›› 2015, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (12): 88-98.

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Antecedents and Effects of Extensive Familism Consciousness in Online Brand Community

Zhao Jianbin1,2, Jing Fengjie3   

  1. 1. School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074;
    2. School of Economics and Management, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang 330013;
    3. School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237
  • Received:2013-12-05 Online:2015-12-30 Published:2015-12-25

Abstract:

According to the idea of China's family culture and analysis of relevant literature, community members will produce extensive familism consciousness in online brand community, and the consciousness consists of two parts:sense of security and emotional belonging. Using mobile phone brand community for the study, and employing the method of structural equation modeling, this research explores antecedents and consequences of extensive familism consciousness. The results show that interaction between community members have a positive impact on sense of security, but the impact on emotional belonging is not significant; network centrality, system quality and information quality have a positive impact on sense of security and emotional belonging respectively; extensive familism consciousness has a positive impact on the level of loyalty to the community.

Key words: community members interaction, network centrality, extensive familism consciousness, brand community quality, loyalty