• Information Systems Review
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.47-63
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• 2004

As Internet usages proliferate, the interests on cyber space and virtual community increase. The purpose of this study is to find the role of cognitive absorption as an intermediate variable. It is a variable that links factors that affect on members' usage of virtual community and cognitive absorption. The result of this study shows that challenges, skills, perceived reality, and needs affect the usage of virtual community through cognitive absorption, while only interactivity affects the usage of virtual community directly. This shows that cognitive absorption plays an important role in the usage of virtual community. The major contribution in this study is that cognitive absorption influences on the usage of virtual community greatly. If there is a way to increase the intensity of cognitive absorption, it will strongly help increase the performance of virtual community.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.127-142
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• 2008

최근 조직 내 정보시스템이 제공하는 지식과 정보에 대한 공유와 교환이 더 이상 성공적이라고 판단되지 않음에 따라 그 대안으로써 가상공동체(Virtual Community)가 주목받고 있다. 그러나, 가상공동체에서 살아있는 지식과 정보의 공유를 위해서는 공동체 안의 구성원인 리더와 구성원(팔로워) 들의 상호작용을 통한 몰입이 매우 중요하다는 인식이 확산되었다. 그러나, 이러한 몰입에 영향을 주는 리더-구성원 간의 영향관계는 충분히 연구된 바 없다. 이에 본 연구는 가상공동체에서 리더의 리더십 스타일과 팔로워의 특성 그리고 이들 간의 동기와 신뢰가 가상공동체의 몰입에 미치는 인과관계에 대해 분석하고자 하였다. '지각된 리더의 배려'로 측정된 '서번트 리더십'과 '지각된 리더의 조직지향'을 통해 측정된 '변혁적 리더십'이 구성원의 팔로워십과 동기, 리더와 조직에 대한 신뢰에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 460명의 가상공동체 구성원을 통해 실증적으로 분석하였다. 분석결과 서번트 리더십과 구성원의 팔로워십 특성이 구성원의 몰입에 있어서 중요한 역할을 수행함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.19-38
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• 2014

This study focused on the role of active knowledge seeking (knowledge browsing and knowledge searching) in the context of virtual community of interest. Knowledge seeking is rarely studied as an antecedent in knowledge management (KM) research. Active knowledge seeking is considered as antecedents of sense of virtual community which mediates to knowledge sharing intention and virtual community promotion. Research hypotheses are tested by applying structure equation modeling with survey data from virtual community members in South Korea. Active knowledge seeking behavior was found to be the strong predictor of sense of virtual community, which, in turn, positively affects knowledge sharing intention and virtual community promotion. Implication to practitioners is to understand and accommodate the members' knowledge seeking efforts, who are potential contributors and promoters of the virtual community. Knowledge seeking, knowledge sharing and promoting virtual community are more of human activities than technology and this study extends the understanding of such human activities. By providing a mechanism of how knowledge seeking and sharing could work harmoniously, a virtuous circle with win-win situation could be achieved in virtual communities.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.75-76
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• 2001

• Information Systems Review
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.71-90
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• 2003

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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.15-16
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 1999.12a
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• pp.143-160
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• 1999

가상기업이란 특정 프로젝트기 끝나면 해체할 수 있는 전략적 제휴에 의해 임시적으로 형성되는 조직체이다. 본고에서는 21세기형 조직모델로 가상기업 모델을 제시하고 그리고 정보기술의 응용으로 어떻게 이러한 형태의 가상공동체를 형성하고 관리할 수 있는지 고찰해보고, 21세기 지식경영시대에 가상기업경영을 위한 지식정보시스템 구축의 예를 소개한다.

• Proceedings of KHEA Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.83-83
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• 2002

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.258-267
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• 2002

가상 환경하에서 상거래는 매우 급속도로 팽창하고 있고, 또한 오프라인 시장과 거의 대등한 시장으로 발전하고 있다. 그런데, 인터넷 하에서의 상거래는 점포(Site)에 대한 충성도가 떨어진다. 또한 쉽게 접근할 수 있는 반면 쉽게 떠날 수도 있다. 따라서 지속적인 거래가 이루어지기가 어렵다. 이런 문제점을 극복하고 지속적인 거래를 창출는 대안으로 필요한 정보를 공유하고, 함께 즐기면서 지속적인 관계를 형성할 수 있는 매개체가 가상 공동체이다. 이는 사이트에 대한 충성도를 높이고, 실용적이고 쾌락적인 쇼핑가치를 매개하여 구매의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치리라는 것을 실증하고자 한다. 또한 각각의 변수들 간의 관계가 가상공간의 마케팅 담당자에게 시사하는 점을 제시하고자 한다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.21-36
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• 2004

Since IT industry has changed very rapidly in technology, market environments, the cyber communities raise new social space. In spite of such growth of cyber communities, academic discussion is relatively limited. This Paper suggested several factors that affect the level of participator's loyalty on cyber communities. Participator's loyalty was classified into two categories, the psychological loyalty, which measure the psychological responses, and the behavior loyalty, which measure the absorption of time, the volume and frequency of visit to cyber communities. Consequently, this research has showed social awareness about cyber community culture and suggested the strategy directions for customer-oriented cyber Community Company.