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Effects of Customers' Relationship Networks on Organizational Performance: Focusing on Facebook Fan Page (고객 간 관계 네트워크가 조직성과에 미치는 영향: 페이스북 기업 팬페이지를 중심으로)

  • Jeon, Su-Hyeon;Kwahk, Kee-Young
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.57-79
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    • 2016
  • It is a rising trend that the number of users using one of the social media channels, the Social Network Service, so called the SNS, is getting increased. As per to this social trend, more companies have interest in this networking platform and start to invest their funds in it. It has received much attention as a tool spreading and expanding the message that a company wants to deliver to its customers and has been recognized as an important channel in terms of the relationship marketing with them. The environment of media that is radically changing these days makes possible for companies to approach their customers in various ways. Particularly, the social network service, which has been developed rapidly, provides the environment that customers can freely talk about products. For companies, it also works as a channel that gives customized information to customers. To succeed in the online environment, companies need to not only build the relationship between companies and customers but focus on the relationship between customers as well. In response to the online environment with the continuous development of technology, companies have tirelessly made the novel marketing strategy. Especially, as the one-to-one marketing to customers become available, it is more important for companies to maintain the relationship marketing with their customers. Among many SNS, Facebook, which many companies use as a communication channel, provides a fan page service for each company that supports its business. Facebook fan page is the platform that the event, information and announcement can be shared with customers using texts, videos, and pictures. Companies open their own fan pages in order to inform their companies and businesses. Such page functions as the websites of companies and has a characteristic of their brand communities such as blogs as well. As Facebook has become the major communication medium with customers, companies recognize its importance as the effective marketing channel, but they still need to investigate their business performances by using Facebook. Although there are infinite potentials in Facebook fan page that even has a function as a community between users, which other platforms do not, it is incomplete to regard companies' Facebook fan pages as communities and analyze them. In this study, it explores the relationship among customers through the network of the Facebook fan page users. The previous studies on a company's Facebook fan page were focused on finding out the effective operational direction by analyzing the use state of the company. However, in this study, it draws out the structural variable of the network, which customer committment can be measured by applying the social network analysis methodology and investigates the influence of the structural characteristics of network on the business performance of companies in an empirical way. Through each company's Facebook fan page, the network of users who engaged in the communication with each company is exploited and it is the one-mode undirected binary network that respectively regards users and the relationship of them in terms of their marketing activities as the node and link. In this network, it draws out the structural variable of network that can explain the customer commitment, who pressed "like," made comments and shared the Facebook marketing message, of each company by calculating density, global clustering coefficient, mean geodesic distance, diameter. By exploiting companies' historical performance such as net income and Tobin's Q indicator as the result variables, this study investigates influence on companies' business performances. For this purpose, it collects the network data on the subjects of 54 companies among KOSPI-listed companies, which have posted more than 100 articles on their Facebook fan pages during the data collection period. Then it draws out the network indicator of each company. The indicator related to companies' performances is calculated, based on the posted value on DART website of the Financial Supervisory Service. From the academic perspective, this study suggests a new approach through the social network analysis methodology to researchers who attempt to study the business-purpose utilization of the social media channel. From the practical perspective, this study proposes the more substantive marketing performance measurements to companies performing marketing activities through the social media and it is expected that it will bring a foundation of establishing smart business strategies by using the network indicators.

Development of the Online Activity Index of K-pop Fans

  • Kwak, Young-Sik;Hong, Jae-Won;Nam, Yoon-Jung;Han, Kang-Il;Kim, Mi-Hee;Na, Byeong-Min;Wang, Xue;Song, He-Feng
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.26 no.9
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    • pp.201-212
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to empirically measure K-pop fans' content and the extent of online activities. To achieve the purpose of the study, the researchers identify the statistically significant online activities that determine the intensity of fan attachment toward K-pop artists. Further, the research confirms the relative importance of various meaningful online activities. Consequently, we can develop the K-pop Online Activity Index (KOAI) model and apply it to this index model empirically for each respondent. We found that the model consists of five online activities of K-pop fans: whether joining the fan club or not, whether paying per view V live+ or not, whether watching VODs associated with artists or not, the degree of fan club writing, the degree of watching a lot on YouTube to improve the value of my artists. This study has practical significance in that it allows K-pop marketers to improve their marketing performance by providing content that will enable them to more efficiently and effectively allocate marketing resources to various online activities to get fan responses. It allows accumulating academic knowledge to understand the behavior in the field of online behavior for K-pop fans.

