• 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.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the impact of Brand Anthropomorphism and Intimacy on Brand Engagement, and at the same time analyze the regulatory effect of Brand Reputation on the relationship between Brand Anthropomorphism and Intimacy and the relationship between Intimacy and Brand Engagement in terms of distribution brand. Results: The findings show that Brand Anthropomorphism, Intimacy, and Brand Reputation are important value factors in customers' minds toward their behavior, and from there, they will contribute to creating positive emotions and interactions between consumers and brands. Research design, data, and methodology: This article used the quantitative technique utilizing PLS-SEM software to test the hypothesis with 1,060 samples. Collected data shows that consumers in Ho Chi Minh City have positive emotions and interactive and social behaviors toward smartphone brands. Conclusion: The study has demonstrated the conclusions and proposed solutions to help smartphone brands build Brand Anthropomorphism while enhancing Brand Reputation thereby achieving Intimacy, which leads to consumer Brand Engagement. In addition, this study complements the concept of Brand Anthropomorphism which is lacking in theoretical background and is the first study in Vietnam to explore the prefixes and suffixes of the concept of Brand Anthropomorphism and the regulatory role of Brand Reputation.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2024

Purpose: The primary aim of this study is to explore how social media marketing influences customer purchase intention, focusing on the roles of customer engagement and trust as mediators. Research Design, Data, and Methodology: The investigation utilized an online survey conducted in Chinese on the Questionnaire Star platform. It targeted male and female consumers aged 18 and above who purchase products online, yielding 1107 valid responses from across major Chinese cities. Results: Analysis reveals that social media marketing significantly affects customer purchase intention in a positive manner. It also enhances customer engagement and trust, which serve as crucial mediating variables linking social media marketing to purchase intention. The study found that engagement and trust facilitate brand identification and alignment, thereby directly boosting purchase intention. Conclusion: The findings offer essential insights for businesses aiming to improve their social media marketing impact on consumer behavior. It highlights the importance of fostering user engagement and trust, as well as creating a favorable brand image. These elements are key to influencing consumer purchase decisions within social media contexts. The study advises businesses to engage deeply with consumers and build trust, providing practical recommendations for navigating the evolving social media environment towards sustainable growth.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.30-46
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• 2020

최근 모바일 등 다양한 디지털 매체를 기반으로 하는 1인 미디어 인터넷 방송의 영향력이 갈수록 증대되고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 1인 미디어 인터넷 방송의 이용 동기와 사회적 시청이 방송에 노출된 브랜드 태도, 브랜드 관여 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향에 대해 살펴보았다. 설문조사를 통해 총 247명의 대학생을 표본으로 선정하였으며, 연구가설 검증을 위해 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구 결과 1인 미디어 인터넷 방송 이용 동기인 차별성, 사회적 교류, 상호작용추구, 정보추구 및 새로운 재미추구가 브랜드 태도에 정적인 영향을 주었다. 또 새로운 재미추구를 제외하고 동일한 시청 동기가 브랜드 관여에 정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 구매의 도의 경우 상호작용추구와 정보추구 동기만이 정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 한편 사회적 시청 요인 분석 결과 브랜드 태도와 구매의도에 의사사회적 상호작용, 사회적 실재감 및 주관적 규범 3가지 요인 모두가 정적 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났으며, 브랜드 관여는 의사사회적 상호작용과 사회적 실재감에 의해서만 영향을 받는 것으로 확인되었다. 본 연구는 1인 미디어 인터넷 방송을 활용한 브랜드 노출 효과 및 소비자 반응에 관한 이론적, 실무적 함의와 시사점을 제공해 줄 것이다.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.173-193
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• 2024

This study adopts organismic integration theory (OIT) to classify and contrast the predominant roles of five motivations (i.e., economic incentives, self-presentation, information acquisition, altruism, and enjoyment) in fostering three levels of behavioral engagement on brand-related social media content. This study further examines the moderating effect of personality (thinkers vs. feelers) on these relationships. The results of PLS-SEM reveal the greater impact of autonomous motivations on content consumption (enjoyment and information acquisition) and content contribution and creation (altruism and information acquisition), compared with controlled motivations (self-presentation and economic incentives). This study also finds that thinkers mostly engage on brand-related content for information acquisition and economic incentives, whereas feelers are mostly driven by enjoyment for content consumption and by altruism for content contribution and creation. This study addresses the inconsistency in prior research findings and provides practical implications to social media marketers.

• Fashion, Industry and Education
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2017

The proliferation of social media has given rise to the new consumer group, namely, social consumers. This study identified the distinct characteristics of social consumers (i.e., online social search, online social navigation, online social connection) and examined the impacts of social consumer attributes on the engagement with fashion brands via brands' SNSs (BSNSs). A sample of 141 U.S. consumers who had browsed and/or participated in a fashion brand's BSNS (i.e., the Facebook page for fashion brands) was used to examine hypothesized relationships. The analyses involved running a confirmatory factor analysis and a structural equation modeling. The result indicates that the impacts of the social consumer attributes on the benefits of BSNSs (i.e., experiential and functional benefits) as perceived by consumers were significant, except the link between online social connection and functional benefits. In addition, consumers' existing relationship with a brand served as a moderating variable, strengthening the impacts of social consumer attributes on BSNS benefits. The perceived benefits of BSNSs positively affected perceived relationship investment which in turn influenced brand loyalty. Practical marketing suggestions are provided for fashion brands.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.88-103
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• 2017

