• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.261-283
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• 2001

This study investigates the antecedents of the complaining behaviors and complaint responses of the library and information center users based on the theoretical backgrounds and suggests eight propositions and conceptual model for the library and information center. It examines as the antecedents, satisfaction/dissatisfaction, attitude toward complaining, likelihood of success, materials/facilities/service importance, attribution, loyalty, and justices; and as complaint responses. exit, voice(redress seeking), negative word-of-mouth, and third party complaints.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.231-244
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• 2012

Consumer dissatisfaction and complaints make it difficult for online shopping mall to maintain existing customers and attract new customers, which may result in a direct profit loss. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between customer dissatisfaction in terms of product-complaints and website complaints and complaint behaviors in terms of individual, public, and 3rd party complaint behaviors. Th results indicate that product-dissatisfaction is significantly related to the public and 3rd party complaint behaviors, but not the individual complaint behavior. Website dissatisfaction was not found to be significantly related to any complaint behavior. The moderate effect of sex and individual attitude on the relationship between customer dissatisfaction and complaint behaviors was also not considerable.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.429-441
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• 2014

The use of smartphones has grown rapidly over a short period of time, particularly for commuting news search, smart banking, and social networking services, and has had a significant impact on the pattern of contemporary life. Further, a wide range of applications are downloaded on to smartphones. This has also led a considerable number of complaints regarding these applications. In this study, we focus on the levels of dissatisfaction that users experience with smartphone applications and their effects on consumer complaint behavior along with the moderating effects of the complaint handling process and attribution. The aim of this study is to verify whether the following hypothesis--2 (low/high dissatisfaction level of smartphone applications)${\times}2$ (poor/excellent complaint handling process)${\times}2$ (internal/external consumer attribution)--is in accordance with the betweengroup design to build a factorial design experiment. The results of this study are as follows. First, the consumer's tendency to complain significantly influenced their dissatisfaction level. Second, consumer complaint behavior is modulated by the complaint handling process. Third, the external-attribution tendency of consumers was found to lead to more dissatisfaction than the tendency for internal attribution.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.119-130
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• 2016

Product complaints allow business operators to learn from and solve problems they have been unaware of and prevent customers from leaving in advance. The ability to deal properly with complaints may improve consumer loyalty and repurchase intentions. This study analyzes consumers' intention in complaining behavior towards supermarkets and traditional markets. This study provides implications for business operators in the establishment of marketing strategies to deal with complaints and perform education related to consumer complaints by the verification of variables that influence intention on complaining behavior. A survey was conducted on housewife consumers who had experience using supermarkets and traditional markets. The major results are as follows: first, in store awareness higher in supermarkets than in traditional markets. Second, determinants of consumer complaint behavior, indicated a belief there was a need to spend more money at traditional markets than supermarkets, where the possibility of complaint success and complaint attitudes were found to be low. Third, intention of complaining behavior was lower at traditional markets than supermarkets. Intentions on private complaining behavior and public complaining behavior were both low. Fourth, intention of private behavior is higher than intention of public behavior for both supermarkets and traditional markets. Fifth, complaint attitudes were variables with the greatest influence on intention of complaining behavior for both supermarkets and traditional markets.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.93-107
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• 2012

Privacy-protective behavior can be classified into passive behavior and active behavior. Passive behavior includes refusal, misrepresentation, and removal, while word-of-mouth, complaint, and seeking for help belong to active behavior. Internet users in different countries may take different types of privacy-protective behavior because of cultural and social differences. This study analyzes the differences in Internet users' privacy-protective behavior between Korea and China. Korean Internet users take refusal, complaint, and seeking to protect their privacy information, while misrepresentation is not an option for Korean Internet users. Chinese Internet users take refusal, complaint, seeking, and misrepresentation to protect their privacy information. In Korea, passive behavior (refusal) is chosen more often than active behavior (complaint and seeking for help), while in China active behavior(complaint and seeking for help) is preferred to passive behavior (refusal and misrepresentation). The differences of privacy-protective behavior in the two countries may provide some implications for online companies, if they want to avoid the business risk due to privacy concerns and to take appropriate steps to deal with privacy-protective behavior by Internet users.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.527-542
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• 2021

The government-driven open data policies are on the rise to protect consumers from misunderstandings and monitor the companies. However, in contract-based industries such as insurance, the contract-inherent characteristics make information asymmetry between consumers and companies. Our paper focuses on insurance contracts where the contingency has high uncertainty of occurrence, and the clauses may incur high costs of reading. Given those contracts, we hypothesized that the contract's clear statement decreases customer dissatisfaction and lowers the number of complaints. To empirically support the claim, we collected customers' complaint documents of insurance companies and insurance contracts from 2005 until 2017. Our econometric models showed that clearer statements and words significantly reduce the complaints after controlling for firm-specific heterogeneity and time-specific heterogeneity. We identify that insurance companies' complaint ratio significantly differ depending on the insurance contract, including specific clauses and words.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.15-32
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• 2018

