• DocumentCode
    1630046
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    Typology and influence analysis of opinion leader: A case study on fashion online shopping

  • Author

    Yu, Junying

  • Author_Institution
    Glorious Sun School of Management & business Donghua University Shanghai, 200051, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    Opinion leaders of online fashion have a strong influence on online shopping. Through in-depth research interviews with opinion leaders and online shoppers, this paper identified the characteristics and highlights of opinion leaders. The authors suggest the existence of four types of opinion leader online, which are labeled stars & model with Blog, Web celebrity, opinion leader in BBS, opinion leader with Web-shop. By questionnaire survey and one way ANOA, the authors found that first group with reference to opinion leader average score is higher influenced by families or friends, recommended by opinion leader, asking opinions from others, and lower at persuade others to buy clothing I like. Implications of this typology for theory and practice are discussed.
  • Keywords
    Blogs; Business; Clothing; Communities; Internet; Lead; Media; fashion; instant kill; online shopping; opinion leaders;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    E -Business and E -Government (ICEE), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8691-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEBEG.2011.5881447
  • Filename
    5881447