• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2021

브랜드 커뮤니티는 브랜드에 대한 신념과 열정을 가진 사람들의 집단으로, 보상에 대한 기대 없이 브랜드 홍보를 자발적, 적극적으로 수행하여, 기업으로 부터 효과적인 마케팅 전략으로 주목받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 브랜드 커뮤니티의 활성화와 지속적 운영을 위해 브랜드 커뮤니티 구성원의 추구 가치가 무엇인지 분석하였다. 브랜드 커뮤니티 참여 동기와 추구 가치에 관한 연구는 그간 브랜드 커뮤니티 활동에 대한 사후 만족도를 측정하는 양적 연구 위주로 진행되었으나, 본 연구에서는 구성원의 참여를 강화하기 위한 요인을 구체적으로 파악하기 위해 수단-목적 사슬이론과 래더링 기법을 적용한 질적 연구를 실시하였다. 이를 위해 브랜드 커뮤니티의 대표적 사례인 방탄소년단 팬 커뮤니티 '아미' 41명을 대상으로 심층 인터뷰를진행하였다. 분석 결과, 브랜드 커뮤니티 구성원의 적극적인 브랜드 커뮤니티 활동을 위해서는 첫째, 구성원이 양질의 심미적 체험을 할 수 있는 브랜드 관련 다양한 콘텐츠를 제공하고, 둘째, 회원 간 상호작용과 정보 교류를 원활하게 할 수 있는 장을 제공하여 브랜드에 대한 관심을 함께 나누면서 재미와 행복감을 누릴 수 있도록 하는 것이 중요하다. 셋째, 브랜드 커뮤니티가 단순히 브랜드를 사랑하는 팬 공동체에 머무르지 않고 장기적인 관점에서 기업과 함께 브랜드 가치 공동창출에 기여하는 파트너로 성장하기 위해서는 커뮤니티 활동을 통해 구성원의 자아존중감이나 성취감을 함양할 수 있는 방법도 함께 모색하는 것이 필요하다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.1-29
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• 2007

The brand-based online community recently plays an important roles for consumers to facilitates searching and sharing information among them. Firms often find such a brand community as a critical channel to gain collective intelligence for developing new ideas and products. As a new web platform such as web 2.0 has been introduced, consumers could more easily participate in the new social networks created by sharing mutual value and belief among themselves. Accordingly firms began to recognize potentials of online brand assets and pay attention to the importance of online brand community loyalty. Previous research related to online community tends to focus on identifying the antecedents of community loyalty and their subsequent impacts on brand. They, however, tend to neglect the importance of individual characteristics of online community users. As integrating the fragmented variables with an individual characteristics, therefore, this study reexamined the impacts of interactivity, information, reward, and personalization services provided by an online brand community on the sense of community, community loyalty, and brand attitude. Also, this study investigated how users' individual characteristics(need for cognition: NFC) can play moderating roles among the variables identified in the previous research. A field survey was administrated and 671 valid samples were collected. In order to test the hypothesis we conducted the multi-sample structural equation modeling(MSEM) between two groups(a group with high vs. a group with low level of NFC). Results show that previously identified variables such as interactivity, information, reward, and personalization services have significant effects on the sense of community as previous research demonstrated. Subsequently, the sense of community positively influences the community loyalty and brand attitude. However, when considering the NFC as a moderating variable, we found that the effect of interactivity and reward service on the sense of community was stronger for a group with a lower level of NFC compared to a group with a higher level, while the effect of information providing service on the sense of community was stronger for a group with a higher level of NFC compared to a group with a lower level. This research revealed that NFC can affect the degree of individual perception on the sense of community which has been considered as an important indicator for the community loyalty and brand attitude. Hence, when firms developing customer relation strategy through building an online brand community, they need to reflect customers' NFC and accordingly provide varying degree of interactivity, information, reward, and personalization services.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.35-49
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• 2022

