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http://dx.doi.org/10.5859/KAIS.2013.22.2.25

A Study on the Influence of Group Formation in SNS on Information-Sharing Behavior  

Kim, Jongki (부산대학교 경영대학 경영학과)
Kim, Jinsung (부산대학교 경영대학 경영학과)
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The Journal of Information Systems / v.22, no.2, 2013 , pp. 25-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
By virtue of the development and widespread of social network services, the importance of SNS for an individual's social capital formation as well as people's act of sharing information is increasingly highlighted. However, there are still few empirical studies on successful formation of SNS, people's attitude towards participation in SNS, and the brisk act of sharing information in the SNS as yet. This study performed an analysis that, in terms of forming the successful SNS, people's attachment to the group in SNS induces the attitude towards the participation in SNS, and the information-sharing act on the basis of the socio-psychological theory. For this purpose, this study carried out empirical study by dividing the influential factors into the attachment to online group, and attachment to the members in SNS group on the basis of trust. This study set up the component factors in trust as high-dimensional factors, and used SPSS 18.0 and SmartPLS 2.0 as analysis tools. Analysis results confirmed that group formation in SNS and people's attachment to the group were significantly influence attitude towards participation in SNS as well as information sharing behavior. This result implies that group formation in SNS plays an important role in active use of SNS.
Keywords
Social Network Service; Group Formation; Attachment; Trust; Information-Sharing;
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