• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.106-129
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• 2001

In order to improve the agricultural products distribution, many devices have been suggested. Recently, direct marketing channel of agricultural product is one of the best solution for the problems of agricultural product distribution. The largest farmers cooperative association in Korea, Agricultural Cooperative(AC) have tried to promote direct marketing channel of agricultural product. Especially, the Agricultural product outlet store owned by Agricultural Cooperative(AC) is developed as an attractive alternative. Agricultural product outlet store owned by AC classify two types; small ＆ medium sized supermarket style and large discount store style. In this study, direct marketing through the agricultural product outlet store owned by AC was examined because it leads direct agricultural distribution and shares over 70% of direct agricultural distribution in Korea. Though a survey about consumer perception ＆ evaluation on establishing agricultural product outlet store owned by AC in Busan, the success factor of the store were identified. The results indicate that price, kindness of sales people, quality of products are main factor of the agricultural products outlet store. Theorefore Agricultural Cooperative should develop the retailing ＆ marketing strategies focusing these findings.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.29-38
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• 2011

Since a distribution market was opened in 1993 after the conclusion of the Uruguay Round (UR), various new businesses emerged in the Korean retail industry, such as convenience shops, supermarkets, specialty stores, non-store marketing methods, and cyber shopping malls, in addition to traditional markets and department stores. Competition among these retail businesses has intensified. According to the National Statistical Office (NSO), the growth rate of the total retail industry has shown a 32% increase in the past 5 years. While department stores, supermarkets, specialty stores, and other non-store retailing venues have shown signs of stagnation at a growth rate of 20-30%, which is similar to the growth rate of the entire retail industry, convenience shops and non-store marketing have shown 60-70% growth over the same period. By comparison, the growth rate of cyber shopping malls has nearly tripled. When applying development aspects of retail businesses through the competition to the retail life cycle, mom-and-pop stores and traditional markets have already entered the decline phase as specialty stores reach their maturity phase and demonstrate their limit of growth. Department stores are now in the latter part of the growth phase, which is still considered to have some growth potential. Big super markets are still in the early part of their growth stage although they were introduced 20 years ago. Meanwhile, retail businesses such as convenience stores, supermarkets, mail order houses, and warehouse stores are entering the middle growth phase and are expected to continue with their quantitative growth. At a time when most retail businesses in Korea are in a state of development or in the full growth stage, what kind of new innovative retailing will appear and develop? Moreover, what growth engine will drive it? This study analyzes the appearance of innovative retailing and its development process by establishing a discussable consumer's choice model through the interlocking mutual behavior of differentiated competitiveness and consumers' choice based on an awareness of this issue. The analysis of the results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, if a new vacuum zone emerges at the retail market level, innovative retailing such as low price/low service or high price/high service will emerge simultaneously. Second, if the number of new businesses in the vacuum zone increases, this will create competitiveness among the businesses, and each retailer will develop raising of level. Third, if a new business that raises the level develops, competition between the new and the existing retailer will occur, and an assimilation process between the existing retailing and the new retailing will be unfolded. Fourth, each retailing will promote distribution innovations in order to break the frontier of the existing distribution technology, and other retailing will follow the innovator. On the basis of an analysis of the abovementioned results, this study presents the following three suggestions. First, responding to the consumer's decision-making process on the attributes of retail shops that promote differentiation in strategies, this study established a consumer's choice model that can be discussed in relation to changes in market share. Second, this study provided an analysis of the emerging and developmental processes of innovative retail businesses using a more precise logical structure on the basis of the consumer's choice model described in this study. Third, the development process of retail businesses discussed in this study presented retailing solutions regarding management aspects on how to compose a strong retail mix that can help retail businesses gain competitive advantages in the market.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.21-39
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• 2005

