• 한국유통학회지:유통연구
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.67-95
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• 2009

본 연구는 개별 소비자가 구매를 결정하는데 있어 중요한 요소라고 할 수 있는 신뢰가 전이되는 현상을 실증적으로 확인하고자 한다. 많은 선행연구에서 신뢰가 전이되는 과정에 관한 언급은 있었지만, 이에 대한 실증적 연구가 부족하였다. 본 연구는 특히 유통업체에 대한 신뢰가 전이되는 현상에 초점을 맞추었으며, 신뢰 전이의 대상으로 PL(Private Label) 제품을 선정하였다. PL제품은 유통업체에서 판매되는 제품들 중 신뢰가 전이됨에 있어 기본 가정이 되어야 하는 평가대상의 애매 모호성이라는 특성을 갖기 때문이다. 또한 PL제품 자체가 제조업체 브랜드 제품에 비해 상대적으로 적은 정보를 제공하고 있기 때문에 본 연구의 대상으로 적합하다고 판단되었다. 게다가 최근 유통업체는 PL제품의 판매영역을 늘리고 있다. 먼저 저자들은 선행연구가 가지고 있는 이론적/실증적 한계점을 극복하기 위한 신뢰의 전이 현상을 설명하는 이론으로, 인지적 신뢰의 전이에 있어서는 '균형이론'과 '가용성 간편추론법'을 근거로 들었다. 또한, 감정적 신뢰에 있어서는 '감정전이'와 '정보로서의 감정'이라는 2가지 이론적 근거를 제시함으로써 선행연구들을 보완하였으며, PL제품 구매자 206명을 대상으로 실증분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, PL제품을 구매하는데 있어, 신뢰의 전이 현상이 나타남을 매개효과를 통해 확인할 수 있었다. 비록 매개효과를 포함한 제안모델이 매개효과가 없는 모델과 비교해서 그 모델 적합도가 크게 개선되지는 않았으나, 각각의 경로계수가 매개효과가 없는 모델에 비해 향상되어 매개효과가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 신뢰의 2가지 차원인 인지적 신뢰와 감정적 신뢰에 있어서, 인지적 신뢰는 PL제품의 제조업체 및 제품 자체에 대한 신뢰로 전이되는 것을 확인할 수 있었으나, 감정적 신뢰에 있어서는 PL제품의 제조업체에 대한 신뢰의 전이가 나타나지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 감정적 신뢰는 직접적인 경험에 근거하여 형성되는 것으로, PL제품은 유통업체 브랜드와 같은 브랜드 이름을 사용하고 많은 상품군을 갖고 있기 때문에 소비자에게 많이 노출되어 친숙함과 같은 감정적인 부분이 개입될 가능성이 있지만, 이와 달리 제조업체와는 감정적 신뢰가 전이될 만한 직접적인 경험이 없었기 때문이라 판단된다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.153-173
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• 2009

Virtual world typically characterized by Second Life (www.secondlife.com) has been successfully drawing a great deal of potential users all around the world. Attention towards 3D avartars has been increasing exponentially especially in the electronic commerce world. 3D avatars have firm position in the virtual world. This study is launched to explore this research void in which trust transference from 3D-avatars-sales representative to customers purchase intention will be especially analyzed on. To perform experiments, a research model was built in a form of path analysis. Two types of 3D avatars were designed and implemented-at-tractive type and professional type. Questionnaire survey was adopted, and empirical analysis results were obtained from the research model. Results reveal that the proposed hypotheses are proven with statistical significance.

• 무역학회지
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.25-42
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• 2022

This study identified consumers' shopping behavior in live streaming commerce. To this end, this study put the uncertainty issue of live shopping and the transfer of trust at the center of the discussion. The verification of the research model resulted in the following conclusions. First, reduced uncertainty in live shopping was a factor in increasing the level of involvement and attachment in the service. These results showed that resolving uncertainty in newly introduced services is a key factor in determining users' positive attitudes. Second, the trust in shopping sites influenced the current live shopping attitude. This is because the transfer of trust is also valid in live shopping, which demonstrated the importance of building trust. Third, this study proposed and validated a research model that could systematically understand the consumption process of live streaming shopping. Furthermore, this study provides a beneficial implication for those who want to use live shopping in practice.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.27-37
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• 2011