This study analyzes difference in consumers' and front-line workers' perceptions on 'consumer complaint behavior with hateful intentions' though the Co-orientation Model in three dimensions. In addition, we seek to contribute to reducing the conflict between consumers and front-line workers in the service contact point by finding factors that affect the difference in perception between two parties. This study findings and implications are as follows. First, Taking a look at the mutual orientation between consumers and front-line workers, mutual perceptions have been found to match in agreement but with a significant difference in perceived agreement (congruence), which indicates that the internal perceptions of both consumers and front-line workers do not match. The findings confirm that consumers and front-line workers have different perspectives on consumer complaint behavior with hateful intentions and therefore raise a need for efforts and institutional devices for improvement. Second, the study has found that consumers' economic responsibility as part of their social responsibilities and front-line workers' perceptions on consumers' civic responsibility affect the perception difference between these two groups and suggest a need for educating consumers about economic responsibility. Meanwhile, unlike consumers, front-line workers view consumers' complaint behavior with hateful intentions from an ethical point of view, raising a need for a transition of perspectives on complaint behavior with hateful intentions.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.107-135
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• 2013

오늘날 소비자의 불평행동은 기업에게 있어 소중한 마케팅 정보원천으로 인식되고 있으며 따라서 소비자 불평행동을 유도하는 요인에 관한 연구들이 이루어지고 있다. 소비자 불평행동에 관한 기존 연구들은 불평행동에 영향을 미치는 요인을 주로 개인적 특성에 초점을 두고 있어 기업이 통제할 수 있는 요인에 관한 시사점을 제공하는데 있어 제한적이라고 볼 수 있다. 본 연구는 소비자의 불평행동에 직접적인 영향을 미치는 요인으로 지각된 불평성공가능성과 불평비용을 설정하였고 이러한 지각된 불평성공가능성과 불평비용에 영향을 미치는 기업행동관련 요인으로 기업의 정서적 보상성향, 기업의 물질적 보상성향, 불평 접근성, 종업원 권한부여를 포함시켰다. 이에 대한 실증분석을 통해 소비자 불평행동을 유도하는 기업대응전략에 관한 시사점을 제공하고자 하였다.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.26-42
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• 2003

On-line clothes sale are on the increase, and the returns(for replacements or refunds) of the clothes are also increasing. Many studies on off-line consumers' complaints were made before, but few studies on the returns of clothes sold on-line have been made. From this viewpoint, this study was conducted to know what effect returns of clothes sold on-line have on their brands. Therefore, this study was first focused on the factors affecting complaint acts(return intention or return acts) such as lack of information and recognition of product, delivery errors and product defects concerning on-line sales, and second investigated the changes of buyers' attitude toward the brand following the their acts of returning the buyers, and third looked into the changes of on-line buyers' attitude toward the brand. The study is carried out by subdividing the objects of the study into return action(replacement, refundment) and purchasers who experienced return intention. Such experience is demonstratively analyzed to find how it has affected the attitude toward the brand. The study comes up with the following outcomes. First, the effect factor causing complaint action(return action, return intention) on-line is shown as the lack of the information and recognition of the product. Second, it is revealed that the effect factor causing complaint(return action, return intention) does not lie in an error in delivery or a defect of a product. Third, the positive response of a brand to a return action does not raise the repurchasing intention and positive attitude of purchasers who experienced returning a product, but lowers their private complaint action intention. Fourth, the repurchase intention of purchasers who experienced return intention for the brand is lowered, but their negative attitude and private complaint action intention is not raised.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.141-158
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• 2017

최근 고객들은 다양한 IT 채널을 이용해 의견을 자유롭게 표현할 수 있게 되었다. 이에 따라 기업은 고객들의 의견 중 특히 부정적인 의견을 효율적으로 관리하기 위해 큰 노력을 기울이고 있다. 기존의 연구들은 주로 고객의 불만 제기 횟수나 상담시간 등의 양적 데이터를 이용하여 고객 이탈 방지에 관해 연구하였으나, 고객이 실제로 언급한 불만 내용을 분석한 연구는 한정적이다. 따라서 본 연구는 고객 불만 데이터를 중심으로 고객 이탈에 영향을 주는 요인들을 알아보기 위해 이탈-항의 이론(Exit-voice theory)을 바탕으로 보안업체의 고객센터로 접수된 46,235명 고객의 268,364건의 상담내용을 양적인 측면뿐이 아니라 질적인 측면에서도 실증 분석하였다. 감성 분석 방법을 활용하여 상담내용의 감성값을 도출하고, 도출된 감성 사전을 이용해 고객의 만족 여부를 명시적으로 알기 어려운 상담내용의 고객 만족도를 예측하였다. 마지막으로 이 감성 값이 고객의 이탈에 미치는 영향을 로지스틱 회귀분석을 통해 분석하였다. 분석 결과 고객이 만족 여부를 명확히 응답하지 않은 경우에도 감성 분석을 이용해 계산된 각 감성값이 고객 이탈에 서로 다른 영향을 준다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 향후 본 연구에서 제시한 감성 분석을 통한 만족도 예측방법으로 고객의 숨은 의도를 효과적으로 파악하여 고객 불만 관리에 실무적으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.