Tsai Chen, Ya-Hui Hsu, Hsiang-Ming Lee, Tsu-Yeh Fan
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Abstract
Many charity organizations were founded by or in memory of great personalities. In story marketing research, however, the larger than life stories of founders used as the brand stories of charity organizations were seldom addressed. This study filled this research gap. Based on narrative transportation and moral emotion research traditions, this study investigates the narrative persuasive effect of personal biography as brand story on the mediating role of compassion, the negatively valenced and other-directed moral emotion, and subsequent altruistic intentions of viewers. The results showed that narrative transportation was positively related to compassion, compassion was positively related to charitable message attitude, and both were positively related to donation and message forwarding intentions. Need for affect is a trait that was correlated with both transportation and compassion.
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The IJECS is a double-blind referred academic journal for all fields of Electronic Commerce. To serve as an international platform, the IJECS encourages manuscript submissions from authors all around the world. As a multi-discipline journal, The IJECS welcome both technology oriented and business oriented electronic commerce research articles. The purpose of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies is to promote electronic commerce research and provide worldwide scholars a place to publish their innovative work in electronic commerce. To be published in the journal, the manuscript must make strong empirical, theoretical, or practical contributions and highlight the significance of the contributions to the electronic commerce field. Thus, preference is given to submissions that test, extend, or build strong theoretical frameworks for electronic commerce theory, electronic commerce system development, and electronic commerce practice. The journal is not tied to any particular national context; the geographic distribution of authors publishing in the journal came from countries around the world. Articles introducing cases of innovative applications in electronic commerce around the world are also published in the journal. The journal provides scholars opportunities to realize the electronic commerce research and development around the world. Articles in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies will include, but are not limited to the following areas.