• 한국의류학회지
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.1242-1252
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• 2010

This research investigates the effect of fashion leadership on Word of Mouth (WOM) communications on the Internet. This research categorizes consumers into groups by fashion leadership and compares the groups regarding the WOM behavior (degrees of WOM acceptance and delivery as well as the motivations of WOM acceptance and delivery). The subjects of the study were 325 males and females. Major statistical methods used for the study were factor analysis, ANOVA, Scheff$\acute{e}$'s test, and chi-square test. The results categorized consumers into five groups by fashion leadership (dual leaders, fashion innovators, fashion opinion leaders, fashion followers, and fashion laggards). There were significant differences among fashion leadership groups over WOM behavior (acceptance and delivery) and monthly clothing expenditures. Fashion dual leaders had a higher degree of WOM acceptance with motivation of fashion information acquisition and compliance, and they had a higher degree of WOM delivery through motivation of economic compensation, pleasure, and advice. In addition, they had a higher expenditure for clothing products. Fashion innovators had a lower degree of compliance in WOM acceptance. Fashion opinion leaders had a higher degree of WOM delivery through motivation from advice. Fashion followers delivered WOM through motivation of economic compensation and advice. Fashion laggards had a lower degree of WOM acceptance and delivery.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.113-127
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• 2021

본 연구는 온라인 쇼핑몰에서 리뷰의 속성을 평점, 댓글의 양 및 이미지정보로 분류하여 브랜드 태도와 구매결정 및 온라인 구전의도에 미치는 영향을 검증하였다. SPSS 23.0을 이용하여 빈도분석, 요인분석, 회귀분석 등을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, 리뷰 속성이 브랜드 태도, 구매결정 및 온라인 구전의도에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것이 확인되었으나 댓글의 양은 구매결정에 영향을 미치지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 브랜드 태도는 구매결정에, 온라인 구전의도에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것이 확인되었다. 더불어 평점, 이미지정보와 구매결정 간의 영향관계에서, 또한 리뷰 속성과 온라인 구전의도 간의 영향관계에서 브랜드 태도의 매개효과가 확인되었다. 이와 같은 결과는 소비자가 무조건 댓글의 양이 많은 것을 선호하지 않으며, 리뷰를 작성할 때 최대한 높은 평점과 포토후기에 초점을 맞출 수 있도록 해야 함을 시사한다.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.149-162
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• 2021

Nowadays, the cosmetic and fashion industries are paying attention to influencer marketing on Instagram. In this study, we determined whether electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) communications were affected by the following parameters: the influencer's information source, message sidedness, and consumer's regulatory focus. The experimental design of this study is a three-way mixed ANOVA, which comprises of 2 (influencer information source: expert vs general consumer) × 2 (message sidedness: two-sided message vs one-sided message) × 2 (consumer regulatory focus: promotion focus vs prevention focus) structure. The data for this research study was obtained by distributing a questionnaire to 410 subjects. The participants were aged between 20 and 39 years and lived in Seoul and Gyeonggi areas. In total, the data of 396 subjects was analyzed with the help of SPSS 25.0 statistical program: frequency analysis, reliability analysis, t-test, three-way ANOVA, and simple main effect analysis were performed. The analysis results were as follows: First, influencer information sources and consumer regulatory focus exhibited a significant interaction with consumers' e-WOM intentions. Second, message sidedness and consumer's regulatory focus exhibited a significant interaction with e-WOM intentions. Third, influencer information source and message sidedness exhibited a significant interaction with consumers' e-WOM intentions. Based on these findings, the type of influencer's information source and the consumer's regulatory focus was taken into consideration while marketing cosmetics on Instagram. Moreover, influencer marketing strategies must be used to evaluate message sidedness. This would help us gauge the consumer's attitude towards advertisements.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.131-154
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• 2013

