• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.23
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• pp.25-40
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• 2007

In the highly competitive and divers world of financial market, customer is the single most important factor to company's survival. Especially, creating a relationship with valued customers is a key to success. CRM provides the mean to retain high value customers. It takes a prospect of what customers expect. Utilizing those knowledge can help the products and service meet the customers' needs, thereby maximizing customer satisfaction and company's profit. In this report, I am going to suggest a few ways to develop successful CRM in the life insurance industry. First, CRM should innovate the way of communication to keep pace with Web 2.0 era. In other words, the customer's needs should be caught by real-time communication than traditional off-line market research. Thus, the functionality and specification of products can be decided by customer's direct choice so that the customers are able to purchase the understanding and experience of the products. Second, CRM project should consider whether the initial strategy plan can promise the stable growth of customer at the first step. When planning strategy, the project needs to identify what customer wants and how to fulfill the needs with stable growth of the customer. In addition, the CRM should be developed by realizing that customer centric benefits ultimately guarantee the growth of the organization. Third, CRM systems should enhance the organization's ability to take the customer's insight in a 360 degree view and to capture the voice of the customer directly. In order to develop the best matched product package, more precise customer segmentation should be ahead of market segmentation strategy. Forth, the biggest reward from CRM will be a customer royalty program. Many successful banks are already planning and practicing customer royalty strategy. A comprehensive analysis of customers and their behavior allow organization to identify high value potential customers' needs and determine a strategy required to meet those needs. Even life insurance companies such as Prudential Korea are developing products designed for royal customers. Fifth, understanding and managing the experience of customer called Customer Experience Management also can increase customer satisfaction. Measuring only customers' experience and adapting it to marketing strategy make products position in the gap between the customers' expectation and experience not required by market. A key component of CEM is its application across all organizational functions. At last, the direction of change and development of CRM can be defined from the conceptualization of information technology represented by Ubiquitous and Web 2.0. Instead of just managing customer information, companies should take the initiative in personalized system with customer oriented strategy. Furthermore, with the regular communication between CRM stakeholders (Sales-Marketing-IT), customer's demand should be directly reflected to enterprise strategy in real time.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.60-67
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• 2010

The purposes of this study were to investigate the impacts of shopping value, customer satisfaction, and switching barrier on consumer loyalty to website. For this purpose, the study tested covariance structural model which set relationships among independent variable(shopping value), meditated variables(customer satisfaction and switching barrier), and dependent variable(website loyalty). The data were collected from a sample of 239 internet shopper of college female students. The covariance structural model and research hypothesis analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 and AMOS 5.0 program. The results are as follows: First, the structural model is accepted significantly. Second, shopping value had a positive influence on customer satisfaction and switching barrier. Third, shopping value, shopping satisfaction of customer, and switching barrier had a positive impact on website loyalty. Forth, shopping value had a positive impact on website loyalty directly, it was found to have a indirect effect on website loyalty through customer satisfaction and switching barrier.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.87-101
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• 2008

This paper studied the determinants affected the gamer's flow and communication on personal factors and environmental factors. The study deeply researched on the influence of flow and communication on customer loyalty, comparing korean gamer's behavior with chinese ones as research objects. As a result for this study, on-line game with high customer loyalty are considered as the more successful ones, resulted in korean gamers more influential on customer loyalty than chinese gamers, and suggested the strategic directions for online game developers and services.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.293-303
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to review causal effect of corporate image, customer royalty on switching cost. Specifically, giving managerial view point to build strategic CRM is major purpose of this research with finding out how the switching cost influences to the corporate image and customer loyalty deciding customer's desire of repurchase and knowing the important factors of corporate image. The result of this study is that switching cost has an effect on corporate image as the important factors. Also corporate image influences on customer loyalty.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.37-65
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• 2012

This research aims to design and analyze a ubiquitous customer relationship management system based on near field communication which can be applied to stores in off-line environment. The existing customer relationship management system has been used mainly for stores in off-line environment to issue a royalty card, to stamp a seal on the purchase goods, and to manage the history of customers' visits and purchases. But, the existing system has two weaknesses; it makes difficult for a store manger not only to acquire a wealth of customer data but also to systematically manage the acquired data. In particular, the effectiveness and efficiency of the royalty card are questioned when a customer makes purchases in the store in that the customer frequently does not carry it or loses it. So, this research suggests a ubiquitous customer relationship management system where a tag for near field communications is attached to a store in off-line environment; a store manager can collect and manage easily customer's dada and customers can seamlessly acquire store's information. To do this, this research conducts the followings. First, we review the previous researches of customer relationship management to examine the concept of ubiquitous customer relationship management. Second, from the examination, we draw the factors to be considered in ubiquitous customer relationship management system based on near field communication. Third, we propose a scenario where the suggested system is used. Fourth, we analyze the participants' values and the process that will be used for the suggested system. Finally, we discuss the possibility of the application of this system to real business environment from various viewpoints.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.552-559
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• 2002

