Title : 
Virtual community influence consumer purchase decision research
         
        
            Author : 
Li, Hongxin ; Yang, Xueyan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dongbei Univ. of Finance & Econ., Dalian, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The role of virtual community has become more important to consumers purchase decision. But which factors of virtual community are very important ? In our study, we therefore use SEM to test three factors, such as information, member and platform. We found that professional or experiential information, ease use system are significant correlation with the purchase decisions.
         
        
            Keywords : 
consumer behaviour; decision making; purchasing; social networking (online); SEM; consumer purchase decision research; experiential information; member factor; platform factor; professional information; virtual community; Communities; Correlation; Decision making; Economics; Information systems; Reliability; SEM; purchase decision; virtual community;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE), 2011 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Wuhan
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-8036-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICEICE.2011.5777947