New internet technologies have created a revolutionary new platform which allows consumers to make decision about product price and quality quickly and provides information about themselves through the transcript of online reviews. By expressing their feelings toward products or services on virtual opinion platforms, users extend their influence into cyberspace as electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM). Existing research indicates that an impact of eWOM on the consumer decision process is influential. For both academic researchers and practitioners, investigating this phenomenon of information sharing in online website is essential given the increasing number of consumers using them as sources of purchase decisions. It is worthwhile to examine the extent to which opinion seekers are willing to accept and adopt online reviews and which factors encourage adoption. Discerning the most motivating aspects of information adoption in particular, could help electronic marketers better promote their brand and presence on the internet. The objectives of this study are to investigate how online WOM influences a persons' purchase decision by discovering which factors encourage information adoption. Especially focused on the self-efficacy, this research investigates how self-efficacy affects on information usefulness and adoption of online information. Although people are exposed to same review or comment about product or service, some accept the reviews while others do not. We notice that accepting online reviews mainly depends on the person's preference or personal characteristics. This study empirically examines this issue by using cognitive dissonance theory. Specifically, in the movie industry, we address few questions-is always positive WOM generating positive effect? What if the movie isn't the person's favorite genre? What if the person who is very self-assertive so doesn't take other's opinion easily? In these cases of cognitive dissonance, is always WOM generating same result? While many studies have focused on one direct of WOM which indicates positive (or negative) informative reviews or comments generate positive (or negative) results and more (or less) profits, this study investigates not only directional properties of WOM but also how people change their opinion towards product or service positive to negative, negative to positive through the online WOM. An experiment was conducted quantitatively by using a sample of 168 users who have experience within the online movie review site, 'Naver Movie'. Users were required to complete a survey regarding reviews and comments taken from the real movie page. The data reflected user's perceptions of online WOM information that determined users' adoption level. Analysis results provide empirical support for the proposed theoretical perspective. When user can't agree with the opinion of online WOM information, in other words, when cognitive dissonance between online WOM information and users' preference occurs, perceived self-efficacy significantly decreases customers' perception of usefulness. And this perception of usefulness plays an important role in determining users' intention to adopt online WOM information. Most of researches have been concentrated on characteristics of online WOM itself such as quality or vividness of information, credibility of source and direction of online WOM, etc. for describing effect of online WOM, but our results suggest that users' personal character (e.g., self-efficacy) plays decisive role for acceptance of online WOM information. Higher self-efficacy means lower possibility to accept the information that represents counter opinion because of cognitive dissonance, whereas the people that have lower self-efficacy are willing to accept the online WOM information as true and refer to purchase decision. This study suggests a model for understanding role of direction of online WOM information. Also, our result implicates the importance of online review supervision and personalized information service by confirming switching opinion negative to positive is more difficult than positive to negative through the online WOM information. This implication would help marketers to manage online reviews of their products or services.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.662-670
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• 2016

본 연구는 모바일과 SNS기반에 따른 온라인 구전의 영향력이 커짐에 따라, SNS를 통해 기업의 위기가 순식간에 사회전체로 확산되고 있음을 주목하였다. 페이스북 팬페이지 상에서의 온라인 구전에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 소비자 심리적 기제요인들을 실증적으로 규명하여, 예기치 못한 기업 위기관리에 기제로서 기능을 할 수 있는지를 검증해보고자 하였다. 따라서 기업위기 발생 전에 팬페이지 이용자들의 진정성, 팬페이지동일시, 상호작용성이 온라인 구전확산에 영향을 미치는가를 알아보고, 기업위기 발생 후에 팬페이지 이용자들의 진정성, 팬페이지동일시, 상호작용성이 부정적 온라인 구전감소에 영향을 미치는가를 알아보았다. 팬페이지 이용자 20~30대 남 여 290명을 분석한 결과, 기업위기 발생 전과 후에 진정성, 팬페이지동일시, 상호작용성에서 차이가 나타났으며, 기업위기 발생 전에는 진정성, 팬페이지동일시, 상호작용성 모두 온라인 구전확산에 긍정적인 영향이 나타났다. 반면 기업위기 발생 후에는 진정성과 상호작용성이 부정적 온라인 구전감소에 강한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과를 토대로 관계마케팅 혹은 위기커뮤니케이션 측면에서 진정성, 팬페이지동일시 그리고 상호작용성의 기능을 제안하였다.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.493-511
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• 2011

