• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of provider and consumer characteristics, and patient trust on relational commitment among healthcare customers of an university hospital, and to suggest some implications for improving customer relation management of hospitals. Data were collected from 250 patients of an university hospital located in Ulsan using structured self-administered questionnaire. Major result of the analysis is as follows: First, study variables are significantly varied by age and income among socio-economic factors. Second, assurance, and empathy among provider characteristics and customer satisfaction and reputation among consumer characteristics are found to be significant affecting factors on patient trust. Third, trust affects significantly both on re-visit and recommendation among relationship commitment, while reputation affects on re-visit and customer satisfaction and reputation affect on recommendation. Above results imply that relationship management strategy for enhancing patient trust is crucial to improve competitiveness of hospitals in turbulent competition environment.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.21-37
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• 2013

Due to the development of social networks and smartphones, many different kinds of issues have emerged in business and society. By reflecting these trends, social network sites have appeared and they are recognized as the new concept of sites. The major feature of the social network sites is that the social relationship had been taken to the online space. Social network sites support the formation of a network and offer users the relationship between users offline as well as online. Based on the features mentioned above, users enjoy the benefits using social network sites. These social network sites in the enterprise can be used to form relationships with customers. This study identified the influencing factors as relational benefits and social influence on relationship commitment in social network sites. In addition, we analyzed that how the relationship commitment between users affects user loyalty after their using social network sites. We presented empirical results by utilizing structural equation model with 244 respondents and the significant implications for the academy and the practice with discussions.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.99-116
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• 2007

This study intends to examine the effects of CRM on the customer loyalty. Service quality, customer satisfaction, and organizational committment have been tested as mediating factors between the customers' perceived relational efforts and their loyalty. From 236 customers of insurance firms survey data have been collected and analyzed based on the structural equation modeling. The results show that firms' relational efforts have positive impacts on service quality and customer loyalty. Also, this study shows that service quality can play an important mediating role between CRM activities and customer satisfaction as well as organizational commitment, which have shown positive impacts on customer loyalty Consequently, firms need to design their CRM activities paying more attentions to the service qualify attributes, rather than asking too much from the target customers.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.43-58
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• 2019

The main purpose of this study is to empirically investigate determinants affecting MICE quality, which then affects to loyalty. In particular, this study focuses on variables in the exhibition and event experiences of the MICE participants. The proposed research includes four variables representing the exhibitions and event experiences (affective, intellectual, behavioral, relational experience), two MICE qualities (commitment, satisfaction), and MICE loyalty. The results of this study reveal that four proposed variables (affective, intellectual, behavioral and relational experience) have a positive impact on two MICE qualities (commitment and satisfaction). Furthermore, the study found that commitment and satisfaction positively influence MICE loyalty. The findings of the study would provide theoretical and practical implications of exhibition and event experiences, quality and loyalty of MICE.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.561-573
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• 2005

This research is to examine the structural relationships between transformational/transactional leadership, empowerment, relationship quality, and organizational commitment in Chinese restaurant context. In order to empirically investigate the proposed model, the data were collected from 188 respondents randomly selected from among the managers who work in 188 Chinese restaurants in Seoul and Kyonggi-do, which registered in Korean Food Central Association, korean foodservice management Association, Menupan.com We choose to limit our investigation to luxury Chinese restaurants where the average check is above 12,000 won. The survey was executed during two-week period in the autumn of 2004. The findings and discussion are as follows: First, intellectual stimulus behavior of transformational leadership had a positive effect on empowerment. Second, contingent reward leadership had a positive effect on empowerment. Third, empowerment had a positive effect on affective organizational commitment. Fourth, empower had a negative effect on continuous organizational commitment. Fifth, intellectural stimulus behavior of transformation leadership had a positive effect on affective organizational commitment indirectly and had a negative effect on continuous organizational commitment indirectly through mediating role of empowerment. Finally, contingent reward leadership had a positive effect on affective organizational commitment indirectly and had a negative effect on continuous organizational commitment indirectly through mediating role of empowerment. At the end of this paper, managerial implications, discussions, and limitations and future research directions are presented.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.175-192
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• 2013

