• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2015

Purpose - The objective of this research is to investigate whether national culture influences consumers' service evaluations. The services industry is receiving increasing attention from academia and practitioners as its position grows in global markets. Standardization or localization is a traditional managerial decision in global business. As the boundaries of services expand across national borders, firms are required to decide whether to standardize services or adjust to local needs. Though it is imperative to reflect global perspectives in marketing theories, these perspectives are mostly based on Western conceptualization of the world. Through a comparison of consumer groups from two culturally remote countries, service quality evaluation mechanisms are examined based on similar stimuli. The study tries to expand service marketing perspectives across national borders. Research design, data, and methodology - Eastern and Western countries are known to be culturally distinct. One Eastern and one Western country were chosen: an Anglo-Saxon country (the U.S., England, and Australia) and South Korea. In Hofstede's cultural dimensions, the differences between the two are pronounced. The Anglo-Saxon based countries share many similarities. Samples of the same sites are targeted. Questionnaires using a service quality scale (SERVQUAL) and a customer satisfaction scale were distributed. Utilizing Hofstede's typology of culture, the service evaluation mechanisms of the respondents from the two groups are evaluated. Three hypotheses are proposed from the review of the literature. These are service evaluation habits, importance of service quality dimensions for the individualistic/collectivistic countries, and strong/weak uncertainty avoidance cultures. Consumers from the individualistic countries are considered to care about themselves and demand a higher level of responsiveness and assurance. On the other hand, consumers from high uncertainty avoidance cultures are assumed to rely more on tangible questions of service quality, as these are the only predictable service quality indicators. A t-test and regression analysis are applied to validate the constructs. Results - The respondents from the Anglo-Saxon countries are more generous on service evaluations than Koreans. Researchers have indicated that Americans tend to give higher service evolution scores than European, Mexican, and Korean counterparts. The tendency is the same here. The sample from Anglo-Saxon countries demonstrated higher service evaluation scores on every dimension of SERVQUAL. For the second hypothesis, the respondents from the collectivistic culture rely less on core service dimensions (assurance and responsiveness) due to their tendency to place more value on group harmony than individual interest. However, the third hypothesis was not validated. Conclusions - The study attempted to expand the scope of service marketing to reflect cross-national perspectives. Service quality is known to have a strong influence on customer satisfaction and loyalty behavior. However, this research demonstrated that individuals from different cultural territories respond heterogeneously to the same stimuli. Scholars argue that national cultures are main factors in such deviated behavior. Scholars and global managers should be aware of differences in consumer value judgment mechanisms such as satisfaction, expectations, and perceptions.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.741-753
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 SNS의 기능적 속성이 주얼리 제품을 소비하는 소비자의 만족도와 구전의도에 미치는 영향과 주얼리 온라인 쇼핑몰 구매의도에 미치는 영향을 파악하는데 있다. 기존의 문헌연구를 통해 SNS의 기능적 속성 중 4가지가 대표성을 가지고 판단되어 다음과 같이 기능적 속성 4가지(맥락성, 대응성, 사회적 실재감, 상호작용성)를 선정하였다. 주얼리 제품을 구매한 경험이 있는 성인남녀를 대상으로 설문을 실시하였으며 총 317부가 결과 분석에 사용되었다. 연구 가설을 검증하기 위하여 구조방정식 통계 패키지를 사용하였다. 결과를 보면, SNS의 기능적 속성 요소인 상호작용성을 제외한 다른 요인들은 주얼리 제품 구매자 만족도와 구전의도에 밀접한 관련성이 있는 것으로 드러났다. 주얼리 제품 구매자들은 SNS를 다른 사람과 다른 세계를 연결해 주는 부드러운 이미지를 부여할 때 주얼리 제품을 구매할 가능성이 높다고 볼 수 있고 구전의도에도 밀접하게 연결되어 있는 것으로 보인다. 상호작용성은 주얼리 제품 구매자의 구전의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 만족도가 높을수록 구매의도 역시 높아진다고 할 수 있다. 소비자 구전의도는 구매의도에 긍정적으로 영향을 미치는 것으로 드러났다. 구전의도가 높을수록 구매의도 역시 높아진다고 할 수 있다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2010