Purpose - According to the recently changing consumer smart environment and consumer decision-making process, this study investigates the structural relationship between electronic(online) WOM information characteristics and brand community experience value types on specific brand reliability and brand transformation. In particular, the characteristics of word of mouth information and the experience value of brand community users were divided into detailed fac tors and approached. Methodology - In order to proceed with this study, we review previous studies and setting hypotheses. The hypothesis was verified through a survey that was conducted for the consumers with online consumption activities in less than six months. With reference to previous studies, operational definition was made for the questionnaire design. In order to verify the hypothesis, 282 people were statistically analyzed through the survey This data were used for AMOS for confirm hypothesis established. Results - eWOM information characteristics were classified into usefulness, timeliness and un-bias, and online community experience values were classified into interaction, playfulness, and virtuality. In addition, it is to investigate the relationship between the brand reliability and user's experience value in brad community. The main results are as follows. The first result was that usefulness and un-bias, which are the eWOM information characteristics had a positive effect on forming brand reliability. However, the factor of timeliness did not affect brand reliability. Second, in terms of user experience value and brand reliability in the brand community. It was fo und that experience values such as interaction, playfulness, and vituality all had a positive influence on brand reliability. Third, it was found that brand reliability has a positive influence on the on-line conversion activity of users. Conclusions - Through this study, the field of online consumer behavior research is expanding, and this study suggested that careful management is necessary according to the type or characteristics of eWOM information. Additionally, it presents the importance of the user's empirical value in the brand community influencing brand attitude and reliability. In practice, the implementation of the marketing communication mix in digital marketing has recently been underway to enhance the conversion behavior of users. At this level, it also reveals the preceding factors that increase user conversion behavior.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제21권
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• pp.209-237
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• 2007

This research intends to check what value and convenience the on-line brand community members pursue and how such value and convenience affects brand affection. Researching on-line brand community members of ipod, it was found that their value and convenience is composed of 3 types, namely, functional value, emotional value and self-expression value and the concept of brand affection is composed of 3 subsidiary factors, namely, 'love', 'interest' and 'immersion.' Checking how the functional, emotional and self-expression convenience of on-line brand community members affected brand affection, the following result was found. First, functional value and convenience has significant influence on the love affection only at the level of brand affection and has no influence on the relational and immersion affection. Second, self-expression value and convenience has significant influence only on the love affection of brand like functional value and convenience. Third, it was found that emotional value has significant influence on the 3 dimensions of brand affection, namely, love affection, interest affection and immersion affection.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.399-409
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of virtual community participation and engagement in the brand decision by building community and brand trust. In this study, two theories (Social Capital Theory and Theory of Collective Action) were tested. Both theories were linked based on existing literature, and empirical evidence was obtained through testing hypotheses. Students from five prestigious Pakistani business schools provided a total of 849 replies. The measurement model and structural model were both analyzed using the partial least square (PLS) method. The findings show that virtual community engagement and participation have a positive and significant impact on virtual community trust. Although virtual community engagement has a positive effect on brand trust, we found no evidence of a link between virtual community participation and brand trust. Later, these trusts positively influence brand choice. This study has several managerial implications. The suggested model of this study helps managers to get customers' insight, choose the right target market, and set integrated marketing communication strategies besides social media marketing strategies. The study represents a new perspective of consumer behavior that helps to understand how a customer behaves in virtual communities to trust and take the final decision to purchase.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.916-927
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to identify psychological and behavioral outcomes of commitment to apparel brand community by test structural equation model. Subjects of 317 members for 9 selected apparel communities responded the questionnaire in the home-page or in the attached file. The results were as follows: 1) The suggested structural equation mode was accepted by data from apparel brand communities with hish brand strength(${\chi}^2=97.42$, d.f.=89, p=0.25, GFI=0.92, AGFI=0.88, RMR=0.05, NFI=0.94). However, this model wasn't accepted by data kom apparel brand communities with low brand strength. 2) Three types of commitment to brand community(emotional, continuous and normative commitments) influenced brand identification positively and brand identification positively influenced three types of behavioral outcomes(favorable word-of-mouth, co-production and repurchase of brand). Therefore, managements need to develop marketing programs to promote each type of commitment to their's own brand community.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.241-249
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• 2009

