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Factors driving young users' engagement with Facebook: Evidence from Brazil (2015)
Journal Article
Oliveira, M., Huertas, M., & Lin, Z. (2016). Factors driving young users' engagement with Facebook: Evidence from Brazil. Computers in Human Behavior, 54, 54-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.038

User engagement has recently been the focus of attention for marketing planners who want to capture the enormous opportunities provided by social media. In this study, we investigate the drivers of social media user engagement by extending an existin... Read More about Factors driving young users' engagement with Facebook: Evidence from Brazil.

Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity (2015)
Journal Article
Cappellini, B., Parsons, E., & Harman, V. (2015). Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity. Sociology, 50(6), 1089-1105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515593033

This article investigates how culinary taste contributes to the formation of middle class identity in a working class context in the UK. We explore practices of food consumption among a group of individuals working at a UK university located in a wor... Read More about Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity.

Airline passengers’ continuance intention towards online check-in services: The role of personal innovativeness and subjective knowledge (2015)
Journal Article
Lin, Z., & Filieri, R. (2015). Airline passengers’ continuance intention towards online check-in services: The role of personal innovativeness and subjective knowledge. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 81, 158-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2015.07.001

This study integrates the individual psychology constructs (personal innovativeness and subjective knowledge) with the Technology Acceptance Model to develop and test a model of airline passengers’ continuance intention towards online flight check-in... Read More about Airline passengers’ continuance intention towards online check-in services: The role of personal innovativeness and subjective knowledge.

Fashionability vis-à-vis rationality: investigating factors driving users’ e-tourism website stickiness (2015)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., & Lin, Z. (2015). Fashionability vis-à-vis rationality: investigating factors driving users’ e-tourism website stickiness. Current Issues in Tourism, 21(1), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2015.1055714

Understanding what drive users’ website stickiness is of strategic importance for e-tourism managers. This study examines the role of a neglected construct ‘perceived fashionability’ in forming users’ e-tourism website stickiness in comparison with f... Read More about Fashionability vis-à-vis rationality: investigating factors driving users’ e-tourism website stickiness.

The images of foreign versus domestic retailer brands in China: A model of corporate brand image and store image (2015)
Journal Article
Lin, Z., & He, X. (2015). The images of foreign versus domestic retailer brands in China: A model of corporate brand image and store image. Journal of Brand Management, 22(3), 211-228. https://doi.org/10.1057/bm.2014.26

Both foreign and domestic retailers are competing for the newly emerged affluent consumers in China, yet little is known about how these retailer brands are perceived by the Chinese consumers. The corporate branding literature often considers retaile... Read More about The images of foreign versus domestic retailer brands in China: A model of corporate brand image and store image.

Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability (2015)
Journal Article
Harman, V., & Cappellini, B. (2015). Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability. Sociology, 49(4), 764-781. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514559322

This article explores middle class mothers’ narratives on their daily routines of preparing lunchboxes for their children. In this study lunchboxes are understood as an artefact linking together discourses and practices of doing and displaying mother... Read More about Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability.