Constituição de Uma Comunidade Virtual de Marca no Lançamento de Novo Produto

Autor: Maribel Carvalho Suarez, Flavia Luzia Oliveira da Cunha Galindo, Vaclav Soukup Filho, Rafael Machado
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, Vol 19, Iss 2nd Special, Pp 117-136 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1982-7849
1415-6555
DOI: 10.1590/1982-7849rac20151507
Popis: This article presents an investigation of the building process of an online brand-associated community. It uses netnographic methods to investigate an automotive community, created months before a new model was actually launched. The study highlights the motivation to gather information and to influence product launch as factors to mobilize community existence. Category involvement, aspirational positioning of the corporate brand and revolutionary promises for this product also seem to be relevant to promote the community. The research presents a typology of community members based on two dimensions: information about the category and user experience with the brand/model. The typology distinguishes between newbies (low information and low experience), theoretical (high information and low experience), pragmatic (low information and high experience) and experts (high information and high experience). The paper highlights logics that stratify members´ interactions, explaining community formation dynamics and evolution processes.
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