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http://dx.doi.org/10.5805/KSCI.2012.14.1.075

The Effect of Consumer's Prosumer Propensity on the WOM Effect of Fashion Website  

Hong, Keum-Hee (Division of Fashion Industry, Silla University)
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Fashion & Textile Research Journal / v.14, no.1, 2012 , pp. 75-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
Compared to off-line, on-line word-of-mouth has fast dissemination speed and extensive effects based on interactive features. Moreover, in the age of Web 2.0, on-line media has made consumers evolve from simple purchasers to producers, who intervene into product manufacturing through on-line WOM. According to this, this study is conducted to clarify how consumer's prosumer propensity affects WOM in detail when purchasing fashion products on-line through website interactivity and perceived usefulness of WOM. The results are as follows. 1. Consumer's prosumer propensity is classified in four dimensions: the propensity to participate, the propensity to relate, the propensity to amuse and the propensity to create. 2. The sample has shown low prosumer propensity overall, and there were no gender differences. 3. Testing structural equation model, it was clarified that the higher the consumer's prosumer propensity, the higher the consumer's evaluation of website interactivity and thus the greater the WOM effect through its perception of usefulness. 4. There were some differences in the path of structural equation model according to consumer's prosumer propensity. From the results, it can be concluded that consumer's prosumer propensity is a key factor in the on-line WOM. Therefore fashion businesses should actively utilize consumer's prosumer propensity to apply their opinion in the product planning stage or use it as the means of company-friendly viral marketing.
Keywords
on-line word-of-mouth; consumer's prosumer propensity; interactivity; perceived usefulness of WOM; WOM effect;
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