• 유통과학연구
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.119-129
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• 2022

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate sales managers' strategic focus on customer acquisition, specifically its effect on salespeople's performance. In addition, this study aimed to determine how salespeople's interpersonal skills, salesmanship skills, and technical knowledge affect the relationship between customer-acquisition management and salespeople's performance. Research design, data, and methodology: This study conducted a survey of 310 salespeople working at pharmaceutical companies. A structural equation modeling approach was applied to test the main effects and interaction effects using AMOS. Results: The results indicated that both managers' customer-acquisition orientation and salespeople's salesmanship skills and technical knowledge positively affected the latter's performance. Further, it was found that the higher the technical knowledge of the salesperson, the greater the effect of the customer-acquisition orientation on sales performance. Conclusions: Sales managers should enable salespeople to quickly acquire technical knowledge with respect to the market, products, competitors, and company policy so that they can bring greater synergy to the customer-acquisition orientation.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.39-49
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• 2019

Purpose - Customer loyalty and citizenship behavior are key success factors of franchise system. They make the management of franchisee more effective and efficient. Prior studies, however, mainly dealt with only acquisition utility of customer, such as perceived product/service quality and brand reputation to explain customer loyalty and citizenship behavior, which explains only on one side. We tried to investigate the effect of exchange utility of customer, such as relationship strength and psychological obligation together with the acquisition utility. In addition, we tried to investigate the relationship between customer loyalty and citizenship behavior in franchise context. Research design, data, and methodology - This study used data collected from the dining franchisee managers of 342 franchisors in South Korea. The franchisors consist of more than ten franchisees, the majority of which participated directly in the transaction with franchisor and have worked for more than six months. To test the hypotheses, the study used structural equation model analysis. Results - H1-1, 1-2, 1-3 predicted that acquisition utility would increase customer loyalty to franchisee. In support of H1-1, 1-2, 1-3, the results indicated that acquisition utilities such as perceived product value, perceived service value, and franchise brand reputation had positive effects on customer loyalty. H2-1, 2-2 predicted that exchange utility would increase customer loyalty to franchisee. In support of H2-2, the result indicated that psychological obligation had positive effects on customer loyalty like other acquisition utilities. However, H2-1 was not supported. Relationship strength had no significant effect on customer loyalty. H3 predicted that customer loyalty would increase customer citizenship behavior. In support of H3, the results indicated that customer loyalty had positive effect on customer citizenship behavior. Overall, the evidences generally supported the hypotheses. Conclusion - The results of the study show that not only acquisition utility but also exchange utility increases customer loyalty to franchisee and also show that customer loyalty increases customer citizenship behavior. Interestingly, however, relationship strength has no significant effect on customer loyalty. These results have two implications. The one is that increasing exchange utility can improve customer loyalty as acquisition utility can. The other one is that both of customer utilities can improve customer citizenship via customer loyalty.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.21-47
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• 2019

This study empirically examines the synergy effect of a corporate-level loyalty program on customer equity (CE) known as the lifetime value of current and future customers (Blattberg et al. 2009). A corporate-level loyalty program refers to a company-wide integration loyalty program at the corporate-level in which subsidiaries (multi-divisions) participate as program members. It does not merely examine whether there is an integration effect of a corporate-level loyalty program from the CE perspective, but it provides practical implications for a firm's strategic focus by identifying which value creation channels (i.e., acquisition, retention, and cross-selling), brand characteristics (i.e., size of the customer base before integration, diversity of products, and sales channel type), and consumer characteristics (i.e., customer relationship stage, transaction amount before integration, transaction period, and number of purchased brands) are affected the most by the synergy effect.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.123-138
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• 2016

전 세계적으로 기업의 중요한 전략적 수단으로 인수합병이 활발히 이루어지고 있고, 지능형 서비스 산업을 포함한 정보기술 산업에서의 인수합병 활동은 꾸준히 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 정보기술 산업 내에서 일어나는 인수합병 건에 대해 인수 기업 입장에서의 인수 의도에 초점을 두고 분석하였다. 특히, 두 하드웨어 기업 간, 하드웨어 기업 소프트웨어 기업 간, 두 소프트웨어 기업 간 인수합병 유형에 따라 인수 의도가 어떻게 다른지 비교하고자 하였고, 이를 위해 미국 정보기술 산업 내에서 1995년과 2010년 사이에 일어났던 1003개의 인수합병 건의 자료를 분석하였다. 인수 의도를 파악하는데 있어, 인수 기업의 입장에서 생산비용 절감 의도, 제품 개발 및 개선 의도, 고객층 확장 의도, 고객채널 확장 의도의 네 가지로 구분하여 측정하였다. 분석 결과 생산비용 절감 의도와 고객층 확장 의도는 하드웨어 기업이 피인수 기업일 때 더 많이 나타났고, 제품개발 의도는 하드웨어 기업이 인수 기업일 때 더 많이 나타났다. 그리고, 고객채널 확장 의도는 소프트웨어 기업이 피인수 기업일 때 더 많이 나타났다. 또한, 생산비용 절감 의도, 제품 개발 및 개선 의도를 제품생산 관련활동 의도로, 고객층 확장 의도와 고객채널 확장을 고객관련 활동 의도로 구분하여 비교하였을 때에는, 하드웨어 기업 간 인수합병에 비해, 두 소프트웨어 기업 간 인수합병에서 상대적으로 고객관련 활동 의도가 높은 비중을 나타내고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 활발하게 인수합병이 이루어지고 있는 세계적 추세와는 달리 국내 인수합병거래 규모는 선진국에 비해 매우 적은 수준이다. 본 연구는 인수합병이 보다 활발하게 이루어지고 있는 미국기술정보 산업에서의 인수 의도를 분석하여, 국내에서 인수합병 활동을 활성화하는 방안을 분석 및 개발하는데 기여하고자 한다.

