• Human Ecology Research
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.15-32
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• 2018

This study analyzes difference in consumers' and front-line workers' perceptions on 'consumer complaint behavior with hateful intentions' though the Co-orientation Model in three dimensions. In addition, we seek to contribute to reducing the conflict between consumers and front-line workers in the service contact point by finding factors that affect the difference in perception between two parties. This study findings and implications are as follows. First, Taking a look at the mutual orientation between consumers and front-line workers, mutual perceptions have been found to match in agreement but with a significant difference in perceived agreement (congruence), which indicates that the internal perceptions of both consumers and front-line workers do not match. The findings confirm that consumers and front-line workers have different perspectives on consumer complaint behavior with hateful intentions and therefore raise a need for efforts and institutional devices for improvement. Second, the study has found that consumers' economic responsibility as part of their social responsibilities and front-line workers' perceptions on consumers' civic responsibility affect the perception difference between these two groups and suggest a need for educating consumers about economic responsibility. Meanwhile, unlike consumers, front-line workers view consumers' complaint behavior with hateful intentions from an ethical point of view, raising a need for a transition of perspectives on complaint behavior with hateful intentions.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.49-62
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• 1999

Since the Internet was applied for commercial purpose, many companies have been making use of the Internet in electronic commerce and the Internet has brought many changes on consumer and supplier behaviors. It seems that consumers and suppliers can obtain more accurate information rapidly and pay less for the same product/service than in traditional commerce. This study tries to investigate the difference in the cost factors perceived by consumers between traditional commerce and the Internet commerce. Empirical results show that there is no significant difference in consumers' perception of cost factors between traditional commerce and the Internet commerce. Contrary to general perception, a large number of consumers do not believe that the Internet commerce is generally more economical than traditional commerce. The factors where the consumers think Internet commerce has cost advantages are search cost and purchasing cost. However, consumers are understanding the benefits of the Internet commerce and are expecting that Internet commerce bring about economic advantages in consumer markets in the near future.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.517-537
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• 2020

This study investigated how consumers and company employees differ in their perceptions of boycotts based on the co-orientation model. Regarding the reasons of boycotts, consumers take both consumer damage cases and unethical conduct equally seriously, while company employees take consumer damage cases more seriously than unethical conduct. Consumer perceptions of the necessity for boycotts was higher than company employees, while employees were more aware of the negative impact of boycotts than consumers. Based on the co-orientation model, we examined how consumers and employees estimate differences in their perceptions of boycotts. The results showed that consumers and company employees are not accurately aware of each other's perceptions. Lastly, logistic regressions were conducted to identify the factors affecting three types of participation: online opinion expression, personal non-purchasing, and persuading other people to join the boycotts. The results showed that male consumers are more likely to participate in online opinion expression; consumer perceptions of effectiveness of boycotts and the perceived severity of consumer damage increase the likelihood of participation in online opinion expression. Consumer perceptions of the necessity of boycotts and their opinion leadership increased the likelihood of non-purchasing. Finally, consumers with higher opinion leadership and female consumers were more likely to encourage others to take part in boycotts. In addition, consumers are more likely to persuade others to join the boycotts if they have stronger beliefs that companies will not seriously consider consumer problems.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.222-229
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• 2012

This study examined and compared the two perspectives of consumers and employees on the perceptions toward visual merchandising (VMD) of fashion brands in a department store. Importance of VMD elements, roles of VMD, evaluations of VMD elements, and brand and store images were measured and compared. The two types of questionnaires were used to collect data from consumers and employees. A total of 327 consumer samples and 317 employee samples were analyzed. The results showed that there was no difference between the two groups in what VMD elements were the most important. While employees perceived of the role of VMD higher than consumers, consumers evaluated two VMD element factors higher than employees and showed higher store image. Such results were not different by brand types. The study implies that the higher VMD perceptions of consumers are desirable to manage VMD from the employees' perspective.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.66-77
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• 2015

본 연구는 공연예술상품의 속성과 기대혜택에 대한 전문가와 소비자의 인식을 비교하고자 하였다. 우선 델파이기법을 활용하여 공연예술 작품을 제작하는데 직 간접적으로 연관되어 있는 전문가들을 대상으로 하여 소비자들이 공연예술상품을 선택하는데 있어서 중요하게 생각하는 속성과 상품을 통해 얻고자 하는 기대혜택에 대한 의견을 조사하였다. 이와 더불어 전문가 조사결과와 선행연구를 토대로 구성된 공연예술 상품의 속성과 기대혜택에 대한 설문항목에 대하여 일반 소비자를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 조사결과 "공연작품의 내용", "공연장의 위치", "티켓 가격", "스트레스 해소", "삶의 질 향상" 등이 전문가와 소비자 모두에게 중요하다고 나타났다. 반면에 소비자와 비교하여 전문가들은 "출연진의 명성", "예술가의 기량", "공연장 인지도 및 공연단체 명성", "공연장의 위치", "대중매체 홍보", "자아실현"을 중요한 것으로 인식하고 있어 일부 항목들에 대하여 전문가들이 소비자들의 요구를 과대평가하고 있음을 알 수 있다.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2018

Purpose - This study aimed to verify some cues for invigorating sales of mobile social commerce companies by analyzing differences in consumers' perceptions on characteristics of mobile commerce, after applying the step 1 of strategy deduction approach using the differences in their perceptions. Research design, data, and methodology - Efficient questionnaires of a total of 365 respondents who answered the questions about the importance of and the satisfaction with 14 characteristics of social commerce were returned, and then, paired-samples t-test and IPA by all respondents, gender, age and incomes were conducted. Results - The analysis showed that a maintenance/reinforcement strategies planned by companies are required for some factors including discount rate at the first quadrant, while active improvement strategies are required for others including reliability and interactivity at the second quadrant. Conclusions - The findings show that different marketing strategies should be established for each consumer who often uses mobile social commerce, and that more effective and efficient performance of mobile social commerce may be acquired by establishing and operating active improvement strategies.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.87-101
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• 2003

