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웹기반 크라우드펀딩 플랫폼에서 프로젝트 후원자 사회 집단 크기와 사회적 실재감이 소비자 참여의도에 미치는 영향 연구

A study of other backers' social group size and social presence on web-based crowdfunding platforms impacting participation intent

  • 심우주 (국민대학교 디자인대학원 패션전공) ;
  • 이은정 (국민대학교 조형대학 의상디자인학과)
  • 투고 : 2021.09.30
  • 심사 : 2021.10.18
  • 발행 : 2021.11.30

초록

웹 기반 크라우드펀딩 플랫폼은 소자본 기업들에게 재정적 위험을 줄이고 새로운 제품을 선주문을 통해 안정적으로 생산할 수 있는 기회를 제공한다. 한편 크라우드펀딩 프로젝트는 기업들에게 신상품을 대량생산 이전에 테스트할 수 있는 채널로서 또한 도움을 주고 있다. 이러한 장점들에도 불구하고, 기업과 소비자의 관점에서 보았을 때 웹기반 크라우드펀딩 플랫폼은 리테일 환경에서 많은 제약이 있는 것이 사실이다. 가령 웹 기반 플랫폼의 제한된 사회적 요소들은 그 본질상 다수의 사회적 지지를 필요로 하는 크라우드펀딩 프로젝트의 기본적 특성과 상치되며 이는 크라우드펀딩에 참여하는 소비자들의 태도에 영향을 줄 수 있고, 따라서 웹기반 크라우드펀딩 플랫폼에서 소비자가 경험하는 사회적 요소의 메커니즘에 대한 이해는 중요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 크라우드펀딩 플랫폼의 사회적 요인이 소비자의 참여와 평가에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 알아보고자 했다. 사회적 영향이론과 사회적 실재감 이론을 바탕으로, 후원자 사회 집단 크기, 사회적 실재감을 독립변수로 설정하고 구매자의 참여의도를 종속변수로 연구모형을 설정한 후 온라인 설문을 통해 얻어진 데이터를 통계분석하여 결과를 도출했다. 크라우드펀딩 구매자들에게 제공되는 후원자 사회 집단 크기와 사회적 실재감이 구매자의 참여의도에 영향을 미치는지 살펴본 결과, 후원자 사회 집단 크기와 사회적 실재감은 구매자의 참여의도에 유의미한 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 각각의 요인들의 표준화 베타 계수를 보면, 후원자 사회 집단 크기보다 사회적 실재감이 구매자의 참여의도에 더 큰 영향력을 미친다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

The web-based crowdfunding platform provides small-cap companies the opportunity to reduce financial risks and to reliably produce new products through pre-orders. Meanwhile, crowdfunding projects are also helping companies as a channel to test new products before mass production. Despite these advantages, from the point of view of businesses and consumers, it is true that web-based crowdfunding platforms have limitations in the retail environment. For example, the limited social elements of a web-based platform are somewhat in conflict with the basic characteristics of crowdfunding projects - which inevitably demand high social influences for the success. As such, understanding the mechanisms of social factors of crowdfunding platforms from the consumers' perspective is important. Therefore, in this study, we empirically tested the effect of social factors of crowdfunding platform on consumer participation and evaluation. Based on the Social Influence Theory and Social Presence Theory, we developed a conceptual framework where the social group size and social presence of other backers were the independent variables and the purchaser's intention to participate as the dependent variable. In the results, the size of the social group size and the perceived social presence have a significant positive effect on purchaser's participation intent. In addition, the social presence had a greater influence on the purchaser's intention to participate than the size of the sponsor's social group. We believe that our findings contribute to the extant literature by empirically demonstrating the valid effect of social factors of crowdfunding platforms on consumer evaluations.

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This research is in part supported by National Research Fund of Korea (2015R1A5A7037615).

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