Virtual communities: A marketing perspective

K De Valck, GH Van Bruggen, B Wierenga - Decision support systems, 2009 - Elsevier
… Moreover, online communities ensure that participants conform to group norms by
reproaching offenders. McLaughlin, Osborne and Smith [60] conducted a study investigating the …

Networked narratives: Understanding word-of-mouth marketing in online communities

RV Kozinets, K De Valck, AC Wojnicki… - … of marketing, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
… In addition, we observe explicit differences in the way that members of the online communities
respond to the WOMM campaign. This suggests that there is a larger discourse taking …

A life-cycle perspective on online community success

A Iriberri, G Leroy - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2009 - dl.acm.org
… framework, we review online communities research and propose a … community, one in
which members participate actively and develop lasting relationships. Online communities evolve …

It takes a marketplace community to raise brand commitment: the role of online communities

JW Kim, J Choi, W Qualls, K Han - Journal of marketing …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… that online community commitment is a key influence on brand commitment. We also find that
online community … are not members of the community. Finally, our results reveal that among …

The new community rules: Marketing on the social web

T Weinberg - 2009 - emerald.com
… to an online community, it discusses the importance of understanding the community’s …
community by helping people, giving, and respecting the established members. Engaging …

How online brand community participation strengthens brand trust and commitment: A relationship marketing perspective

M Pournaris, H Lee - Proceedings of the 18th Annual International …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
… way into 21st century relationship marketing. While research … major constructs of relationship
marketing. Drawing from the … theory in a brand community and in an online context. It also …

What makes online community members commit? A social exchange perspective

B Jin, JY Park, HS Kim - Behaviour & Information Technology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
A growing number of firms are using online communities (OCs) as integral parts of their
strategies because of the value an OC provides to a firm. This study maintains the commitment to …

Research on the positioning method of online community users from the perspective of precision marketing

X Zhao, H Zhang, H Shen, Y Zhou - Electronic Commerce Research, 2023 - Springer
… In precision marketing for online communities, the existing … method for the positioning of
online community users. In this … a productive new approach to community user positioning. The …

Developing Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) in online communities: a conceptual perspective from search, experience and credence segmentation

P Jiang, SL Chia - … Journal of Internet Marketing and …, 2010 - inderscienceonline.com
… Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) … online communities from a Search, Experience
and Credence (SEC) segmentation framework. Communication types in an online community

The field behind the screen: Using netnography for marketing research in online communities

RV Kozinets - Journal of marketing research, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
market-oriented ethnography by demonstrating how it can be efficaciously conducted online
using existing online communities, … –impoverished context of online communities may have …