The many faces of social media in business and economics research: Taking stock of the literature and looking into the future

Tumasjan, Andranik

doi:10.1111/joes.12570

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“…In summary, indirect indicators are available and easy to access, but they are indirect and noisy. Direct indicators offer a more natural reflection of investor sentiment, but may require more effort to collect (Tumasjan 2023).…”

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Impacts of Investor Attention and Accounting Information Comparability on Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies

Zhao,

Naktnasukanjn,

Dawod

et al. 2024

IJFS

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The efficient capital markets hypothesis (EMH) posits that security prices incorporate all available information in capital markets. Nevertheless, real stock markets often exhibit speculative behavior due to information asymmetry and the limited rationality of investors. This paper employs Thank you for your feedback. I've reviewed the changes, and the adjustment made to revise the year from 2019 to 2023 according to the reference information is accurate. statistical analysis, a multiple regression approach, and robustness tests to investigate the impact of investor attention and accounting information comparability on stock returns. We collected monthly data from all Chinese A-share stocks listed on the main board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the period 2017–2021. Our findings reveal a significant positive correlation between current investor attention and current monthly stock returns and a significant negative correlation between lagged investor attention and current monthly stock returns. Moreover, accounting information comparability serves as a substantial moderator, amplifying the positive effect of current investor attention on current stock returns and mitigating the negative impact of lagged investor attention. We investigate the indicator of accounting information comparability from the perspective of investor attention. Significantly, we use accounting information comparability as a moderating variable for the first time to assess its influence on stock returns. Our results demonstrate that accounting information comparability significantly contributes to mitigating excessive share price declines and stimulating share price increases. This discovery also acts as an internal driver for listed companies to proactively improve accounting information comparability.

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Section: Limited Investor Attentionmentioning

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Impacts of Investor Attention and Accounting Information Comparability on Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies

Zhao,

Naktnasukanjn,

Dawod

et al. 2024

IJFS

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“…Social media platforms' continuous growth and influence allow users to maximize their full potential in active participation in social media and society. The role of social media users in (re)shaping the world as we knew it 20-30 years ago has been studied by scholars in different fields, such as media studies (Alfandika and Akpojivi, 2020;Buthelezi et al, 2021;Akpojivi and Aiseng, 2022), sociology (Ostertag, 2019(Ostertag, , 2021, economics (Boumans et al, 2023;Tumasjan, 2023), and health (Mgudlwa and Iyamu, 2018;Elhajjar and Quaida, 2022). Social media users have transformed into interpreters, storytellers, and participants.…”

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Challenges and opportunities of Facebook during bereavement: experiences from Taung in South Africa

Aiseng

2024

Front. Commun.

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Bereavement is something that we experience in one way or another. It involves many steps from one culture to the other. Many scholars have documented the role of social media tools in bereavement processes. In this study, I look at the challenges and opportunities offered by Facebook during bereavement, especially in a community that is still traditional and has yet to fully comprehend the importance of social media, particularly in matters considered sacred. The study used interviews with residents from Taung to collect data. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the collected data from the interviews. The study findings indicate some challenges associated with bereavement on Facebook: emotional shock, lack of sensitivity, misinformation, and cultural dilution. There are also opportunities: fast news sharing, ongoing emotional support, and sharing of memories. The study argues that the findings should expand our understanding and knowledge of bereavement in some African cultures and use social media tools to complement and not destroy African beliefs and practices.

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What drives employers’ favorability ratings on employer review platforms? The role of symbolic, personal, and emotional content

Höllig,

Tumasjan,

Lievens

2024

Int J Selection Assessment

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Employer review platforms have changed the recruitment landscape by allowing current and former employees to post messages about an employer outside of direct company control. Therefore, they have emerged as an important form of third‐party employer branding. However, we know little about how such open‐ended comments relate to the key variable in employer reviews: employers’ favorability rating. Therefore, we start by situating this variable among other constructs in the employer branding space. Next, we build theory on how content in the open‐ended comments of an employer review relates to the positivity or negativity of the reviews’ favorability rating. We test our hypotheses via a text‐mining analysis of approximately half a million employer reviews. The results reveal an intriguing discrepancy. Although instrumental, impersonal, and cognitive content is more prevalent in employer reviews, symbolic, personal, and emotional content dominates employer reviews’ favorability rating. In terms of practical implications, this result shows that merely inspecting the frequency of attributes mentioned in employer review text comments as a basis for changing company policies of employer branding efforts might be misguided. We discuss implications for theory and future research, and provide our dictionary for further scholarly and practical use.

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The many faces of social media in business and economics research: Taking stock of the literature and looking into the future

Cited by 4 publications

References 288 publications

Impacts of Investor Attention and Accounting Information Comparability on Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies

Impacts of Investor Attention and Accounting Information Comparability on Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies

Challenges and opportunities of Facebook during bereavement: experiences from Taung in South Africa

What drives employers’ favorability ratings on employer review platforms? The role of symbolic, personal, and emotional content

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