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. 2022 Jun 19;161:113830. doi: 10.1016/j.dss.2022.113830

Table 2.

Measures used in the analysis.

Measure Variable Code Definition Source Range Scaling for SEM
Behavioral response from stakeholders [3] Retweet rate BR_RT Number of retweets [26] Extracted Twitter data [0, 351,019] Standardized
Affective response BR_AR Number of likes to a tweet [26] [0, 1,080,437] Standardized
Reach BR_RE Number of Twitter followers [22] [51, 22,350,753] Standardized
Crisis response strategy [3] Business continuity CRS_BC Topic score of tweets on business continuity in new normal [49] Topic mining on extracted Twitter data and formula (4) [0,1] Standardized
Employee well-being CRS_EW Topic score of tweets on employee well-being in new normal [50] [0,2] Standardized
Awareness generation CRS_AG Topic score of tweets sharing information and raising public awareness on COVID [39] [0,3] Standardized
Resource contribution CRS_RC Topic score of tweets declaring organizational resource contribution to fight COVID [38] [0,2] Standardized
Emotional category [3,11] Positive emotions E_POS The intensity of anticipation, joy, surprise, and trust are measures of positive emotions [35] Emotion mining on extracted Twitter data and formulae (1), (2) and (3) [0.0,7.0] Standardized
Negative emotions E_NEG The intensity of anger, disgust, fear, and sadness are measures of negative emotions [5] [0.0, 10.423] Standardized
Reputation [3] Reputation O_REP Organizational reputation Fortune reputation index [41] {0,1} Dummy encoded {0,1}
Organizational parameters (control variables) Size of the organization O_SOO Number of employees [40] Fortune database [1330,2,200,000] Standardized
Technology sector O_TIS Dummy variable to indicate technology sector {0,1} Dummy {0,1}
Financial sector O_FIS Dummy variable to indicate the financial sector {0,1} Dummy {0,1}
Twitter age O_TWA Number of days from the creation of Twitter page [51] Extracted Twitter data [163, 5085] Standardized
Number of tweets O_NTS Number of tweets during the crisis period {0,1} Standardized