Building corporate reputation through social media marketing efforts: the mediating role of corporate brand credibility

Abstract

Social media is a widely used tool by companies to communicate with their customers. This study explores customers’ perception of social media marketing efforts by companies and their role in enhancing corporate reputation. It also evaluates the mediating role of corporate brand credibility in the relationship between social media marketing efforts and corporate reputation. Data for this study was adopted from 404 customers of the retail banking sector in Latvia, contacted via social media platforms such as Facebook using the non-random snowball sampling method. The structural