The research objectives of this study were to examine the relationship between e-store attributions(reputation, customer service, safety(security), merchandise quality, information quality, web navigation), trust, satisfaction and web site loyalty. The data were collected using survey with a structured questionnaire. The subjects of the study were 213 people. Several hypotheses were put forward and results except for four hypotheses were supported. That is, reputation, customer service, safety(security) and merchandise quality have a significant influence on trust and satisfaction, information quality and web navigation have no influence on trust and satisfaction, and trust and satisfaction have a significant influence on e-loyalty. Regression Analysis were applied to test the research hypotheses on the relationships among the variables. Research implications of the findings and future research directions are presented.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.9
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• pp.47-75
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of reference price, price rationale and price-quality inference of consumer on the evaluation of apparel quality. The experimental materials developed for this study were a set of stimulus and response sheet. The stimuli were six print ads, which was manipulated by reference price and price rationale for a jacket of national brand. This study used a 2(reference price: offer and non offer)$\times$3(price rationale: non offer, stock disposal, sales promotion) $\times$2(price-quality inference of consumer: high and low level) between-subjects experiment. Subjects were 371 female university students. The data were analyzed by factor analysis, ANOVA and t-test. The results were as follows. First, three apparel attributes were identified: sewing/fabrics and label by factor analysis. Second, the significant interaction effects of reference price, price rationale and price-quality inference of consumer were found on evaluating quality of sewing/fabrics and label of apparel. So, reference price effect differed to depending on type of price rationale and levels of price-quality inference. Third, the significant main effect of price-quality inference of consumer existed on evaluating construction quality of apparel.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.65-86
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• 2000

From the perspective of relationship marketing, salespeople acts important role by creating values and developing, establishing long-term relationship with customers. This study is designed to suggest validated measure of evaluating retail salespeople in department store setting in an effort to facilitate active future studies. For this purpose, this study investigated attributes of retail salespeople based on series of personal interviews and literature reviews, and validated its measurement via exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. In addition, this study explored consumers' rating of the importance of attributes related to some selected consumer variables (consumer knowledge, product involvement, and demographic variables). The findings of this study revealed five dimensions of retail salespeople attributes: Service Mind, Sales Efforts, Product Knowledge, Comfortable Impression and Sale Inducing Skill. Customers of department stores put importance of salespeople attributes in this order. Some dimensions of consumer knowledge and product involvement do affect consumers' rating of retail salespeople attributes. Theoretical and managerial implications were suggested based on empirical results.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.51-75
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• 2007

Dongdaemun fashion market has been successfully positioned as a main hub for non-brand fashion product distribution in Korea. One of important competitive advantages of Dongdaemun market often quoted by retail researchers is an efficiently managed network system among supply chain members. This study aimed to examine the importance of buyer-supplier relationship elements and supplier properties from buyers' perspectives (small & very small-sized fashion stores in Dongdaemun market), and to identify the determinants of the relationship length between suppliers and buyers. Survey responses of 233 stores were analyzed using EQS 6.1 for Window and SPSSWIN 10.0. The findings could be summarized as follows: First, fashion stores perceived that right delivery as the most important factor, and geographically closeness, design capability, quality, and lower price followed in order. Second, the characteristics of stores such as location, wholesaling versus retailing focusing, monthly sales, and total business length all affected the perceived importance of buyer-supplier relationship. Third, design capacity, communication, power was identified as determinants of actual relationship length with a supplier, while communication and trust were found to be determinants of future expected relationship length.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.12 no.1 s.28
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• pp.3-10
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• 2004

These days GIS have rapidly deployed as input and solutions to marketing decision making problems and corresponding decision support systems in many countries including Korea. Its powerful spatial analysis tools along with data integration and graphic display capabilities let many retailers and manufacturers in fashion industry to accept GIS as a useful mean for their decision making systems. At this moment, this paper presents many facets of discussions on how GIS be applied to fashion marketing decision making problems. From provoking several questions on current fashion marketing decision making system to explaining multiattribute decision making and multiobjective decision making as tools for decision making analysis and discussing some implementation issues, this paper revealed many aspects of GIS and fashion marketing decision support system from integration point of view.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.99-123
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• 2008