The previous researches on customer participation(CP) have examined the influences of CP on customer satisfaction and service quality focusing on the role of CP in the service encounters. However, this paper identifies the path relationships between CP and relationship commitment focusing on the impact of CP on the relational outcomes. By expanding the role of CP in the service encounter, this paper shows what relational variables can be influenced by CP in detail, which identifies that CP plays an important role in service encounter empirically. As results, CP has significant influences on the relationship commitment such as normative commitment, continuance commitment, and affective commitment respectively. Additionally, considering the characteristics of CP, CP is more impactful on normative commitment than affective commitment.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.1043-1054
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• 2002

The purposes of this study were to empirically examine the effect of relational benefits and relationship quality in the core variables of relationship marketing on customer satisfaction, to investigate the causal relationships among these variables. The questionnaires was administered to 417 women shopped in a fashion retail store in Gwang-ju city during January 14-18, 2002. For analysis of data, frequency, factor analysis, regression analysis, and path analysis were applied. The results were as follows: 1. The customers' perceived relational benefits were categorized as follow: 1) special treatment,2) social, and 3) psychological benefits. Relationship quality was categorized into two factors: trust and commitment 2. The relational benefits significantly influenced customer satisfaction. 3. The relational benefits significantly influenced relationship quality. 4. The relationship quality significantly influenced customer satisfaction. 5. The relational benefits had both direct and indirect effects on customer satisfaction mediated by relationship quality. The results indicated that causal relationship was existed among these three variables.

• Proceedings of the Korean DIstribution Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.53-83
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• 2005

This study focuses on finding out the determinants of relational quality between the supplier and the retailer in the Chinese cosmetics market. A total of 72 questionnaires were collected by surveying beauty shops which mainly do business with the foreign cosmetics suppliers in Shanghai area. The findings support the premise that a retailer's trust in a supplier is positively related to the retailer's commitment. Supplier's ability, guanxi and cultural sensitivity have positive impacts on trust. Formalization, supplier's specific investment and cultural sensitivity affect commitment positively. But the formalization is not significantly related to the retailer's trust. The guanxi is not found to be significantly related to the retailer's commitment yet.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.230-241
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• 2011

This study investigates how the relational benefits of fashion retail stores influence the relationship quality (trust, satisfaction, and commitment) and CRM effects (revisit intention and word of mouth intention). This study also analyzes the moderating effect of consumer characteristics between relational benefits and relationship quality. The subjects of this study consisted of 340 female consumers whose age ranged from 20 to 50s and the results were analyzed using AMOS 18.0 and SPSS 12.0. The results of the study were as follows: First, there were three types of relational benefits of psychological, social and economic relational benefits in the CRM activities of fashion retail stores. In addition, it was found that the psychological and economic relational benefits had positive effects on the relational qualities of fashion retail stores; however, the social relational benefits did not have any effects on the relational qualities of fashion retail stores. Second, the relationship quality had a positive influence on CRM effects such as revisit intention and word of mouth intention. Third, it was confirmed that the consumer characteristics variables were effective mediators linking the relational benefits and relational qualities of fashion retail stores.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.1-29
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• 2006

This study focuses on finding out the determinants of relational quality between the supplier and the retailer in the Chinese cosmetics market. A total of 72 questionnaires were collected by surveying beauty shops which mainly do business with the foreign cosmetics suppliers in Shanghai area. The findings support the premise that a retailer's trust in a supplier is positively related to the retailer's commitment. Supplier's ability, guanxi and cultural sensitivity have positive impacts on trust. Formalization and cultural sensitivity affect commitment positively. But the formalization is not significantly related to the retailer's trust. The guanxi is not found to be significantly related to the retailer's commitment yet. Finally, the authors discuss some theoretical contributions, managerial implications. And then, they present limitations of this study and the future research directions.