The rapid growth in the popularity of social media sites has meant that social media has become an important communication channel for brands. Brands create brand pages on social media to cultivate positive and strong relationships with consumers. This study seeks to enhance our understanding of how fashion brand pages in social media foster consumer-brand relationships by exploring the factors that affect the development of consumer-brand relationships. Drawing on the parasocial interaction theory, this study proposes parasocial interaction as a key factor of this process. Specifically, this study proposes four antecedents (vividness, interactivity, social presence, and focused attention) of consumers' parasocial interaction with brand pages, which further affects consumer responses in terms of affective engagement and brand loyalty. An online survey was administered with consumers who have followed and visited at least one fashion brand page via a social networking site (SNS). Structural equation modeling revealed that consumers' perceptions of vividness, interactivity, social presence, and focused attention on a fashion brand page positively affected their feelings towards parasocial interaction with the brand page, which in turn led to their affective engagement with the brand page and consequent brand loyalty. These findings suggest that consumers build relationships of varying degrees with brand pages in a similar manner to that with people, which leads to their development of a positive relationship with the brand. This study concludes with discussions and practical implications.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.157-172
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to explore the moderating effect of food safety scandals on the relationship between food company's Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) engagement at different levels and brand image in the Chinese dairy company context. In addition, this study also examined the mediating effect of brand image on CSR engagement and consumer loyalty. The study adopted a $2{\times}2$ between-subjects experimental design using scenarios. Four scenarios provided a mixed combination of yes or no cases for food safety scandal, and high or low cases for a dairy company's CSR engagement. In this study, survey was used to collect data from Chinese consumers. Of these, 377 valid data were collected from a sample of average Chinese consumers over the age of 20, collected through the internet. The results show that CSR engagement at different levels has a significant effect on brand image and food safety scandal has a significant moderating effect on the relationship between the two. This study expanded the previous study on the sensitivity of consumers to CSR activities in eastern China. At the same time, according to the results of the study, different CSR engagement of food enterprises does have a significant impact on brand image and consumer loyalty. In particular, high CSR engagement reduces negative impact on brand image through the moderating effect of food safety scandals. Therefore, for food business managers, actively participate in CSR activities, and actively enhance the engagement has a significant influence on the management of brand image.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.141-160
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 한국 화장품의 구매의도에 대한 소셜미디어 마케팅 활동의 효과를 실증적으로 검증하고자 한다. 소셜미디어의 사용이 증가함에 따라 기업이 소비자와 브랜드를 연결하는 마케팅 방식이 변하고 있다. 따라서 소셜미디어 마케팅 활동이 소비자의 소셜브랜드 참여, 브랜드 자산 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 분석할 필요가 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 한국 화장품 회사들의 소셜미디어 마케팅 활동이 브랜드 자산과 소셜브랜드 참여를 통해 소비자의 화장품 구매의도에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 분석하는 것이다. 선행 연구를 통해 소셜미디어 마케팅 활동을 포함한 구성개념들을 정의하고 설문문항을 개발하였다. 총 332개의 설문지를 수집하여 이중 불성실하게 작성된 설문지를 제외한 219개의 설문데이터를 사용하여 분석을 수행하였다. 분석결과 5개의 소셜미디어 마케팅 활동은 브랜드자산, 소셜브랜드 참여 그리고 구매의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구를 통해 화장품 회사들은 소셜미디어를 활용한 마케팅 활동을 강화하고 이를 통한 브랜드자산의 축적과 사용자의 소셜브랜드 참여를 유도하는 것이 중요하다는 점을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2017

Purpose Facebook is a social network service that has the highest number of Monthly Active Users around the world. Hence, marketers have selected Facebook as the most important platform to get customer engagement. With respect to the customer engagement enhancement, the most popular and engaging post type in the Facebook brand fan pages related to what was usually classified as 'sweepstakes'. Sweepstakes refer to a form of gambling where the entire prize may be awarded to the winner. Which makes customers more engaged with the brand. This study aims to explore sweepstakes-oriented social media marketing approaches based on the application of big data analytics. Design/methodology/approach we collect sweepstakes data from each company based on the data crawling from the Facebook brand fan pages. The output of this study explains how companies in each category of FCB grid can design and apply sweepstakes for their social media marketing. Findings The results show that they have one thing in common across the four quadrants of FCB grid. Regardless of the quadrants, most frequently observed type is 'Simple/Quiz or Comments/Quatrains [event type of sweepstakes] + Gifticon [type of reward prize] + Image [type of message display] + No URL [Link toother website] +Single-Gift-Offer [type of reward prize payment]'. So, if the position of the brand is hard to be defined by the FCB grid model, then this general rule can be applied to all types of brands. Also some differences between the quadrants of the FCB grid were observed. This study offers several research implications by analyzing Sweepstakes-oriented social media marketing approaches in Facebook brand fan pages. By using the FCB grid model, this study provides guidance on how companies can design their sweepstakes-oriented social media marketing approaches in the context of Facebook brand fan pages by considering their context.