• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.25-56
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• 2011

A shifting of marketing paradigms from transaction to relationship has shown in many studies. Although there are many researches about relationship marketing, few of them focuses on relationship marketing combined with retail mix. This study define and measure customer relationship, and find the antecedents and consequences of the customer relationship. For the research, data were collected from 540 persons who are currently customers of five branches of E-mart and Homeplus in Seoul, Korea. Data analysis was performed under the AMOS 6.0. The results are summarized as following; Firstly, the relationship among elements of retail marketing mix and the relationship quality appears significant except communication program. This finding means that communication effect decreases at some point when communication program is excessive. Secondly, the relationship of customer relationship and three factors (frequent shopping intention, up-buying intention and recommend intention) are significant. Thus, this result supports the reasoning why discount stores make an effort to improve customer relationship. Thirdly, the relationship between share of wallet and two factors (frequent shopping intention and recommend intention) appears insignificant. Fourthly, the relationship between share of wallet and up-buying intention is significant. This result implies that up-buying intention is an important factor for discount stores, because up-buying intention is directly linked to financial performance of discount stores. Finally, the direct path between customer relationship and share of wallet is significant relation. For this reason, customer relationship should be managed consistently by discount stores.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1669-1680
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• 2001

본 연구는 의류점포의 고객과 숍 매니저 사이의 관계를 보다 포괄적인 관점에서 심층적으로 이해함으로써 대 고객 관계마케팅에서의 우위를 점하기 위한 전략도출에 기여하고자 하는 목적에서 이루어졌다. 이를 위해 백화점에 입점해 있는 디자이너 브랜드와 캐릭터 브랜드 의류점포 각 4곳의 고객 9명과 숍 매니저 8명에 대한 문화기술적 면접과 이들 점포에 대한 참여 관찰을 통한 질적 연구가 2000년 5월부터 8월말까지 행해졌다. 연구 결과에 대한 내용분석에 따르면 브랜드군 간에는 관련변인이나 관계 형성 과정 등 장기적 관계 형성 메커니즘에 차이가 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 또 관계에 대한 관점에 따라 추구이점이 다름으로써 관계에 대한 관여 수준, 관계의 질, 관계지속기 간, 신뢰에 대한 관점에 차이가 발생하는 것으로 나타났는데 관계에의 관점과 추구이점의 차이는 가격의 차이에서 연유하는 것으로 보인다. 따라서 제품수준에 따라서 상이 한 접근방법이 요구된다. 한편 패션상품의 특성으로 하여 의류의 경우에는 고정고객 유지 뿐 아니라 신규고객 창출이 중요하기 때문에 기존의 관계 마케팅과는 다른 접근방법이 요구된다.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.179-222
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• 2011

This research investigates the influence of relational characteristics on 'co-defection', customer defection following salesperson turnover, in the context of salesperson-customer relationship. Based on the social exchange theory, it was hypothesized that perceived relational benefits and switching costs affect directly the customer's intentions to defect. Key constructs in relationship marketing such as customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty were hypothesized to affect the customer's intention to defect as well as perceived relational benefits and switching costs. The results of structural equation modeling using a survey sample of 503 insurance customers who purchased life insurance policies through salespersons unveiled that the customer satisfaction with salesperson and the customer trust in salesperson strongly influence the salesperson-owned customer loyalty. However, they did not have significant direct effects on co-defection intentions. All paths from salesperson-owned customer loyalty to perceived relational benefits and perceived switching costs were also significant. Salesperson-owned customer loyalty did not have significant direct effects on co-defection intentions, but it had significant indirect effects on co-defection intentions through relational benefits and switching costs. Three sub-dimensions of perceived relational benefits had significant positive effects on co-defection intentions while the perceived switching costs had significant negative effects on co-defection intentions. The significance of our research findings were verified by comparing the hypothesized model and the rival model in the past studies.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.155-187
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• 2013

This study is the one trying to examine the relationship between relationship benefit, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty perceived by the internet shopping mall customers. It will try to extend and apply the concept of relationship benefit mainly dealt with in the existing study to the online environment The specific purposes of study are presented as follows. First, this study will present five dimensions of relationship benefit levels as customization benefit, information benefit, psychological benefit, social benefit and economic benefit to clarify their relationship with customer satisfaction. Second, the relationship between customer satisfaction and loyalty will be examined. Third, a comparative analysis will be performed according to the type of internet shopping mall, in other words, between general shopping mall and specialized shopping mall. As a result, the remaining relationship benefit dimensions (customization benefit, psychological benefit, social benefit and economic benefit) except for information benefit among the five types of relationship benefit levels perceived by internet shopping mall customers have been shown as having significant positive effect on customer satisfaction. Finally, as a result of verifying the result on the difference between specialized shopping mall and general shopping mall, the difference between each group was shown as not being statistically significant. However, as a result of applying the study model by classifying into specialized shopping mall and general shopping mall, only the information benefit was shown as not having significant positive effect which is identical to the overall result.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.371-378
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to classify the customers according to the characteristics of the relational benefits and to compare the performances of the sub-groups. As a result of the research, the group type according to the relational benefits was subdivided into 3 groups, and each group was named emotional relational group, continuous relational group and intermittent relational group considering customer characteristics. First, the emotional relational group is the group that emphasizes the empathy and assurance between the service provider and the customer, and the continuous relational group is the group with the highest social, confidence and economic benefits. The intermittent relational group was simply a transaction-oriented group. This implies that a differentiated customer management strategy is needed for each relational benefit group based on customer experience in medical services.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.155-172
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• 2016

