• 통상정보연구
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.23-41
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• 2006

The present paper aims to examine the Influences of on line word of mouth(WOM) information valence and information contents to the information searcher. Specially, to examine the interaction effect it's two variables. For that purpose, we categorize WOM information valence into two subcategories; positive and negative, and WOM content into two subcategories; objective evaluation and subjective evaluation. We conducted experimentation design 2*2 and subjects are asked to their attitude and purchase intention after they are exposed each of four different types of WOM information. The result can be summarized as follow; First, the negative WOM has stronger effect on consumer's attitude and purchase intention than positive. Second, factual WOM has stronger effect on consumer's attitude and purchase intention than subject. Finally, when consumer face negative WOM, subjective WOM has more effect on consumer's attitude and purchase intention than factual. On the contrary, when consumer face positive WOM, factual WOM has more effect on consumer's attitude and purchase intention than subject. In conclusion, the korean Foreign Trade Act and other relative acts should be revised, and both educational services and health services should be contained within the definition of "the international trade" for the governmental benefits of supporting the services exportation.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.478-493
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to examine the online WOM effect of blog review depending on brand awareness and message direction. The theory of planned behavior was applied to understand online WOM acceptance. A survey was conducted targeting female in 20s and 30s and 312 questionnaires were used for analysis. Frequency analysis, reliability analysis, t-test, and regression analysis were conducted using SPSS ver. 18.0. The results are as follows. First, purchase intention and online re-WOM intention are higher when brand awareness is higher. Second, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, WOM acceptance intention, purchase intention and off-line re-WOM intention show higher values when negative information is afforded. Third, in type 1 (high brand awareness/positive message) and type 3 (low brand awareness/positive message), attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control have a positive effect on WOM acceptance intention. In type 2 (high brand awareness/negative message), subjective norm and attitude have a positive effect on WOM acceptance intention. In type 4 (low brand awareness/negative message), subjective norm and perceived behavioral control have a positive effect on WOM acceptance intention. Forth, in type 1 and type 3, WOM acceptance intention has a positive effect on purchase intention, offline re-WOM intention and online re-WOM intention. In type 2 and type 4, WOM acceptance intention has a negative effect on purchase intention, and a positive effect on offline re-WOM intention. The results show that blog review has ripple effect on consumer behavior by affecting purchase intention and offline re-WOM intention.

• 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.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.73-92
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• 2009

소비자들은 때로 특정 제품에 대한 정보들을 다른 소비자에게 전달하여 그들의 제품 선택에 영향을 미치는 전달자 역할을 한다. 본 연구는 구전 전달자로서 소비자가 다른 소비자에게 전달하는 제품 정보를 주관적 (긍정적 또는 부정적) 정보와 객관적 정보로 구분하여, 소비자가 어떤 정보를 어떤 경우 더욱 활발히 전달하는 지를 분석하고자 한다. 본 연구는 이를 위해, 소비자의 메시지 전달 행위를 제품 선택과 같이 또 다른 형태의 선택 행위로 보고, 고객의 제품 구매 선택 행위를 연구하는 데 주로 적용되어 온 소비자 선택 모형(consumer choice model)를 이용하여 소비자의 메시지 전파(구전) 활동을 분석하였다. 소비자 선택 모형을 이용하여, 구전 전달자들이 제품에 관한 객관적 정보와 주관적 평가를 언제 더욱 많이 확산 시키는 지를 알아보고, 더 나아가서는 소비자들이 제품 관련 정보를 확산하는 과정에 구전 활동을 더욱 활성화 또는 약화시키는 요인이 무엇인지를 살펴 보았다. 본 연구는 실증 분석 결과를 통해, 구전 전달자의 메시지 확산 행위는 정보를 획득하게 된 경로/원천(source)의 유형에 따라 더욱 활발해 지거나 위축될 수 있다는 점을 발견하였다. 또한, 이러한 구전 활동은 전달하는 제품관련 메시지가 주관적 제품 평가에 관한 것인지 아니면 제품에 대한 객관적 정보인지에 따라 그 정도가 달라진다. 본 연구의 결과가 의미하는 바는, 소비자의 제품에 관한 메시지 확산 활동은 소비자의 구전 메시지 선택 행위에 영향을 미치는 효과적인 커뮤니케이션 계획을 통하여 더욱 확산 또는 위축시킬 수 있다는 점을 보여준다. 본 연구는 기업이 확산되기를 바라는 제품 정보가 구전을 통하여 효과적으로 확산되도록 계획을 수립하는 데 필요한 방법론을 제공하고 있으며, 실증 분석 결과를 기반으로 제품구전의 성공적인 확산을 위한 커뮤니케이션 전략 수립에 필요한 가이드라인을 제공하여 준다.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.25-36
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare visiting intentions by positive and negative Word-of-Mouth (WOM) and/or information of beauty shop between female college students and adult women. Data were collected from 500 consumers (250 from female students and 250 adult women) and was analyzed by using frequencies, factor analysis, t-tests and multiple regression utilizing SPSS/PC+. The findings revealed positive experience factors to prudent service, time saving/consideration for customer's position, kindness/operating system in waiting time, added services, employees' attitudes, excellent beauty and response skill, rational price and recall system/remind for customer. The negative experiences were inconsistent service, operators' convenient service, irrational price/poor skill/non-recall, non-customer central service, inappropriate face-to-face management to customer. Also, the results showed that the positive WOM information such as prudent service, time saving/consideration for customer's position, excellent beauty and response skill and rational price had influence on the visiting intention in case of female college students. The negative WOM information like non-customer central service, had influence on the visiting intention in cases of adult women.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.53-68
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• 2015

