• International Area Studies Review
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.159-180
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to examine how perceived service quality, value congruence influences uncertainty avoidance, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, and in turn, provides insight for Korean banks when they penetrate into the Chinese marketplace. In so doing, this study conducts a survey on participants who are using banking services in the Changchun, Jinan, Guangzhou of Jilin Province, Shandong Province and Guangdong Province. The findings are as followed. First, Uncertainty avoidance plays an important mediating role in the relationship between perceived service quality and customer satisfaction, between value congruence and customer satisfaction. Uncertainty avoidance has a direct effect on customer satisfaction, but is significantly negative. Second, value congruence has a direct effect on uncertainty avoidance, but is significantly negative. Third, customer satisfaction has a direct effect on attitudinal loyalty and behavioral loyalty.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.26-43
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• 2011

This study aims to give insight into better understanding how service quality influences customers' attitude and behavior in terms of loyalty as well as how its effects vary by the types of restaurants (family restaurants or fast food restaurants). The results of the study are summarized as follows. First, perceived service quality, which consists of food, service, menu and atmosphere, made a significant impact on customer satisfaction for food, menu, atmosphere, and service, respectively. Second, the study examined how perceived service quality affected future expectations, and found only food turned out to be a significant factor. Third, customer satisfaction affected future satisfaction and customer loyalty, and it had a greater impact on attitudinal loyalty than behavioral loyalty. Fourth, future satisfaction affects customer loyalty, and it had a greater impact on attitudinal loyalty than behavioral loyalty. Fifth, the study examined how service quality, customer satisfaction and future expectation affected attitudinal loyalty and behavioral loyalty differently by different types of the food service industry (family restaurants or fast food restaurants) and found out there were some differences in the effects of customer satisfaction on behavioral loyalty and the future expectations and attitudinal loyalty on behavioral loyalty. The marketing implication is that service providers should be one step ahead in understanding the service quality perceived by customers (food, service, menu, and atmosphere). In addition, they should understand that establishing long-tenn relationships with customers by providing high quality service bas a direct impact on their business performance. Furthermore, management in family restaurants and fast food restaurants should include the improvement of service quality in their employee training programs.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.223-233
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• 2014

Even though the features of the products are almost identical, customers' reactions to each product are quite different depending on the brand image. The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of smart phone's brand images on customer's satisfaction and loyalty and compare the differences between user groups of the Galaxy and iPhone, two representative brands of smart phone. In order to do this, their brand images were classified into functional, symbolic and experiential brand images, and customer's loyalty was also classified into attitudinal and behavioral ones to empirically confirm the influence of those factors. The findings showed that functional and experiential brand images had a positive effect on their level of satisfaction, while symbolic brand images did not have a significant effect on it. Furthermore, it was found that the satisfaction level had a significant effect on attitudinal and behavioral loyalty, and attitudinal loyalty also had a significant effect on behavioral loyalty. Finally, a multiple group analysis of the user groups of Galaxy and iPhone determined that there was a statistically significant difference in the channel between customer satisfaction and attitudinal loyalty.

• 한국산학경영학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.21-32
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• 2006

In this study is investigate analyzed the effect of hotel employees' kindness activity, previous knowledge of the customer, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. The study shows that hotel employees' kindness activity perceived by hotel employees are positive, customer show a friendly attitude toward hotel employee, and very influence on hotel employees' kindness activity and customer satisfaction in the hotel. And then the customer satisfaction is effect on customer loyalty. Also, it was suggested that hotel employees' kindness activity include service qualities.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.598-604
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• 2013

This research the impacts of the tourism service quailty to the beahvioral intentions and loyalty to the results are as follow. Study results showed that the quality and behavior of tourist loyalty significantly affecting. Through these results, first, we could suggest one for the tourist to improve the quality of future loyalty to the new material could present on the tourist destination of Cheongbuk. Second, applied quality is important to know was intangible goods such as tourism and tourism quality as new research on the tourist destination of Cheongbuk. These results can be presented to expand the coverage associated with the quality of the tourist academically based. Tourist destination of industrial brand strategy was able to give many implications.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.409-422
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• 2014