With a severe restructuring and a high competition in the bank industry, the emphasis of business is increasingly put on profitability. Especially for retail banks, the classification and management of customers based on profitability becomes important issues. However, the cost required in maintaining relevant systems is so high also with one spent in acquiring data for customers as a whole. In fact, most benefit of a certain bank is gathered from a few loyal customers. Accordingly, most of banks are vigorously trying to measure ROI of the few royal customers and striving to raise earnings from them. This is also true to domestic retail banks which are recognizing the need of loyalty program and operating diverse programs. This report is executed to help design and manage effective loyalty programs. We conducted interviews on the persons in charge of royalty programs of 9 major domestic retail banks and made a survey on 5 banks among them. Based on data from these researches, we reviewed on royalty programs of Korean domestic banks and propose improvement measures to facilitate royalty program.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.371-387
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• 2005

From early 1999 years, the Mobile Telecommunication Companies have introduced the Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program to attract more customers. However, the severe competition in the Mobile Telecommunication market has made the Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program to be faced with the matured Mobile Telecommunication market and the Mobile Number portability. Main focus of this study is to find what are the core elements of service quality of the Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program. To achieve research objective, we conceptualized the service quality of Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program. We also derived hypotheses regarding the relationships between service quality of the program, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty and examined it by using the empirical research methodology. We suggest new marketing strategies of the Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program which can be applied to improve the corporate competitiveness.

• Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.33-41
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• 2022

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of attributes of online influencers on customers royalty mediated brand image and impulse buying. Research design, data and methodology: To conduct this study, a survey of 521 online user who experienced online shopping. Results: The empirical analysis results are as follows. First, among the influencer attributes, attractiveness, reliability, and expertise all had a significant positive effect on the brand image. Second, among the influencer attributes, only attractiveness had a significant positive influence on Purchase Intention. Third, the brand image had a significant positive influence on Purchase Intention. Fourth, while the influencer attributes did not have a significant influence on customer loyalty, brand image and Purchase Intention a significant positive influence on it. Conclusions: Among the influencer attributes, attractiveness and reliability had a significant positive mediating effect on customer loyalty through brand image, but the influencer attribute had no significant mediating effect through Purchase Intention. The influencer attribute had a significant positive mediating effect through brand image and Purchase Intention.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.23-49
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• 2005

Recently, owing to the rapid growth of the Internet and information technology, the growth of the Internet shopping mall has been truly phenomenal. In the Internet shopping mall, as the customers can't touch a product directly, trust is important factor in purchasing intention. Many researchers proposed direct relationship between the customer trust and the purchasing intention. We supposed that there would be some factors that could be the consequences of trust in on-line purchasing decision, and the factors could be also the determinants of purchasing intention and decision for the Internet shopping mall customers. We found out that there were indirect relationship between them through the customer's attitude, involvement, and royalty to the site rather then directly related. Particularly, the correlation between the site attitude and the purchasing intention was high, but the direct effect was not significant. The site attitude was indirectly related to the purchasing intention through the customer involvement and loyalty. This means that the customer relationship involvement and loyalty enhancement strategies are more important for the success of Internet shopping mall.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.135-153
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• 2001

Internet business is transforming the current structure and way of shopping behaviors. As a frontier area of internet business, internet shopping mall industry is influenced by this trend. In this shopping situation, shopping objects and information on the object are separated, which makes consumers to decide on the contents and marketing function offered by the shopping mall. This study proposes an integrated model including the influencing factors on customer royalty in Internet shopping environments. Eight hypotheses are proposed based on previous research in Internet marketing and information systems. The results are quite supporting the model and hypotheses. The contents structure, marketing activities, and customer satisfaction in the internet shopping environment influence shopping experience, next purchases and reference to other people. The proposed model and empirical results would contribute to setting up strategy of Internet shopping mall industry, and also to future research in information systems and Internet marketing.