• Title/Summary/Keyword: Social Commmerce

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Exploring Korean Collegians' Social Commerce Usage: Extending Technology Acceptance Model with Word-of-Mouth and Perceived Enjoyment (우리나라 대학생의 소셜커머스 이용에 대한 탐색: 구전효과와 인지적 즐거움으로 확장한 기술수용모형의 적용)

  • Joo, Jihyuk
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.147-155
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    • 2014
  • Social commerce is a combination of social media and shopping. Social commerce, based on Web 2.0 technologies, has the various potentials, which is the factor attracting customers. In Korea, collegians are more active user of social media, in turn, are estimated more active customer in social commerce context. Present research explored what made Korean collegians use social commerce with extending technology acceptance model(TAM) with word-of-mouth(WOM) and perceived enjoyment(PE). We found that WOM affected indirectly the intention to use(ITU) with mediating PE, in turn, PE has a positive effect on the all of constructs in TAM. Accordingly, TAM extended with WOM and PE is validated in social commerce context. Finally, based on the findings, implications and suggestions for future studies are discussed.