최근 인터넷의 성장으로 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티가 기업의 브랜드 자산을 구축하는데 중요한 수단이 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 브랜드 커뮤니티유형에 따라 신뢰도, 동일시 및 브랜드 태도와의 영향관계를 파악하고자 하였다. 실증분석결과 첫째 고객자발형 커뮤니티가 기업개설형 보다 신뢰도와 동일성이 더 높게 나타났으며 브랜드 태도에 대해서도 더 호의적으로 평가되었다. 둘째, 커뮤니티 신뢰도에 대한 커뮤니티 유형과 커뮤니티 활동의 상호작용효과가 유의한 것으로 나타났으며, 커뮤니티 동일시에 대해서도 동일한 결과가 확인되었다. 따라서, 기업은 온라인상에서 효과적인 브랜드 관리를 위하여 커뮤니티 유형을 고려한 소비자의 신뢰도와 동일시 정도를 향상시키는 전략이 필요하다.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.27-52
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• 2010

본 연구는 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티에 대한 이용 동기(정서적 동기, 사회적 동기, 정보적 동기)가 플로우에 미치는 영향력 차이는 어떻게 나타나며, 플로우를 매개하여 브랜드 애착과 브랜드 몰입에는 어떠한 구조적 관계가 나타나는지를 살펴보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 구조방정식 모형(Structural Equation Model) 중에서 두 경로 간 크기를 통계적으로 검증할 수 있는 위계적 카이스퀘어 분석(hierarchical chi-squal analysis)을 통해 가설을 검증하였다. 첫째, 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티의 이용 동기가 플로우에 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있음을 확인하였다. 특히 본 연구에서는 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티의 이용 동기를 정서적 동기, 사회적 동기, 정보적 동기 나누어 살펴보았는데, 사회적 동기와 정서적 동기가 플로우에 가장 많은 영향력을 행사하였으며, 정보적 동기가 플로우에 미치는 영향은 이들 두 이용 동기보다 상대적으로 미약하였다. 둘째, 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티의 이용 동기를 통해 형성된 플로우는 커뮤니티 동일시와 브랜드 애착에 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있음을 확인하였다. 셋째, 커뮤니티 동일시가 브랜드 애착에 미치는 영향은 매우 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티의 이용 동기를 통해 형성된 플로우는 커뮤니티 동일시를 통해 브랜드에 애착된다고 볼 수 있다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.165-174
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• 2012

온라인 커뮤니티는 기업이 고객과의 관계형성, 유지, 발전을 위해 중요한 방법이 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티 특성 및 의식이 소비자 커뮤니티의 충성도와 구매의도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 연구하였다. 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티 특성 요인으로 커뮤니티 명성, 사회적 실재감, 즐거움, 상호작용성을 고려하였다. 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티 의식으로는 멤버십, 영향력, 정서적 유대, 욕구의 충족을 구성변수로 제시하였다. 연구 결과 온라인 브랜드 커뮤니티는 고객과 브랜드와의 관계를 공고히 하여 브랜드 자산에 긍정적인 영향을 미치고, 결국 고객과 기업 관계를 발전시켜 기업에게 경쟁적 우위와 전략적 자원의 원천을 제공할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 융합경영연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2023

Purpose: This study identified the effects of the three types of consumer interactions on the utilitarian and hedonic values experienced by community members, their degree of participation, and brand loyalty. In addition, the mediating effect of virtual interactivity between the interactions that occur within the online brand community and the value experienced by community members was also identified. Research design, data and methodology: An online survey was distributed, and the data gathered was analyzed using structural equations modeling. Results: Test results showed that product-information interaction has a positive effect on utilitarian value and interpersonal interaction has a positive effect on hedonic value. Human-computer interaction was found to have a negative effect on hedonic value and no significant effect on utilitarian value. Furthermore, it was revealed that among the three types of interactions, virtual interactivity had a mediating effect only in the relationship between human-computer interaction and hedonic value. Moreover, utilitarian values experienced by community members affected their level of participation which ultimately enhances brand loyalty. Hedonic value did not affect their level of participation within the online brand community. Conclusions: When marketers establish online brand community strategies, they must place elements that can directly help the use of brands and products.