It is not uncommon to witness brand image transference which is a development of corporate image from a collection of individual brand images. The brand image transfer process is the influence of consumer attitudes toward certain brands on overall evaluation of the company. To understand the image transfer process, we examine the influence of brand level evaluation on overall company evaluation through food and beverage consumer products in China, where active competitions among global brands exist.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.149-176
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• 2009

In the recent e-learning environment, avatars are often used to help learners get familiar with the contents, which is ultimately to motivate them to study more. Therefore, it is important to investigate whether avatars have actually the desirable effect on users of e-learning materials. Surprisingly, however, no extensive study has been conducted on this crucial issue Accordingly, main objectives this study are summarized as follows. First, we need to gain better understanding of how much learners' trust towards avatars (termed as "avatar trust") is transferred to learners' trust towards e-learning contents (termed as "contents trust"). Second, we need to investigate how much learners' personal relationships with avatars as well as learning behaviors change depending on avatar types (attractive vs. professional) and contents complexity (easy vs. difficult). As described in the study objectives, in order for us to analyze empirical data more systematically, we classified avatar types into two: "attractive" and "professional;" the contents are categorized as either "easy" or "difficult." Therefore, it is essential for this study to build a prototype e-learning website on which our research purpose can be realized and tested effectively with proper avatar types and e-learning contents. For this purpose, we built a prototype e-learning website, in which avatars are invited from currently working avatar instructors used in real-world e-learning websites, and e-learning contents are adapted from real-world contents about Java programming topic, which have been proved to have shown high quality and reliability. Our research method includes questionnaire survey by inviting a number of valid respondents comprised of office workers who are believed to have high demands for the e-learning contents as well as those who have previous experience with avatar instructors. Respondents were given one of the four e-learning experiment conditions (2 avatar types x 2 contents types) on a random basis. Each experimental e-learning condition is framed to have the same quality but different avatar type and content complexity. Then the respondents are asked to fill out the survey form which has questions about avatar trust, contents trust, personal relationships with avatar, and learning behavior, among others. Regarding the constructs used in research model, we based them rigorously on previous studies. For example, we used six constructs such as behavior to give information (BGI), behavior to obtain information (BOI), need for inclusion wanted, need for control wanted, contents trust, and avatar trust. To measure them, 7-Likert scales were used in the questionnaire. E-learning performance was measured indirectly through two constructs such as BGI and BOI. Six constructs used in the research model were adopted and revised from the FIRO-B model suggested by Schutz. Empirical results are as follows: First, professional avatars are more effective for difficult contents, while attractive avatars were not as effective for easy contents. Second, our study results ascertained that avatar trust transfers to contents trust regardless of avatar types and contents complexity.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.29-47
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• 2007

Owing to the rapid growth of using the Internet, not only click-and-mortar companies but also brick-and-mortar ones have been expanding their distribution channels into online, Moreover, since online channels are more attractive than offline ones in control and maintenance, switching customers into online ones is emerged as one of very important managerial issues in a view of reduction of cost as well as expansion of services. However, the switched customers should be faced by uncertainties which could not have been experienced in offline. Specifically, in online channels, buyers and sellers are separated temporally and spacially and there are always so many kinds of threat for security as well as not enough systems and conventions for them yet. Therefore, trust has been considered as one of the most critical mechanisms for resolution of such uncertainties in online transactions. However, it is not easy to build and maintain the relationships in online since most of them are virtual and indirect generally. Therefore, in order to switch offline customers into online ones, it is very important to make strategies based on identification of the relationship between online transaction and offline trust which has been built in offline business. Generally offline trust, which has been built independent of online, could not include trust for online-dependent activities such as payment security during or after transactions, while most of online trust include it. Therefore, a customer with high offline trust does not always perceive high security and assure safe transactions. Accordingly, while online trust, where technical capabilities for online security is one of main bases, includes control trust implicitly or explicitly, offline trust does not. However. in spite of such clear discrimination and independence between offline trust and perceived security, there can be the significant dependency between these two beliefs. The customers with high offline trust believe that the company would do some activities for online security for customers' safe transactions since it has been believed of doing well for customers' trust. Theoretically, users' perception of security is interpreted as a kind of control trus, which is trust for company's technical control capacities in order to resolve technical uncertainties in online. Therefore, the relationship between two beliefs can be considered as transference from offline trust to another type trust. that is, control trust. The objective of this study is to analyze the effect of offline trust on online transaction uses mediated by perceived security. For this purpose, we suggest a research model based on technology acceptance model (TAM). Reuse intention is adopted as a dependent variable and TAM is modified by adding perceived risk (PR) as well as two beliefs of using Internet banking, perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU). Moreover, perceive security (PS) is adopted as an external variable for PR and PU, while offline trust (OT) is an antecedent of PS. For an empirical test, sampling from 108 visitors to the banks in Daegu, Korea, we analyze our model by partial least square (PLS) approach. In result, our model is shown to explain 51.4% of the variance in reuse intention and all hypothesis are supported statistically. A theoretical implication of this study is to identify a role of PS between offline trust and reuse intention of using online transaction services. According to our result, PS can be considered as a mediation variable for bridging between two different concepts: trust that explains social aspects of customers and companies, and TAM that explains customers' reuse intention.