Consumer satisfaction/dissatisfaction is key determinant of brand loyalty and store patronage behavior. But the results of many customer satisfaction surveys implemented by department stores show that consumer satisfactions do not predict the actual patronage behaviors well. The main reason of these surprising results would be that the consumer satisfaction indexes do not include some important determinants of consumer satisfaction. Many customer satisfaction surveys mainly focus on the evaluation of functional benefits including product assortments, merchandise prices and locational convenience. Recent studies indicate that emotional/hedonic benefits strongly influence the consumer satisfaction, intention to repurchase and intention to revisit. Our study suggests that both functional values and hedonic values should be included in developing the index of consumer satisfactions. The purpose of our study is to investigate the relationship between shopping value and consumer satisfaction, and actual patronage behavior. Shopping values is defined as the difference between total benefits and total shopping costs. Total benefits include the dimensions of product quality, service quality, and hedonic benefits. Total costs are classified as the monetary costs and non-monetary cost. The conceptual framework developed for this empirical study is as follows.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Costume Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.44-45
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• 2001

다양해지는 소비자들의 패션에 대한 개성적 표현 욕구에 따라 우리나라 미용산업은 헤어, 메이크업과 피부미용, 네일케어 분야로 전문화.세분화되면서 토탈 패션산업의 주요영역으로 성장하고 있다. 이러 한 토탈 패션의 등장으로 미용서비스에 대한 수요증가로 양적으로는 상당히 그 규모가 증가했음에도 불구하고, 서버스 품질에 대해서는 고객들에게 확실한 신뢰를 주지 못하고 있다. 이는 국내 미용업계가 미용서비스 제공자의 관점에서 일방적인 서비스를 창출하여 왔고, 고객이 바라는 서비스의 내용과 품질을 제대로 파악하지 못하고 있다는 사실을 의미하고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구는 미용실의 서비스품질의 구성 요인을 확인하고. 미용실의 서비스품질과 소비자 만 족과의 관계를 알아보는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위한 본 연구의 연구문제는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 미용실의 서비스 품질을 결정하는 요인에는 어떠한 것이 있는가\ulcorner 둘째, 미용실의 서비스 품질 중 소비자 만족과 관련하여 상대적으로 중요한 서비스 품질 결정요인은 무엇인가\ulcorner 본 연구를 위한 예비조사에서는 개방형 질문(open-ended question)을 실시하였다. 예비조사결과 프랜차이즈 미용실, 시내중심가 미용실 그리고 집.직장 근처 미용실의 3가지 유형의 미용실은 그 규모나 소비 자 인식이 상이하여 미용실의 서비스품질 차원을 연구하는데 유용한 것으로 나타났다. 본조사에서는 설문지법을 이용하였으며, 그 대상은 서울 지역의 3가지 유형의 미용실을 이용하는 고객들중 2 20-30대의 주요 고객층으로 정하였고 편의 표집하였다. 분석방법으로는 신뢰도 검증을 위해서는 Cronbach's 외 alpha값을 활용하였고, 미용실의 서비스품질 차원의 개념 타당성을 알아보기 위하여 LISREL을 이용한 확인 적 요인분석(confirmatory factor analysis)을 실시하였다. 또한 미용실의 유형에 따른 서비스 품질의 차이를 알아보기 위해서 일원변량분석(one-way ANDV A)을 실시하였으며, 서비스품질 속성들 중 소비자 만족을 결정하는 요인들을 알아보기 위해서 다중 회귀분석(multiple regression analysis)을 실시하였다. 본 연구의 결과들을 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 미용실의 서비스 품질을 결정하는 요인으로 는 물리적 서비스(유형성, 접근성, 청결성), 판매원 관련 서비스(감정배려, 능력), 정책관련 서비스(점포운영, 명성, 신용카드) , 미용기술관련 서비스로 나타났다. 둘째, 미용실의 서비스 품질을 결정하는 요인들에 있어서 점포 유형간의 차이를 분석한 결과 전체적으로 응답자들은 프랜차이즈 미용실의 서버스 품질에 가장 만족했으며, 시내중심가 미용실과 집근처 미용 실 순으로 나타났다. 셋째, 미용실의 소비자 만족을 예측하는데 유의한 서비스 품질 결정 요일을 살펴보면, 프랜차이즈 미용 실은 청결성($\beta$ =.30), 감정배려($\beta$ =.54), 명성($\beta$ =.60), 미용기술관련 서비스 차원($\beta$ =.68)이 결정 요인으로 나타났다. 시내중심가 미용실은 청결성($\beta$ =.39), 직원의 능력($\beta$ =.49), 명성($\beta$ =.59), 미용기술관련 서비스 차원($\beta$ =.68)가 서비스 결정 요인이었고, 집근처 미용실은 청결성($\beta$ =.27), 감정배려 ($\beta$ =.57), 명성($\beta$ =.73), 미용기술관련 서비스 차원 ($\beta$ =.60)으로 나타났다. 이것으로 미용실의 소비자 만족을 예측하는데 유의한 서비스 품질 결정 요인은 청결성, 감정배려, 명성, 상품관련 서비스임을 알 수 있다. 본 연구의 방법론적 의미는 그 동안 개발된 소매점이나 패션점포의 서비스 품질에 대한 평기척도를 우리나라 미용실에 적용해 봄으로써 미용실의 특성인 유행성, 청결성, 미용실의 명성, 직원과의 친분 등을 포함한 미용실의 서비스 품질 차원과 그 신뢰성 과 유용성을 입증하였다는데 그 의미가 있다. 또한 본 연구의 결과는 미용실 서비스에 대한 소비자들의 인식과 각 미용실의 유형에 따른 소비자 만족을 예측하는데 중요한 서비스 품질 결정 요인들을 통해서 좀 더 나은 미용서비스를 정착시키는데 필요한 전략 을 수립할 수 있다는데 실질적 의미를 지닌다.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.49-59
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• 2011

