ABSTRACT
Although online product recommendation (OPR) is important in e-commerce transactions, there is a little understanding about differential impact of different recommendations. This study aims to examine the distinct effects of system-generated recommendation (SGR) and consumer-generated recommendation (CGR) on affective and social-psychological beliefs of OPR evaluation and to assess how they mediate the impact of OPR usage on purchase intentions. Results of a cross-sectional survey with 482 Amazon consumers showed that users of CGR express significantly higher trusting beliefs than users of SGR, while users of SGR elicit greater perceived enjoyment than users of CGR, resulting in mediating effect on purchase intentions. Moreover, CGRs were found to elicit greater trusting beliefs for experience products, while SGRs were found to unfold greater perceived enjoyment for search products.
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ORCID
Noor Ismawati Jaafar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-6004
Ainin Sulaiman http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8989-712X
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