• 복식문화연구
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.33-45
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• 2019

This study identified types of online retail internationalization in the fast-fashion context and proposed driving factors of retailers' choices in online-based market entry following the logic of the Uppsala model and the eclectic theory. In particular, this study proposes three types of online-based internationalization: 1) entering a host market with a physical store first, and then expanding with an online store, 2) entering a foreign market with an online store, then expanding to physical stores, and 3) entering only with an online business. In addition, this study investigated the causal factors, ownership-specific and location advantages, that influence the choice of the type of developmental process of online-based internationalization. To develop theoretical and managerial insights into the issue researched, this study employed a qualitative research design involving case studies of three European fast-fashion retailers, H&M, TOPSHOP, and ASOS. This study suggested that fast-fashion retailers that enter a host market with high ownership-specific advantages are likely to choose to enter the market with physical stores and then expand with online stores. On the other hand, when faced with uncertainties attributable to low ownership-specific or location advantages, fast-fashion retailers are likely to choose to enter with an online store first and then expand with physical stores as conditions change. Consequently, this study provides a better understanding for fast-fashion retailers who are willing to expand their businesses to foreign markets via online stores.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1005-1015
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• 2021

We investigate the impact of marital status on the levels of satisfaction of online shoppers in the beauty and cosmetics industry in Vietnam. We find a significant difference in satisfaction between married and divorced/separated online shoppers. More specifically, the latter reveals higher level of satisfaction than the former. Extended analyses further show that this finding is only observed for female online shoppers whilst it is insignificant for their male counterparts. Moreover, we find significant differences in determinants of customer satisfaction between three different groups of online shoppers: single, married, and divorced/separated. While married individuals' satisfaction is affected by all factors (Online shopping experience; Seller Services; External Incentives; Security/Privacy), that of their divorced/separated peers are influenced by only seller services and external incentives. Also, single participants are satisfied with their online shopping driven by their online shopping experience and external incentives. Our findings contribute to the stream of customer satisfaction literature, and to the studies in beauty and cosmetics sector as well as online shopping trends in Vietnam. They contain implications for existing online businesses and new or potential market entrants as to which customer demographic factors have significant influences in terms of customer psychology, behaviour and their satisfaction.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.139-153
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• 2024

세계적으로 기업의 지속성장과 원가절감의 중요성이 높아지며 기업의 아웃소싱 이용이 확대되었다. 또한 플랫폼 경제의 확산은 일하는 방식의 변화를 가져왔으며 플랫폼으로 과업이 중개되는 온라인 아웃소싱 시장이 성장하고 있다. 학문적으로는 일반 아웃소싱에 관한 연구는 활발히 진행되고 있으나 온라인 아웃소싱에 관한 연구는 실제 활용에 비해 미비한 수준이다. 본 연구에서는 스타트업을 대상으로 온라인 아웃소싱의 이용요인과 성과요인을 분석하여 온라인 아웃소싱 활용의 효과와 우려사항을 다각도로 규명하고, 온라인 아웃소싱의 효과적 활용과 해당 산업 발전을 위한 이해관계자별 역할을 제안하고자 한다. 본 연구를 위하여 온라인 아웃소싱 이용경험을 보유한 스타트업 재직자 281명을 대상으로 실증연구를 진행하였으며 주요 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 온라인 아웃소싱 이용을 통한 효율성 및 수익성, 혁신성 강화는 스타트업 구성원의 조직몰입과 직무만족에 긍정적 영향을 주는 것으로 확인되었다. 특히 온라인 아웃소싱 이용에 따른 효율성 개선은 직무만족 향상에 큰 효과를 나타났다. 둘째. 온라인 아웃소싱 이용요금부담이나 불확실한 결과물에 대한 우려가 조직몰입과 직무만족에 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 셋째, 직급별로 온라인 아웃소싱 활용 동기와 성과에 관한 인식 차이가 확인되었다. 실무자는 온라인 아웃소싱 활용으로 자신들의 조직몰입도가 높아진다는 인식이 높았으며, 관리자는 아웃소싱 과업 결과의 불확실성이나 정보보안에 대한 우려가 상대적으로 높았다. 본 연구를 통해 스타트업의 인적자원 부족 및 직원관리 문제가 온라인 아웃소싱으로 개선될 수 있다는 가능성을 확인하였다. 다양한 온라인 아웃소싱 이용요인별 영향력을 검증함으로써 온라인 아웃소싱 중개플랫폼 기업의 사업전략 수립 및 정부를 비롯한 스타트업 지원기관의 스타트업 지원정책 수립에 활용할 수 있는 시사점을 제공한 것도 의미가 있다고 할 수 있다.