A franchise can be said to be the main method of distribution and marketing. It appears to be the future of the retail industry and is one of the world's fastest growing businesses sectors, as many policy reports and research results have acknowledged. Korea's franchise industry began in the 1970s, spread out into many areas (including food services, retail, and the service industry), and has grown by over 10% each year ever since. The industry's influence on the national economy becomes ever greater. Although the size of the franchise industry is expected to grow as it spreads and as the government expands its support, it has not yet attracted much academic interest. Research has so far been very fragmented. The main interest has been the relationship and conflicts between the head offices and the affiliates. No study has yet occurred on whether the concepts of satisfaction and intent to conclude a contract directly affect the success or failure of the affiliates. Few studies have empirically inquired into the demographic characteristics and abilities of the affiliates that significantly affect their results. Domestic franchise industries must prepare to leap from quantitative to qualitative growth. Most important is the need for affiliate headquarters and affiliates to build confidence between them. A friendly and reliable relationship between affiliate headquarters and affiliates will eliminate distrust from the franchise and maintain a healthy franchise system. This study suggests that current and prospective heads of affiliation should concentrate not on attracting affiliates but on investment and techniques of affiliate support. They should work on the reinforcement of brand power, the appropriate affiliate business environment, systematic education/training, taking burdens off the affiliate business persons, consolidating the relationship with the affiliate business persons, marketing mix factors (e.g. products, price conditions, logistics and shipping services, promotion, supervising and supervisor, operation procedures/processes, and material evidence); these all greatly affect the success or failure of the affiliate business. Supporting the affiliates is an important factor that enhances their results and satisfaction and consequently increases the positive recommendations to others and the ratio of recurrent conclusions of contracts, which ultimately generate the growth of the franchises. In addition, it is suggested that prospective franchise founders should make every effort to choose a good head office since the characteristics of the head office greatly influence the success of the affiliates. This study is significant in that it grasps the characteristics of the head office of affiliation and of the affiliates that influence affiliate results in ways not yet academically attempted.