• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.582-605
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• 2021

The study aims to explore the nature, drivers of BAE. In particular, how and why consumers engage with branded mobile apps. Since consumer engagement is a multi-dimensional and complex phenomenon, the authors took an interpretivist paradigm and used a grounded theory approach by interviewing 24 participants. The findings reveal that branded app engagement (BAE) is triggered by mainly three aspects, i.e., media characteristics (Privacy and security, customization, and convenience), brand-related aspects (brand image and product/service quality), and benefits sought (inherent and derived). More importantly, we uncover the underlying mechanism for each factor. Furthermore, the study explains the BAE process in its entirety from an app-centric perspective rather the brand powering the app. Thus, the study offers a fresh perspective and novel insights into the BAE process.

• 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보컨버전스학회 2008년도 International conference on information convergence
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• pp.135-140
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• 2008

Recently in the Mongolian wireless marketplace, many E-commerce companies have been making considerable investments in the technological development of M-commerce, taking competitive advantage of new business possibilities offered by Internet-based wireless technologies. In the Mongolian wireless marketplace, this new mobile environment opens the door for new and exciting market opportunities in mobile services and applications. In the near future, these companies will be looking toward M-commerce services as a supplemental source of revenue in the mobile marketplace. This paper examines the roles of M-commerce in the consumers' in order to promote the consumers' loyalty in the booming M-commerce. This paper contains theory that focuses on the basic concepts of the M-commerce environment, its wireless network technologies, and its applications infrastructure. Upon searching for references to assist us in establishing a market hypothesis, we discovered that few comprehensive studies on consumer perspective and behavior related to M-commerce services actually exist in the literature. In the area of M-commerce, many companies neglect the consumer perspective, concentrating only on technological factors only when formulating their market strategies. And, due to technological blindness, many companies were not able to succeed in end-user E-commerce services. Given that fact, this paper formulates a consumer-centric research model. In order to prove the research model, we chose the survey method which allows for the collection of large amounts of data from a sizeable population in a highly economical way. Through the survey, this paper defines consumer's attitudes towards M-commerce services by identifying potential Business-to-Commerce(B2C) applications and its primary target groups in terms of gender and age, and by investigating whether consumers recognize the value proposition of M-commerce applications and services. As shown in the data analysis and results, this research concludes that M-commerce development in Mongolia is still at its infancy, and that the implementation of M-commerce depends not only on technological progress, but also on consumer attitudes and their willingness to adopt M-commerce services. As well, other complex cross-cultural factors-socially, economically, culturally, et cetera-enter strongly into the equation.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.79-86
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• 2018

Purpose - Many retail stores tend to use scarcity-laden message in order to influence consumers, where scarcity refers to insufficiency of product supply or time of availability. For example, inside stores, the displayed products are often accompanied by scarcity message such as 'exclusive offer, limited time only.' According to past research, scarcity has a positive effect on product evaluation, since scarcity can acts as a signal of consumer demand, and thus product quality. Prior studies argue that consumers face a scarce product, they logically infer that other consumers buying the product in large numbers cause the scarcity. We propose that scarcity can be interpreted as a sales tactic artificially created by retail stores in order to increase sales of product. Research design, data, and methodology - We use a persuasion knowledge perspective framework to develop our hypotheses. In the present research, we show that product curation type is a key variable that moderates consumer response to scarcity, and thus the scarcity effect on product evaluation. Results - In this research, we showed when scarcity-laden message was used inside the store using consumer-centric curation message, scarcity had a positive effect on product evaluation. In contrast, when scarcity-laden message was used inside the store using marketer-centric curation message, the positive of scarcity message on product evaluation was diluted. Conclusions - Our study makes two important contributions to the literature on consumer response to scarcity. First, we identify a variable - namely, product curation type - that determines when either 'scarcity = good' or 'scarcity = marketing tactic' interpretation is likely to be dominant. Second, we cite persuasion knowledge perspective to explain the moderating function of product curation type in a retail store-related scarcity context. This research is relevant to practitioners, such as brand manager, retail environment manager, and advertising agencies, for the effective use for the scarcity-laden message in retail. The proposed moderator can operate in many real-life situations in retail where consumers are exposed to scarcity. And curation message related to scarcity has been facilitated by the inner-retail activities. These factors of the marketplace indicate that the boundary conditions of scarcity can have a significant effect on real-life consumer judgment.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.147-157
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• 2017

소비자만족과 소비자경험을 향상시키기 위해 기술-유통 통합(ICT Retail Convergence; IRC)이 증가하고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 소비자에게 상용화된 IRC의 현황과 가치를 소비자의 구매의사결정 단계별로 고찰함으로써 소비자 관점에서 IRC를 진단하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 먼저 국내 외 유통관련 문헌 고찰을 통해 IRC 종류를 살펴본 결과, IRC는 체험특화기술인 가상현실(VR)와 증강현실(AR), 정보관련기술인 인공지능(AI)과 빅데이터, 위치기반기술인 비콘과 RFID, 결제관련기술인 핀테크와 생체인식기술로 구분되었다. 다음으로 각 기술별 대표사례를 수집하고 소비자에게 제공하는 가치를 분석한 결과, 기술 유형에 따라 구매단계별 소비자에게 제공하는 가치에 차이가 있는 것을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구는 소비자의 만족향상과 유통산업, 기술의 발전이 함께 이루어질 수 있는 IRC 도입 방향을 제시하였다는 점에서 의의가 있으며, 향후 다양한 산업과 후속연구에서 소비자 지향적으로 기술을 분석하는데 기초자료로 활용될 수 있다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.380-386
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• 2020

모바일 어플리케이션 시장은 스마트폰의 등장 이후로 지난 10여 년의 성장을 통해 전자기기 소프트웨어 시장에서 가장 큰 시장을 보유하게 되었다. 모바일 어플리케이션 시장의 경쟁이 심화됨에 따라, 사용자의 소비와 사용 양태에 어플리케이션 평가가 끼치는 영향력 역시 큰 폭으로 상승하였다. 이에 따라 모바일 어플리케이션을 평가하기 위한 척도에 관한 연구들이 진행됐으나, 대부분의 연구가 전문가 중심의 인터뷰 또는 설문조사와 같은 정성적인 방법에 의존하였다. 또한, 서비스 사용자의 관점이 아닌 서비스 제공자의 관점에서 평가 척도가 구성되고 있다. 하지만 최근에는 대량의 사용자 리뷰(User Review) 데이터를 통해 실제 사용자들의 어플리케이션 평가의 정량적 분석이 가능해짐에 따라, 연구자의 주관성을 최소화하는 어플리케이션 영역별 분석의 가능성이 커지고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 사용자 리뷰 데이터를 활용하여 모바일 어플리케이션들에 대한 기존의 품질 평가에 대한 문제점을 보완할 수 있는 방법론을 제시하고자 한다. 이를 위해 토픽모델링 기법인 LDA(Latent Dirichlet allocation)을 적용하여, 기존의 평가 척도를 사용자 관점에서 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 연구를 통해 서비스 제공자 및 연구자의 주관성으로 인한 서비스 평가의 편향을 줄이고, 소비자 관점의 모바일 어플리케이션 영역별 평가 척도를 제공할 것으로 예상된다.