Consumers became more particular about demanding from market as they get more experience and information owing to the development of information technology and it is being changed to the type of productive consumer represented as 'expression' and 'par...
Consumers became more particular about demanding from market as they get more experience and information owing to the development of information technology and it is being changed to the type of productive consumer represented as 'expression' and 'participation', and emerged as the central force of marketing activity. Such a group made huge trend called 'Prosumer' who broke away from the basic level of consumer and invaded the territory of production. Recently the leadership of consumer has been more strengthen as information technology like web 2.0 and UCC(User Created Contents) is being developed and also prosumer is being evolved rapidly accordingly. There have been not many studies with the keyword of 'prosumer' released in advance as the term 'prosumer' has came into the spotlight lately. Seeing the contents of such studies, it mostly mentioned that prosumers played roles in a bit passive way like opinion presentation or environment improvement regarding enterprise production activity, collaboration purchase through open-market or community. It thus was so hard to find the actual case of study on how did prosumer's activity influence consumer buying behavior. Moreover, it is considered that the discussion on prosumer's correct position as ones having influential power in consumer buying behavior in the current situation which leading enterprises disseminate marketing strategy on prosumer as a part of customer participation marketing.
In this study, therefore, it looked into how did prosumer influence consumer buying behavior as the channel of information offer and which difference happened in purchase behavior by geographic properties. For this study this researcher selected auto among the high involvement products that require more aggressive and deep information search for purchase from consumers and conducted actual study centering the consumers of domestic auto. As for the theoretical basis for actual proof study, it considered theoretically the birth background of prosumer in various aspects such as social views related the change of production and consumption market, self-realization, advent of new tribalism and implications of web-media change. In addition, it found the concept and feature of prosumer on such situation, role of information offer channel in consumer purchase behavior and the relations between high involvement products and information offer channel. Further, it extracted basic variables of actual proof study through the theory of consumer behavior in order to investigate what characteristics are in the relation with the process of consumer purchase behavior. Based on the main points, questionnaires were made and the survey was performed in direct contact with ordinary citizens in Seoul which population mobility is high. As for the questionnaire investigation and analysis method, it performed frequency analysis, confidence verification, factor analysis, T test and return analysis among static analysis using SPSS 13 package.
To sum up the result of this study, it verified that prosumer influenced consumer buying behavior as an information offer channel through actual proof analysis by dividing it into two variables like specialism of information and reliance of information. According to the result of investigation on the influential power of prosumer by level of age and economy among geographic characteristics, it was influenced by age difference, but not by economic difference.
It is presented that this study could contribute to get advantage in severe competition among enterprises like establishment of consumer marketing strategy to reflect the prosumer information in active way from the stage of product development, reorganization of CRM(Customer Relationship Management) to react immediately to customer needs and the efforts to remove the unnecessary noisy in business environment. What is more, it is considered to provide very useful points in planning the strategy on prosumer utilization and counter measure and building new business models.