• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.355-363
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• 2018

2017년 한국을 비롯한 세계 각국에서 살충제 오염 달걀이 발견되어 큰 이슈가 되었다. 본 연구는 살충제 오염 달걀 사태의 맥락에서 건강 관련 연구에서 자주 인용되는 건강신념모형의 두 가지 변인인 지각한 민감성과 심각성, 정부에 대한 지각인 정부에 대한 신뢰성과 정부 출처 정보에 대한 평가, 및 관련 지식에 대한 개인의 확신을 의미하는 주관적 지식이 예방행동의도에 영향을 미치는지를 알아보았다. 단계적 회귀분석 결과 최종적으로 지각한 심각성(${\beta}=.262$, t=3.531, p<0.001), 정부에 대한 신뢰성(${\beta}=.252$, t=3.281, p<0.001), 정부 출처 정보에 대한 평가(${\beta}=.226$, t=2.936, p<0.01)가 예방적 행동의도를 예측하는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 향후 유사한 사태가 발생할 때 정부가 신뢰성, 정확성, 일관성의 견지에서 정책을 시행해야 함을 시사한다.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2020

Purpose: This study aims to explore how consumers respond to the immoral actions of a CEO. More specifically, this research focuses on the moral reasoning processes used by consumers in order to maintain support for the CEO despite the immoral action. In addition, this research suggests that support for the CEO would improve product purchase intention. Research design, data, and methodology: To test the hypotheses presented, an online research company was hired and online survey was conducted with adult participants. Online research company sent an email to the potential subjects asking their participation in an online survey. Subjects were able to participate in the online survey by clicking a link to the survey. When the participants clicked the link, they were instructed to read a fictitious newspaper article on a CEO's immoral action. And then, they were asked to answer several questions online. Responses were obtained from 336 adults participants and data were analyzed using SPSS Hayes Macro for a moderation effect and AMOS for a structural equation model. Result: Moral reasoning processes were divided into moral decoupling and moral rationalization and analyzed to determine their influence on product purchase. Also in this study, we suggest the public self-consciousness of consumers as an antecedent of moral reasoning processes, and argue that consumers with high public self-consciousness are more likely to engage in moral decoupling than moral rationalization. Conclusions: Our results showed that moral decoupling and moral rationalization improved the consumer's perception of corporate ethicality, which increased product purchase intention. In addition, consumers with high public self-consciousness were more likely to engage in moral decoupling than in moral rationalization. In addition, this research suggested that severity of the scandal would moderate the impact of public self-consciousness on moral decoupling. However, this hypothesis was not supported statistically since most participants perceived the scandal to be a highly severe incident, that may lead to an insignificant interaction effect between severity of the scandal and public self-consciousness. This research expands the scope of available research on corporate ethics and consumer responses to negative information involving celebrities and provides practical implications for corporate crisis management.