• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.231-242
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• 2020

Due to fierce market competition and COVID-19, it becomes increasingly important for sharing economic platform companies to develop a long-term relationship with customers. In this regard, this study explores the mechanism of customer's repurchase decision making in the context of Airbnb. This study posits customer satisfaction and brand image as the key factors in forming customer's repurchase intention toward Airbnb. It also investigates the effects of price fairness, authentic experience, enjoyment, Airbnb trust and host trust on customer's repurchase intention. This study validated the research hypothesis with 154 customers using Airbnb. The analysis results showed that both customer satisfaction and brand image have a significant impact on repurchase intention and explain 62.0% of its variance. Enjoyment, true experience, and Airbnb trust had significant effects on customer satisfaction, while price fairness and host trust had no significant impact on it. The results revealed that price fairness, authentic experience, enjoyment, and Airbnb trust are significantly associated with brand image, while host trust is not significantly related to it. The results of this study are expected to provide academic and practical implications by enhancing the understanding of customer's repurchasing decision in the context of sharing economic platform.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.280-295
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to identify whether there are causal relationships among experiential value, attitude and repurchase intention and whether the moderating role of storytelling experiences can be existed in the relationships between experiential value and repurchase intention, and between attitude and repurchase intention, focusing on Heotjesabap, dishes for a fake memorial ceremony, as a local food. Also, this study aims to identify whether there can be significant differences in experiential value, attitude and repurchase intention among the tourists who have storytelling experiences and those who do not have storytelling experiences of Heotjesabap. Based on total 211 samples obtained from the empirical research, the research findings are as follows. Firstly, tourists who have storytelling experiences of Heotjesabap have significantly greater experiential value, attitude and repurchase intention than those who do not. Secondly, experiential value positively affects attitude and attitude positively affects intention to repurchase Heotjesabap. Thirdly, the tourists who have storytelling experiences have a greater causal intensity than those who do not in the relationship between attitude and repurchase intention. These research findings show that there should be some changes for Heotjesabap, for example, better taste etc. to attract tourists to repurchase it. Limitations and further research directions are also discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.412-422
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• 2009

With the development of the Internet, online community has been made possible to buy a product in hotel industry. It is expanded gradually the customers buy various banquet services as well as guest rooms or restaurant use. From the 1950s, research has been conducted on trust and various study is achieved in connection with in social psychology or industry marketing. But there is much to be desired on research on trust in on/off-line company and customer's repurchase intention. Verifying the study model and hypothesis established through proceeding research, we would like to know that whether trust in on-line basis can be connected with the trust that already formed about the hotel in off-line basis. Furthermore, how on-line and off-line trust made in hotel industry can affects to customer's repurchase intention. The trust between on-line basis and off-line basis in hotel industry is mutually related. The trust based on off-line hotel company also affects to customer's repurchase intention. But, on-line trust in hotel industry is not related to the customer's repurchase intention.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.105-115
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• 2012

This study investigated the effect of willing assistance and social responsibility, which motivate one to buy products from social enterprise, upon functional and emotional values, company image and repurchase. To that end, survey was conducted on the subject of customers buying social enterprise products. 178 responses were used to verify research hypotheses through covariate structural equation model. The study results are as follows: First, willing assistance and social responsibility for buying products from social enterprise were shown to have significant effects on functional and emotional values. Second, functional and emotional values were presented to have significant impacts on company image and repurchase intention. Third, company image has a significant effect on repurchase intention.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.199-218
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of consumer's repurchase intention in the foreign direct sales shopping malls, focusing on the Japanese customers. Research model of the study is composed of seven independent variables (price competitiveness, product diversity, reputation, country-of-origin image, ease of use, delivery service, after service), a mediating variable (trust) and a dependent variable (repurchase intention). The results of this study show that trust is an important factor affecting the repurchase intention of customers. Customers' trust is affected by the reputation, country-of-origin image, ease of use, delivery service, after service. However, price competitiveness and product diversity, which are hypothesized to affect the trust, are not statistically significant. This study will provide a basis for future research on the foreign direct sales area. In addition, it will provide practical information useful in launching and/or operating the foreign direct sales malls.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.469-478
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• 2020

