• 유통과학연구
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2019

Purpose - Environment-friendly behaviors are diverse and can be motivated by different factors. For example, magnitude of factors affecting recycling behavior could be different from those affecting purchasing of environmentally-friendly products. In this study, the focus is on usage satisfaction of consumers who have purchased environmentally-friendly products. Research design, data, and methodology - For this purpose, data were collected from a total of 345 users of environmentally-friendly products, consisting of 177 users of electric vehicles and 168 users of environmentally-friendly detergents. The study analyzed the relationships among consumer's innovation propensity, consumer's environmental concern, and usage satisfaction. In addition, the moderating effect of the product's innovativeness was examined. Results - The result shows that there is a relationship between consumer's innovation propensity and consumer's environmental concern. In particular, it is shown that both consumer's innovation propensity and consumer's environmental concern have positive effects on usage satisfaction. Further, there was a moderating effect of the product's innovativeness. Namely, products rated higher in innovativeness showed a greater effect of consumer's innovation propensity on usage satisfaction. The degree of the product's innovativeness also affected the directional paths of the relationships. In the electric vehicle (i.e., high product innovativeness) case, consumer's innovation propensity had a direct effect on usage satisfaction, as well as an indirect effect through consumer's environmental concern. In the environmentally-friendly detergent (i.e., low product innovativeness) case, consumer's innovation propensity only had an indirect effect on usage satisfaction, through consumer's environmental concern. Conclusions - Theoretical contributions of this study are as follows. Foremost, this is the first study that suggests an existence of a relationship between consumer's innovation propensity and consumer's environmental concern. Second, this study showed the positive effect of consumer's innovation propensity on usage satisfaction of environmentally-friendly products. Third, this study expanded the scope of previous studies by showing the interaction between consumer's innovation propensity and consumer's environmental concern. Lastly, this study showed that the effect of these variables on usage satisfaction can differ by the degree of innovativeness of the environmentally-friendly product. The results of the study will have implications for marketers and policy makers in formulating marketing activities and policies.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.187-197
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• 2011

연구는 기존 연구들이 단일한 개념으로 인식하고 있던 혁신성향 개념을 인지적 혁신성향과 감각적 혁신성향으로 구분하고 두 유형의 혁신 성향의 정도에 따라 신제품에 대한 소비자의 지각된 위험의 민감성이 다름을 보였다. 이러한 지각된 위험의 유형과 수준의 차이는 각각의 혁신 성향이 소비자의 신제품 구매의도에 있어 서로 다른 영향력이 있음을 보여 줌으로써 혁신성향이 소비자의 신제품 구매의도에 미치는 경로가 이중경로임을 제시하였다. 217명을 대상으로 회귀분석과 공변량 구조 분석을 통하여 실증 분석을 수행한 결과 감각적 혁신성향 보다 인지적 혁신성향이 높을수록 사회적 위험보다 기능적 위험을 더 많이 지각하는 반면 감각적 혁신성향이 높을수록 기능적 위험보다는 사회적 위험을 더 지각하는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 신제품 구매에 따른 기능적 위험 지각과 사회적 위험 지각이 소비자의 혁신성향의 유형에 따라 다르게 나타남을 제시하였다. 기존 연구에서는 소비자의 혁신성향 개념을 하나의 구성 개념으로 파악하여 신제품 구매의도에 대한 영향 관계를 파악하였으나 본 연구는 감각적 혁신성향과 인지적 혁신성향으로 소비자의 혁신성향을 구분하고 신제품 구매의도와의 관계를 파악하였으며 각각의 혁신성향이 신제품에 대해 인지하는 지각 위험의 경로를 달리함을 밝혔다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.1124-1140
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• 2017

