“…Table 1 shows how previous studies have used the three foundational elements of SC including social, technological and personal trait aspects to develop a model toward understanding user intention to use and engage with the online community. Meanwhile, the personal trait was observed to have dominated the underlying framework used by most previous studies to propose the theoretical model (Kim and Park, 2013;Pöyry et al, 2013;Kabadayi and Price, 2014;Chow, 2015;Kim, 2015;Farivar et al, 2017;Hajli et al, 2017;Sharma et al, 2019;Zha et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2019;Vohra and Bhardwaj, 2019;Pelletier et al, 2020;Corrêa et al, 2020) followed by social aspect (Hajli, 2014;Shao and Ross, 2015;Shanmugam et al, 2016;Lu et al, 2016;Gibreel et al, 2018;Kucharska, 2019;Xue, 2019;Handarkho, 2020aHandarkho, , 2020b and social technology aspect (Shin, 2013;Featherman and Hajli, 2015;Han et al, 2016;Plaza-Lora and Villarejo-Ramos, 2017;Clark et al, 2017). Some others have also combined and integrated social aspect with technology or personal trait element (Sharma and Crossler, 2014;Chen and Shen, 2015;Liebana-Cabanillas and Alonso-dos-Santos, 2017;Lal, 2017;Gibreel et al, 2018;Handarkho, 2020aHandarkho, , 2020b while those from the marketing field have made use of the three to study users' intention toward the SC platform and their effect on social interaction engagement (Kabadayi and Price, ...…”