Customer participation behavior(CPB) and customer citizenship behavior(CCB) which are customers' active functions and roles implemented in service encounter contribute to the service quality. Thanks to these ideas, many researches focus on the influences of these two customers' behaviors on relational outcomes, additionally. However, when examining the characteristics of CPB and CCB, it is notable that CPB and CCB are positively influenced by relationships between customers and firms, adversely. In other words, it is necessary to find that commercial friendship representing a deep relationship can address these two customers' behaviors, as well as may influence relational outcomes. As results, intimate friendship between a customer and an encounter provider has a positive influence on CPB and CCB, expectedly. These findings show that customers having prior contacts can play active roles in a service encounter. Additionally, it is identified that CPB and CCB have positive influences on the relational outcomes such as customer cooperations. Consequently, CPB and CCB are likely to be on the loop of a relational circulation.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.37-51
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• 2020

Customer participation in the service encounter plays an important role in the interaction process. In addition, customer participation is affecting the development of relationships between customer-service provider. Previous researches revealed the role of customer participation through a fragmented and cross-sectional approach, however, given the dynamics of the relationship, it is necessary to identify the role of customer participation from a longitudinal perspective. In addition, it is necessary to determine the cause of the overlap between the antecedent variables and consequent variables. This study aims to identify the relational role of customer participation by clarifying how customer participation affects relationship development from a longitudinal perspective, focusing on trust and commitment variables which are keys to relationship marketing. The related role of customer participation is analyzed through a regression analysis through long-term data. The results of the study showed that commitment(t1) directly had a positive effect on customer participation. However, trust(t1) has been shown to have a direct positive effect on the sub-dimensions of customer participation, such as personal interaction and responsible behavior. Customer participation(t2) affected by this trust(t1) and commitment(t1) again turned out to have a positive effect on trust(t3) and commitment(t3). In conclusion, although customer participation is affected by the relational variables, it can be seen that customer participation is a major factor that can improve the relational variables again through the interaction process. For this reason, a service firm can seek to develop relationships with customers by drawing and utilizing their needs to exchange information and to interact in the service encounter.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.345-354
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• 2006

고객관계관리는 많은 기업들에게 경영자와 차별화할 수 있는 부문으로서 인식되어 왔다. 수익성 높은 고객을 확보하고 유지하는 것이 매우 중요하기 때문이다. 기업의 핵심역량으로서 고객관계관리를 강화하기 위해서는 고객정보를 더욱 효과적으로 관리해야 한다. 본 연구는 고객정보관리 활동들과 그에 영향을 마치는 영향요인들을 살펴보고, 고객정보 관리 충실도와 고객정보 품질 간의 관계를 보인다. 또한, 고객정보관리 활동에 영향을 미치는 영향요인과 고객정보 품질 사이에서 고객정보관리 프로세스 충실도가 매개효과를 나타냄을 증명한다. 설문을 통해 얻은 65개 기업의 자료를 바탕으로 다중회귀분석과 ANOVA를 실시해 가설에 대한 실증 분석을 하였다. 분석 결과 6개의 고객정보관리 활동들과 이러한 고개정보관리 프로세스에 대한 5개의 영향요인을 발견하였다. 고객정보관리 프로세스의 충실도는 고객정보 품질과 밀접한 관계를 보였고, 영향요인과 고객정보 품질 사이에서 고객정보관리 프로세스의 충실도가 매개 역할을 수행함을 밝혀내었다. 마지막으로 본 연구의 의의와 결론, 향후 연구방향을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.69-90
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• 2001

This study is to confirm how customers relationship-orientation toward the focal company has been constructed by what factors. The major factors are including the level of customer satisfaction and four components of transaction-characteristics like efficiency of decision making, inertia of decision making, information-seeking in store, and perceived risk. For testing of the hypotheses, customer survey has been conducted at four department stores and three discount stores in the Bundang Area. The sample size is 494. The result of the survey has indicated that customers relationship-orientation is influenced by customer satisfaction, efficiency of decision making, and inertia of decision making, but not by information-seeking in store and perceived risk. Further research has been needed for solving these conflicting results.

• Journal of the Korea society of information convergence
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2015

Today in modern Marketing CRM and environment of Marketing of Marketing need a various strategy. Modern Marketing needs more than merchandise and service to survive. The understanding of market's trend is the most important thing in various environments. The flow of market is to make the reliable relationships between comsumer and CRM then Marketing is creating the value of the customer. According this study gives a basic establishment of marketing strategy about various customership and makes use of analytic data.