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Authors and Corporations: Han, Bo
In: International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 9, 2017, 3, p. 1-14
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IGI Global
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 1-14
ISSN: 1942-9010
1942-9029
DOI: 10.4018/ijvcsn.2017070101
published in: International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking
Language: English
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Collection: IGI Global (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>The answers to the question of how to build a user's loyalty have become the most desirable knowledge to academics and practitioners, when the competitions turn drastic among social network sites. This article proposes a new model to investigate the influential factors of the user's cognitive loyalty and affective loyalty to a social network site. The authors find that the user's actualization of hoped for self and the informativeness of a social network site both have significant positive effects on the user's perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment, thereby positively influencing the user's loyalties to the Web site.</jats:p>