• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.125-136
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to provide the bakery franchise chains with practical suggestions through the analysis of the product quality that leads to customer trust and long-term reliance. For this study, I collected corresponding materials and made an inquiry survey with special emphasis on the covariance analysis to produce trustworthy results along with the analysis of factors. For the empirical analysis, among 350 copies of questionnaire distributed in the Seoul metropolitan area, 322 copies with 96% of usable response rate were used for the analyses using SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0. Then, the covariance analysis was carried out for the verification of the hypotheses of the study. A summary of the results are as follows. First, texture, color and decoration, flavor and feel showed a positive effect on customer trust. Second, customer trust had a positive effect on the long-term orientation. Third, texture, color and decoration, flavor and feel showed a positive effect on the long-term orientation.

• The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.55-71
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of a franchise organization training program on its achievements. For the training program variables, it takes a motivation, a role perception, and a customer directivity as independent variables, and satisfaction or dissatistaction as a parameter. Also, it regards operation capability improvements, satisfaction of the job, and a will for a long-time employment as a dependent variable, then it presents the results by using SPSS/PC+ statistics methods. The results shows that satisfaction of training programs affect the long-time employment a lot. Therefore, for a long-run growth of the franchise organization, it is important to carry out proper training programs. The introduction(part I) contains the subject proposal and the purpose of the study, and theological background(part II) shows the definition and quality of a franchise organization, and some expectations from training programs such as motivations, role perceptions, and customer directivity. Also, part III presents the study model, hypothesis, and analyzing methods. For the last, part IV shows the verification of statistic results, then part V presents the conclusion.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.95-106
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• 2015

This study aimed to study the relational embeddedness theory which has been actively studied in the fields of marketing and psychology to the consulting industry. This study also aimed to find out if various efforts and pro-social service behavior of the consultant, a service provider in the consulting industry may have a positive effect on customer relationships. The results of the study can be summarized as follows: The pro-social service behavior of the consultant was verified to have a positive effect on relationship trust, relationship satisfaction with customers and relational embeddedness was found to have a positive effect on relationship trust and relationship satisfaction. In addition, relational embeddedness, relationship trust, and relationship satisfaction were found to have a positive effect on long-term relationship orientation.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.168-181
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to establish an effective marketing strategy as the marketing management strategy by inquiring into the effect of service recovery justice on relationship benefit, relationship satisfaction and long-tenn relationship orientation in food service industry with food service customers. This study showed that the service recovery justice has a positive effect on the relationship benefit according to procedural, interactional and distributive justice, and the customer satisfaction is maximized through the relationship benefit, continuing the relationship as long-tenn friendship customers. That means that despite service companies' many efforts, including the establishment of a goal related to service, as their service failures happen frequently by various internal or external factors, active work is needed through the fair relationship benefit as the service recovery strategy to deal with these service failures positively and keep the customer satisfaction and long-tenn relationship orientation.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.188-204
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• 2010

This research aims at finding relationship marketing factors that have positive effects on customer long-term orientation concerning wine purchasing personnels of domestic dinging companies such as sommeliers and managers. By figuring out the qualities of relationship such as the roles of trust and commitment while long-term orientation is being developed, it also tries to help wine suppliers which have been having a hard time due to domestic market recession and tight competition develop marketing strategies for promotion. A survey of wine purchasing personnels and sommeliers who work for fine dining restaurants, casual dining restaurants and wine bars was conducted for 30 days from Jan. 15, 2010 to Feb. 13, 2010. The statistical packages of SPSS 15.0 statistical package and AMOS 7.0 ver were used to perform frequency analysis, reliability test, confirmatory factor analysis, and path analysis. The result shows that among relationship marketing factors, communication and seller expertise have a positive impact on long-term orientation through trust and affective commitment.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.1407-1417
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• 2008

