• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.103-115
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• 2016

Purpose - Our research started out with an assumption that a further study about the competency of B2B and B2C salespeople is needed, and has thus focused on enhancing their abilities throughout various fields. It seems that the ability of sales representatives has a positive influence on the image and revenue of the company. Since businesses find it apparent that the role of salespeople will become significant in the future, our research aims to provide a foundation for future research on exploring the necessary competencies for salespeople by conducting an in-depth interview as well as survey. Research design, data, and methodology - The methods of our research can be broken down into four steps - an interview on salespeople, eliciting salespeople's potential competency, surveys, and analysis. First, our research team conducted interviews on forty subjects. Second, we strived to elicit potential competency of salespeople based on data gained from previous studies and in-depth interviews. And Third, we came up with our own survey templates. Last but not least, our research team analyzed the results from the surveys to elicit necessary capabilities for the salespeople. Results - The results of our research show a clear distinction between B2B and B2C salespeople on all categories that we measured such as the character fitness, competence of emotion and sales marketing. As for B2B salespeople, the results indicated openness(M: 3.8265) in character fitness, and self-motivation(M: 4.1887), group cognition(M: 3.8735), teamwork(M: 3.9956) in competence of emotion, and previous research(M: 3.8735), proposal of values(M: 4.3873), cooperation with other team(M: 4.0441) in competence of sales marketing. The difference in capability required between B2B salespeople and B2C salespeople was very pronounced. Conclusions - For future studies, enhanced pool of subjects with various backgrounds is needed in order for our research to reach a wide range of population. The results from our research are advised to be used for eliciting the competency required by salespeople and for a practical application to further enhance their competency. Companies need continuous efforts to develop the skills of salespeople based on competence analysis and research of sales representatives.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2021

In this research, it was investigated the competence of Korean salesmen in the insurance business(B2C, consumer goods marketing) and information communication industry(B2B, industrial goods marketing) at the individual level rather than the organizational level. The salesperson's Guanxi ability means the salesperson's ability to create, maintain, develop the Guanxi ability. Namely, it was investigated whether the Korean salesman's Guanxi ability is the effective and persuasive concept in explaining the sales performance(company performance, business performance). The purpose of this paper was to verify which variables, among Guanxi ability and customer orientation, better explain the sales performance of salespeople. The Western concept of marketing that is closest to Guanxi is the concept of the customer-orientation that is based on the theory of relationship exchange. Confucian culture in the East is the construct concept, Guanxi is the measurement. The relational exchange theory in the West is the construct concept, customer orientation is the measurement. As the result of the analysis, we found that the Guanxi proved a greater correlation with sales performance than customer orientation. In the information technology industry, there was a big difference compared to insurance industry, whereas Guanxi and customer orientation had a similar level of correlation with sales performance. In the case of the insurance industry, we found that the Guanxi and sales performance were significant but the customer orientation and sales performance were not. This means that sales performance can be accurately and sufficiently explained only by adding the Guanxi ability in addition to customer orientation. The result of analyzing the mediating effect of the Guanxi ability between customer orientation and company performance, customer orientation was significant with Guanxi, and customer orientation and company performance were also significant. But, when the Guanxi was used as the parameter, the Guanxi was significant with company performance, but the customer orientation was not. Even when the dependent variable was business performance, when the Guanxi was used as the parameter, we found that the Guanxi was significant with the business performance, but the customer orientation was not. Namely, it proved Guanxi ability and customer orientation are completely independent concepts. In addition, we found that the information technology industry, unlike the insurance industry, mediated the Guanxi ability between customer orientation and sales performance. We confirmed that in the future, salespeople should not only rely on rational methods to maintain and reinforce customer relationships, but must consider the emotional factors through empathy with customers.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.205-221
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 오프라인 화장품 구매경로에서 판매원의 판매설득전술이 고객의 심리적의무감, 판매원에 대한 신뢰와 재구매의도에 미치는 영향을 파악하고자 하였으며, 고객에게 지각된 서비스품질의 조절효과를 살펴보고자 한다. 이를 위해 오프라인 화장품 구매경로를 통해 제품을 구매한 적이 있는 298명의 고객을 대상으로 설문조사를 진행하여 구조방정식 모형을 통해 분석을 실시하였다. 연구의 결과로 첫째, 판매원의 설득전술 중, 감성자극 전술(H1a), 고객환심사기 전술(H1d), 개인적 호소 전술(H1e)은 고객의 심리적의 무감에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 감성자극 전술(H2a), 제안설득 전술(H2b), 정보제공 전술(H2c), 고객환심 전술(H2d)이 판매원에 대한 신뢰에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 심리적의무감은 고객의 재구매의도에 정(+)의 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났으며, 고객의 판매원에 대한 신뢰는 재구매의도에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 지각된 서비스품질은 심리적의무감과 재구매의도, 판매원에 대한 신뢰와 재구매의도 사이에서 모두 유의한 조절효과를 나타냈다. 판매설득전술에 대한 기존 선행연구들에서는 제한적으로 하위 변수를 특정하여 설득전술을 살펴본 연구가 다수였으며, 재구매의도와 같은 마케팅적 요소를 확인한 연구 역시 미비하였다. 따라서 본 연구를 토대로 확인된 실증적 연구의 결과는 향후의 진행될 연구에 판매원의 설득전술에 대한 기준이나 방향성에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 예상된다. 아울러, 본 연구에서는 오프라인 화장품 매장을 관리 및 운영하는 소상공인들을 대상으로 종업원 교육 및 관리에 도움을 제공할 수 있는 시사점과, 고객에게 지각되는 서비스품질을 높이기 위해 전략적으로 수립해야하는 판매 전략에 대한 시사점을 기술하였다.