본 연구는 온라인 양면구전에 대한 실제적 파악을 통해 보다 현실성 있는 유형구분에 도움을 주는 것을 연구의 목적으로 하였다. 이를 위해 제품유형을 경험재와 탐색재로 분류한 후 총 402건의 온라인 리뷰를 수집하여 기술적 특성(방향성, 리뷰길이)과 내용 구조적 특성(제품편익, 정보제시방법)에 대해서 내용분석(Content Analysis)을 실시하였다. 연구 결과, 첫째, 양면구전의 방향성으로 긍정/부정, 부정/긍정, 긍정/부정/긍정, 부정/긍정/부정의 네 가지 유형이 관찰되었다. 둘째, 양면구전의 리뷰길이가 단면구전의 리뷰길이보다 긴 것으로 나타났으며, 제품편익에서는 단면과 양면 모두 혼합유형이 가장 높은 비율을 차지하는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 정보제시방법에서 단면구전은 총체적 표현방식이 압도적으로 많이 나타난 반면, 양면구 전에서는 혼합적, 분석적 표현방식도 상당히 높은 비율을 차지하는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 단면구전과 양면 구전 모두 정보제시 방법으로는 탐색재는 총체적 표현에 많이 치우친 반면, 경험재는 분석적, 혼합적 표현도 많이 사용하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같이 본 연구는 온라인 구전의 유형화 기준 특히 양면구전의 유형화 기준에 초점을 맞추어 연구를 진행하였다. 본 연구의 내용분석 결과를 근거로 향후 여러 가지 인과적 연구가 가능할 것이라 판단된다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.177-193
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• 2015

A great number of customers, who want to watch movies usually check out online reviews before choosing what to watch a movie. The most representative online media that customers consult are portal sites and SNS (Social Network Service). Although there have been numerous studies on online eWOM (e-Word of Mouth) and the effects of online media in businesses, it remains a question that which media is best for WOM (Word of Mouth) when selecting movies. This research examines customer's intention for consulting eWOM and for watching movies according to the number and tendency of online replies. We have compared portal sites and SNS about information of movie. The study shows that a large number of positive replies can affect the intention for WOM and choosing movies. Facebook has more influence than portal sites when choosing what to watch when replies consist of large and positive comments. However, there is no difference between the two types of media when they consist of negative comments.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.79-92
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• 2013

Word-of-mouths (WOMs) are now an important information source for purchase decision. Due to the advance in internet technology, people now can share online their consumption experience, both positive and negative, to others. The WOMs may diffuse to not only their friends but also enormous online users. When consumers dissatisfy the product or service, they may share the dissatisfactory experience to others as WOM, which may bring out discussions for the product or service. The discussions on the negative WOM may help to communicate the negative information to enormous others, which may damage the sale of the product or service. The diffusion and life cycle of negative WOM is an important issue for managers. However, few studies focus on it. Thus, the current study focuses on the discussion pattern and life cycle of negative WOMs by observing the 782 discussion articles in a large online community.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.186-201
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• 2013

This study investigates the effects of information type, direction of information, method of suggestion, tie strength, and interactions among these variables on the acceptance and diffusion of fashion product information in the mobile Facebook environment. Two subsequent studies were conducted to test the relationships among mobile SNS WOM factors. Two independent on-line surveys were implemented. Six hundred forty consumers aged between 20 and 39 were recruited for Study 1, and four hundred and eighty for Study 2. We manipulated the WOM delivery situation by information type (factual/evaluative), information directionality (positive/negative), tie-strength (strong/weak), and information presentation method (text/image/rink). Eight scenarios were developed and randomly assigned to the research participants. Frequency analysis, reliability, factor analysis, regression analysis, and ANOVA were implemented using SPSS 18.0. The Analysis of experiment data produced interesting results. Most WOM factors (including the information type, information presentation method, and tie strength) influence WOM acceptance; however, only the tie strength effected WOM activity. It was also proven that people are prone to accept information that is more realistic, objective, and negative, and they tend to accept information with visual factors, such as images and video clips rather than a simple text message. In this study, we offer a practical perspective to fashion industry and marketers who have an interest in SNS marketing. We have defined the distinct characteristics of mobile WOM that have been formed by a combination of former on/off-line WOM characteristics. To examine the moderating roles of two types of consumer innovativeness, fashion innovativeness and technology innovativeness were also measured and found to have significant moderating effects between mobile SNS WOM factors and their consequences. The paper concludes with a discussion on managerial implications and limitations.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.172-187
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• 2018

For the past decade, the convenience of sharing information online has improved drastically with the development of smart devices and social media. Such changes have contributed to regarding online word-of-mouth (WOM) as one of the most important consumer information sources. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine online WOM effects (acceptance/redelivery intention) with the two-way interaction effects of fashion involvement and the market maven. The empirical study consisted of an offline survey that collected data from 341 respondents and analyzed the data by factor analysis, independent t-test, and two-way ANOVA with SPSS 20.0, producing the following results. First, the market maven effect was found to differ significantly based on the level of fashion involvement, and is also higher when fashion involvement is high. Second, fashion involvement primarily affected online WOM acceptance, while the market maven significantly affected redelivery intention. Moreover, fashion involvement and market maven had relevant two-way interaction with both of the online WOM effects. Third, market maven had measurable effects on WOM redelivery types (objective/subjective) and directions (positive/negative/ neutral), whereas fashion involvement did not have any primary effects on them. However, fashion involvement and market maven had two-way interaction effects on the positive and negative direction of WOM redelivery. Based on these findings, the study suggests the importance of investigating and understanding the complicated online WOM behaviors of consumers, specifically from both managerial and theoretical perspectives.