Seyed Saeed Mirvahedi; Mohammad Taghi Toghrayee; Maryam Astaneh
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Today, on the one hand, the growth of web-based businesses and, on the other hand tense market competition, encouraged business owners to identify effective approaches to achieve customer loyalty and attachment. In the meantime, gamification has been vastly appreciated as a solution to engage customers ...
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Today, on the one hand, the growth of web-based businesses and, on the other hand tense market competition, encouraged business owners to identify effective approaches to achieve customer loyalty and attachment. In the meantime, gamification has been vastly appreciated as a solution to engage customers more to the businesses. In this paper, a model of gamification is developed to shed some light on this area. Through qualitative approach and grounded theory as method of analyzing, some strategies are suggested to solve problems such as carelessness and lack of loyalty of audiences (customers). The model with all its component shape a strategic structure that can help web-based businesses to implement gamifications to gain a maximum results such as customer (audience) loyalty. Keywords: Gamification, entrepreneurial Businesses, Web-Based businesses.
Seyyed Saeid Mirvahedi; Davood Hoseinpour; Ehsan Soltan Mohammadlou
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The present study seeks to evaluate the effect of social media on people's entrepreneurial intention. In this study, the components of entrepreneurial intention are derived from the Linan’s Entrepreneurial Intention Model. These components include attitudes towards entrepreneurial behaviors, ...
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The present study seeks to evaluate the effect of social media on people's entrepreneurial intention. In this study, the components of entrepreneurial intention are derived from the Linan’s Entrepreneurial Intention Model. These components include attitudes towards entrepreneurial behaviors, social norms, and self-belief. The present study is quantitative and the research method is descriptive. In this research, questionnaire was used for data collection. Students of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran are samples of the study. Gathered data was analyzed by using t-test, factor analysis, and structural equation model with SPSS and LISREL software. Results showed that there was a significant relationship between social media and entrepreneurial intention and its components. Furthermore, social media strongly influences entrepreneurial intention and its components. Moreover, the most significant impacts were related to entrepreneurial self-belief, social norms, and attitudes towards entrepreneurial behavior, respectively. Finally, all hypotheses were confirmed by structural analysis and structural equation modeling. ر
