지식공유 목적의 가상 커뮤니티 운영전략에 관한 연구

국문 초록 (Abstract)

온라인 공간에서의 정보 및 지식에 대한 공유활동은 매우 활발하기 진행되고 있으며, 많은 인터넷 이용자들이 자신이 필요한 정보나 지식을 카페, 블로그 등과 같은 온라인 전자공간에서 공유하며 이용하고 있다. 온라인 전자공간에서 자신이 필요한 정보나 지식을 공유하는 공간으로 사용되는 가상커뮤니티는 이용자간 온라인 커뮤니케이션 수단으로 사용될 뿐만 아니라 가상공간을 이용한 정보 및 지식공유의 장으로서 매우 중요한 역할을 하고 있다.
국내의 경우 다음, 네이버, 파란, 네이트 등 중요 포털사이트들은 사용자들의 편의제공목적은 물론이고, 주요 포털 사이트 이용자들이 가지고 있는 각종 정보 및 지식공유를 위한 수단으로 가상 커뮤니티를 이용하고 있으며, 실제로 많은 인터넷 이용자들이 자신의 관심사나 관심분야와 관련한 가상커뮤니티를 통해 많은 정보와 지식을 공유하고 있다.
가상 커뮤니티의 성공적 운영을 위한 연구들이 수행되어오고 있지만, 보다 세밀한 연구수행이 필요한 시점이며, 이에 본 연구에서는 가상 커뮤니티 이용자들이 지각한 특성들이 이용자 태도, 커뮤니티 신뢰, 만족을 경유하여 충성도에 미치는 영향력 과정을 여러 선행연구로부터 도출하고, 이를 실증적으로 검증하였다. 그 결과 가상커뮤니티 유용성과 편리성 그리고 친숙성이 이용자 태도를 경유하여 만족과 충성도에 유의적인 영향을 미친다는 점을 확인하였으며, 구성원 신뢰와 커뮤니티 명성이 커뮤니티에 대한 신뢰, 만족, 충성도에 각각 유의적인 영향을 미친다는 점을 확인하였다. 이러한 본 연구의 결과는 추후 가상커뮤니티를 운영하는 기업의 전략수립에 많은 도움이 될 것으로 기대한다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Virtual community, which is formed on the internet, is expected to serve the needs of members for communication, information, and knowledge sharing. The executives of organizations should consider operating strategy of virtual community as a new innovation or knowledge pool since members share knowledge.
However, many virtual community have failed due to members’ low willingness to engage and furthermore to share knowledge with other members. Thus, there is a need to understand and foster the determinants of members’ loyalty in virtual community. The objective of this study is to develop an integrated model designed to investigate and explain the relationships between contextual factors, personal perceptions of virtual com munity, usefulness, ease of use, familiarity, members’ trust, reputation, community trust, attitude, satisfaction and loyalty.
Empirical data was collected from 286 internet users and tested using structural equation modeling to verify the fit of the hypothetical model. The results show that the usefulness, familiarity significantly influences attitude and members' trust is significantly influence the community trust. And I confirmed that ease of use and attitude play the role of determinants in making the satisfaction, community trust and reputation influence the satisfaction that have the direct effect to making the loyalty.
The results of the study can be used to identify the loyalty in virtual community. By investigating the impacts of contextual factors and personal perceptions on virtual community, the integrated model better explains behavior than other proposed models. This study might help executives of virtual communities and organizations to manage and promote community trust, attitude, satisfaction to stimulate members’ willingness to revisit the community and futhermore enhance their virtual community loyalty.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 초록
• ABSTRACT
• 1. 서론
• 2. 이론적 배경
• 3. 연구모형의 설계 가설 설정
• 4. 연구변수의 측정방법
• 5. 실증분석
• 6. 결론
• 참고문헌
• 저자소개

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