Recently, rice producers and related institutions have started to brand rice to increase sale. Despite such trend and the significance of rice branding to many parties including policy makers, no previous research has studied the relationship between consumers' psychological and socio-economic factors that underline consumer choice and judgment of branded rice. This paper discusses the variables related to branding through a survey based on 242 convenience consumer samples selected in Seoul metropolitan area in Korea, and presents the results and their implication for future research. The major findings are: 1) Consumers are reasonably well aware of rice-branding practices, and the main source of such information is in-store displays and packages, 2) It appears that consumers in general choose a rice brand based mainly on its taste and nutrition, and 3) the perceived difference among rice brands differs depending on some consumer characteristics. The perceived differences among rice brands in taste and in nutrition are relatively high for brand-loyal consumers and high-income consumers respectively. The perceived difference among rice brands in brand reputation is also relatively high for young, low-income, and brand-loyal consumers.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.147-175
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• 2006

본 연구는 환경오염물질로부터의 건강위험에 대한 소비자들의 반응을 분석하는 데 중요한 세 가지 요소인 위험인지(perceptions), 자기보호행동(behavior) 그리고 가치평가(valuation)를 체계적으로 분석하고자 시도하였다. 소비자들의 수돗물 음용과 관련한 건강 위해 가능성에 대한 염려와 우려 수준에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 분석하고, 나아가서 건강상 안전한 음용수에 대한 소비자들의 선호를, 정책적으로 논란이 되고 있는 유해물질인 비소를 사례로 조건부행동접근법(contingent behavior method)을 적용하여 측정하였다. 전라북도 지방에 거주하는 500명의 소비자들을 대상으로 한 실증분석의 결과는, 대부분의 응답자들이 수돗물에 잔류된 유해물질로 인한 건강위험에 대해 상당히 우려하고 있었으며, 이러한 우려와 염려의 심각성이 산발적이고 임의적이라기보다는 나이, 성별 그리고 가족수 등 응답자들의 인구통계학적 특성에 따라 이질적이지만 체계적으로 반응하였다. 그리고 이러한 주관적인 위험인식은 또한 안전한 음용수에 대한 구매의도에도 영향을 미쳤다. 아울러 응답자들에게 제시된 객관적 건강위험정보는 단독으로는 영향을 미치지 않았지만, 실제 위험회피행동 여부를 나타내는 변수와의 상호작용이 허용되자 안전한 음용수의 선택에 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 물론 실제 시장구매상황에서 익숙한 가격의 차이 역시 안전한 음용수에 대한 진술된 선호를 설명하는데 매우 중요한 변수였다. 또한 가상선택에 참여하지 않은 무응답자들을 제외할 경우 표본선택편의의 가능성이 통계적으로 유의하였고, 이러한 표본선택편의는 특히 가격변수의 계수추정치에 영향을 미쳤으며, 결과적으로 건강위험 감소에 대한 지불의사 추정치에도 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.523-536
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• 2015

Corporate association-which refers to consumers' beliefs, knowledge, perceptions, and evaluations of a corporation -can affect consumers' purchasing intentions. Corporate association consists of corporate ability association and corporate social responsibility association. Corporate ability association refers to a company's product quality, corporate innovation, productivity, consumer orientation, and after service. Corporate social responsibility association, which refers to the social perspective a company has of its responsibility to society, can affect corporate image and consumers' purchasing intentions. Eco-labeling for protecting and sustaining the environment is one of the important green marketing strategies in the fashion business that can influence corporate association and consumers' purchasing intentions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consumers' eco-label recognition on their corporate association and intentions to purchase eco-friendly fashion products. Questionnaires were distributed to consumers. The 263 usable questionnaires that were returned were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Cronbach's alpha, factor analysis, regression analysis, and t-test. The results were as follows: There was a significant effect of eco-label recognition on corporate association (ability association and social responsibility association). Eco-label recognition and corporate association were found to significantly affect consumers' purchasing intentions. Regarding the eco-friendly fashion product buying experience, there was no significant difference on corporate association and buying intention, but there was significant difference on eco-label recognition.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.93-106
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• 2016

Study objectives are: 1) to investigate the difference in consumer perceptions of the model's image and physical attractiveness according to advertising model types; 2) to explore the effect of the difference between the model's image and the consumer's self image, the difference between the model's image and the brand's image, and the physical attractiveness of the model on attitude toward the advertising model; and 3) to explore the effect of attitude toward the advertising model on attitude toward the advertisement. A total of 306 female consumers over the age of 45 participated in experiments with advertisement stimuli for a senior apparel brand. Results showed a significant difference in the model's images and physical attractiveness according to each model type. The consumer's attitude toward the advertising model was determined by physical attractiveness of the model, not by the difference between model's image and the consumers' self-image, nor by the difference between the model's image and brand image. Attitude toward advertisements was determined by attitude toward the advertising model. The findings imply that advertising models of a senior apparel brand can be selected based on the physical attractiveness of the model. Consumers do not consider whether the model's image fits well with their self-images or the brand's image when building an attitude toward the advertising model, and this precedes the consumer's attitude toward the advertisement. These results can be used as guidelines to select appropriate models for advertisements of senior apparel brands.