• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.165-186
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• 2007

With the advent of a wide variety of Internet shopping malls, consumers can choose a best appealing shopping mall from among the Bricks-and-Clicks and Pure-Player malls. Pure-Players launched their operation grandiosely with the early stage of Internet use in 1995. However, after the burst of Dot-com company bubbles in 1997, Pure-Players introduce various types of business models to meet potential needs of consumers. While Pure-Players suffer skeptical views from market analysts as well as consumers, traditional offline companies learned important lessons from Dot-com companies collapse phenomena, and expanded their business channels into online in the name of Bricks-and-Clicks. Nowadays, Bricks-and-Clicks successfully establish in the market as one of reliable business partners among consumers. Therefore, it is no surprise that recent competitions between Bricks-and Clicks and Pure-Players become fiercer than ever to attract potential customers to their websites. In this situation, consumers can choose a shopping mall to their best satisfaction. Consumers can enjoy both offline and online options for shopping because Bricks-and Clicks provide both offline and online channels to consumers, which is compared with Pure-Players offering only online channel. Offline channel is unique in providing consumers with chances to touch and feel target products and services. Meanwhile, online channel is considered very viable and convenient shopping options for consumers. In this respect, it is easily assumed that consumers will show different online shopping behavior when they have to choose either Bricks-and-Clicks mall or Pure-Player mall for the sake of shopping. Remaining research issue in this case is how much consumers' schema would influence online shopping behavior between Bricks-and-Clicks and Pure-Players. Basically, schema is a framework for synthetic information recognition that individual consumers have and is very characteristic in that it focuses not on fragmentary facts but on the combination of various causes affecting results. Consumers' schema is closely represented by trust, structural assurance, and perceived relative advantage towards a specific type of shopping mall. In literature, there exist a lot of studies comparing Bricks-and-Clicks and Pure-Players. However, there is no study to pursue the analysis of consumer behaviors comparing Bricks-and Clicks and Pure-Players from the schema perspective. Therefore, this study aims to investigate this research gap. Empirical analysis is adopted by garnering valid questionnaires from 514 Internet shopping mall users. 237 were mainly using Bricks-and-Clicks for shopping, while 277 were found to visit Pure-Players for shopping. PLS was applied to analyze the survey data to verify the proposed research hypotheses. Findings from the empirical test results are as follows. First, consumers perceive more trust and relative advantage in Pure-Players, comparing with Bricks-and-Clicks. This result is against widely-accepted perception that Bricks-and-Clicks would be perceived by consumers as more trustworthy and relatively advantageous because they have offline reputation and stores. Therefore, it becomes more obvious that Internet is becoming daily necessaries, and consumers increasingly feel very comfortable in using the Internet for their own personal purposes. Second, consumers have firm faith in transaction safety, regardless Bricks-and-Clicks and Pure-Players. This seems due to the fact that most of shopping malls showing dubious transaction safety have no place in the market. In a nutshell, empirical results tell us that Pure-Players will grow very much in the future, to the extent that consumers perceive no difference in comparison with Bricks-and-Clicks. Besides, consumers' schema accumulated through trust and perceived relative advantage plays crucial role in determining consumer behavior.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.109-119
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• 2013

본 논문은 e-비즈니스에 따른 거래비용의 변화를 파악하고, 이를 바탕으로 한 적용분야로 에너지 및 환경 문제, 그리고 글로컬 전략에 대한 개념적인 측면을 경제학적 관점에서 살펴보았다. 먼저, 오프라인 거래와 온라인 거래 간에 발생하는 경제적 비용의 차이를 고려하여 두 채널간의 거래비용을 서로 다른 세 가지 경제학적 관점에서 비교함으로써 소비자와 판매자간에 발생하는 거래비용의 상충관계를 적시하였다. 둘째, 지속가능성의 관점에서 에너지 및 환경사업에 영향을 미치는 e-비즈니스의 역할을 파악하기 위해 물류시스템, 제품설계 프로세스, 그리고 에너지 절감에 대한 고려사항을 검토하였다. 이를 통해 e-비즈니스가 에너지 및 물류시스템의 효율성을 최적화하는 과정에서 저탄소 환경문제에 장단기적으로 다른 영향을 미칠 것으로 분석하였다. 마지막으로 글로벌 시대의 기회와 도전에 있어서 e-비즈니스에 의한 글로컬 전략을 네트워크 경제학의 관점에서 고찰하였다. 특히, e-비즈니스가 글로벌 시장으로 진출하는 지렛대로서의 역할을 최대화할 수 있도록 사업자간 네트워크의 통합, 사회문화적 환경을 고려한 지역화 및 현지화 전략, 그리고 표준화에 따른 세계적인 법적 기준의 주도적 설정 등이 중요한 글로벌 경영전략이 될 수 있다. 향후 e-비즈니스 성장모델은 거래비용의 관점에서 이러한 경제적 효과들의 상충관계를 조정할 수 있도록 지속가능한 형태로 진화되어야 할 것이다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2018