• 동아시아경상학회지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.24-32
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• 2016

There hardly have been support policies for small wholesale vendors or any materials such as proper statistical standards and figures compared to diversity of support policies and size of budget for small and medium manufacturing business. The biggest concern coming from it is that there have never been any policies for small and medium wholesale vendors. This study proposes some ways to improve support policies through investigating the current status of those vendors as their true values haven't been properly recognized, while diverse support systems have been devised for manufacturing business thanks to the traditional industrial development process. According to the study on support policies for domestic and international small and medium wholesale vendors, I realized that those vendors need a policy to ensure them to be promptly adjusted to the rapidly changing distribution environment and to be competitive to access to the global distribution market to finally become hidden champions through systematical operations of small and medium wholesale vendors and implementing educational business through sales management. Therefore, I propose five ways to improve support policies for small and medium wholesale vendors by considering social and economic value, systematizing small wholesalers and scaling small and medium wholesale vendors, reinforcing support for wholesalers, support policies for new online market opening and offline market opening.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.75-104
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• 2016

Purpose The business ecosystem perspective offers a new lens in which to view customers. Customers as the member of business ecosystems influence firms by participating in both the firm level activities and the business ecosystem level activities. For example, customers participate in the business ecosystems by forming interest groups, allowing their voice to be heard the within business ecosystems. Customers can also, turn public opinion around and foster the business ecosystems favorable to firms. On the other hand, as an extreme case of customer participation, customers can engage in community activities to boycott the purchase of products or services from certain firms or business ecosystems. Design/methodology/approach This study views content creation and feedback activities as customer participation in the firm level. On the other hand, word-of-mouth (WOM) and boycott activities are considered as customer participation in the business ecosystem level. This study presents a research model regarding the relationships among customer socialization, customer participation, and psychological ownership. The proposed model is validated through an empirical analysis on online platform business ecosystems. Findings When the two business ecosystems are compared, different results were drawn. In the Facebook ecosystem, boycott and psychological ownership did not have a significant relationship. However, in the Kakao ecosystem, the two had a significant positive relationship. The mediating effect of the business ecosystem type sheds a light on the mission, purpose, vision, and other values associated with the theory of the business on the customer-firm relationship. Further implications for theory and practice were discussed in this study.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.197-207
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• 2020

This study aims to examine the influence of attitudes on customers' intention to participate in online fashion sharing. A framework was proposed to investigate the relationships between consumer motivation, consumer attitude, and purchase intention in the manner of adopting a fashion-sharing platform. Consumer motivations are divided into three categories: utilitarian, hedonic, and ecological. The moderating effects of product replacement cycle (PRC) on consumer attitude and purchase intention are also investigated. Data collection was developed using a web-based survey where 180 consumer respondents from South Korea participated. The results of our analysis indicate that consumers' hedonic and ecological motivations are positively related to favorable consumer attitudes, even when consumers' utilitarian motivation is denied. Consumer attitude is also positively related to purchase intention in the fashion-sharing platform. A moderating effect of PRC is recorded between consumer attitude and purchase intention based on high and low PRC, as well as the effect of ecological motivation and consumer attitude on high PRC. This study enhances knowledge of consumer motivational factors in a fashion-sharing platform and provides insights for service providers to help them improve their target marketing.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.563-578
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• 2015

