The Study of the Effects of On-line Social Network Service Differences on Customer Satisfaction and Intention of the Use : Focused on the Extended Technology Acceptance Model
Recently there are intention of SNS and its use in Food Industry as increas...
The Study of the Effects of On-line Social Network Service Differences on Customer Satisfaction and Intention of the Use : Focused on the Extended Technology Acceptance Model
Recently there are intention of SNS and its use in Food Industry as increasing SNS users due to the advent of Web 2.0 and the launch of Smart Phone. This study tries to expand Extended Technology Acceptance Model(ETAM) applied to the effects of SNS differences on customer satisfaction and intention of the use when restaurant customers search its information. That means it shows the adoption process of restaurants customers in on-line SNS using technical differences, individual differences, and social differences as independent variables, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use as mediators, and customer satisfaction and intention of continuous use as dependent variables.
Survey is carried out for 20days - from 5th September to 24th September, 2011 - targeting customers having searched restaurants information by SNS within 3 months. Total 419 samples(83.8%) are used for the empirical research.
The results of this study are blows.
First, customers searching restaurants informations by SNS are not only twenties but thirties and forties. About 78% of them search restaurant information by SNS more than once a week. It shows restaurants use SNS as a marketing tool effectively. Second, this study research broadly SNS differences as technical differences, individual differences, and social differences when searching restaurant informations. The results show the more perceived enjoyment of individual differences, the more perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. On the other hand, social influence of social differences has no effects on perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. Third, it shows the Extended Technology Acceptance Model of Davis(1989) is very useful in explaining customer behaviors using SNS when searching restaurant informations. Fourth, there are differences among system quality, information quality, and personal innovativeness significantly by verification of the difference according to SNS types.
Followings are academic suggestions of this study. First, this study develops unified model concerning SNS types and researches empirically. Second, it tries to expand ETAM to suit when searching restaurant informations by SNS. Third, it examines SNS differences empirically concerning not only technical differences but individual differences and social differences at the same time. Fourth, it is thought the importance of mediators by direct/indirect and total analyze among constructs in strategic level.
The last is practical suggestions of this study. First, perceived enjoyment of restaurant customers makes important role in SNS marketing. Second, perceived ease of use has the biggest effects among variables when searching restaurant informations by SNS. Third, it is very important to use SNS effectively as communication and marketing tool in restaurants.
The limitations of this study are 1) survey restricted Seoul and Gyunggi, 2) omission of the items measured SNS use in restaurant marketing to show characters of restaurant types, 3) necessity of many studies using other attributes variously as SNS variables, 4) omission of the comparison between users and nonusers of SNS, and 5) necessity of model expansion applied to various variables.