the customers’ imagination and narrative mind and hence their decision making. These ideas are investigated in a qualitative study of two companies’ self-presentation as future work places for students. The results demonstrate that the students choose the company that has a web site with rich narrative qualities above the company that has a web site with good graphical appearance, but poor narrative qualities. In conclusion, we suggest that user centred evaluation of commercial web sites by using the suggested method can pay attention to deep, narrative structures in both the company’s self-presentation and the customers’ reading of the web site texts.

Keywords: Competitive advantage; decision-making; dramas; imagination; narratives; storytelling; web-design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2004-09-20
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