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A study of antecedents influencing eWOM for online lecture website: Personal interactivity as moderator

Mi sook Lee (Department of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, The Republic of Korea)
Hongbok An (Department of Accounting, Keimyung University, Daegu, The Republic of Korea)

Online Information Review

ISSN: 1468-4527

Article publication date: 20 August 2018

Issue publication date: 16 October 2018

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to identify the antecedent factors – perceived usefulness (PU), perceived switching cost (PSC) and perceived web security (PWS) – affecting learners’ attitude toward online lecture website (ATW), which, in turn, affects electronic word of mouth (eWOM) and finds the factor that online lecture business should focus on the most to make learners have positive attitude.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper investigates the functional relationship among those five constructs; and examines the moderating role of personal interactivity. Data were collected from learners who had taken online lectures and were using social network sites, and a research model was analyzed using structural equation modeling.

Findings

The results show that PU and PSC positively influence ATW but PWS has no significant influence on ATW; PU is the most influential factor to ATW; ATW positively influences eWOM; personal interactivity has a moderating effect on some paths; and path coefficients are higher in the high-interactivity group than the low-interactivity group for all the links except the link from PU to ATW.

Originality/value

This paper contributes to online lecture business by understanding learners’ perception and behavior to the websites. Unlike many previous studies, this study designates eWOM as dependent variable and personal interactivity as moderation variable. This study shows interesting results occurred between low- and high-interactivity groups.

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Citation

Lee, M.s. and An, H. (2018), "A study of antecedents influencing eWOM for online lecture website: Personal interactivity as moderator", Online Information Review, Vol. 42 No. 7, pp. 1048-1064. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-10-2017-0275

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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