Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying
The main objective of this research is to investigate the impact of social media marketing activities — restricted onlyto Instagram influencers — on online impulse buying through the mediating effect of source credibility (attractiveness,expertise, and trustworthiness), predicated on Stimulus-Organi...
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| description | The main objective of this research is to investigate the impact of social media marketing activities — restricted onlyto Instagram influencers — on online impulse buying through the mediating effect of source credibility (attractiveness,expertise, and trustworthiness), predicated on Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) theory. The hypothesisedrelationships were examined using cross-sectional data obtained from 273 Instagram users. Partial least squaresstructural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) using the SMART-PLS software was employed as the primary data analysismethod. The results revealed that the perceived social media marketing activities of Instagram influencers have asignificant positive influence on the perceptions of followers pertaining to all three dimensions of source credibility(attractiveness, expertise, and trustworthiness). In turn, only attractiveness and trustworthiness were found to have asignificant positive influence on online impulse buying. Moreover, this study revealed that it was the perceivedattractiveness and trustworthiness of Instagram influencers that were the influential mediating factors in therelationship between perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying. There is a dearth ofstudies that have been conducted on the examination of the mechanism through which Instagram influencers’ socialmedia marketing activities influence online impulse buying. This study is significant as it provides new insights intothe importance of Instagram influencers social media marketing activities in affecting followers’ online impulsebuying through source credibility |
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| spelling | sunway-18492021-09-22T08:51:18Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1849/ Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying Koay, Kian Yeik * Teoh, C. W. Soh, Patrick C. H. HF Commerce QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science The main objective of this research is to investigate the impact of social media marketing activities — restricted onlyto Instagram influencers — on online impulse buying through the mediating effect of source credibility (attractiveness,expertise, and trustworthiness), predicated on Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) theory. The hypothesisedrelationships were examined using cross-sectional data obtained from 273 Instagram users. Partial least squaresstructural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) using the SMART-PLS software was employed as the primary data analysismethod. The results revealed that the perceived social media marketing activities of Instagram influencers have asignificant positive influence on the perceptions of followers pertaining to all three dimensions of source credibility(attractiveness, expertise, and trustworthiness). In turn, only attractiveness and trustworthiness were found to have asignificant positive influence on online impulse buying. Moreover, this study revealed that it was the perceivedattractiveness and trustworthiness of Instagram influencers that were the influential mediating factors in therelationship between perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying. There is a dearth ofstudies that have been conducted on the examination of the mechanism through which Instagram influencers’ socialmedia marketing activities influence online impulse buying. This study is significant as it provides new insights intothe importance of Instagram influencers social media marketing activities in affecting followers’ online impulsebuying through source credibility University of Illinois at Chicago University Library 2021-09 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_4 http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1849/1/koay%20%20%282021%29%20instagram%20influencer%20marketing_%20perceived%20social%20media%20marketing%20activities%20and%20online%20impulse%20buying.pdf Koay, Kian Yeik * and Teoh, C. W. and Soh, Patrick C. H. (2021) Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying. First Monday, 26 (9). ISSN 1396-0466 http://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i9.11598 doi:10.5210/fm.v26i9.11598 |
| spellingShingle | HF Commerce QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Koay, Kian Yeik * Teoh, C. W. Soh, Patrick C. H. Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying |
| title | Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying |
| title_full | Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying |
| title_fullStr | Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying |
| title_full_unstemmed | Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying |
| title_short | Instagram influencer marketing: Perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying |
| title_sort | instagram influencer marketing: perceived social media marketing activities and online impulse buying |
| topic | HF Commerce QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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