英文摘要 |
Recently, the competence of marketers and brands to utilize influencer marketing has become increasingly essential. However, the rapidly-expanding Internet celebrity literature is still in its infancy, and lacks a comprehensive framework that clarifies how followers perceive, think, and behave in response to influencers’attempts. This study proposes a dualpath psychological processing model from the perspective of social media users to examine whether, and indeed how, Internet celebrities’recommendation credibility (RCD) and recommendation attractiveness (RAT) lead followers to adopt their recommendations directly or indirectly through recommendation confidence (RCF) or recommendation curiosity (RCO). The results show that both cognitive and affective perceptional paths determine followers’adoption decisions. In addition to the direct effects of RCD on recommendation adoption willingness (RAW), followers’perception of a recommendation’s credibility has a significant impact on RCF, which in turn drives RAW. Meanwhile, RAT has a significant impact on the perceived RCO, which also, in turn, contributes to RAW. Moreover, RCO has the greatest impact on RAW among all the determining factors. This study is the first to develop a dual-path psychological processing model examining the factors which influence followers’RAW. |