The purposes of this study are to (1) explore the characteristics of consumers who purchase products designed by rising fashion designers, and (2) examine the effects of consumer fashion innovativeness and price consciousness on consumer responses toward the products (i.e., product innovativeness, perceived value, and purchase intention). A total of 469 adult consumers aged 19 to 59 responded to an online survey that consisted of a stimulus (i.e., news article introducing new brands of rising fashion designers) and measurement items. As a result, 20% of respondents are found to be customers of rising fashion designers. These buyers (vs. non-buyers) are characterized as female, high income, and high interest toward rising fashion designer products. The findings from structural equation modeling show that fashion innovativeness and price sensitivity have significant, positive effects on product innovativeness and perceived value that further increase purchase intention. These relationships are significant in terms of perceived value dimensions, except for the relationship between social value and purchase intention. Both fashion innovativeness and price sensitivity have significant and positive effects on social, emotional, economical, and functional values. The emotional, economical, and functional values also have significant, positive effects on purchase intention. The implications of these findings are discussed in the conclusion.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.505-516
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• 2015

This study investigated difference of product interest and its relation to consumers' innate innovativeness according to gender as well as compared the perceptive construct of products between male and female consumers. A survey involving male and female college students was conducted in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas in December 2013. Subsequently, 400 responses were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlations, independent sample t-test, reliability analysis, ANCOVA, and multidimensional scaling. Among 45 products, male respondents showed a significantly high degree of interest over 12 categories such as watches, desktop computers, cars, sports products, and video games compared to females. The female sample showed a significantly high degree of interest for 29 product categories such as clothing, movies, skin care shops, cosmetics, eating-out, teeth whitening, coffee, cameras, and performances compared to males. Innovative male consumers were interested in traveling, movies, clothing, eating-out, running shoes, and wallets; however, female consumers' innovativeness was significantly related to previously determined items of interest. Two dimensions explaining the male consumers' products perception construct were 'hard versus soft' and 'usual versus special'. Instead, female consumers' were 'special versus usual' and 'expressive versus functional'.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.1622-1632
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• 2009

This study investigates the influence of the innovativeness of consumers on extended products in brand extensions. 300 surveys were distributed and 283 were used in the final analysis. The results of this study show that consumers evaluate similar product category (i.e., sportswear) better than a dissimilar category (i.e., cosmetics) in brand extension. In addition, innovative consumers evaluated extended product better regardless of similarity with the original brand. The results showed that consumers with higher level of innovativeness were less likely to evaluate differently between a similar product and dissimilar product categories in apparel brand extension.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.386-403
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• 2021

정보타깃 고객에게 신제품을 사전 예고하는 것은 다양한 산업, 특히 제품 진입 속도를 매우 중요하게 여기는 산업에서 점차 널리 퍼져 있다. 본 연구는 마케팅 신호 이론에 기반하여 신제품에 대한 사전예고 정보와 개인 고객의 행동적 의도 간의 관계를 파악하여 연구 모델을 제시하였다. 또한, 본 연구는 사전 제품 지식과 신제품 혁신성의 유의한 조절 효과도 더불어 확인하였다. 이에 따라, 데이터 수집을 위한 웹 기반 조사를 실시하고 구조 방정식 모델을 이용해 데이터를 분석하였다. 연구 결과에 의해 신제품 사전예고의 정보 속성(즉, 정보량, 명확성)이 소비자의 태도에 긍정적 영향을 미칠 것이며, 더 나아가 구매의도에 긍정적 영향을 미칠 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 제품 지식과 제품 혁신성의 조절효과도 검증되었다. 구체적으로 제품 지식은 정보량과 태도 간의 관계에 긍정적 조절 효과를 미칠 것이며 명확성과 태도 간의 관계에 부정적 조절 효과를 미칠 것이다. 반면, 제품 혁신성은 이와 정반대된 결과를 보여주었다. 마지막으로 본 연구의 시사점과 한계점도 모두 기술하였다.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1247-1258
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• 2011

