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  • 标题:Value and Sustainability of Emerging Social Commerce Professions: An Exploratory Study
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  • 作者:Krassie Petrova ; Sagorika Datta
  • 期刊名称:Information
  • 电子版ISSN:2078-2489
  • 出版年度:2022
  • 卷号:13
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:178
  • DOI:10.3390/info13040178
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:MDPI Publishing
  • 摘要:Recent advances in social commerce and mobile technology have led to the emergence of new professions such as vlogging, blogging and virtual pop-up store owning. Starting initially as hobbies, the services provided by these ‘new professionals’ have become ubiquitous and are being used by customers from many different countries and backgrounds. This paper reports on a study that first explored the views and opinions of new professionals from several fields (using a qualitative approach), and then the views of their potential customers (a quantitative study informed by UTAUT2—the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology). The results indicated that new professionals both create and co-create value with their customers, peers, and some existing, traditionally established professions. The results also indicated that the intended audience/customers of the new professional businesses had a positive perception of their long-term commercial sustainability. Customers’ intention to use the new professional services in the future were predicted mostly by the behavioral characteristics of hedonic motivation and habit. The research contributes by empirically investigating the value creation and co-creation processes in a context that is yet to attract academic interest. It proposes a value creation and co-creation framework that draws on the interactions of the main players.
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