• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.41-72
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is the investigation of the effects of user participation, network effect, social influence, and usefulness on stickiness and continued use on Internet communities. In this research, stickiness refers to repeat visit and visit duration to an Internet community. Continued use means the willingness to continue to use an Internet community in the future. Internet community-based companies can earn money through selling the digital contents such as game, music, and avatar, advertizing on internet site, or offering an affiliate marketing. For such money making, stickiness and continued use of Internet users is much more important than the number of Internet users. We tried to answer following three questions. Fist, what is the effects of user participation on stickiness and continued use on Internet communities? Second, by what is user participation formed? Third, are network effect, social influence, and usefulness that was significant at prior research about technology acceptance model(TAM) still significant on internet communities? In this study, user participation, network effect, social influence, and usefulness are independent variables, stickiness is mediating variable, and continued use is dependent variable. Among independent variables, we are focused on user participation. User participation means that Internet user participates in the development of Internet community site (called mini-hompy or blog in Korea). User participation was studied from 1970 to 1997 at the research area of information system. But since 1997 when Internet started to spread to the public, user participation has hardly been studied. Given the importance of user participation at the success of Internet-based companies, it is very meaningful to study the research topic of user participation. To test the proposed model, we used a data set generated from the survey. The survey instrument was designed on the basis of a comprehensive literature review and interviews of experts, and was refined through several rounds of pretests, revisions, and pilot tests. The respondents of survey were the undergraduates and the graduate students who mainly used Internet communities. Data analysis was conducted using 217 respondents(response rate, 97.7 percent). We used structural equation modeling(SEM) implemented in partial least square(PLS). We chose PLS for two reason. First, our model has formative constructs. PLS uses components-based algorithm and can estimated formative constructs. Second, PLS is more appropriate when the research model is in an early stage of development. A review of the literature suggests that empirical tests of user participation is still sparse. The test of model was executed in the order of three research questions. First user participation had the direct effects on stickiness(${\beta}$=0.150, p<0.01) and continued use (${\beta}$=0.119, p<0.05). And user participation, as a partial mediation model, had a indirect effect on continued use mediated through stickiness (${\beta}$=0.007, p<0.05). Second, optional participation and prosuming participation significantly formed user participation. Optional participation, with a path magnitude as high as 0.986 (p<0.001), is a key determinant for the strength of user participation. Third, Network effect (${\beta}$=0.236, p<0.001). social influence (${\beta}$=0.135, p<0.05), and usefulness (${\beta}$=0.343, p<0.001) had directly significant impacts on stickiness. But network effect and social influence, as a full mediation model, had both indirectly significant impacts on continued use mediated through stickiness (${\beta}$=0.11, p<0.001, and ${\beta}$=0.063, p<0.05, respectively). Compared with this result, usefulness, as a partial mediation model, had a direct impact on continued use and a indirect impact on continued use mediated through stickiness. This study has three contributions. First this is the first empirical study showing that user participation is the significant driver of continued use. The researchers of information system have hardly studies user participation since late 