• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.103-111
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate how internal marketing affects self-efficacy and hospital image in university hospital nurses. In addition, it was to identify which factors of internal marketing is the most important factor perceived by the nurses. The sample consisted of 228 nurses working in one university hospital located in Changwon city of Gyeongnam province. The measurements included internal communication (5 items), empowerment (5 items), reward (3 items), education and training (5 items), working environment (3 items), leadership (5 items), self-efficacy (5 items), and hospital image (8 items) based on a review of related previous studies. Survey data were analyzed employing SPSS version 20.0 and AMOS version 20.0. The nurses rated internal communication (0.887) of the internal marketing sub-factors the most important, while they evaluated working environment (0.802) the lowest. The internal marketing perceived by nurses has a positive effect on self-efficacy (0.476) and hospital image (0.674). Nurses' self-efficacy also had a positive effect on hospital image (0.226). The findings reveal that the managers should build a positive climate of internal marketing activities in order to enhance nurses' self-efficacy and hospital image.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.87-106
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• 2006

The customer-focused enterprise is interested in integrating every record of an interaction with a customer. This study is to investigate the structural relationship of data integration customer analysis capability, marketing & sales capability, customer service capability, and CRM performance. 205 survey data were collected from the company which implemented the CRM package. SEM analysis shows that data integration has influence on the CRM performance through the improvement of customer analysis capability, marketing 8t sales capability, and customer service capability. The revised model for further goodness-fitting model shows that data integration has influence on the improvement of customer analysis capability, marketing & sales capability, and customer service capability. but customer analysis capability has indirect influence on CRM performance through the improvement of marketing & sales capability, customer service capability.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.81-102
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• 2015

With the rapid development of digital media, there has been a huge change in a way of communication, a process of information diffusion and a role of traditional media. Not like mass media, social media enables users to generate and tap into the opinions of a larger world. From that reason, social media is impacting marketing strategies. However, still social media marketing researches just focus on case study, analysis of users motivation or analysis of power user's usage pattern. Word-of-mouth has always been important especially in marketing area. In social media, word-of-mouth depends on each user that's why this research focuses on individual user's activity in SNS. I defined 4 factors (produce, diffusion, network size, activity of network size enlarge) that are effect on activity and verified hypothesis by multiple regression analysis, hierarchical regression analysis and moderated multiple regression.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.33-66
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• 2011

As an information-oriented society is arrived. an internet market has been developed steadily. This advance of internet market made the augmentation of purchasing clothes, and thus the fashion trade has tried to use effectively the internet marketing as a new channel of profit increasement. However, the fashion trade did not utilize efficiently an internet as a marketing mediation so far. This results from the want of coping with consumer behavior on the internet community. To answer the necessity of analysis of consumer behavior, this thesis inquires the difference of buying clothes on the internet shopping mall according to the lifestyle of consumer. Then this thesis provides the strategy of internet marketing fitted to each lifestyle for making a good profit. The inquiry was conducted to university located on Seoul, and the lifestyle of undergraduate was categorized to five groups, that is, trendy, information-inclined, economical purchase, brand-inclined, and spirit-pursuit types. This thesis analyzed the difference of consumer behavior of each type according to various factor, and presented a marketing strategy fitted to each type from these analysis results.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.1-17
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• 2009

A growing percentage of internet users have maintained a personal website, blog, and the articles published by blog users play important roles to other users' purchasing decision as reliable information or knowledge. Therefore blog has been recently regarded as a promising marketing tool, for the brand image campaigns and sales management of companies. However, the effect is not easy to be verified when blog users recognize it to be negative the marketing activity utilizing blogs. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship between the customers' blog usage level and their response to blog marketing. To such purposes, this study is designed to survey the followings on office workers; Blog Quotient as a blog usage level of customers, response to blog marketing, the relation between Blog Quotient and demographic variables, and the relation between Blog Quotient and response to blog marketing. The results show that Blog Quotient has a significant relation with customers' response to blog advertisement and a company should consider the target customers' blog usage level to plan a blog marketing strategy.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.66 no.8
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• pp.109-122
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• 2016

