In recent years, the internet has been exerting an influence on a word-of-mouth communication's activities. Internet communication provoke the new forms of communication of online word-of-mouth and made it more powerful. The exponential growth of Inte...
In recent years, the internet has been exerting an influence on a word-of-mouth communication's activities. Internet communication provoke the new forms of communication of online word-of-mouth and made it more powerful. The exponential growth of Internet has rendered the WOM process as one of the most powerful interpersonal communication means in our society today. Consumer to consumer communications via online product reputation board are text-based and non-limited in time and space.
So, Online word-of-mouth information's attributes are more important in online word-of-mouth rather than traditional word-of-mouth. So, it would be one of the main issues to identify the information attributes of word-of-mouth in online.
The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of online word-of-mouth Information's attributes on trust of product reputation and online shopping intention.
In addition to the research, online shopping malls are divided into two groups by "non-commercially linked" and "commercially linked". And then we investigate the difference between the two of the effects the effects of online word-of-mouth Information's attributes on trust of product reputation and online shopping intention.
We may find some implications for the online marketing communication strategy.
First, we find that online word-of-mouth information's attributes have an effect on trust of product reputation and online shopping intention.
Second, we also investigate the different effects of online word-of-mouth Information's attributes on trust of product reputation and online shopping intention according to online site's forms.
Finally, we try to present some marketing strategy on online shopping malls using the result of our studies.