並列篇名 |
The Affection of Travel Blogs’ Information Quality, Utilitarian Value, and Hedonic Value on Electronic Word-of-Mouth, Considering the Moderating Effects of Various Types of Internet Addiction |
英文摘要 |
Accompanied with the trend of development of World-Wide-Web, social media websites rise rapidly, travel blogs become popular platforms to share travel information. On the course of providing travel-related information, , travel blogs can effectively elevate users’ utilitarian and hedonic value during browsing travel blogs through travel information with decent information quality and further reach the purpose of raise positive electronic word-of-mouth and reduce negative electronic word-of-mouth. This study explores the influence of information quality, utilitarian value, and hedonic value generated during browsing travel blogs on electronic word-of-mouth, a total number of 443 valid questionnaire were collected via internet for empirical analysis, and AMOS 20 software was applied to verify the theoretical model undertaking SEM model; the empirical results show that: “information quality” positively affect blog users’ “hedonic value” and “utilitarian value”; “hedonic value” and “utilitarian value” positively affects blog users’ “positive word-of-mouth” and negatively affects blog users’ “negative word-of-mouth”; blog users of different types of internet addition reveal different affection on paths in theoretical model. Finally, managerial issues and suggestion are proposed for the reference of operations practices of travel blogs. |