2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Knowledge Sharing, Accumulation and Generation Based on Cyber Community
| Project/Area Number |
12630125
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
FURUKAWA Ichiro Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Professor, 大学院・商学研究科, 教授 (60209161)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | network (cyber) community / participation / prosumer / framing / homogeneous motivation / self-segmentation / two way communication / Dialogue model |
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| Research Abstract |
This research investigated network cyber community in terms of knowledge sharing, accumulation and generation. During this decade, the style of communication among people has been changing very rapidly because information technology is getting more and more popular for us. Many companies were trying to find a new way to achieve a gigantic economic success from the innovation of information technology. This movement is still advancing these days, however, very few successful examples can be found in e-commerce of business to customer circumstances in terms of economic profit. Nonetheless, we can find several interesting phenomena in business based cyber community.
This research revealed following several new potentials of network community for a new business model from the observations of these phenomena.
(1) Generating new ideas through dialog of members who committed to a certain cyber community
(2) Strengthen brand equity through communication in cyber community between a company and its customers
(3) Strengthen customer equity through intimated relationship build on cyber community
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