온라인 커뮤니티는 단순히 정보교환, 친목도모의 차원을 넘어 기업의 수익창출에 영향력을 미치고 있으며 마케팅 수단으로서 그 중요성이 점차 증가되고 있다. 온라인 커뮤니티에 관한 기존 연구들 중 만족과 사용의도에 관한 연구를 살펴보면 만족에 영향을 주는 여러 요인이 있음에도 불구하고 개인의 특성 또는 커뮤니티의 목적과 내용에 관련된 특성에 한정하고 있다. 반면 온라인 커뮤니티가 제공하는 서비스의 품질을 파악하는 등 서비스 특성에 관한 연구는 찾아보기 어렵다. 본 연구는 온라인 커뮤니티의 성공에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하고자 서비스 품질 결정요인을 확립하고 온라인 커뮤니티에서 서비스 품질이 고객만족과 전환의도에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 한다. 독립변수는 Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry[1,2](이하 PZB)의 유형성, 신뢰성, 응답성, 확신성, 공감성 5개이며, 이를 온라인 커뮤니티의 서비스 품질 결정 요인으로 하여 비교 및 검토하였다. 분석은 온라인 커뮤니티 사용 경험이 있는 198명을 대상으로 설문조사를 통하여 이루어졌으며, 연구 결과, 고객만족에 영향을 주는 차원은 공감성, 유형성, 응답성으로 나타났고, 전환의도에 영향을 주는 차원은 공감성, 확신성으로 나타났다. 이 중 공감성은 고객만족과 전환의도에 모두 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 요인으로 드러났다. 이는 서비스 품질이 온라인 커뮤니티를 통한 고객 유지에 영향을 주는 변수일 뿐 아니라 소비자의 욕구를 제대로 이해하고 반영하는 등 주관적인 서비스 품질을 향상하는 것이 중요하다는 것을 의미한다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.755-765
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• 2019

Purpose: Chatbots are widely diffusing across various industries to substitute human manpower in the industry. However as researchers only develop technology that is applied to chatbot, the diffusion is slow in progress. The purpose of this study is to propose useful implications to accelerate diffusion of chatbots across industries by analyzing the perception of customers. To achieve the research purpose this study analyzes causal effect relationship between characteristics of chatbot character, service quality, individual difference, and intention to use chatbot. Methods: This study developed a survey that contains various questionnaires for each construct based on literature review. Data collected through survey was tested for convergent validity and discriminant validity and further analyzed the relationship using PLS-SEM method to verify hypotheses. Results: Trustworthiness of the chatbot character, ease of use, application design, responsiveness, customization, assurance, inertia, and previous experience have significant influence on forming user satisfaction, consumer trust, and intention to use. The others, likability, appropriateness, technology anxiety, and need for interaction were not significant in this research. Conclusion: Although the constructs of the research model was significant in previous literatures, some do not have significant effect on intention to use chatbots. Based on the results, chatbot managers will be able to develop chatbot systems which are more appealing to users and more academic researchers will focus on analyzing user perception and intention.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.315-329
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• 2010

This study focused on analysis of the satisfaction level of specialty shops for environment-friendly agricultural products (EFAP). To analyze the satisfaction level of EF AP, a series of household surveys were conducted. Questionnaire was prepared on the basis of the SERVQUAL model and the structural equation modeling was made on the basis of the contents surveyed. The main results of this study are summarized as follows. Firstly, tangibles structured with store clearance, neat uniform, information and others is the factor of service quality satisfaction. Secondly, reliability structured with service practice, problem solving, and service in accurate time is the factor of service quality satisfaction. Thirdly, assurance structured with the reliability of employees, sufficient knowledge of employees, courteous and good manner is the factor of service quality satisfaction. Fourthly, responsiveness structured with prompt service, voluntary help, customer response service and the like is the factor of service quality satisfaction. Fifthly, the sympathy structured in interest for each customer, provision of service in time convenient to use, encountering the customers with genuine feeling are the factors of service quality satisfaction. And sixthly, the service satisfaction factors would influence on the consumer behavior factors.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2019