This study intended to compare the effects of fashion emotional and relationship experience of middle and old aged women on their long-term relationship orientation. The survey was conducted in September and October in 2006 on 579 middle old aged women whose age varied from 40 to 70 years old, who lived in Seoul and the metropolitan area and had experienced fashion shopping. The SPSS 12.0 was used to do an analysis of frequency, an exploratory factor analysis, and a multi-regression analysis and Lisrel 8.14 was applied to make a path analysis. The result of this study was as follows: Comparing the two age groups, the most important fact was that fashion related experience had more affective on long-term relationship orientation for old aged than middle aged women. Secondly, the effects of fashion emotional experience of middle and old aged women affected the long-term relationship orientation were the same. This analysis suggested that intensive marketing strategy effort of emotional experience for middle aged women and relational experience for old aged women should be more effective in fashion market.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.404-414
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• 2012

B2B2C distribution channel between travel agencies, the travel franchiser's fairness become a big issue. So this study examines the effects of B2B transaction fairness between travel agencies on relationship-orientation and travel franchisee's performance. The research results are as follows: First, the most influential factor on the franchisee's performance was found as relationship-orientation factor. Second, among the 3 variable factors of B2B transaction fairness, the most influential factor on the franchisee's relationship-orientation was found as interactional fairness. And procedural fairness was found as next. Third, distributive fairness and interactional fairness were found to have a significant effect on franchisee's financial performance. And distributive fairness and procedural fairness were found to have a significant effect on franchisee's non-financial competency. Conclusively, excellent employees of travel franchiser' are the most valuable factors in B2B2C transactions due to the nature of the travel industry where human services are valued above everything else.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.54-68
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• 2009

This study is to examine the structural relationships between relationship learning, their antecedents such as transaction specific assets, and environmental uncertainty, and long-term orientation, overall satisfaction and recontracting intention in the context of the foodservice franchise industry. The data is analyzed with structural equation modeling with Amos 5.0 and SPSS 14.0. The result of the overall model analysis appeared as follows: $x^2=57.75$, df=9, p=0.00, GFI=0.95, AGFI=0.81, RMSR=0.03, NFI=0.92, CFI=0.93. Since the result of the overall model analysis demonstrated a good fit, we could further analyze our data. The results of this study are as follows: First, information sharing of relationship learning had a significantly positive effect on long-term orientation. Second, information sharing of relationship learning did not have a significantly positive effect on overall satisfaction. Third, shared interpretation of relationship learning had a significantly positive effect on long-term orientation and overall satisfaction. Fourth, developing memories of relationship learning did not have a significantly positive effect on long-term orientation and overall satisfaction. Fifth, overall satisfaction had a significantly positive effect on long-term orientation. Sixth, long-term orientation and overall satisfaction had a significantly positive effect on recontracting intention. Finally, transaction specific assets and environmental uncertainty had a significantly positive effect on relationship learning. At the end of this paper, limitations, further research directions, and implications are suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.34-48
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• 2008

Modern fashion market is being developed by emotional values rather than rational idea of customers. Experiential marketing is an effective marketing strategy for fashion marketplace because customers tend to consider fashion shopping as an enjoyable experience. Among the fashion markets, the fashion stores for middle.old aged women that have various points of contacts could be appropriate place where emotional and relational marketing strategies would be applied to. The effects of the procedure "emotional and relational experience$\rightarrow$commitments$\rightarrow$long-term relationship orientation" that fashion customers are experiencing, by forming a path model, two types of experiential effects from emotion and relation were examined. It was found that fashion emotional and relational experiences were important factors because these factors affected a long-term relationship orientation. The findings of the study provide marketing strategy that enables to promote a consistent relationship between fashion stores and customers. Furthermore, this study will contribute to the criteria for segmentation of middle and old aged women's fashion market who have own desire for fashion emotional and relational experience.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.23-36
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• 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of national culture on an individual's ethical decision-making in the context of the Internet. An ethical decision-making model which posits that five moral philosophy variables-justice, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism, and deontology-affect ethical judgment; ethical judgment, in turn, affects behavioral intention was proposed and Hofstede's five cultural dimensions of power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation were used to analyze the effects of national culture on the model. The results showed that power distance, individualism, and masculinity had significant effects on the relationship between the deontology variable and ethical judgment, individualism, masculinity, and uncertainty avoidance had significant effects on the relationship between the justice variable and ethical judgment, and individualism and long-term orientation had significant effects on the relationship between ethical judgment and behavioral intention in the Internet context.