• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.25-45
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• 2009

This study tried to analyzed the relationship between core competence, satisfaction, trust and loyalty in order to suggest to a methodology for decision-making of e-trade firms. 6 hypothesis were constructed for analysis based on previous literature review. The results of empirical analysis shows that core competence gave significant effect on satisfaction, trust and loyalty, and satisfaction gave positively effect to trust and loyalty. Besides trust affected positively on loyalty. These result explains that e-trade firms which try to create customers must build high level of core competence should be realized and reacted for maintenance of created customers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.412-421
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• 2012

The aim of this paper is to improve employee job satisfaction through the influence of superiors' leadership related to trust and job satisfaction of hotel employees who strive to provide better service for guest. We analyzed the correlation between superior's leadership and the trust and job satisfaction of the employees. The result of this analysis indicates that the influence of the superiors' leadership on the trust and job satisfaction of employees favourable, and worthy of individual consideration and conditional compensation. Job satisfaction for employees has a direct correlation with each situation and reward of state of affairs. Further, the influence on job satisfaction is shown as statistically significant in relation to the senior's trust.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.34-48
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• 2004

This study aims to determine any possible causation between identifying which major factors affect CRM(Customer Relationship Management) in terms of promotion strategies for fashion goods and classifying customers into several categories, so that it can seek reasonable strategic measures based on CRM. This study suggested a model by selecting several variables meeting its goals, and used total 672 sheets of questionnaire for final analysis. In addition, a structural equation model was analyzed As a result, it was found that pricing flexibility had more or less influential relationships with trust, satisfaction and commitment in CRM, although having a negative relationship with commitment. Salesperson's role was also significantly correlated with trust, satisfaction and commitment in CRM, and especially, there were more influential relationships with satisfaction than any other factor. Service quality had relatively high influential relationships with trust, satisfaction and commitment in CRM. Retained customers showed more or less influential relationships with trust, satisfaction and commitment, while loyal customers did so with satisfaction and commitment, except for trust.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.922-931
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• 2015

To investigate and analyze the influence of trust on consumer satisfaction in rice cake cafe menus using domestically grown food ingredients, this study divided selection attributes of rice cake cafe menus into safety, nutrition, ethicality and marketability through an exploratory factor analysis and analyzed reliability and correlation among these variables. As a result, these four factors were adopted as selection factors, and the results of the correlation analysis among the variables showed that the four factors were statistically correlated with trust and customer satisfaction. The result of validity and reliability testing on consumer trust showed that the menus were reliable and trustworthy as they had been made using domestically grown agricultural products. Analysis of how cafe selection attributes affect trust showed that the these variables had a significantly positive influence on trust in the order of safety, marketability, nutrition, and ethicality. The influence of the selection attributes on customer satisfaction was statistically significant, and the independent variables had a significantly positive influence on trust in the order of marketability, ethicality, safety, and nutrition. In verifying the mediation effect of trust on customer satisfaction, the four factors of rice cake cafe selection attributes had statistically significant mediation effects.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.58-65
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• 2017

This study performed to test the effect of food neophobia on the formulated model on the relationships among perceived service attributes(food, employee, and physical attributes), brand trust, satisfaction and behavioral intention as perceived by franchise snack bar consumers. Total 299 respondents were used for statistical analysis and SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 program were employed. The findings of current study verified that food attribute among perceived service attributes has positively influence on brand trust and satisfaction, and the employee attribute has only effect on the brand trust. Additionally, the brand trust was critical predictor of satisfaction, but it was not significant antecedent of behavioral intention in context of franchise snack bar restaurant. Furthermore, this study found the moderating effect according to level of food neophobia on the designed hypothesizes, so it has been identified the importance of people's propensity about food neophobia can significantly effect on brand trust and satisfaction in franchise snack bar restaurant. These findings will contribute to provide meaningful suggestion to develop marketing strategic in franchise snack bar business as well as provide the theoretical evidence in the new segmentation.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.21-26
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• 2019

