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Social Media engagement as an e-commerce driver, a consumer behavior perspective

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2014 9th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), June, page 1--6. Barcelona, Spain, IEEE, (June 2014)
DOI: 10.1109/CISTI.2014.6877033

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Abstract— This study explores the relationship between Social Media engagement and the activation of the consumer's purchase process. Following a consumer behavior perspective we study how the new communication paradigm of the Web 2.0 has change the first stage of the e-commerce purchase process, the problem recognition. We use the case of a smartphone purchase, to explore how differences in Social Media (Facebook) engagement would help describe existent differences between the consumer's triggers for problem recognition. The results suggest that there's a relationship between the level of engagement and the consumer's state that influences the activation of the problem recognition. Implications for e-commerce and social media managers are discussed.

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