Enhancing Multidimensional Customer Engagement on Social Media Marketing: Based on the posting contents and display types in Facebook Fan Pages (소셜미디어 마케팅을 통한 다차원적 고객 인게이지먼트 증진: 게시물 내용과 표현 유형을 중심으로)

  • Kang, Bong Su;Lee, Kyu Hyun;Kim, Hee-Woong
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.99-116
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    • 2015
  • Purpose One of the main characteristics of Social Network Service(SNS) is that users in an open space makes posts through voluntary participation and sharing among them. This makes SNS a very attractive channel to companies that need to send their messages to consumers. As a matter of fact, there are many companies doing marketing activities through a platform of Fan Page as a space for corporations and consumers to act together. This study defines the values and types of companies' advertising posts on Facebook, empirically analyzes the results of them, and investigates factors that could enhance the customer engagement. Design/methodology/approach A research model was built to demonstrate which values and types of posts were combined by corporations' posts on Facebook and create their messages and which of those combinations would lead to high results of customer engagement. Findings The results show differences in the values of posts between the group of high customer engagement and the other group on Facebook. This study makes its contribution by conducting elaborate analysis of posts on Facebook and thus proposing marketing strategies that companies, which had difficulties with systematic marketing activities due to cost limitations, could use on Facebook.

A Study on the BTS Goods Values and Collaboration Brand Preference According to Fandom Type: Focusing on BTS Fan-club 'ARMY' (팬덤 동기에 따른 BTS 굿즈 가치와 협업 브랜드 선호도 연구: BTS 팬클럽 ARMY를 대상으로)

  • Lee, Minju;Yoo, Jiwon;Ko, Eunju
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.165-178
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    • 2021
  • With rise in economic activity of fandoms, fashion brands often collaborate with K-pop stars such as BTS to enhance brand preference and sales. This study analyzes why people engage in fandom activity and its effects on collaboration fashion brand preference by focusing on 'BTS' and fandom 'Army'. This study aims to provide information to establish marketing strategies by identifying the influence of fandom culture related to the Korean Wave and the fashion industry, and empirically analyzing factors affecting active customer formation for long-term growth. The data were collected from BTS fan club 'Army' and a total data sets were analyzed using SPSS25.0 statistics program. The findings of this research were as following. Frist, BTS fandom motivation were identified as Need for Approval, Communication Need, Professionalism Need, Need to Belong, Consumption Need and the BTS fan groups were categorized into 3 groups. Third, comparing BTS goods values and collaboration brand preference an excess in each group was revealed. This study is significant because it provides essential data for the marketing strategy of fandom market by comparing marketing effects of BTS with the characteristics of fandom consumers and identifying the different desires of each group. As a result of this research, it can be seen that BTS an influential leading brand, has been adopted, and the research direction of empirical analysis has been presented. In practice companies can select specific fandom targets by using the sub-levels of fandom types that have become clear and implement marketing strategies of the fandom market.

A Study on the Determinants of Fans' Team Identification in KBO League : Focused on the Effects of Kids Marketing (프로야구 팬의 팀 동일시에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구: 응원시작 연령의 효과를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Seung-Nyun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.99-110
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    • 2016
  • This study examined the factors affecting the team identification of professional baseball fans. The factors were divided into the fan factor, game factors, and other factors. For the analysis, two investigators visited stadium three times in total and a total number of 297 spectators were sampled using a convenience sampling method from three baseball teams. For the fan factor, a fan who began supporting his/her team from childhood or after childhood was used as a dummy variable. The interaction effects between the fan factor and other variables were investigated to offer a stereoscopic understanding about the role of kids marketing. In addition, three game factors and four non-game factors were analyzed. The results regarding fan variable and interaction effects were obtained. Fans from their childhood have much stronger team identification, and show interaction effects with the players. Regression analysis revealed player, promotion and fan service, price, and regional connection to have positive relations with team identification. This study is especially meaningful in a sense that it has proposed positive results regarding marketing to children, and the results will contribute to both the academic field and the industry.

A Study of Professional Baseball Team Fan's Preference to the Team and the Products of Its Company (프로야구 팬 특성과 소속 기업 팀 및 기업제품에 대한 지지도 연구)

  • Chang, Kyung;Min, Jae-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2002
  • We studied the relations between variables related to fan's preference in a area of pro-baseball which is the most popular one among pro-sports. The dependent variables are pro-baseball team fan's preference to both the team and the products of the company which has a pro-baseball team, while the independent variables are sex, age, and hometown of fans. Eight hypotheses are constructed with those variables. For testing them a questionnaire was used, whose reliability was checked using Kronbach Alpha. Subjects were 314 college students in a local city. For statistical analysis nonparametric tests like Mann Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, etc were used. Useful and significant results among variables were obtained. Since these results have important implications about management of pro-sports teams and fans and fans Preference to products in a view of sports marketing management, more researches should be done continuously in the future in this area.