Purpose - This study aims to investigate the effect of brand image and trust of a home meal replacement (HMR) industry on customer satisfaction and repurchase during online shopping. Research design, data, and methodology - With 217 questionnaires, this study was conducted by AMOS 20.0, and the Structural Equation Model (SEM) as statistical method was used for examining the hypotheses in this study. Factors such as brand image and brand trust in customer shopping for HMR products online were tested, and relationships between satisfaction and repurchase were studied. Results - Brand image and brand trust in terms of online shopping for HMR were found to affect satisfaction significantly; in addition, the path where satisfaction leads to repurchase was found to be significant. However, brand image and brand trust for HMR in online shopping differed depending on customer age groups. The path-coefficients from brand image of HMR in online shopping to satisfaction were more significant in the older age group; meanwhile, the path-coefficient from brand trust to satisfaction was significant in the younger age group. Conclusions - Results of the study suggested the importance of the attributes for buying HMR products online and provided meaningful implications of difference between age groups when they choose the products.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to find out the factors forming perceived service convenience, and to investigate structural relationships among perceived service convenience, job satisfaction, trust, organizational commitment, and turnover intention in the healthcare service industries. The result analyzing on the hypothesis of this study was as follows. First, service convenience had positively influence job satisfaction, trust, and organizational commitment. Second, the job satisfaction had positively influence on the trust, and the trust had positively influence on the organizational commitment. Third, it was found that the variables of job satisfaction, the trust, and the organizational commitment negatively influenced on the turnover intention. Based on these results, theoretical implications for relevant researchers and managerial implications for healthcare service operation and internal marketing strategy were discussed.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.91-98
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• 2020

Purpose: This research aimed to suggest retailing companies some ways to enhance customer satisfaction with service recovery and recommendation intention towards these companies. For this purpose, current study examined the relationships among service recovery justice, service failure severity, customer trust, recovery satisfaction and intention to recommend and the moderating role of ego-resilience. Research design, data and methodology: Current study developed a structural equation model in which perceived service recovery justice is a predictor, service failure severity, customer trust, recovery satisfaction are mediators, intention to recommend is a dependent variable and the ego-resilience is a moderator between the perceived service recovery justice and the customer trust and the recovery satisfaction. Data were collected from customers who experienced service failures from retailers. A total of 400 questionnaires were collected and 365 samples were used for analysis after deleting data having missing value. SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 24.0 were used to test the validity, reliability, and structural equation modeling. Results: Empirical results showed that the perceived service recovery justice had a negative influence on the perceived service failure severity and a positive influence on the customer trust and the recovery satisfaction. These results indicate that when customers perceive the service recovery justice more highly, they perceive the service failure less severe but they perceive the retailer more trustworthy and are satisfied with service recovery. In addition, the customer trust and the recovery satisfaction had a positive influence on the intention to recommend. These results indicate that when customers perceive the retailer more trustworthy and are satisfied with service recovery, they are more intend to recommend the retailer. Moreover, the influence of the perceived service recovery justice on the customer trust and the recovery satisfaction was moderated by the ego-resilience. Conclusions: This study contributed to the service recovery literature by proving the relationship among service recovery justice, service failure severity, customer trust, recovery satisfaction and intention to recommend. Moreover, current research introduced the ego-resilience into service recovery research area and revealed the moderation role of the ego-resilience. Managerially, this research suggested retailing companies some ways to effectively recover from service failure.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.346-355
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• 2019

This study aimed to determine the factors of the make-up artist experience and establish their effects on brand loyalty through the mediation of trust and brand satisfaction. The step of first surveyed the make-up artist experience level through precedent research and made concept frame of study. The step of second checked up the effects of make-up artist experience through the desires for change. The step of third established to the effects of brand loyalty through make-up artist experience brand through mediation of make-up artist trust and brand satisfaction. The survey was carried out on 440 women aged 20 to 40 who experienced make-up services in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Sejong and Daejeon. The data were analyzed using SPSS 23.0, and AMOS 18.0 using frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, structural model analysis and t-tests. 1)Make-up artist experiences were divided into informational/ relational experiences and emotional experiences. 2)Desires for change influenced positive effects about information/relational experience and emotional experience. 3)The information/relation experiences influenced positive effects about artist trust and brand satisfaction. 4)The emotional experiences influenced positive effects about make-up artist trust and brand satisfaction. 5) The make-up artist trust influenced positive effects about brand satisfaction. Trust in the make-up artist did not directly influence brand loyalty, but influenced it through satisfaction. 6)The brand satisfaction influenced positive effects about brand loyalty. This study identified the roles of make-up artist and the importance of the make-up experience.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.416-423
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• 2020

This study examined parental education efforts on teacher confidence in parents of children attending elementary and middle school in Seoul. The effects of parents' educational efforts on teacher trust were examined to examine the mediating effects of parental school trust and local education satisfaction. The major findings of the study were as follows. First, parental education efforts had a positive (+) effect on teacher trust. Second, there was a mediating effect of school trust in parental educational efforts and teacher trust. This implies that the parental educational efforts directly affect teacher trust, but indirectly influence teacher trust through school trust. Finally, it was found that mediation effect of satisfaction of local education was found in the relationship between child education effort and teacher trust. This implies that parents effort directly affects teachers' trust, but indirectly influences teacher trust through local schooling satisfaction. Through these results, implications for educational and welfare aspects were discussed.