The objective of this study is to verify the effects of shopping tendencies and information search on the shopping mall satisfaction and repurchase intention of fashion clothing consumers at this point in time when the mobile shopping has been routinized. To verify this, this study selected male and female university students with experiences in purchasing fashion clothing in mobile shopping mall within the last one year as its samples. For the verification of hypotheses, the factor analysis, multiple regression analysis, and simple regression analysis were conducted. The results of this study are as follows. First, the shopping tendencies of consumers who had experiences in mobile shopping included the economic shopping tendency, entertaining shopping tendency, convenient shopping tendency, and trend-pursuit shopping tendency. Second, the convenient shopping tendency, entertaining shopping tendency, and economic shopping tendency of consumers' mobile shopping tendencies had positive effects on the mobile shopping mall satisfaction and repurchase intention. Third, the information search for purchasing fashion clothing in mobile shopping mall had positive effects on the shopping mall satisfaction and repurchase intention.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.191-202
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of Web site usability on trust, satisfaction, and repurchase intention in Internet shopping malls. The Web site usability construct consists of the factors such as contents, ease of use, navigation, and interactivity. In order to accomplish the purpose of this study, a research model was established and it suggests that the Web site usability, through the mediation of trust and satisfaction, eventually affect the repurchase intention of online customers in Internet shopping malls. The results of the study show that Web site usability has statistically significant effect on the repurchase intention of online customers and this effect is mediated by satisfaction. This research confirms the importance of usability construct in designing Web sites and understanding the use of Web sites. Implications of these findings are discussed for researchers and practitioners.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.291-298
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of beauty interest on the satisfaction of mask pack use and repurchase. This study analyzed data from 305 copies of the questionnaire on SPSS. The analysis was done using the v21 statistical package program. The results of the analysis showed that the sub-factors of beauty interest had a statistically significant positive (+) effect on the mask-pack satisfaction level, and the sub-factors of mask-pack satisfaction level had a positive effect on repurchase intention. As a result of this study, the higher the consumers' beauty interest, the more important the satisfaction of using the mask pack, and accordingly, the intention to repurchase was increased. Through this study, we can expect successful marketing effects if the mask pack sales company understands the needs of consumers and uses them as marketing elements.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.942-952
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• 2008

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the quality of take-out services at restaurants in Chungbuk Province. A questionnaire survey by 450 customers who had experience in take-out service at the restaurants was conducted and 378 completed questionnaires were available for statistical evaluation. Statistical analyses were made of raw data by SAS V8.2. The scale for analyzing the importance and performance of the service quality was composed of 5-point Likert scales. The main results of this study are as follow: The quality attributes of take-out service were rearranged into four factors in terms of food, sanitation, access and service. The importance score was higher than performance score. IPA showed that 'freshness of food material', 'cleanliness and hygiene in food', 'sanitation of facilities', 'neatness of employees' and 'price in food' was included in 'focus here' area. There was significantly positive correlation between factors such as food, sanitation, access, service and overall customer satisfaction (p<.001); between factors and repurchasing intentions (p<.001); and between customer satisfaction and repurchasing intentions (p<.001). According to multiple regression analysis, 26.27% of the variance in respondents' overall satisfaction score and 9.21% of the variance in respondents' repurchasing intention score could be explained by factors such as food, sanitation, access and service.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.201-223
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to verify empirically the causal relationship between service quality, ease of use, customer satisfaction, and repurchase intention of mobile shopping mall. And this study is to investigate the ease of use and customer satisfaction mediating effect of between service quality and repurchase intention. Therefore, 323 university students in Jeonnam area were surveyed and the structural equation model was derived based on previous research. Service quality of mobile shopping mall make a significant effect on using easiness, purchasing satisfaction and repurchase intention. However, among service quality of mobile shopping mall, service scape like mobile interface and site design made a positive effect on purchasing satisfaction, but did not any effect on repurchase intention. In other words, service quality factors that make positive effects on customer's pleasant using and repurchase intention make a positive effect on repurchase intention when providing and using the service customer wants faithfully rather than external part of the site and mutually influencing attitude or behavior well. The implications suggested by this study are as follows. First, service quality of mobile shopping mall makes a significant effect on repurchase intention, so it's necessary to improve CS service system so as to treat customers' inquiries or inconveniences actively during mobile shopping and return and refund of defective products quickly and conveniently. And, in addition to the finally used factors in analysis process, benefits using customers' grade by number of purchases, such as various events, coupons, reserve, etc. and active contents marketing strategies providing more various pleasures and values of shopping are necessary. Second, satisfaction of mobile shopping mall makes a positive effect on repurchase intention, so visiting of site and repurchasing of product are continuously done as customers' satisfaction on shopping mall is increasing. Therefore, shopping mall site requires differentiation of contents, exact plan and practice of service, marketing, etc. so that customers can feel more satisfaction. This study is significant as it systematically analyzed concepts of components that service quality of mobile shopping mall makes an effect on using easiness, purchasing satisfaction, and repurchase intention, verified the relations, systematized it by theoretical structure, and widened the understanding of effects making an effect on repurchase intention.