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2022

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Determinants Of Sme’S Social Media Marketing Adoption: Competitive Industry As A Moderator, Ghazanfar Ali Abbasi, Noor Fareen Abdul Rahim, Hongyan Wu, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Benjamin Ng Chee Keong Jan 2022

Determinants Of Sme’S Social Media Marketing Adoption: Competitive Industry As A Moderator, Ghazanfar Ali Abbasi, Noor Fareen Abdul Rahim, Hongyan Wu, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Benjamin Ng Chee Keong

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

In light of the growing role of social media marketing in the success of businesses and its low adoption rate among small and medium enterprises (SMEs), this study aims to identify determinants of SMEs’ social media marketing adoption by considering the competitive industry as a moderator. Data were collected from 214 SMEs in Malaysia. Unlike extant literature, this study proposed a dual-stage analysis involving partial least squares (PLS) technique and artificial intelligence named deep artificial neural network (ANN). The application of deep ANN architecture is used to predict 91% of accuracy for the proposed model. The results showed that perceived …