Since the advent of internet, it has been very important role in modern society. Generally WOM of the off-line occurs in real place and that size is small and that range is limited to some degrees such as between friends, family, neighbors and so on. ...
Since the advent of internet, it has been very important role in modern society. Generally WOM of the off-line occurs in real place and that size is small and that range is limited to some degrees such as between friends, family, neighbors and so on. But the internet enables customers to share their opinions on, and experiences with, goods and services with a multitude of other consumers. These days the rapid growth of internet provides the customers with the opportunity to recognize and to communicate all of a company.
Therefore, as internet is growing rapidly, we have to notice every activities of the internet users. Especially, in the present time when customer satisfaction and services marketing is put great emphasis on. Consumers are getting sensitive to the product offered and the service of the company and taking active steps to clear their complaints and to argue their rights to buy the product of good quality through various kinds of way. The very one of useful interactive tools is internet.
In this paper, I tried to analyzes on-line WOM motivations and on-line WOM activity. We classified six on-line WOM motivation' variables by Thorsten Hennig' paper; Focus-Related Utility, Consumption Utility, Approval Utility, Economic Rewards Utility, Moderator-Related Utility, Homeostase Utility and then investigated how those variables have an influence on the on-line WOM activity.
The result of analysis, on-line WOM activity has influenced Focus-Related Utility, Approval Utility, Homeostase Utility.