Table 2.
Measures used in the analysis.
Measure | Variable | Code | Definition | Source | Range | Scaling for SEM |
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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 |