1990s. And the researchers of marketing have studied a few lately. Second, this study enhanced the understanding of user participation. Up to recently, user participation has been studied from the bipolar viewpoint of participation v.s non-participation. Also, even the study on participation has been studied from the point of limited optional participation. But, this study proved the existence of prosuming participation to design and produce products or services, besides optional participation. And this study empirically proved that optional participation and prosuming participation were the key determinant for user participation. Third, our study compliments traditional studies of TAM. According prior literature about of TAM, the constructs of network effect, social influence, and usefulness had effects on the technology adoption. This study proved that these constructs still are significant on Internet communities.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.239-272
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• 2014

지구정지궤도는 위성통신과 방송을 위한 필수요소로서 ITU 체제가 그 관리의 중심이다. ITU체제는 지구정지궤도를 이용하고자 하는 주관청의 사전신청 및 조정 의무를 규정하고 있으며, ITU 사무국과 RRB는 등록원부 등재 및 삭제를 통해서 정지궤도 이용권을 관리하고 있다. 등록원부에 등재된 위성망 정보는 관련 주관청과의 조정의 결과에 따라서 그 지위가 달라진다. ITU 무선규칙은 위성망 정보를 등재한 주관청이 실제로 위성을 운용하는가의 여부에 따라서 등재정보가 삭제 또는 변경되도록 하여 지구정지궤도가 필요한 주관청이 실질적으로 사용할 기회를 보장하고 있다. 그러나 위성망을 신청하는 주관청 국가의 국적과 지구정지궤도에서 실제로 운용되는 인공위성의 국적이 같아야 한다는 규정이 없으며, 또한 위성망을 신청한 주관청 국가와 인공위성간의 연결관계에 관한 규정도 없고, 주관청과 위성망 소유 기업간의 연결 관계에 관한 규정도 없다. 이러한 상황에서 지구정지궤도를 둘러싼 분쟁은 사실상 주관청만이 아니라 기업이 등장하는 조정을 통해서 해결되고 있다. 그 결과는 위성 궤도를 거래하는 사실상의 이차 시장의 등장이다. 이차 시장의 존재는 기존의 ITU 무선규칙 및 사무국과 RRB의 역할에 따른 제도적 틀의 한계를 입증한다. 예컨대 RRB는 제13.6조를 적용하지 않기로 결정하고, 당사자간의 조정을 촉구하는 것으로 자신의 업무를 한정한 바 있고, 주관청간의 위성망 거래가 합법임을 사실상 인정하고 있다. ITU의 무선규칙상 또한 RRB의 방침상 인공위성과 궤도의 그러한 거래는 위법이 아니다. 무궁화위성 3호의 국적이 대한민국이더라도 홍콩 소재 기업이 다른 주관청과 합의하여 그 주관청 명의의 위성망 신청하에 무궁화 위성 3호를 사용하고 있다의 증거로 사용할 수 있다. 무궁화 위성 3호의 매각이 국내법 위반이어서 매각계약 자체가 무효라 하더라도 마찬가지이다. 이제 동경 116도의 Ka 밴드 이용권은 ITU가 주관하는 분양시장이 아니라 ITU가 등기소 역할만을 하는 장외시장에 나온 매물이다.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제22권
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• pp.137-165
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• 2007

It seems high time to increase productivity by adopting e-business to overcome challenges posed by both external factors including the appreciation of Korean won, oil hikes and fierce global competition and domestic issues represented by disparities between large corporations and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), Seoul metropolitan and local cities, and export and domestic demand all of which weaken future growth engines in the Korean economy. The demands of the globalization era are for innovative changes in businessprocess and industrial structure aiming for creating new values. To this end, e-business is expected to play a core role in the sophistication of the Korean economy through new values and innovation. In order to examine business performance in e-business-adopting industries, this study analyzed the home shopping industry by closely looking into the financial ratios including the ratio of net profit to sales, the ratio of operation income to sales, the ratio of gross cost to sales cost, the ratio of gross cost to selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expense, and return of investment (ROI). This study, for best outcome, referred to corporate financial statements as a main resource to calculate financial ratios by utilizing Data Analysis, Retrieval and Transfer System (DART) of the Financial Supervisory Service, one of the Korea's financial supervisory authorities. First of all, the result of the trend analysis on the ratio of net profit to sales is as following. CJ Home Shopping has registered a remarkable increase in its ratio of net profit rate to sales since 2002 while its competitors find it hard to catch up with CJ's stunning performances. This is partly due to the efficient management compared to CJ's value of capital. Such significance, if the current trend continues, will make the front-runner assume the largest market share. On the other hand, GS Home Shopping, despite