"The effect of dynamic information cues on sales performance in live st" by Lin Xiao, Xinru Lin et al.
Compared with traditional e-commerce, the advanced technology of live streaming e-commerce provides more dynamic information cues to enable viewers to make better decisions. Drawing on the information foraging theory (IFT) and elaboration likelihood model (ELM), we construct a synthetic model by considering how live streaming information cues influence viewers’ decision making via two distinct routes (central and peripheral). Using the technology of web crawling and text mining, Douyin’s live streaming data were collected, transformed, and then analyzed by fixed-effect regression. The resu...