Title
Whose recommendations do you follow? An investigation of tie strength, shopping stage, and deal scarcity.
Abstract
•We find a three-way interaction of social recommendation, shopping stage, and scarcity.•Weak-tie recommendations are more persuasive at initial stages when scarcity is low.•Weak-tie recommendations’ superiority weakens at initial stages when scarcity is high.•Strong-tie recommendations are more persuasive at later stages when scarcity is low.•Strong-tie recommendations’ superiority weakens at later stages when scarcity is high.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.im.2017.03.003
Information & Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social recommendations,Construal level theory,Shopping stage,Deal scarcity,Strong (Weak) ties
Scarcity,Tie strength,Laboratory experiment,Construal level theory,Engineering,Marketing,Interpersonal ties
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
8
0378-7206
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tingting Song112.04
Cheng Yi2204.75
Jinghua Huang3328.49