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Copyright Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração 2008

Abstract

During the last few years, endless data have supplied the marketing area with new perspectives for the definition and segmentation of markets, in addition to the company's private and internal data banks as well as of public and external ones. An example of the latter is the virtual communities, and Orkut is one of its exponents. This article, offers an exploratory approach to market segmentation using two alternative methods (logistic regression and neural networks) through secondary data collected from Orkut, assuming the possibility to predict certain consumption attitudes described by members of virtual communities. This way, two communities, self denominated I love cold beer and I hate beer, were picked up, and each one supplied random probabilistic samples among 400 members. Processing and analyzing the data collected in three phases -- data cleaning and selection of variables of interest, discriminating analysis, an analysis through neural networks -- confirmed the possibility of determining consuming attitudes, and consequently of using the Orkut virtual community as a data bank for segmentation.

Details

Title
As Comunidades Virtuais e a Segmentação de Mercado: uma Abordagem Exploratória, Utilizando Redes Neurais e Dados da Comunidade Virtual Orkut/Virtual Communities and Market Segmentation: an Exploratory Approach, Using Neural Networks and Virtual Community's Data
Author
Añaña, Edar da Silva; Vieira, Leandro Maurício Medeiros; Petroll, Martin de La Martinière; Petersen-Wagner, Renan; Costa, Ricardo Simm
Pages
41-63
Publication year
2008
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração
ISSN
14156555
e-ISSN
19827849
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
1458595925
Copyright
Copyright Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração 2008