• CRM연구
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.43-68
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• 2010

본 연구는 최근 대학경영에 있어서 '고객'이라는 개념의 인식과 고객지향적 경영전략의 중요성이 확대됨에 따라 대학산업에 적합한 전사적 CRM 전략을 본격적으로 논의하기위한 토대로써 대학의 유형별 CRM 전략 요소의 차이점을 검증하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 CRM 전략의 핵심 프레임워크인 CRM 프로세스(CRM Process)와 고객자산가치 운영요소(Customer Equity Drivers) 이론을 중심으로 대학경영에 적합한 CRM 전략요소 측정도구를 개발하고, 대학의 평가순위과 대학의 소재 지역에 따라 구분되는 12가지 대학유형간의 차이를 다변량 분산분석 (MANOVA)을 통해 검정하였다. 분석결과, CRM 프로세스 활동과 고객자산가치 요소들의 수준이 대학의 평가순위 그룹유형에 대해서는 유의한 차이가 있지만, 대학의 소재 지역 그룹유형에 대해서는 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 존재하지 않았다. 즉, 관계획득활동과 관계강화활동이 상위권 대학과 하위권 대학에서 유의하게 차이가 나는 것을 알 수 있었고, 고객자산가치 요소 중 상위권 대학의 브랜드가치와 관계가치는 중위권 대학 및 하위권 대학과 유의한 차이가 발견되었으며, 또한 상위권 대학의 제품/서비스 가치(구매가치)는 하위권 대학의 구매가치와, 그리고 중위권 대학의 브랜드 가치는 하위권 대학의 브랜드 가치와도 분명한 차이가 존재한다는 것을 알 수 있다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.105-124
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• 2007

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) becomes a crucial paradigm as the environment of the market changes. About the CRM actively maintaining and managing customers that have been already acquired, the research has been done as a plan to lure loyal customers who bring lucrative profits in the long term for the company in order to increase the value to the customers. However, in practice, the focus is on putting spurs to attracting new customers in a short term rather than retaining existing customers who give profitable revenues. If the company puts high emphasis on drawing the new customers, in a CRM's point of view in relation to the value of the customers, it can incur a loss in the long run. The reason is that if the firm conducts discriminative sales promotion, the existing clients with high loyalty will feel relatively treated inappropriately and they will have negative feelings such as being betrayed from the company they prefer. This occurrence of negative emotion can in-crease the possibility of highly profitable clients' secession. In consequence, this paper focusing on the process of the client segmentation at the mobile telecommunication services shows that the sales promotion strategy for the new customer attraction can lead to negative effect on the loyalty of the existing customers.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.123-139
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• 2005

현재까지 고객 보상프로그램에 대한 연구는 자신의 브랜드를 사용하고 있는 고객의 충성도를 유지시키는데 효과적임을 밝히는 연구가 대부분이었다. 그러나 본 연구는 경쟁이 첨예한 시장 환경에서 자신의 브랜드를 사용하지 않고 있는 고객들을 유치시키는데도 고객 보상프로그램이 효과적임을 밝히는데 그 목적이 있다. 또한 이와 같은 효과를 최대화시키기 위한 전략적 프레임웤을 제시하였는데 브랜드 비 사용 고객에게는 즉시 제공과 협찬 제품으로 이루어진 고객 보상프로그램 전략을 사용하는 것이 효과적이라는 것이다. 이를 통해 기업이 고객 보상프로그램을 실행하는데 있어 누구에게, 언제, 어떠한 방법으로 운영해야 하는지 그 운영 디자인에 대한 제언을 할 수 있게 되었다. 이러한 연구 결과와 함께 학문적, 실무적 시사점들을 논의하였다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.187-206
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• 2010

Evolutionary acquisition is an alternative to the grand design acquisition approaches. It has activities to make it possible to develop quickly and respond flexibly to changing customer needs and technological opportunities. The Ministry of Defense adopted an evolutionary strategy to acquire defense information systems. but it does not work well always. We look at problems from aspects of acquisition system and project management. We benchmark successful cases for evolutionary acquisition strategy in the DoD, the pubic and the private sector. We suggest an evolutionary strategy for defense information systems. The evolutionary strategy in this study includes an evolutionary acquisition framework, an evolutionary acquisition process, and an evolutionary acquisition guideline for defense information systems. The evolutionary strategy can help to implement evolutionary acquisition process for defense information system, and the process can increase the success rate of projects.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.218-233
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• 2008

This study reveals how corporate CRM activities can influence organizational performance by integrating CRM process with customer equity drivers, which have been regarded as independent research areas. The results show that the customer equity drivers including value, brand, and relationship equity mediate between CRM processes and organizational performance. In more detail, customer acquisition, retention, and expansion have positive relationships with brand, relationship, and value equity, respectively. Moreover, even though all customer equity drivers influence organizational performance positively, our analysis suggests that relationship equity has the strongest effect on it.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2010

This article addresses how an organization's customer relationship management (CRM) process affects customer equity drivers and, in turn, organizational performance. By raising a three-staged model including the CRM processes, customer equity drivers, and organizational performance, the authors assert that the customer equity drivers mediate between the CRM processes and organizational performance. The empirical analysis is based on a composite survey structure that gathers data from different types of informants according to the variables. Findings indicate that the expansion process has positive relationship with all the customer equity drivers. However, the acquisition process significantly influences both perceived value equity and brand equity, and the retention process significantly influences relationship equity only. In addition, the study shows that all the customer equity drivers influence the organizational performance given the existing customers. The relationship equity among the customer equity drivers has the strongest effect on the performance.