Major League Soccer and its U.S. Fan Base

  • Junsang AHN
    • Journal of Sport and Applied Science
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand fans' perception of the MLS. Particularly, this study investigates both the avid fan's perception of the MLS as well as the same perception in a potentially larger audience. This study aims at (1) segmenting the findings into three groups, (2) understanding the characteristics of these groups from the sport marketing prospective and (3) comparing the three groups to see whether there are any similarities and differences. Research design, data, and methodology: Using motivational factors alongside the 4P's of marketing, these three segments were analyzed and their similarities and differences were compared. An online survey was created and distributed through different MLS databases. Results: Prior to the distribution, a few hypotheses were made regarding the motivational factors of fans; specifically, that the quality of play has led to a lack of interest in the league and that the presence of star athletes has the potential to bring in more fans for the league. The quality of play and star athletes are important and thus a bigger emphasis needs to be placed on the designated player rule. At the same time, more television coverage as well as more exhibition games with international teams can generate more buzz for the league and garner more fans. Conclusions: This study explored motivational factors which support fanship of Major League Soccer. Further implications were discussed.

A Study on the Structural Relationship Between Fan Citizenship And Sports Marketing Achievement (팬 시민행동이 스포츠마케팅 성과 간 구조적 관계에 관한 연구)

  • Yun, Dae-Hong
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.125-147
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    • 2018
  • This study was intended to examine the structural relationship between fan citizenship and sports marketing achievement. For that, 220 questionnaires were distributed to the fans of Lotte Giant in Busan region and 205 questionnaires were used finally. The hypotheses were validated by using SPSS 25.0 and Smart PLS 2.0 based on the study model. All hypotheses were adopted, except for 4 hypotheses(Hypothesis 5-3, Hypothesis 6-1, Hypothesis 6-2, and Hypothesis 6-3), among a total of 17 hypotheses. For that, the results were derived as below: First, fan citizenship had a positive(+) influence on team equity(Hypothesis 1), sponsor assets(Hypothesis 2), and community equity(Hypothesis 3) as a whole. Second, team equity had a positive(+) influence on sponsor assets(Hypothesis 4) in all respects, and furthermore, had a positive(+) influence on local image(Hypothesis 5-1) and contribution to local community(Hypothesis 5-2). Meanwhile, team equity did not have a statistically significant influence on social interchange(Hypothesis 5-3. Finally, sponsor assets and community equity were found to have the relationship as follows: No statistically significant relationship was observed between corporate image and community equity. Corporate awareness had a positive(+) influence as a whole. The results of this study are expected to provide comprehensive understanding and theoretical and practical implications of the influence that fan citizenship would have on sports marketing achievement.

K-Pop Music Worldwide and Digital Marketing Role in Brazil

  • Lourenco, Patricia Portugal Marques de Carvalho;Kim, Sang Yong
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.63-88
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    • 2016
  • K-Pop is hugely promoted offline/online in East Asia, while efforts to promote it elsewhere are kept to a minimum. Whilst addressing the role of digital marketing in the promotion of K-Pop in the Brazilian music industry this study aims to demonstrate that K-pop will provide its audience with a unique and engaging experience if it thinks globally and acts locally in its marketing and communication strategies. A survey of K-Pop's world fan base was carried out online with 1,074 fans to determine the validity of the hypothesis. The results have demonstrated the need to adapt global and intercultural strategies to local markets with increasing brand awareness through utilizing digital marketing. For example, to increase K-Pop's popularity and market share in Brazil, it is not required to sing in Brazilian Portuguese, contrary to what might be perceived but fully singing in English would help breaking into the market dominated by domestic music as songs would have a higher probability to be included in the international soundtrack of a Brazilian telenovela and promote the K-Pop artist not only across Brazil but also give the artist exposure in all the markets the Brazilian telenovela is exported to, opening an entry door to those markets. K-Pop audience segmentation and psychographic profiling is crucial to the understanding of each market's consumer's preferences, likes, dislikes and their buying habits as it was proven through Brazil's digital media, social media, digital music market and K-Pop market analysis within the global context of the study. It should be also considered that brand extensions are not standard everywhere and that there are cultures where different product categories are not directly associated with its main corporate owner which requires extensive local market knowledge to succeed. The primary and secondary data research that we conducted for this study intended to demonstrate that K-Pop can be successful in Brazil and in Latin America and increase their local and regional market share if digital marketing and communication strategies are tailored to each individual market.

Influence of Marketing Mix on Customer's Attitude and Purchase Intention -Mediating Effects of Customer Experiences- (마케팅믹스요인이 점포태도와 구매의도에 미치는 영향 -고객체험의 매개역할을 중심으로-)

  • Fan, Qing-Ji;Kim, Won-Kyum;Cui, Guang
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.292-300
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    • 2010
  • In this research, the object is to analyze the impacts of the four dimensions of Marketing Mix in terms of product, price, place and promotion on store attitude and purchase intention. At the same time the mediating variables such as sense experience, feel experience and think experience in relationship among Marketing Mix and store attitude, customer experiences are also analyzed. The results show that the product, place, and promotion have significant effects on sense experience, feel experience and think experience. Another important finding is customer experiences such as sense experience, feel experience and think experience have significant effects on store attitude and purchase intention.