This study is to explore the ways to increase the export performance of start-up companies, as opportunities are rising along with more companies entering the global market. Thus the study analyzed the factors affecting export performance of the start-up company by mainly looking at the international marketing capabilities of enterprises type of marketing strategy and internal environmental capabilities. The following were derived as factors for marketing 4P strategy: innovation of product, flexibility of export price, differentiation of distribution channels, diversity of promotional activities, and positive-ness of promotion. For internal capabilities of enterprises, innovation of CEO, initiative of CEO, risk susceptibility of CEO, information power of export market, and information power of competitor were derived as factors. Two types of performances were considered for export performance, financial and non-financial. Among innovation of product and risk susceptibility of CEO the non-financial performance of export performance, and only differentiation of distribution channels of marketing 4p strategy the financial performance. It showed that since performance was different depending on the entrepreneurship of the CEO, only innovative products differentiated from small and medium enterprises. risk susceptibility of CEO increased export outlook by corporate acknowledgment and image, creation of potential customers, and financial performance affected only differentiation in distribution channel rather than entrepreneurial spirit, information power, or organizational flexibility because of short business career and insufficient period enough to gain trust. Therefore, start-up companies need to improve their non-financial export performance by increasing innovation of product and risk susceptibility of the CEO. The companies need to widen the differentiation of distribution channels in the financial export performance.

• Journal of Digital Policy
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.1-14
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• 2024

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of SNS marketing characteristics on hair shop image formation and visit intention in the hair beauty industry. SNS marketing is a strategy to carry out marketing activities through interaction with customers, information provision, information trust, and playfulness using modern social media platforms. It was intended to analyze how these characteristics of SNS marketing affect the formation of hair shop images and visit intention to customers in the hair beauty industry. For the study, a total of 307 customers with experience using hair-related SNS were surveyed. The questionnaire included items related to SNS marketing characteristics, hair shop images, and visit intention, and the collected data was statistically analyzed using SPSS 26.0. The results of the research problem were derived by applying analysis methods such as frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, simple regression analysis, multiple regression analysis, and mediated regression analysis. As a result of the study, it was found that information provision, information reliability, playfulness, and interaction, which are characteristics of SNS marketing, have a positive effect on the formation of hair shop images. In addition, it was confirmed that the hair shop image had a positive effect on the intention to visit. In addition, it was found that the hair shop image plays a mediating role between the SNS marketing characteristics and the intention to visit. This provides important insights that can improve image formation and customer visit intention in the hair beauty industry through SNS marketing.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.427-438
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• 2021

This study aims to identify variables, which have relationship to the information credibility toward brand trust. Other than that, this study also proposes a system dynamics approach method, where the time to achieve different credible information can be modeled efficiently and by using variable-oriented simulation methods. Data, which are used for testing, are derived from 400 questionnaires. Data for SEM are collected by using questionnaire and are processed using AMOS software to identify the result whether it is proper to determine the proper variables and the indicators, which will be processed in the simulation using Powersim. The result shows that, from six variables proposed, five are significant variables that support the information credibility. The value of information credibility has fluctuated in 10 years. The important aspect in business activity is a business strategy that incorporates marketing activities. Many companies are adopting green marketing practice to achieve a better business performance, so that information credibility factor is needed. Over the past few years, numerous industries in Indonesia have increased awareness toward green movement. Some companies apply the whole process of creating green products, while others only do so partially, but this is a good approach to green business development in Indonesia nonetheless.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.173-180
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• 2008

The purposes of this study are to investigate what star marketing is and to examine whether star marketing influences clothing purchase behavior of adolescents or not. The concept and the instances of star marketing were reviewed and the characteristics and clothing behavior of adolescence were analyzed. The data were obtained from questionnaires completed by 341 middle and high school students and analyzed by frequency, t-test, chi-square test, cluster analysis, ANOVA, and Scheffe test. The Cronbach's alphas were calculated for the internal consistency. The results of the study are as follows. The sample was classified into three groups(high interest/high awareness group, high interest/low awareness group, and low interest/low awareness group) by the interest of TV watching and TV stars, the identification with TV stars, and the awareness and the interest of star marketing. There were significant differences in clothing purchase motives, the use of information sources, clothing buying places, clothing purchase frequency, and clothing expenditure among three groups.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.159-186
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• 2002

As the competition among ports emphasizes container cargo nowadays, it is essential for Incheon Port to respond wisely to the trend. But the timely establishment of basic logistics infra for the attraction of container cargo is delayed in comparison with rival ports; marketing activity is also depressed. Furthermore the understanding and the effort for the marketing of the institutions and businesses concerned with Incheon Port are less than sufficient. The marketing research for customers who are the basis and axis of marketing activities is almost wholly lacking. Things investigated by rival ports and external research institutions differ much in statistic according to the persons who cite them. As the study of port marketing is very theoretical and general, its application to reality is so much restricted. Therefore, this thesis considers ways for the main group of marketing to think and behave, from the viewpoint of shipping agents and the owners of cargo - the practical using group of Incheon Port. This thesis aims to deliver the systematic information and consistent view concerned with marketing.