Purpose - This research strives to analyze and investigate customers' perception of the dimensions of service quality at retails in Makassar Municipality of Indonesia Country. This research tries to present its results empirically, which might be helpful to prepare a strategy to improve the service quality at retail companies. Research design, data, and methodology - The research uses Parasuraman's in 1985 unmodified SERVQUAL approach. This research is conducted using a questionnaire by purposive random sampling with 150 housewives customers who are met while they are shopping. The object of the study included several retail companies such as Alfa Mart, Alfa Midi, and Indomart operating in Makassar, Indonesia, which has been serving in 2017. Analysis was conducted by quantitative descriptive analysis, measurement of variable dimensions on the questionnaire using a Likert scale, and using cartecius graph and quadrant graphs to determine the gap size of each variable. Result - This research finds that the tangible and empathy dimensions such as product layout and lighting condition should be prioritized, and the empathy dimension whose gap value is too prominent such us peak load time condition and problem-solving adjustment. Conclusion - The second priority is responsiveness dimensions, and the last priority is reliability and assurance dimensions.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.871-884
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• 2001

this study was to investigate the perception gap on nursing service between consumers and providers. Method: the questionnaire founded on the SERVQUAL was developed and distributed to 300 patients and 210 nurses at the three subjected general hospitals in three provincial city, Korea during February to March, 2001. For data analysis, Cronbachs' Alpha, frequency, t-test, and paired t-test were used. Result: 1. In the gap analysis on the 20 properties constituting nursing service, providers almost all perceived higher than consumer in quality. Among them, the number of properties being statistically significant was 7 in the expectation, 18 in the important and 7 in the performance. 2. In the comparison analysis of the perception gap on the expectation-performance and the important-performance, it turned out that the subjected hospitals had to improve their equipment and facilities immediately. It was suggested a good strategy to strengthen the responsiveness factor and the assurance factor of nursing service. Conclusion: it could be concluded that nurses have to recognize the blind spot of their perception and endeavor to take away the perception gap between consumers and providers.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.197-210
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• 2016

With the advent of text analytics, VOC (Voice of Customer) data become an important resource which provides the managers and marketing practitioners with consumer's veiled opinion and requirements. In other words, making relevant use of VOC data potentially improves the customer responsiveness and satisfaction, each of which eventually improves business performance. However, unstructured data set such as customers' complaints in VOC data have seldom used in marketing practices such as predicting service time as an index of service quality. Because the VOC data which contains unstructured data is too complicated form. Also that needs convert unstructured data from structure data which difficult process. Hence, this study aims to propose a prediction model to improve the estimation accuracy of the level of customer satisfaction by combining unstructured from textmining with structured data features in VOC. Also the relationship between the unstructured, structured data and service processing time through the regression analysis. Text mining techniques, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, classification algorithms, decision tree and multiple regression are considered and compared. For the experiment, we used actual VOC data in a company.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.303-313
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• 2013

During last 65 years, Korea has achieved very rapid economic growth and social reformation including healthcare system. Many foreigners have praised that Korea healthcare system is very good in the respect of ease accessibility to healthcare under the lowest cost among the industrialized countries. Whole population are covered by the National Health Insurance. Also utilizations of healthcare among different income classes are even. However Korea healthcare system faced with several challenges, in terms of the an aging population and a rise in chronic disease problem, new threats of communicable disease due to globalization, the rapid increase of healthcare expenditure and high financial burden of patients even though they are insured. To cope with these challenges, we need reconsider the healthcare system as followings; to set up ideology of healthcare as normative public goods, to rebuild paradigm of healthcare for 21 century, to reform public health for strengthening health promotion, to develop new method for healthcare management including quality improvement and consumer responsiveness, to build new governance for health and to view new perspective on healthcare as a kind of industry.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.51-74
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• 2004

The virtual space of internet has changed the existed market structure as more and more internet users have highly increased. And this situation has given a golden opportunity to the internet service firms that are supposed to meet their customers through the internet web sites. So, it is becoming a critical issues to construct and keep better web sites than their competitors to the internet service firms. This paper is intented as an investigation of determination factors of internet web site quality further, which of them are more important factors to the consumer satisfaction. For this purpose, empirical approach using factor analysis, regression analysis was used to develop dimensions of internet web site quality and to explore more important factors that internet service firms should choice to have competitiveness. Empirical results of the study presented that the determination factors of internet web site quality were composed of five factors like Responsiveness, Accessibility, Ease of use, System Performance, Communication. And we found that Communication and Ease of use are more important factors than other ones. Therefore, the internet service firms that are plan to have more competitiveness than their competitors should choice these important factors and concentrate on these ones to build excellent internet web sites.