Purpose - China has become the world's largest market of Korean culture goods. However the distribution and information channel from which Chinese consumers can access to Korean contents remains under-explored. This study aimed to investigate Chinese consumers' information accessing behavior. Research design, data, and methodology - We collected the sample of 800 customers who are exposed to Korean Wave in China. Regression analysis is used to confirm the relationships in the research model. Results - The results showed that official channels such as state owned sites still play a significant role, Chinese consumers prefer to use unofficial channels and the private SNS is the most popular one. It is also found that users with low interests in Korean contents prefer offline/indirect channels while people who are highly immersed into Korean culture and spend longer time on it tend to favor online/unofficial channels. The results confirms that there are some users' characteristics such as gender, age, income and experience of visiting Korea are relevant to explain their propensity to select distribution and information channels for Korean contents. Conclusions - The study enables managers to develop the more effective distribution channel strategies according to the different target consumer groups.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.181-189
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• 2001

The proliferation of the Internet and related technologies and applications has led to a new form of market place known as the electronic store. In this paper, we study competition between two shopping channels, an electronic store and traditional retailers. Based on the circular spatial market model, we derive the Nash and Stackelberg equilibria as a function of the efficiency of the electronic store. The result shows that the Stackelberg equilibrium is always superior to the Nash equilibrium for both channels. It is also shown that, in some cases, the electronic store has incentive to decrease its efficiency to gain more profit.

• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.558-568
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• 2017

This study was conducted to examine the level of exposure, credibility and usefulness of the food tourism information channel perceived by foreign tourists visiting Korea. A total of 230 survey questionnaires were distributed to Japanese and Chinese tourists, who account for the highest percentage of tourists visiting Korea. The results showed that tourists were segmented into three groups based on their participation in food tourism activities: culinary tourists, experiential tourists and general tourists. Japanese tourists participated more actively in food tourism activities than Chinese tourists. The information channel used most frequently by tourists was 'word-of-mouth,' while the least used channel was 'e-mail catalog contains food tourism information.' Culinary tourist most actively used online and offline channels to search for food tourism information. Perceived credibility and usefulness of the food tourism information channel differed by nationality and food tourist segments. This study provides meaningful implications regarding food tourism promotion strategies.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.348-359
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• 2019

최근에는 극장 뿐 아니라 온라인 채널을 통한 영화 콘텐츠 소비가 증가하고 있다. 영화 채널이 다양해짐에 따라 영화 채널 선택 과정에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으며, 영화 채널 선택은 소비자의 특성에 따라 다르게 나타날 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 소비자의 성격(민감성, 성실성, 개방성, 친화성)이 영화 채널을 선택하는 요인(극장의 본원적 요인과 부가적 요인, 온라인 채널의 본원적 요인과 부가적 요인)과 채널에 대한 태도(극장, IPTV, 케이블TV, OTT에 대한 태도)에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 살펴보았다. 본 연구의 결과는 소비자의 성격 특성을 영화 채널 선택 과정과 연결시켜 연구했다는 점에서 학문적 의의를 가지며, 극장과 온라인 영화 채널을 운영하는 기업이 소비자를 대상으로 어떤 마케팅 전략을 실행해야 하는지에 대한 방향을 제시했다는 점에서 실무적 의의를 가진다.