본 연구는 중국소비자들의 문화성향이 SNSs(Social Networking Sites)에서의 온라인 구전(eWOM) 행동에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 가를 분석하기 위해 실시되었다. 실증분석 결과 나타난 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 중국소비자의 집단주의 성향과 SNSs에서의 eWOM 행동 간의 관계에 관한 가설1, 2, 3을 실증 분석한 결과, 중국소비자의 집단주의성향은 SNS에서의 의견탐색행동과 통계적으로 유의한 정(+)의 관계를 가지는 것으로 나타나 가설1은 채택되었다. 그러나 중국소비자의 집단주의 성향과 의견선도 및 의견전달행동 간의 관계에 대한 가설2와 가설3은 통계적으로도 유의하지 않아 기각되었다. 다음으로 중국소비자의 불확실성 회피성향과 SNSs에서의 온라인 구전행동 간의 관계에 대한 가설4, 5, 6은 모두 가설에서 설정한 방향과 동일한 방향성을 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 의견탐색행동, 의견선도행동, 의견전달행동 간의 관계에 대한 가설7, 8, 9에 대한 검정결과, 의견선도행동이 의견전달행동에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 중국시장에서 SNSs를 활용한 마케팅 전략의 성공 가능성을 높이기 위해, 중국소비자의 어떠한 문화적 성향에 초점을 맞춰야 할 것인가에 대한 실무적 함의점을 제공 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 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.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.233-254
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• 2011

Although e-commerce is growing fast, e-commerce consumers are still under higher risk and uncertainty in the comparison of the traditional commerce's. Consumer review boards of online shopping malls are good measures to help buyer's decision making, and should be managed effectively by sellers. We formulate the research model on consumer trust formation on seller managed web review boards on the background of previous literatures on e-WOM and trust. Our data analysis with 368 samples shows seller's reputation, e-service quality, perceived reviewer's benevolence and ability have significant positive effect on the trustworthiness of the board. Product involvement shows weak negative moderation effect on the relationship between perceived reviewer's benevolence and trustworthiness of review boards.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.77-98
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• 2017

The development of mobile social networking service (SNS) triggers the growth of social commerce industry. Customers rely considerably on electronic word of mouth (eWOM) to make purchasing decisions. Thus, SNS is an important commercial platform that offers attractive opportunities and challenges to firms. This study sheds light on the role of SNS as a social commerce platform by focusing on WeChat, the most popular SNS in China. This study identifies three different types of trust based on SNS that customers perceive in the context of social commerce. These types of trust are contents trust, source trust, and platform trust. This study suggests the antecedents and consequences of each trust. Our results prove that eWOM intention relies on contents trust and source trust, whereas purchase intention depends on contents trust, source trust, and platform trust. This study also finds that contents trust is positively influenced by source trust and platform trust. Finally, the result verifies the key antecedents of each trust, namely, vividness and timeliness for contents trust, competence, benevolence, and integrity for source trust, and instrumental need and social need for platform trust. The discussion and implications on the findings are provided.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.223-233
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• 2024

본 연구에서는 정보 제시, 시스템 상호 작용, 소셜 커뮤니티 기능의 역할에 초점을 맞춰 개인화 추천 시스템이 전자 상거래에서 고객 충성도에 미치는 영향을 조사합나다. 이러한 요소들이 플로 상태, 입소문(WOM), 재구매 의도(RPI)에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 살펴봅니다. 이 연구는 구조방정식 모델(SEM)과 500명의 응답자로부터 수집한 데이터를 SPSS와 AMOS를 사용하여 세 가지 개인화 측면이 모두 플로상태를 크게 향상시키고, 이는 다시 WOM과 RPI에 긍정적인 영향을 미친다는 사실을 발견했습니다. 시스템 상호작용은 WOM과 RPI를 직접적으로 향상시키는 반면, 정보 제공과 소셜 커뮤니티 기능은 이러한 충성도 측정치 중 하나에만 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났습니다. 플로 상태는 개인화 요소와 충성도 결과 사이의 관계를 매개합니다. 이러한 연구 결과는 전자 상거래 플랫폼이 고객 충성도를 높이기 위해 시스템 상호작용을 개선하고 소셜 커뮤니티 기능을 포함해야 함을 시사합니다.