Information Systems Review (경영정보학연구)

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Relationships Among Participation Motives in Virtual Community, Sense of Community, Loyalty and Purchase Intention

가상공동체 참여동기와 공동체의식, 충성도 및 구매의도간의 관계에 관한 연구

  • Moon, Jun-Yean (Dept. of Business Administration, Hanyang University) ;
  • Choi, Ji-Hoon (Master of Business Administration, Hanyang University)
  • 문준연 (한양대학교 디지털경영학부) ;
  • 최지훈 (한양대학교 대학원 경영학과)
  • Published : 2003.12.31
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Abstract

Virtual communities have been suggested to play important roles such as attracting customers, building customer loyalty, and leading to commercial transactions. Little research in marketing has focused on virtual communities in spite of its importance indicated by many practitioners and conceptual studies. More specifically, little research has empirically examined factors of customer participation and its consequences. This research investigate if customers' participation motives in virtual communities affect their sense of community and if sense of community affects customers' loyalty towards and purchase intentions from the website offering the community service. One hundred ninety six questionnaires were collected from individuals who have participated in and have been involved in online activities in various virtual communities. Major results of this research can be summarized as follows. First, participation motives employed significantly affected customers' sense of community and more specifically, perceived ease of use and perceived playfulness had a large influence on the customers' sense of community. Second, customers' sense of community positively affected their loyalty toward the community and more specifically, membership and emotional connection had a large influence on loyalty. Third, customers' sense of community did not affect directly their purchase intentions. Fourth, customers' loyalty toward virtual communities had a significant, positive, although marginal, influence on their purchase intentions.

가상공동체는 고객을 유치하고 고객 충성도를 구축하며 상거래를 활성화하는 데 중요한 역할을 수행한다고 한다. 가상공동체의 중요성이 업계 및 여러 개념연구에서 지적되어온 데 비하여 여기에 대한 마케팅 관점의 연구는 매우 부족하고, 특히 가상공동체 참여에 이르게 하는 선행변수와 그 결과에 대한 실증연구는 매우 부족한 상황에 있다. 이 연구는 이러한 배경을 인식하여 가상공동체 사용자의 참여동기가 공동체의식(Sense of Community)에 미치는 영향과 공동체의식이 당해 웹사이트에 대한 충성도 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 분석하였다. 가상공동체에 가입하여 활동하고 있는 개인을 대상으로 서베이를 실시하였고 196부의 설문지를 분석하였다. 연구 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 참여동기는 공동체의식에 유의적 영향을 미치며, 특히 지각된 사용 용이성과 재미가 중요한 역할을 한다. 둘째, 공동체의식은 충성도에 긍정적 영향을 미치고 특히 '소속 및 유대감'은 매우 큰 역할을 수행한다. 셋째, 공동체의식은 구매의도에 직접 영향을 미치지 않는다. 넷째, 충성도는 구매의도에 한계적이지만 긍정적인 영향을 미친다.

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