• Information Systems Review
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.115-136
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• 2005

Recently Internet portals contend with each other to expand their customer base by providing customers with a much amount of e-mail storage. But This strategy may not be successful because of customers' switching cost following site moving. Therefore, in order to reveal whether their strategy makes sense, this study investigates the direct and contingency factors affecting customer switching intension of e-mail services in portal sites. The research results show that attractiveness of alternatives, switching cost, and customer satisfaction have a significantly direct impact on customer switching intension of e-mail services. Also, attractiveness of alternatives alone has an moderated effect on customer switching intension but switching cost does not. Thus, Internet portals may reap the harvest from their recent aggressive action.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.113-119
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• 2016

In this paper, a research model is proved empirically which includes factors related on the purchase intention of smart car as high innovative product in advance of commercialization. As one of relating to consumer's expectation benefit factors, individual attribute factor includes product knowledge, individual innovativeness, and sociality. Consumer's expectation benefit factor includes perceived ease-of-use, usefulness, and enjoyment. As of switching cost variables, there are financial, uncertainty, relational and psychological switching costs factors. Analysis were performed using data from the 257 respondents as random sampling among potential consumers. Purchase intention were affected by individual innovativeness mediated by perceived enjoyment, and individual sociality by perceived ease-of-use and enjoyment also. Relational switching costs factor was only a significant control variable between purchase intention with consumer's expectation benefit factor. This result presents some implications for making the new smart car's detail concept and marketing strategy related to targeting the consumer as high innovative product and technology firms including smart car makers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.219-219
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• 2017

This study aims at examining each firm's decision-makings of complex product and system (hereafter CoPS) innovation strategy, so that it tries to reveal the nature and role of CoPS innovations strategy. And it designed a comparative case study along with qualitative methods, by having two mobile operators' digital rights management (hereafter DRM) innovation in South Korea's digital music service industry. Through literature review, this study formulated three research propositions: (i) Each firm's decision-makings of CoPS innovations strategy are analytical negotiation process among economic actors in an industry; (ii) Each firm's market power originated from its market share from the installed base through network effect and switching cost influence decision-makings of CoPS innovation strategies; (iii) Each firm's decision-makings of different CoPS innovation strategies are related to their intension of achieving better market power, consequently dominant design. Through empirical examination of two mobile operators' decision-makings of DRM innovation strategy, this study empirically verified three research propositions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.385-396
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• 2014

In the Korean mobile market, the mobile phone has reach the stage of maturity in terms of demand. Since the long-term evolution(LTE) service was introduced in 2011, there have been drastic changes in the market structure. The purpose of this paper is to examine the user intension of brand switching, to analyse the market share among 3 major mobile service companies using the brand switching matrix and to provide some insights. The results show that the smartphone subscriber rate provided by Ministry of Science, lCT and Future Planning agrees with the market share by brand switching matrix of this study. The potential rate of costumer retention would be arranges in order of SKT>KT>LGU+. The preference of mobile service company on switch be in order of SKT>KT>LGU+. The future market share be SKT 63.55%, KT 21.99%, LGU+ 14.36%. The potential rate of costumer retention fell sharply over the past year, suggesting the drastic fluctuations in market share for a while.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.19-40
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• 2009

In case of korea, it is said that the service of internet banking is in maturity regarding the number of transactions that internet banking process. So it is necessary to find out the factors that influence customer's trust on bank with the use of internet banking, to preserve existing customers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the internet banking service quality on trust of banks. For this purpose, eight hypotheses are empirically tested using logistic regression. The empirical results indicated that responsiveness, easy of use, and accuracy from the six dimensions of internet banking service quality factors take significant effect on trust of bank.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.12
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• pp.135-154
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• 2003

This study having purpose of promoting the convenience of medical service customer at medical service encounter have tried to know the influence of physical environment, perceived justice, and perceived waiting time to the intention of re-use of medical service through mediating variable such as service Quality evaluation and negative emotion. Particularly, this exploratory study have first tried to know what influence the physical environment and perceived justice have on negative emotion. Findings are; First, the physical environment affect positive influence to service Quality evaluation, and lower the negative emotion. Second, perceived justice have no influence to the service Quality evaluation and negative emotion. Third, the perceived waiting time lower the service Quality and increase the negative emotion. Fourth, the service Quality have positive influence to intention of re-use of medical service. However, the negative emotion have no influence to the intention of re-use of medical service. Therefore physical environment of medical service becomes more important and it is necessary to shorten the waiting time. In addition, even though negative emotion have no influence to the intention of re-use of medical service it is necessary to make the smallest of negative emotion. Because it is possible to separate once switching barner due to the medical service specificity is solved.