This paper examined the influence of employees' social regard toward the customers, such as, overall service quality, service satisfaction, and service loyalty. The paper proves that the high contact beauty services and the low contact fast-food services have different customer satisfaction level depending on the employees' social regards. A survey study was conducted to collect the data with the actual service purchasers at domestic beauty services and fast-food services. Analysis of structural equation modeling with Amos 18.0 was performed to test the research hypothesis. The results of the study are as follows: First, social regard has positive influences on service quality, service satisfaction, and service loyalty. Second, Social regard has more effect on service satisfaction in a high contact beauty services than in a low contact fast-food services. This paper contribute to identify the effects of employees' social regard on service satisfaction, by comparing the effects on service satisfaction between high and low contact services.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.1086-1097
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• 1999

본 연구는 청바지 제품 소비자가 쇼핑시 제품이 품절된 상황에 접했을 때 보여주는 상표 전환행동에 관한 것이다. 의류 매장 관리자의 적시 적량의 제품 입고 관리 능력이 부족할 때 발생하게 될 손실을 유추해 보고 어떤 유형의 소비자가 상표 전환을 쉽게 일으키느니를 규명하는 것은 더욱 효과적인 매장 운영 소비자 만족과 고객 관리를 위해 의미있는 일일 것이다. 본 연구는 다음과 같은 목적을 가진다. 1) 제품 품절시 소비자들은 어떤 상표전환 행동을 보이는지 밝힌다. 2) 제품 품절시 대체 상표제품을 구매할 경우 대체 상표 제품의 가격의 영향력이 상표전환 행동과 어떤 관련을 보이는지 밝힌다. 3) 소비자의 쇼핑지향성, 상표충성, 애고 행동, 인구통제적 특성(성별)이 상표전환 행동에 미치는 영향력을 밝힌다. 이러한 목적을 위해 본 연구는 1997년 3월 버지니아주 블랙스버그에 소재한 버지니아 주립대학교 110명의 학생들을 대상으로 설문조사를 이용한 양적연구를 실시하였다 남녀학생 모두가 소비자로서의 역할을 담당할 수 있는 청바지를 선택하여 상표전환 행동에 대한 설문에 답하게 한후 t-test 와 카이 분석을 실시하였다 그결과 20%의 응답자가 품절기 상표전환 행동을 보이는 것을 나타났다 쇼핑시간과 편의성을 덜 중요하게 여기거나 강한 상표 충성을 보이고 의류전문매장이나 백화점을 주로 이용하는 여성 소비자들의 경우 상표전환을 쉽게하지 않는 것으로 나타났다 연구결과를 바탕으로 의류제조업자 및 소매업자의 제품입고에 과한 제언을 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.159-174
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• 2016

In order to apply the concept of switching costs to the library context, this study aims to identify library users' perceived switching costs, develop and validate a measurement scale for switching costs. A survey involving 210 university students was performed in order to examine the influence of switching costs on the affective commitment and behavioral commitment. Library users' perceived switching costs refer to the procedural and relational costs involved in switching from one library to another. The results of this study show that two types of switching costs as well as library service satisfaction have positive influences on affective commitment, which in turn affects behavioral commitment. The theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.81-95
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• 2019

The concept of customer satisfaction is very important issue in the service firms. All service firms should delight theirs customers? Which service contexts creating customer delight results in better positive performance? This study is to examine the moderating effect of service type on the customer delight-behavioral intention relationship. Data from consumers across two distinct service contexts (retail banks and upscale restaurants) were obtained. Using the multiple moderating regression analysis, the proposed hypotheses in this study were tested. The results reveal that customer delight had a greater positive impact on both revisit and referral intention in the hedonic service than the utilitarian service. This study suggests specific service contexts where customer delight strategies generate better desirable results. The customer delight strategy is able to be applied in both hedonic and utilitarian services, but it is more effective to lead customer loyalty in the hedonic service than utilitarian services. Service firms need a strategic approach to customer satisfaction strategies. This study provide strategic implications for service firms to efficiently manage and allocate resources, and can help them in making decisions about establishing and implementing customer satisfaction strategies.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.225-234
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of airline's retention equity on customer positive exclusive behavior intention and to minimize customer churn based maintenance is aimed to derive key variables in air transport market. A survey was conducted Incheon and Gimpo airport to use in the national carrier of domestic air travelers. A total of 480 respondents completed a survey. The result reveal that loyalty program, preferential treatment & acknowledgement program, and community program have significantly effect on positive behavior intention. However, preferential treatment & acknowledgement program, and community program have significantly effect on exclusive behavior intention. It showed that they are more influence than loyalty program as a switching barrier of airlines. The academic and practical implication of this study has been identified in the competitive market to maximize customer retention factors of maintaining retention equity to derive empirical strategic priorities.