Weiguo Fan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3724424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Weiguo Fan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Weiguo |
| FAMILY NAME | Fan |
| SIGNATURE | FAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1272-5538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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What drives users’ knowledge payment behaviour? The moderating role of knowledge expertise and social identity
Previous research on user payment behaviour in online community has predominantly focused on the pre-paid mode, with limited understanding of the antecedents influencing user payment behaviour in the post-paid mode. Drawing upon the dual-process theory and social identity theory, this study uses the text mining method based on the attention mechanism and the social network method to explore the influence of the quality of knowledge products and t…
How do we elicit more user feedback in the social Q&A community? A consideration of the expertise-required question
Purpose The current study aims to investigate the factors that impact the feedback received on answers to questions in social Q&A communities and whether the expertise-required question influences the role of these factors on the feedback. Design/methodology/approach To understand the antecedents and consequences that influence the feedback received on answers to online community questions, the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) is applied in thi…
The secret of voice
Vitality and learning
This study categorises mobile technology use into four types, taking into account two dimensions: the nature of the matters (work-related and non-work-related) and the boundaries (work and nonwork time). Furthermore, this study focuses on mobile technology use across boundaries. Drawing upon SDT, this study refines mobile technology use across work-nonwork boundaries into 2*2 categories based on the different ways in which it crosses the work-non…
Research on the impact of economic development and environmental security on human well-being in typical cities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
The influence of social Q&A systems on consumers' purchase intention
Purpose Social question and answer (Q&A) systems have been rapidly developed on many e-commerce websites. The purpose of this paper is to explore how social Q&A systems influence consumers' information processing and purchase intention. Design/methodology/approach The authors design this research based on the information adoption model (IAM). First, the auhors consider the impacts of the central route (information factor) and peripheral route (so…
Like being there
Competitive peer influence on knowledge contribution behaviors in online Q&A communities
Purpose Users' knowledge contribution behaviors are critical for online Q&A communities to thrive. Well-organized question threads in online Q&A communities enable users to clearly read existing answers and their evaluations before contributing. Based on the social comparison and peer influence literature, the authors examine peer influence on the informativeness of knowledge contributions in competitive settings. The authors also consider three …
Do social networking sites promote life satisfaction? The explanation from an online and offline social capital transformation
Purpose The use of social networking sites (SNSs) can promote life satisfaction mainly because of their social relationship benefits. Although prior studies examined the roles of different types of social capital (SC), the association between online and offline SC is ignored. This research addresses this gap by uncovering a mechanism of transformation between online and offline SC in terms of bonding and bridging types when linking SNSs usage and…
How learning effects influence knowledge contribution in online Q&A community? A social cognitive perspective
Which social media posts generate the most buzz? Evidence from WeChat
Purpose Following the hierarchy-of-effects model, this study aims to propose a two-step process framework to investigate social media post efficacy via attraction and likes. Design/methodology/approach The study analyzes 113,785 social media posts from 126 WeChat official accounts to explore how external (headline features and account type) and internal (content features and media type) features impact social media post attractions and likes, res…
Integrating supply and social demand in ecosystem services assessment
Understanding the determinants of online review helpfulness
Social presence, trust, and social commerce purchase intention
Pricing Aesthetics
Using organizational commitment theory, we proposed a model to characterize how community commitment affects the usage behavior of online knowledge community (OKC) members, and to depict the contextual antecedents of that commitment. We analyzed survey data from 255 users of an OKC and found that continuance, affective, and normative community commitment each had a prominent but different influence on the OKC members' usage behavior; as contextua…
A comparative analysis of major online review platforms
Social Representations of Social Media Use in Government
Social media use in government has gained a rapid growth in the last few years around the world. China has witnessed a boom in social media use in government, especially government microblogging. In this study, we employ social representation theory as the primary theoretical lens to investigate Chinese government microblogging. We hope the employment of social representation theory could help us overcome the limitation that previous studies focu…
A comparative analysis of major online review platforms
Social Representations of Social Media Use in Government
Social media use in government has gained a rapid growth in the last few years around the world. China has witnessed a boom in social media use in government, especially government microblogging. In this study, we employ social representation theory as the primary theoretical lens to investigate Chinese government microblogging. We hope the employment of social representation theory could help us overcome the limitation that previous studies focu…
