온라인 소비자 리뷰의 효과에 영향을 미치는 요인에 대한 고찰 = Investigation of Factors Affecting the Effects of Online Consumer Reviews

국문 초록 (Abstract)

온라인 상점의 발전과 뉴미디어의 등장으로 소비자들 사이에 상품정보에 대한 의견이 교환되기 시작하면서 온라인 소비자 리뷰에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 온라인 소비자 리뷰와 관련된 연구의 개괄적인 흐름을 파악하여 연구경향을 분석하고 향후 연구방향을 탐색하였다. 온라인 소비자 리뷰 연구에서는 리뷰의 유용성, 리뷰로 인한 소비자의 태도변화를 주로 다루었으며 이에 영향을 미치는 변수들은 대체로 메시지 요인, 리뷰어 요인, 소비자 요인, 그리고 제품/서비스 요인으로 구분되었다. 메시지의 특성에 대한 연구는 메시지의 양과 평가적 메시지가 많을수록 유용하며, 메시지의 방향성에 대해서는 상황에 따라 다르게 나타나고 있다. 또한 리뷰어의 신뢰성 및 평판, 소비자의 제품지식과 제품관여도, 제품/서비스의 유형에 의해 리뷰의 영향력이 어떻게 달라지는지에 대한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 향후에는 소셜미디어의 등장으로 보다 활발하게 소비자 리뷰가 이루어지고 사회적 연결망을 통해 전달됨에 따라 이에 따른 소비자 리뷰의 영향력에 대한 연구가 추가적으로 이루어질 필요가 있다. 또한 온라인 소비자 리뷰를 역이용하는 기업이 늘어남에 따라 온라인 소비자 리뷰의 부작용에 대한 실증적인 연구가 필요해 보인다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

As electronic marketplaces grow and a large number of consumers exchange their opinions on products and services on the Internet, many studies have been conducted in the area of online consumer reviews. This paper analyzes the research trend of the online consumer reviews by investigating those studies in an attempt to provide future research directions. Many researchers have focused on the effects of online reviews on consumer behaviors as well as the usefulness of the online reviews. In particular, review contents, characteristics of reviewers/consumers and features of products/services have been identified as influencing factors on the effects of the online consumer reviews. For the review contents, the number and the volume of the contents have increasing effects on the online reviews, while the direction (positive vs. negative) of the contents has resulted in conflicting effects of the review. The reputation and trustfulness of reviewers, consumers’prior knowledge on the products, consumers’product involvement, and types of the products were investigated as these factors influence the effectiveness of the online consumer reviews. Social media (such as Facebook and Twitter) nowadays play an important role to disseminate online reviews among consumers. Thus, it is necessary to study how social media influence the effects of online reviews on consumers. Since some firms abuse the online reviews for their own sakes, we recognize the necessity for empirical studies on the side effects of the online reviews.

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