Making and breaking relationships on social media : the impacts of brand and influencer betrayals |
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Author: | Reinikainen, Hanna1; Tan, Teck Ming2; Luoma-aho, Vilma1; |
Organizations: |
1Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Jyväskylä, Finland 2Department of Marketing, Management and International Business, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 3Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.8 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021070641181 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Elsevier,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-07-06 |
Description: |
AbstractThis study considers how the relationships between social media influencers, brands and individuals are intertwined on social media and analyses the spill-over effects of feelings of betrayal. An experimental design with two transgression scenarios (influencer vs. brand) was created, and 250 individuals were recruited to participate in the study. The results show that a perceived betrayal by a brand can negatively affect the perceived coolness of the social media influencer that has endorsed the brand, as well as the parasocial relationships that followers have with the influencer. Accordingly, a perceived betrayal by a social media influencer can negatively affect attitudes, trust and purchase intentions toward a brand that the influencer has endorsed. The current research helps in understanding brand and influencer transgressions and highlights the fact that both influencers and brands should have a sense of collaboration responsibility. It also introduces the concept of influencer coolness, understood here as a desirable success factor for social media influencers, which partly explains their desirability and influence, and a feature that can be endangered through both influencer and brand betrayals. see all
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Series: |
Technological forecasting and social change |
ISSN: | 0040-1625 |
ISSN-E: | 1873-5509 |
ISSN-L: | 0040-1625 |
Volume: | 171 |
Article number: | 120990 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120990 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120990 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
512 Business and management |
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Copyright information: |
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |