A study on the knowledge sharing behavior on blogs and forums

• Main Authors: Chan-Chia Chang, 張展嘉
• Other Authors: Hung-Chang Chiu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45221665187310585412

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 94 === Electronic word-of–mouth (eWOM) plays a major role for customers’ buy decision. Through blogs and forums, company may be able to use eWOM to maintain a better customer relationship by enhancing customers’ knowledge sharing. Thus, this study attempts to enhance our understanding of knowledge sharing intention to enhance their valuable knowledge or experience leading to eWOM behavior through blogs and forums. This study uses this model of cost-benefit framework to predict the users’ contribution behavior. It provides four types of benefit (include reputation, reciprocity, enjoy helping, self-efficacy) and two types of cost (include convenient costs and interaction costs) developed from psychology literature. The results suggest that qualified support for all of our hypothesized relationships. According to social exchange theory, if the blogs or forums can provides a controllable benefit to its users or reduce the user cost, access can also be linked to behavior. Thus, firm may be able to use the results of this study to enhance customers’ knowledge sharing intention in their blogs or forums.