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Testing for Measurement Invariance of Fashion Brand Equity

패션브랜드 자산 측정모델의 등치테스트에 관한 연구

  • Kim Haejung (School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management University of North Texas) ;
  • Lim Sook Ja (Dept. of Clothing and Textiles Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Crutsinger Christy (School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management University of North Texas) ;
  • Knight Dee (School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management University of North Texas)
  • 김혜정 (북 텍사스 주립대학교) ;
  • 임숙자 (이화여자대학교 생활환경대학 의류직물학과) ;
  • ;
  • Published : 2004.12.01
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Abstract

Simon and Sullivan(l993) estimated that clothing and textile related brand equity had the highest magnitude comparing any other industry category. It reflects that fashion brands reinforce the symbolic, social values and emotional characteristics being different from generic brands. Recently, Kim and Lim(2002) developed a fashion brand equity scale to measure a brand's psychometric properties. However, they suggested that additional psychometric tests were needed to compare the relative magnitude of each brand's equity. The purpose of this study was to recognize the psychometric constructs of fashion brand equity and validate Kim and Lim's fashion brand equity scale using the measurement invariance test of cross-group comparison. First, we identified the constructs of fashion brand equity using confirmatory factor analysis through structural equation modeling. Second, we compared the relative magnitude of two brands' equity using the measurement invariance test of multi-group simultaneous factor analysis. Data were collected at six major universities in Seoul, Korea. There were 696 usable surveys for data analysis. The results showed that fashion brand equity was comprised of 16 items representing six dimensions: customer-brand resonance, customer feeling, customer judgment, brand imagery, brand performance and brand awareness. Also, we could support the measurement invariance of two brands' equities by configural and metric invariance tests. There were significant differences in five constructs' mean values. The greatest difference was in customer feeling; the smallest, in customer judgment.

치열한 경쟁구조하의 패션시장에서 강력한 브랜드자산은 기업 경쟁우위의 원천이 될 수 있다. 이는 브랜드 자산이 소비자가 브랜드에 가치를 부여하는 원천을 알게 함으로써 향후 브랜드 전략 수립의 중요한 지침을 제공하기 때문이다. 그러므로 브랜드 자산 관리에서의 핵심이란 곧 소비자 자산의 측정에 관한 부분일 것이다. 과거 20여 년간 마케팅 분야에서는 브랜드 자산 측정방법에 관한 많은 연구가 이루어져 왔다. 하지만 기존의 접근에서 다루어진 패션브랜드 자산의 측정들은 패션브랜드만의 다차원적인 사회 심리적 특성을 반영하기에 미흡하였다. 이러한 관점에서 최근 김혜정과 임숙자(2002)는 Heller(2001)의 Customer Based Brand Equity Model을 기초로 하여 패션 브랜드 자산의 척도를 제안하였다. 그들은 패션브랜드 자산은 소비자 지각에서 위계적인 형성과정을 통해 형성되며 이러한 형성과정은 브랜드 종류에 따라 다소 상이하다는 것을 경험적으로 입증하였다. 그러나 각 브랜드 간의 자산 크기에 대한 상대적 비교는 유보되었는데, 이는 보다 엄격한 psychometric 검증을 결여 하였기 때문이다. 따라서 본 연구는 이의 후속 분석으로, 측정척도에 대한 확증적 요인분석(Confirmatory Factor Analysis)과 이의 측정모델(Measurement Model)에 대한 다모집단(Multi-Group)의 등치테스트(Invariance Test; 동일변량 가정)를 통해 경쟁관계의 두 브랜드에 대한 자산 크기의 상대적 차이를 비교하였다. 통계분석은 AMOA 4.0을 사용하여 구조방정식 모형분석을 하였다. 분석결과 패션브랜드 자산은 6개의 구성요소로 구성된 다차원의 개념이며 이들은 16개의 관찰변수를 통해 유의하게 측정될 수 있음을 검증하였다. 또한 `고객-브랜드 공명'차원을 제외한 5개의 구성요소(고객감정, 고객판단, 브랜드 이미지, 브랜드 성능, 브랜드 인식)의 평균값 비교에서 두 브랜드 간의 상대적 크기에 유의한 차이가 검증됨으로써 특정 브랜드의 자산이 고객에게는 보다 월등한 것으로 지각되고 있음을 확인하였다. 따라서 본 연구는 브랜드 간 자산 크기의 상대적 비교에 대한 통계적 타당성의 기초를 마련하였다는데 의의가 있다.

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