Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Influence of customer engagement with company social networks on stickiness: Mediating effect of customer value creation

  • Mingli Zhang
  • , Lingyun Guo*
  • , Mu Hu
  • , Wenhua Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

Company social networks have become an important means for the socialized marketing of a company, forming a new challenge to companies on how to attract customers. Based on such theories as customer engagement, value co-creation, and relationship marketing, this paper presents a model of the influence of customer engagement on stickiness. Data collected from 260 valid questionnaires from Sina's enterprise microblog users were analyzed by structural equation modeling. Empirical results show that customer engagement has a direct and positive influence on customer stickiness as well as an indirect influence through customer value creation. This study enriches previous researches on existing theories of customer engagement, value co-creation, and stickiness, and gives practical guidance for companies to encourage customer engagement and enhance the stickiness of company social networks.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)229-240
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Information Management
Volume37
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2017

Keywords

  • Company social networks (CSNs)
  • Customer engagement
  • Customer value creation
  • Stickiness
  • Word of mouth (WOM)

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Influence of customer engagement with company social networks on stickiness: Mediating effect of customer value creation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this