Which social media posts generate the most buzz? Evidence from WeChat
Purpose Following the hierarchy-of-effects model, this study aims to propose a two-step process framework to investigate social media post efficacy via attraction and likes. Design/methodology/approach The study analyzes 113,785 social media posts from 126 WeChat official accounts to explore how external (headline features and account type) and internal (content features and media type) features impact social media post attractions and likes, res…
Social Representations of Social Media Use in Government
Social media use in government has gained a rapid growth in the last few years around the world. China has witnessed a boom in social media use in government, especially government microblogging. In this study, we employ social representation theory as the primary theoretical lens to investigate Chinese government microblogging. We hope the employment of social representation theory could help us overcome the limitation that previous studies focu…
Social presence, trust, and social commerce purchase intention
Pricing Aesthetics
Using organizational commitment theory, we proposed a model to characterize how community commitment affects the usage behavior of online knowledge community (OKC) members, and to depict the contextual antecedents of that commitment. We analyzed survey data from 255 users of an OKC and found that continuance, affective, and normative community commitment each had a prominent but different influence on the OKC members' usage behavior; as contextua…
A comparative analysis of major online review platforms
Integrating supply and social demand in ecosystem services assessment
Understanding the determinants of online review helpfulness
How learning effects influence knowledge contribution in online Q&A community? A social cognitive perspective
Which social media posts generate the most buzz? Evidence from WeChat
Purpose Following the hierarchy-of-effects model, this study aims to propose a two-step process framework to investigate social media post efficacy via attraction and likes. Design/methodology/approach The study analyzes 113,785 social media posts from 126 WeChat official accounts to explore how external (headline features and account type) and internal (content features and media type) features impact social media post attractions and likes, res…
Do social networking sites promote life satisfaction? The explanation from an online and offline social capital transformation
Purpose The use of social networking sites (SNSs) can promote life satisfaction mainly because of their social relationship benefits. Although prior studies examined the roles of different types of social capital (SC), the association between online and offline SC is ignored. This research addresses this gap by uncovering a mechanism of transformation between online and offline SC in terms of bonding and bridging types when linking SNSs usage and…
The influence of social Q&A systems on consumers' purchase intention
Purpose Social question and answer (Q&A) systems have been rapidly developed on many e-commerce websites. The purpose of this paper is to explore how social Q&A systems influence consumers' information processing and purchase intention. Design/methodology/approach The authors design this research based on the information adoption model (IAM). First, the auhors consider the impacts of the central route (information factor) and peripheral route (so…
Like being there
Competitive peer influence on knowledge contribution behaviors in online Q&A communities
Purpose Users' knowledge contribution behaviors are critical for online Q&A communities to thrive. Well-organized question threads in online Q&A communities enable users to clearly read existing answers and their evaluations before contributing. Based on the social comparison and peer influence literature, the authors examine peer influence on the informativeness of knowledge contributions in competitive settings. The authors also consider three …
How do we elicit more user feedback in the social Q&A community? A consideration of the expertise-required question
Purpose The current study aims to investigate the factors that impact the feedback received on answers to questions in social Q&A communities and whether the expertise-required question influences the role of these factors on the feedback. Design/methodology/approach To understand the antecedents and consequences that influence the feedback received on answers to online community questions, the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) is applied in thi…
The secret of voice
Vitality and learning
This study categorises mobile technology use into four types, taking into account two dimensions: the nature of the matters (work-related and non-work-related) and the boundaries (work and nonwork time). Furthermore, this study focuses on mobile technology use across boundaries. Drawing upon SDT, this study refines mobile technology use across work-nonwork boundaries into 2*2 categories based on the different ways in which it crosses the work-non…
Research on the impact of economic development and environmental security on human well-being in typical cities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
What drives users’ knowledge payment behaviour? The moderating role of knowledge expertise and social identity
Previous research on user payment behaviour in online community has predominantly focused on the pre-paid mode, with limited understanding of the antecedents influencing user payment behaviour in the post-paid mode. Drawing upon the dual-process theory and social identity theory, this study uses the text mining method based on the attention mechanism and the social network method to explore the influence of the quality of knowledge products and t…
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Psychology (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Knowledge Management and Sharing (6 works) · Social media (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Expert finding and Q&A systems (4 works) · Marketing (4 works)