• 벤처혁신연구
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.15-27
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• 2018

온라인과 오프라인의 결합을 의미하는 O2O가 등장하면서 핀테크에 대한 관심이 점차 높아지고 있다. 우리나라의 민간소비 규모는 약 700조원에 달하는데 이중 온라인 거래규모는 약 60조원에 불과하다. 여전히 640조원은 오프라인 매장에서 거래가 이루어지고 있는 것이다. 최근 핀테크 산업이 주목받는 이유는 바로 스마트폰 등 모바일 트래픽이 큰 폭으로 증가함과 동시에 모바일 채널을 통한 금융 거래 역시 빠른 속도로 늘어나는 등 관련 산업이 발전할 수 있는 기반이 형성되고 있기 때문이다. 이러한 핀테크 산업 중에 특히 결제시스템의 도입은 소비자로 하여금 편의성을 주게 되었다. 공과금이나 택시비와 같은 일상생활에서도 모바일 결제가 일반화되어 있다. 온디맨드 채널 서비스로 이동하고 있는 현재의 상거래에서 다양한 산업 분야에서의 O2O서비스의 활용은 사업자나 소비자 모두에게 매출상승과 상거래의 편리함을 동시에 줄 수 있는 방안이다. 스마트폰이 생활화가 되어있는 개인의 환경은 시간의 절약과 편리함을 위하여 좀 더 편리한 서비스를 찾을 수밖에 없기 때문에 핀테크의 결제를 통한 상품이나 서비스의 주문은 더욱더 증가가 될 수밖에 없다. 다양한 O2O서비스의 등장은 핀테크 산업의 발전에 영향을 줄 수 있으며, 또한 핀테크의 규제완화를 통한 편리하고 안정적인 핀테크 서비스의 등장은 O2O서비스의 활성화에도 영향을 줄 것으로 예상한다. O2O서비스는 핀테크와 상호작용하는 서비스라는 점을 인지하여 두 산업의 상호보완적인 관계로 발전을 함으로서 경제 활성화에 기여하는 바가 크다고 할 수 있다. 연구자의 입장에서 이러한 핀테크의 발전을 통하여 금융결제산업의 새로운 패러다임을 이끌어 갈 수 있는 방안 및 O2O서비스의 다양한 산업분야에서의 등장으로 현재의 오프라인 상거래의 온라인화를 통한 시장 확대 방안에 대한 추가적인 연구를 이어가고자 한다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.170-183
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• 2017

The rapid growth of digital consumption has significantly changed the shopping behavior of consumers. The consumption paradigm is changing; subsequently, an omni-channel has been introduced that empowers consumers to interact with firms through a myriad of touch points in multiple channels. This study is to understand the perceptions and behavioral characteristics of consumers in the purchase process (e.g., information search and purchase phase). A qualitative method was adopted for this study and data were collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews with 15 omni-channel consumers. The results of this study were as follows. At the information search stage, consistency was the most important consideration for consumers who also wanted to retain channel-specific benefits. Consumers also searched for differentiated information among distribution channels. At the purchase stage, participants choose a shopping channel according to shopping values. They utilized newly introduced services (e.g., "online purchase, offline pick-up", FinTech) that combine retail channels. Our findings provide significance in managing omni-channel services. First, it is recommended that fashion retailers provide seamlessly integrated experience to consumer and adopt a consumer-centered channel choice strategy. Second, fashion retailers must maintain a constant attitude toward shopping experience to fashion, such as shopping enjoyment and exclusiveness.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.304-310
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• 2009

인터넷의 범용적인 사용으로 많은 사용자들이 분산된 컴퓨팅 환경에서 원격 서버에 접속하는 일이 빈번해 지고 있다. 하지만 인증된 보호시스템 없이 안전하지 않은 채널을 통한 데이터의 전송은 재생공격이나 오프라인 패스워드 공격 및 가장공격등과 같은 문제점들에 노출되어 있다. 이에 따라 악의적인 공격들을 막기 위해 스마트카드를 이용한 인증프로토콜들에 대해 활발히 연구되고 있다. 본 논문은 패스워드 기반 사용자 인증시스템의 취약성을 분석하고 이에 대해 개선된 사용자 인증 시스템을 제안한다.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.95-107
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• 2005

As online shopping malls have emerged as a substantial shopping channel, they have used various sales promotion strategies to acquire new customers. Most of these strategies have been applied by offline malls for years. One, loss-leader pricing, is a type of promotional pricing in which stores sell well known products below their marginal cost, in order to attract customers and induce them to purchase more goods through impulse buying. This strategy is based on the expectation that customers will factor transaction costs into their purchasing decisions. However, its application to online malls fails to recognize that transaction costs are lower online, and that customers will behave differently as a result. Our study predicts that loss-leader pricing will not work online because online malls entail lower searching and moving costs than offline malls The study examines the effectiveness of loss-leader pricing with empirical data from a survey as well as log data from a Korean online shopping mall. The results show that while loss-leader pricing does attract customers to online shopping malls, it encourages cherry-picking rather than impulse purchases of regular-price goods.