• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.907-916
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• 2008

The purposes of this study were to examine the consumer beliefs on the wrongness and occurrence of unethical behaviors in retail settings, to examine the differences in unethical beliefs by consumer characteristics, and to examine the effects of anomie on unethical beliefs. A total of 609 questionnaires collected from a consumer survey were analyzed. Results revealed that respondents tended to perceive illegal activities as the most unethical and the least prevalent behaviors and downloading intellectual properties as the least unethical and the most prevalent behaviors. There were differences by age, marital status, occupation, and education in the four dimensions of unethical beliefs including actively benefiting from illegal/deceiving activities, passively benefiting at the expense of the seller, no harm/no foul, and common but questionable actions. Partial differences were observed by shopping frequency and return experience. Valuelessness of anomie affected actively benefiting from illegal/deceiving activities and no harm/no foul.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.17-37
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• 2012

소셜 네트워크 서비스(SNS) 등 정보통신 기술의 빠른 진화는 사용자들 간의 소통과 응집을 가능하게 하는 순기능과 허위 사실의 유포나 소수의 여론 독점 등 역기능 요소로써 소비자의 문제행동을 유발시킬 가능성이 있다. 소비자의 문제행동이 점차 증가하고 있으며 이에 따라 많은 사업자들이 피해를 입고 있음에도 불구하고 소비자 문제행동에 관한 선행연구들이 미미하여 체계적인 대응 전략 마련이 어려운 상황이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 소비자 문제행동에 대한 선행연구와 구조 기반 신뢰 연구에 기반하여 소비자의 문제행동 방어전략을 모색하였다. 본 연구를 통해 소비자의 비윤리적 행위의 영역에 이르기 까지 연구의 영역을 넓힘과 동시에 실무적으로는 소비자 문제행동에 대응한 사업자 전략 및 제도적 장치 보완에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 판단한다.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to examine the ethical attitudes of consumers in consumption situations by using the consumer ethics scale(CES). Self-administrated questionnaires were completed by 492 consumers, and the resulting data were analysed by frequency, chi-square, one-way ANOVA, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and cluster analysis. We found four different groups of consumers were identified according to their ethical attitudes in consumption situations: 1) the unethical onlooker consumer group, 2) the socialized unethical consumer group, 3) the ethical consumer group, and 4) the severely unethical consumer group. The unethical onlooker consumer group was most widespread prevalent among university students who were in their 20s and down or under, and who received spending money from their parents, and the socialized unethical consumer group was most prevailing prevalent among the higher educated consumers. The women who consumers slightly outnumbered men in an the ethical consumer group, slightly outnumbered the men who did, and many of the university-educated large income earners fell into this group consumed in that way as well. The severely unethical consumer group was quite uncommon among those who were at the age of 41 and up over, and not many of the higher educated people and larger income earners consumed in an the severely unethical consumer group, either. Thus, it's proven this study proves that in terms of the propensity to consume, the consumers' were different from one another in ethical attitudes and behaviors differ according to their demographic characteristics.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.39-50
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• 2010

This paper compares a cross-cultural and gender differences and similarities about consumer ethical perceptions and behaviors, and ethical ideologies between Korean and the US college students. It also examines the relationships between consumers' ethical perceptions and behaviors, and the relationships between consumer ethics and ethical ideologies. This research provides some evidence that supports the premise that consumer ethics is influenced to an extent by consumers' nationality and gender. The differences are not universal, however, and could perhaps be described as situational. The American college consumers were found to be more idealistic and relativistic than the Korean college consumers. But the differences were minor The American male college consumers were found to be more idealistic than the American female college consumers. The ethical consumer groups were found to be more idealistic and less relativistic than were the unethical consumer groups. Perceptions were positively related to behaviors in the consumer ethics. But the magnitude of impacts is different between the nations and in the dimensions of consumer ethics.