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The Impact of Opinion Leadership on the Attitude Change by the Direction of Word-of-Mouth under the Online Social Networking Service Environment

온라인 소셜 네트워크 서비스 환경에서 오피니언 리더십이 구전의 방향성에 따른 태도 변화에 미치는 영향

  • Suh, Bomil (Sookmyung Women's University, Division of Business Administration) ;
  • Park, Ji Hye (Korea Industrial Development Institute, Management Technology & Information Department)
  • Received : 2013.03.21
  • Accepted : 2013.04.30
  • Published : 2013.05.31
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Abstract

As the number of online social networking service (SNS) users is increasing, various efforts are being deployed to take advantage of SNS from the perspective of business and management. Especially, researches in the field of marketing such as word-of-mouth (WOM) effect have been actively conducted. This paper examined the impact of the SNS messages of users' friends on the users' attitude and the moderating effect of the friends' opinion leadership on the WOM effect. Fifty-one Facebook users responded to the questions on their four friends each. Regression analyses showed that there existed WOM effect under the SNS environment and the opinion leadership of the message creators positively moderated the WOM effect. We discussed the contributions and implications of this study.

소셜 네트워크 서비스(SNS)의 이용이 확산되어 감에 따라, 경영학적 관점에서 SNS를 활용하기 위한 노력들이 다양하게 전개되고 있다. 특히, 구전효과와 같은 마케팅 분야에서의 연구가 활발히 진행되는 상황이다. 본 논문에서는 SNS에서 지인이 작성한 구전 정보가 SNS 사용자의 제품에 대한 태도에 미치는 영향에 대하여 살펴보았다. 또한, 지인의 오피니언 리더십이 이러한 구전효과에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 연구하였다. 51명의 페이스북 사용자를 대상으로 자신들의 지인 4인에 대하여 각각 설문 응답을 받아 분석을 실시하였다. 회귀분석 결과, SNS 환경에서도 구전효과가 존재한다는 것이 검증되었으며, 구전 정보를 작성한 지인의 오피니언 리더십이 이러한 구전효과에 양의 조절효과가 있다는 것이 검증되었다.

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