Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour

Research purpose: This paper aims to investigate the influences of Word-of-Mouth communication and critics reviews, advertising, movie genres and previous series quality have on consumers level of satisfaction towards sequels in the motion picture industry in U.K. In addition, this article also atte...

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Main Author: Cheng, Chenxiao
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22124/
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description Research purpose: This paper aims to investigate the influences of Word-of-Mouth communication and critics reviews, advertising, movie genres and previous series quality have on consumers level of satisfaction towards sequels in the motion picture industry in U.K. In addition, this article also attempts to examine the degree of influences that Word-of-Mouth exerts across different product knowledge levels and scale of social-ties. Measurement construct: Conceptual framework is constructed based on the current literatures from Word-of-Mouth communication and motion picture performance fields. Questionnaire survey is conduced in U.K and Ireland, which 80 valid responses are collected to test the hypotheses. Findings: As a result of the investigation, this study suggests in U.K, the most critical factor that influences consumers level of satisfaction towards sequels is critics reviews, which in turn positively influences consumers recommendation choices. The impact of WOM on consumers level of satisfaction is much less significant. In addition, the influence of WOM on consumers sequel choice is not differed significantly across product knowledge levels and scale of social-ties; nevertheless, there are still marginal differences exist. The finding also suggests that the critics effect on WOM choice varies significantly across consumers scale of social-ties. Research implication/limitation: this paper identifies the most influential source that affect consumers satisfaction level towards sequels and how the influences of WOM and critical comments on consumer recommendation choices differs across product knowledge levels and scale of social-ties in motion picture industry in U.K. However, the findings may not truly represent the dynamism of consumers sequel choices since the sample size is considerable small and many of the respondents are international students.
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spelling nottingham-221242017-12-25T07:18:29Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22124/ Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour Cheng, Chenxiao Research purpose: This paper aims to investigate the influences of Word-of-Mouth communication and critics reviews, advertising, movie genres and previous series quality have on consumers level of satisfaction towards sequels in the motion picture industry in U.K. In addition, this article also attempts to examine the degree of influences that Word-of-Mouth exerts across different product knowledge levels and scale of social-ties. Measurement construct: Conceptual framework is constructed based on the current literatures from Word-of-Mouth communication and motion picture performance fields. Questionnaire survey is conduced in U.K and Ireland, which 80 valid responses are collected to test the hypotheses. Findings: As a result of the investigation, this study suggests in U.K, the most critical factor that influences consumers level of satisfaction towards sequels is critics reviews, which in turn positively influences consumers recommendation choices. The impact of WOM on consumers level of satisfaction is much less significant. In addition, the influence of WOM on consumers sequel choice is not differed significantly across product knowledge levels and scale of social-ties; nevertheless, there are still marginal differences exist. The finding also suggests that the critics effect on WOM choice varies significantly across consumers scale of social-ties. Research implication/limitation: this paper identifies the most influential source that affect consumers satisfaction level towards sequels and how the influences of WOM and critical comments on consumer recommendation choices differs across product knowledge levels and scale of social-ties in motion picture industry in U.K. However, the findings may not truly represent the dynamism of consumers sequel choices since the sample size is considerable small and many of the respondents are international students. 2008 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22124/1/Microsoft_Word_-_Dissertation.pdf Cheng, Chenxiao (2008) Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) motion picture Word-of-Mouth Critics' reviews Product knowledge strength of social-ties
spellingShingle motion picture
Word-of-Mouth
Critics' reviews
Product knowledge
strength of social-ties
Cheng, Chenxiao
Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour
title Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour
title_full Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour
title_fullStr Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour
title_full_unstemmed Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour
title_short Examining the Influences of Word-of-Mouth towards Sequels in Motion Picture Industry and the Effects of Product Knowledge and Tie-strength on Word-of-Mouth Behaviour
title_sort examining the influences of word-of-mouth towards sequels in motion picture industry and the effects of product knowledge and tie-strength on word-of-mouth behaviour
topic motion picture
Word-of-Mouth
Critics' reviews
Product knowledge
strength of social-ties
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22124/