본 연구는 오늘날 기업에 관한 부정적 소문인 루머의 영향을 최소화하기 위한 관리 방안을 고찰하는데 목적이 있다. 즉, 기업-소비자동일시 수준에 따른 루머의 신뢰 정도와 그에 따른 확산정도를 파악하고 루머의 신뢰와 확산을 막고자 하는 기업이 루머반박을 했을 경우, 동일시 수준에 따른 반박효과의 차이를 살펴보았다. 연구결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 본 연구에서는 동일시 수준에 따라 악성루머에 대한 신뢰도 반응 확산의도 차이, 재구매 의도 차이가 있는지 확인해 보았으며, 동일시 수준에 따라 유의한 차이를 보였다. 동일시가 낮은 소비자가 루머에 대한 신뢰도가 높았고, 확산의도 또한 동일시가 낮은 소비자에서 높게 나타났다. 이에 반해, 재구매 의도는 동일시가 높은 소비자에게서 높게 나타났다. 따라서 기업-소비자 동일시 수준에 따라 루머에 대한 반응의 차이와 그 후 태도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 추가적으로, 기업이 반박기사를 냈을 경우, 동일시 수준에 따라, 반박 기사에 대한 반응이 다를 것이라 보았다. 동일시가 높은 소비자는 동일시가 낮은 소비자 보다 반박기사에 대한 신뢰도가 높게 나타났음을 확인할 수 있었다.
Rumors are widely prevalent in marketplace and It can be problematic and dangerous for the company’s reputation and damages their image. Recently, many companies are given trouble by rumors. As getting invigorates the social media, there is high possibility to shape the vicious rumors without any confirmation whether information is true or not. It affects the companies’ reputation and trust they have built for long time, also sales drop off. Despite numerous denials, the rumor persisted, keeping occur again and again all the times. Refutation purposes to decrease levels of belief in a rumor. First, establish Study 1 that a variation in identification influences the impact of a rumor on individuals’ beliefs. Furthermore, we analyze the effectiveness of a refutation under varying degree of one’s level of identification with the rumor object. According to research result, the response pattern of identification and disidentificaion consumers are very different. Disidentifiers, who engaged in systematic processing, believed the rumor less only when the refutation contained strong arguments. Identifiers, processing heuristically, remained unbelieving in the rumor. Study found that identification is an important moderator of consumer response to negative rumors. These defensive processes alleviate the bad influence of that information, and also can reduce the likelihood of attitude degradation.
Rumors are widely prevalent in marketplace and It can be problematic and dangerous for the company’s reputation and damages their image. Recently, many companies are given trouble by rumors. As getting invigorates the social media, there is high possibility to shape the vicious rumors without any confirmation whether information is true or not. It affects the companies’ reputation and trust they have built for long time, also sales drop off. Despite numerous denials, the rumor persisted, keeping occur again and again all the times. Refutation purposes to decrease levels of belief in a rumor. First, establish Study 1 that a variation in identification influences the impact of a rumor on individuals’ beliefs. Furthermore, we analyze the effectiveness of a refutation under varying degree of one’s level of identification with the rumor object. According to research result, the response pattern of identification and disidentificaion consumers are very different. Disidentifiers, who engaged in systematic processing, believed the rumor less only when the refutation contained strong arguments. Identifiers, processing heuristically, remained unbelieving in the rumor. Study found that identification is an important moderator of consumer response to negative rumors. These defensive processes alleviate the bad influence of that information, and also can reduce the likelihood of attitude degradation.
