Management & Information Systems Review (경영과정보연구)

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The Role of Motives, Flow, and Social Influence in Attitude and Purchase Intention to Emoticons

이모티콘 사용동기, 플로우, 사회적 영향력이 이모티콘 사용태도 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향

  • Jung, Bo-Hee (School of Business Administration, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Han-Ku (School of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University)
  • 정보희 (충남대학교 경상대학 경영학부) ;
  • 김한구 (경북대학교 경상대학 경영학부)
  • Received : 2016.04.18
  • Accepted : 2016.06.07
  • Published : 2016.06.30
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Abstract

In recent year, graphic emoticons in MIM(Mobile Instant Messenger) play an important role not as a valuable communication methods, but as main business model for MIM service providers. Although the graphic emoticons in MIM are regarded as a commercial product, there has been little systematic research reflecting consumers' perspectives. In order to fill this theoretical and practice gap, the study is designed to explore the structural relationships among emoticon use motives, attitude, and purchasing intention to emoticons in context of MIM. The results showed that emoticon use motives in MIM were composed of two main factors, perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment. And we also verified that both perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment positively impact flow in communication with using emoticons and social influence. Lastly, flow and social influence were positively related to attitude toward using emoticons and attitude also was related to purchase intention to emoticons in MIM, positively. However, flow and social influence did not have a positive influence on purchase intention to emoticons directly. The implications and limitations of this study are also discussed.

스마트폰 사용이 보편화 되면서, 모바일 인스턴트 메신저(MIM)의 사용 역시 대중화 되고 있다. 최근 MIM 내 그래픽 이모티콘은 사용자들 간 의사소통을 원활하게 하기 위한 도구로서의 역할을 하고 있는 동시에, 기업 입장에서는 이모티콘의 판매가 주요 비즈니스 모델 중 하나로 인식되고 있다. 이렇듯 이모티콘이 하나의 상품으로 MIM 서비스의 주요 비즈니스 모델로 인식, 개발되고 있는 현 시점에서 이모티콘 구매의도에 직접적으로 영향을 미치는 요인들에 대해 탐색한 연구는 매우 드문 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구는 이러한 학문적, 실무적 간극(gap)을 메우고자 이모티콘의 사용동기, 사용태도 및 구매의도에 영향을 미치는 요인들 간 관계에 대해 탐색해보고자 하였다. 본 연구의 실증분석 결과, MIM 내의 이모티콘 사용동기는 크게 이모티콘 사용에 대한 지각된 유용성과 지각된 즐거움으로 구성될 수 있으며, 지각된 유용성과 지각된 즐거움은 이모티콘을 사용한 대화 시, 몰입의 정도와 사회적 영향력에 모두 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 이러한 이모티콘 사용동기와 플로우, 그리고 사회적 영향력은 최종적으로 이모티콘 사용태도에 긍정적 영향을 미쳤으며, 이모티콘 사용태도가 호의적일수록 이모티콘 구매의도도 높게 나타나는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 그러나 플로우(flow)와 사회적 영향력(social influence)은 구매의도에 직접적인 영향을 미치지는 않았다. 본 연구는 아직 그 연구가 활발하게 진행되지 않은 폐쇄형 SNS 내의 상품으로서의 이모티콘에 대한 구매의도와 그 동기 간 관계를 실증적으로 검증했다는 점에서 그 의의가 있다.

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