• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.111-130
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• 2013

As the number of online social networking service (SNS) users is increasing, various efforts are being deployed to take advantage of SNS from the perspective of business and management. Especially, researches in the field of marketing such as word-of-mouth (WOM) effect have been actively conducted. This paper examined the impact of the SNS messages of users' friends on the users' attitude and the moderating effect of the friends' opinion leadership on the WOM effect. Fifty-one Facebook users responded to the questions on their four friends each. Regression analyses showed that there existed WOM effect under the SNS environment and the opinion leadership of the message creators positively moderated the WOM effect. We discussed the contributions and implications of this study.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.51-74
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• 2002

본 연구는 교육시장 환경의 변화로 경쟁적 상황에 처한 대학의 운영방향을 제시하기 위해서 주로 일반 서비스산업에서 서비스 품질 측정에 적용되어 오던 SERVPERF를 기초로 교육 서비스 품질을 확장하여 측정하였다. 또한 대학교육서비스 마케팅모형 구축의 결정요인을 교육서비스 품질, 학생만족, 재입학의도 및 구전효과 등으로 보고 이들 간의 구조적 인과관계를 통합적으로 분석 검토함으로써 대학에게 급변하는 교육환경에 능동적으로 대응하고 경쟁력 있는 양질의 교육 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 대학교육서비스 마케팅 모형을 검증하려는데 그 목적을 두었다. 분석결과 SERVPERF에 기초한 기본모형에 결과 질이 추가된 26개 항목의 교육 서비스 품질 항목확장모형이 우수성이 입증되어 본 연구에서 제시된 SERVPERF의 확장 척도가 일반 서비스 산업 뿐만 아니라 교육 서비스 품질의 측정에도 사용이 가능하다는 것을 입증하였으며 더불어 결과의 질의 중요성을 확인하였다. 또한 전반적 교육 서비스 품질이 학생만족 및 재입학의도와 구전효과 간의 인과관계를 통합적으로 분석한 결과, 전반적 교육서비스 품질은 현대 마케팅의 지향점인 학생만족의 선행변수로서 학생만족, 재입학의도, 구전효과에 직접적인 영향력을 미치고 학생만족은 재입학의도 및 긍정적인 구전효과에 직접적인 영향을 미치며, 재입학의도 또한 구전효과에 긍정적인 영향을 미친다는 인과관계를 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.85-105
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• 2012

In recent years, IT advancement has brought out the new Internet communication environment such as online social network services, where people are connected in global network without temporal and spatial limitation. The popular use of online social network helps people share their experience and preference for specific products and services, thus holding large potential to significantly affect firms' business performance through Word-of-Mouth (WOM). This study examines the role of online social network in raising WOM effect on the movie industry by comparing with the similar role of Internet portal, another major online communication channel. Analyzing 109 movies and data from both Twitter and Naver movie, we found that significant WOM effect exists simultaneously in both Twitter and Naver movie. However, we also found that different figures of online viral effects exist depending on the popularity of movies. In the hit movie group, before the movie release, the WOM effect occurs only in Twitter while the WOM effect arises in both Twitter and Naver movie at the same time after the movie release. In the less-popular (or niche) movie group, the WOM effect occurs in both Twitter and Naver movie only before the movie release. Our findings not only deepen theoretical insights into different roles of the two online communication channels in provoking the WOM effect on entertainment products but also provide practitioners with incentive to utilize SNS as strategic marketing platform to enhance their brand reputations.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.93-104
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• 2021

Most of the existing studies on the volume and valence of the eWOM (electronic word of mouth) about movies and box-office revenues were conducted using online actual data (secondary data) at Yahoo Movies, IMDB.com, Naver Movies, etc. However, it is difficult to grasp psychological variables from online actual data. Therefore, existing studies using online actual data could not identify the causal relationship among volume, valence and psychological variables. This study fills this gap in the literature. This study aims to examine the direct and indirect effects (i.e. mediating effect) of the volume and valence of online reviews about movies on purchase intention through review credibility as a mediator. We conducted a survey on the South Korean consumers and a structural equation modeling. The outcomes show that the total effects of both volume and valence are significant. In addition, volume has an indirect effect only (i.e. full mediating effect) on purchase intention through review credibility, but valence has both direct and indirect effects (i.e. partial mediating effect) on purchase intention through review credibility. The theoretical and practical implications for these results are presented.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.106-116
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• 2016