Forecasting daily box-office performance is critical for planning the distribution of marketing resources, and by extension, maximizing profits. For certain movies, the number of viewers increases rapidly at the beginning of their theatrical run, and the increments slow down later. Other movies are not popular in the beginning, but the audience sizes grow rapidly afterward. Thus, the audience attendance of movies grow in different trajectories, which are influenced by various factors including marketing budget, distributors, directors, actors, and word of mouth. In this paper, we propose a method for predicting the daily performance trajectory of running movies based on the hierarchical linear model. More specifically, we focus on the effect of online word of mouth on the shape of the growth curves. We fitted the mean trajectory of the cumulative audience size as a cubic function of time, and allowed the intercept and slope to vary movie-to-movie. Moreover, we fitted the linear slope with a function of online word of mouth predictors to help determine the shape of the trajectories. Finally, we provide performance predictions for individual movies.

• International Journal of Costume and Fashion
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.65-83
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to explore the dynamics of the newly emerging designer fashion market and examine how startup designers reacted to the tension between creativity and business, and how they grew within such dynamics. In-depth interviews were conducted with 22 DFE entrepreneurs and 7 fashion industry experts. The grounded theory was used to analyze data and yield results. Korean new generation of DFEs, attracted by the growing online market opportunities are directly distributing through online channels, targeting the millennial consumers who are pursuing new values at new distribution channels. They show new growth pattern, start with a few key items in the middle and lower price segments, then upscale their design, quality, and price. This study further investigated designers' enterprise orientation shift, which was explored by Mills. Some creativity-oriented designers encountered difficulties in the orientation shift, while designers who demonstrated business characteristics from the startup stage restored the balance by trying to improve both creativity and business. This study discovered a new way for the designer to enter the growth stage. This growth approach is one of the success strategies applicable to designers launching a brand on online platforms in the global market.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.179-197
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• 2019

온라인 상에서의 사용자 행동에 대한 많은 연구가 있었지만 어떤 메커니즘에 의해 사용자들이 적대적인 행동을 하는지에 대해서는 밝혀진 바가 많지 않다. 이러한 점에서, 이 연구는 무엇이 사용자의 적대적인 행동을 야기하는지를 밝혀내고자 한다. 더 구체적으로는, 악성 댓글 같은 플레이밍(Flaming)과 지각된 위험, 익명성, 기대 감정 반응(Expected Emotional Reaction) 등의 인지와의 관계를 규명하고자 했다. 이러한 관계 여부를 확인하기 위해 설문조사가 이루어 졌고, 모든 변수들이 플레이밍과 유의한 관계가 있음을 확인했다. 또한 정보 과부하(Information Overload)가 지각된 위험과 플레이밍 사이에서 조절효과를 가진다는 것을 확인했다. 이러한 결과를 미루어 볼 때, 사용자들이 경험하는 정보 과부하를 줄이는 것은 온라인 커뮤니티를 건전하게 유지하는 방법일 것이라 할 수 있을 것이다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aimed to apply factors of successful online marketing strategy for food distribution SMEs and the effects of these successful strategies to achieve higher performances. Research design, data, and methodology: Questionnaires were used to collect data from 400 samples of SMEs in Thailand. We employed structural Equation Modeling techniques for data analysis. Results: The results revealed that distribution strategies directly affected the success of business operations, as follows: 1) Customer communication channels, product variety, preserved privacy, and personal service had direct positive effects on the distribution success in terms of financial perspective, customer perspective, internal process perspective, and earning and growth perspectives; 2) Ability to learn a competitor had a positive direct relationship with the distribution success in terms of financial perspective and learning and growth perspectives, excluding customer perspective and internal process perspective; and 3) Responses to market on time had a positive and direct influence on distribution success in terms of customer, internal process perspective and learning and growth perspectives excluding financial perspective. Conclusions: This research has made an essential contribution to SMEs that they should focus on and adopt these 6ODS+4BSC concepts as development guidelines for food distribution SMEs to be more efficient and effective.