• 인간행동과 음악연구
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.29-44
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• 2006

치료사와 내담자의 관계에서 신뢰 형성과 이해는 효과적인 치료를 위한 기본적인 요소이다. 치료활동에 있어서 효과적인 동반자 관계는 치료 전 과정의 기초가 되기 때문이다. 이러한 점은 비단 음악치료 뿐만이 아니라 정신심리학적 치료나 상담치료 등에서도 같은 맥락을 가지고 중요시 하고 있다. 이러한 중요성 때문에 치료사와 내담자의 관계에 대한 연구는 상당히 폭넓게 이루어져 왔다. 여기에 최근의 연구는 치료사나 내담자 한 쪽의 일방적인 영향만을 고려하거나, 각자의 내적 변인들에 초점을 두어 연구하는 전통적인 견해를 탈피하여, 치료사와 내담자의 상호영향을 동시에 고려하는 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구는 최근의 연구동향에 주목하여 음악치료 환경에서 나타나는 치료사와 내담자의 관계에서, 음악이 어떠한 역할을 하였는지를 분석하고자 하였다. 본 연구를 위해 알코올 중독 판정을 받은 성인 여성을 대상으로 총 11회의 음악치료를 실시하였다. 처음 3회 세션은 연구 대상 여성을 포함한 그룹으로 진행되었으며, 4회부터 11회까지는 개인 세션으로 진행되었다. 이 중 개인 사례를 중심으로 연구를 진행하였고, 비디오 오디오 자료를 토대로 분석을 실시하였다. 분석 방법은 Amir(1990)가 음악 연구를 위해 사용한 Ferrara(1984)의 현상학적 연구 7단계를 변용한 것을 참조하였으며, 활동 중 나타나는 내담자의 언어적 비언어적 행동에서 나타나는 음악적 요소를 중심으로 분석하였다. 연구 분석에 있어서, 세션에서 얻어진 비디오 오디오 자료를 문서화하는 작업은 음악치료에서 qualitive research 연구를 위한 guide인 Henk Smeijsters,의 저서 "Multiple Perspective"에서 Researchers as Instruments 부분을 참조하였다. 즉흥연주 활동에서 나타난 내담자의 음악 분석은 Bruscia의 저서 "Improvisational Models of Music Therapy"에서 Bruscia의 모델인 Improvisation Assessment Profile과 Alvin모델인 Free Improvisation Therapy를 참조하였다. 연구 결과 음악과 악기는 치료사와 내담자의 관계를 중재하여 치료과정을 용이하게 해준다는 점을 보여 주었다. 음악과 악기가 감정전이의 주 역할을 맡음으로써, 치료사와 내담자 관계에 있어서 나타날 수 있는 부정적 감정전이로부터 치료사를 보호함과 동시에, 치료사-내담자 사이의 긍정적인 관계형성을 유지하게 해주었다. 이때 음악과 악기가 감정전이의 주 역할을 담당한다는 점은 내담자의 갈등이 대인 관계적 상황이 아닌 음악적 상황에서 나타났음을 증거 한다. 이는 세션 중 치료사와 내담자의 관계 형성에 있어서 음악이 그 중심이 되며, 치료에 긍정적 영향을 준다는 사실을 암시 한다.