This study aimed to clarify the relationships among the characteristics of consumers and their influence on fashion leadership. Two kinds of variables were investigated in this study: centrality of visual product aesthetics and consumer innovativeness as personal characteristics, and role-relaxed consumption and consumer susceptibility to interpersonal influence as interpersonal characteristics. Data were gathered by surveying university students in the Seoul metropolitan area, using convenience sampling, and 322 questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. In analyzing data, correlation analysis, factor analysis, and regression analysis were conducted. Factor analysis on the centrality of visual product aesthetics revealed three sub-factors: value, acumen, and response intensity. Meanwhile, factor analysis for consumer susceptibility to interpersonal influence revealed two sub-factors: informative and normative conformities. However, consumer innovativeness, role-relaxed consumption, and fashion leadership revealed only one factor. Regression analysis showed that visual product aesthetics, especially acumen and response intensity, were the most influential factors; furthermore, consumer innovativeness and normative conformity had positive influence on fashion leadership. However, role-relaxed consumption had negative influence on fashion leadership.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.29-40
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• 2021

Purpose: In this study, with the transaction amount of foreign direct Purchase and foreign direct sales increasing, South Korea is in a situation where foreign direct sales are focused on China. We looked at the impact of consumer innovation and site characteristics on repurchase ability among the characteristics of overseas direct purchase consumers as a way to make direct overseas sales to various overseas countries. Research design, data and methodology: Consumer innovativeness consists of four variables: functional, hedonistic, social, and cognitive, and the site characteristics consisted of four variables: product price, product assortment, convenience, and service. The study was conducted on consumers with foreign direct purchase experience, and was finally used in 252 additional analyses. Results: The main findings of this study were first, that the impact on the degree of re-purchase among consumer innovativeness of foreign direct purchase consumers had a significant impact in the order of cognitive innovativeness, hedonistic innovativeness, and functional innovativeness. Social innovativeness did not affect the degree of re-purchase. Second, site characteristics have been found to have a significant impact on the degree of re-purchase in order of product assortment, commodity price, and service. Convenience did not affect the degree of re-purchase. Conclusions Taken together these results can be called the biggest characteristic of the cognitive innovativeness of the consumer's inclination to use the overseas direct purchase, the price or quick response of the goods sold on the site is a factor that affects the re-purchase, above all it is important to have a variety of products. We will present this element as a way to make direct sales abroad to various countries. In addition, foreign direct purchase is a lot of transactions in China, the United States, EU, but the share of China is high in foreign direct sales, and the U.S. and EU have a very low performance, it is important to consider the reasons why they prefer Korean products in China to study the social and cultural characteristics of U.S. and European consumers in the future, and to support and active marketing that companies and sellers can increase sales.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.353-364
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• 2021

Originating in value congruence theory, this study aims to give a clear understanding of the transformation process of consumers from incumbent technology to disruptive innovation technology. Moreover, the moderating effect of personal innovativeness in the process of consumers' switching to disruptive innovation is investigated. This study combines value congruence with expectation-disconfirmation theory, technology-switching theory, and the personal innovativeness of the disruptive innovation product, explaining why consumers have transformed from an incumbent product into a disruptive innovation. Data was collected through a questionnaire from 280 smartphone users in China. The respondents were mainly potential consumers who had never bought Redmi phones, namely, a smart product owned by the renowned Chinese company Xiaomi. The hypothesis of the research model is based on the example of the Redmi smartphone, which has been confirmed by existing smartphone users in China. Through investigation, the results of multivariable regression analysis show the decisive variables that influence consumer intentions, and we analyze the role of personal innovativeness in moderating between dissatisfaction with the incumbent product and purchase intention of a product based on disruptive innovation. The findings of this study can provide a certain reference for the sustainable growth of Xiaomi and the development of new products.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.620-630
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• 1996

This study identified overlap of male innovativeness and of opinion leadership across product class. Product class include clothing, hairstyle and cosmetics, small electronic appliances, large electronic appliances, interior supplies, sports and leisure supplies, and cars. 423 male adults working in Seoul area was surveyed using questionnaire. Results of statistical analysis supported that innovativeness and opinion leadership are not monomorphic but polymorphic across product class. Higher degree of overlap and higher degree of correlationship of innovativness and of opinion leadership exist across product class which share similar characteristics such as clothing-cosmetics, small electronic appliances-large electronic appliances. Innovative communicator ranged from 5.0% to 11.4% in which percentage of innovative communicator was highest in the case of clothing purchase.