This study on the lifestyle of senior citizens measured how slection criteria affects franchise restaurant selection. Word of mouth was determined not to have a negative effect between senior citizen lifestyle and franchise restaurant selection. First, the lifestyle of senior citizens were categorized into 4 sub-variables-extroverted, open, progressive, and future-oriented -. It identified information about the properties of the choice variables franchise restaurants positively influence on the all relationships .Second, the mediating effect of word of mouth was verified form the realtionships.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.69-78
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• 2015

In this study, Word-of-mouth Intention of the factors Influence the Connectivity, Convenience and Application also was Investigated. Connectivity, Convenience on the Influence of the Mediation Effect was Carried out to Examine. The test results used in this Study Established Connectivity, Convenience of Application and Word-of-mouth to the Positive Effect was Found. Also Verifying the results of the Mediating Effect of Application and Application the Mediation Effect was Verification. These Factors Result in the Application and also in Calendar, Useful Application, Video, Music, Game of Word-of-mouth Intention Influence. For this Study, the use of Smartphones is a lot of College Students Surveyed and the Findings were Derived. This result provides an application development strategy implications that can satisty the user's Smartphone Convergent times.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.81-101
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• 2015

This study considered eWOM communication not as persuasion process but as diffusion process and identified factors affecting eWOM spread. eWOM diffusion process can be divided into initial transmitting process and retransmission process. The current study analyzed the effects of informational traits(level of agreement, vividness, neutrality) of eWOM on the intention to retranmit eWOM and moderating effect of eWOM involvement. Research sample was gathered from young people because they are familiar with online communication process. Statistical analysis showed informational traits of eWOM all had a significant effects on the credibility of eWOM, credibility of eWOM influenced on the intention to retransmit eWOM significantly, and eWOM involvement moderated the relation between information traits of eWOM and the intention to retransmit eWOM. And then academic and managerial implication was discussed based on these findings.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.307-314
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• 2016

This study empirically validate the impacts of WOM information characteristics on the WOM effect in accordance with SNS media due to the increased the WOM role under SNS. The key results showed that the more vivid, negative, and objective WOM information was, the more positive impacts on the intention to adopt information. In addition, the intention to adopt information had a positive impact on the re-WOM intention. Second, there was no significant difference between Facebook and Blog groups regarding the impacts of the WOM information characteristics on the WOM effect. This can be inferred from the fact that consumers recognize all SNS media as a single online medium regardless of their characteristics in the process of accepting and spreading information. Based on these results, this research drew the following implications. It conceptualized the information characteristics factors that influence the online information acceptance process and the relationship with WOM effects by focusing on SNS and high-tech products that are rapidly emerging. This study is also significant because it attempted to expand the characteristics of WOM information and WOM effects to Facebook and blogs, which are SNS media, and proposed a future research direction.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.9-16
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• 2022

In the midst of increasing interest in the environmental responsibility of companies, this study investigates how eco-friendly activities affect the creation of management performance. To this end, the effect of companies' green marketing on consumers' word-of-mouth intention, the mediating effect of brand reliability, and the moderating effect of consumers' pro-environmental behavior were verified. The results of the collected data analysis are as follows. First, companies' green marketing has a positive (+) effect on consumers' word-of-mouth intention. Second, brand reliability takes a positive (+) mediating role in the relationship between companies' green marketing and consumers' word-of-mouth intention. Third, consumers' pro-environment behavior has a moderating role between Brand Reliability and their word-of-mouth intention. Therefore, companies' eco-friendly strategies and their implementation will help enhance both brand reliability and consumers' word-of-mouth intention. By revealing the effect of companies' eco-friendly strategies and their implementation on brand reliability and consumers' word-of-mouth intention it is meaningful to analyze the relationship between green marketing and the possibility of consumers' spontaneous word-of-mouth intention. The results suggest to companies that it is necessary to establish an eco-friendly marketing strategy for sustainable growth.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.40-53
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• 2012

In the past, the elements that determine the movie performance were directors, movie stars, the number of opening screens, on-line ratings or distributing agencies. However, the word-of-mouth effect has changed this trends. So the influence of word of mouth grows more and more strong at this stage of the Internet and smart phones being widely prevalent. I fix my sight upon SNS which is one of the medium of arousing the word-of-mouth effect, and I have a purpose to cast light upon a real example of the influence of SNS on the movie performance. The way is to analyze SNS activities that accompany the process of production and showing of , which is said to have had an beneficial effect of SNS among the enormously successful movies last year. It is relevant to provide a new milestone regarding the movie performance through the successful case of SNS activities by examining the word-of-mouth activities through SNS in the manner of the period division of the pre-release, the early stage of release and the maturity.