its best organized system and largest value of capital among others, lacks efficiency in management. Second of all, the result of the trend analysis on the ratio of operation income to sales is as following. Both CJ Home Shopping and GS Home Shopping have, until 2004, recorded similar growth trend. However, while CJ Home Shopping's operating income continued to increase in 2005, GS Home Shopping observed its operating income declining which resulted in the increasing income gap with CJ Home Shopping. While CJ Home Shopping with the largest market share in home shopping industryis engaged in aggressive marketing, GS Home Shopping due to its stability-driven management strategies falls behind CJ again in the ratio of operation income to sales in spite of its favorable management environment including its large capital. Companies in the Group B were established in the same year of 2001. NS Home Shopping was the first in the Group B to shift its loss to profit. Woori Home Shopping has continued to post operating loss for three consecutive years and finally was sold to Lotte Group in 2007, but since then, has registered a continuing increase in net income on sales. Third of all, the result of the trend analysis on the ratio of gross cost to sales cost is as following. Since home shopping falls into sales business, its cost of sales is much lower than that of other types of business such as manufacturing industry. Since 2002 in gross costs including cost of sales, SG&A expense, and non-operating expense, cost of sales turned out to have remarkably decreased. Group B has also posted a notable decline in the same sector since 2002. Fourth of all, the result of the trend analysis on the ratio of gross cost to SG&A expense is as following. Due to its unique characteristics, the home shopping industry usually posts ahigh ratio of SG&A expense. However, more than 80% of SG&A expense means the result of lax management and at the same time, a sharp lower net income on sales than other industries. Last but not least, the result of the trend analysis on ROI is as following. As for CJ Home Shopping, the curve of ROI looks similar to that of its investment on fixed assets. As it turned out, the company's ratio of fixed assets to operating income skyrocketed in 2004 and 2005. As far as GS Home Shopping is concerned, its fixed assets are not as much as that of CJ Home Shopping. Consequently, competition in the home shopping industry, at the moment, is among CJ, GS, Hyundai, NS and Woori Home Shoppings, and all of them need to more thoroughly manage their costs. In order for the late-comers of Group B and other home shopping companies to advance further, the current lax management should be reformed particularly on their SG&A expense sector. Provided that the total sales volume in the Internet shopping sector is projected to grow over 20 trillion won by the year 2010, it is concluded that all the participants in the home shopping industry should put strategies on efficient management on costs and expenses as their top priority rather than increase revenues, if they hope to grow even further after 2007.

• 중소기업연구
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.59-86
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• 2021

플랫폼(platform) 개념은 제품 플랫폼, 거래 플랫폼에서 산업 플랫폼에 이르기까지 다양한 형태로 기업의 경영활동에 활용되어 왔다. 모든 플랫폼은 공통적으로 자주 재사용 되는 핵심과 재사용이 적고 자주 변경되는 주변부로 구성된다. 기업은 플랫폼을 사용하여 제품군, 거래, 그리고 혁신을 보다 효율적으로 개발 및 창출할 수 있다. 이러한 플랫폼은 제품을 중심으로 한 전통적 산업구조에 변화를 가져옴으로써 많은 중소기업에게 새로운 기회를 제공한다. 한국의 서비스용 로봇 산업은 협소한 시장 규모로 인해 주로 기술 중심의 중소기업으로 구성되어 있다. 이들 중소기업들은 기술개발에 성공하더라도 제품을 판매하기 위해 시장을 창출하고 확장하는데 어려움을 겪는다. 따라서 본 연구는 한국 서비스용 로봇 산업의 특성 및 문제점을 조명하고 중소기업인 로보프린트가 어떻게 서비스용 로봇 시장을 확장하고 지속적으로 성장하였는지를 플랫폼 이론을 적용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과, 로보프린트는 제품과 거래 플랫폼 개념을 적용한 것으로 나타났다. 첫째, 로보프린트는 초기에 개발한 아트봇의 핵심 기술을 기반으로 페인팅 로봇, 건물 외벽 청소 로봇 및 맞춤형 로봇을 개발하였다. 또한, 직접 로봇을 이용한 아파트 벽화 서비스를 제공하고 이를 방음벽, 지하통로, 옹벽 등 다양한 지역으로 확장하였다. 뿐만 아니라 가상현실 기술을 개발하는 등 새로운 서비스를 지속적으로 추가했다. 둘째, 로보프린트는 벽화 서비스 구매자와 벽화 디자이너를 매개하였다. 이는 벽화 서비스를 의뢰하는 구매자들이 디자이너를 탐색해야 하는 번거로움을 줄여주었고, 벽화 디자이너들에게는 벽화사업의 참여 기회를 열어주었다. 마지막으로 로보프린트는 플랫폼의 범위를 지속적으로 넓히고자 노력하였다. 내부에서만 재사용되던 로보프린트의 기술을 외부 기업과 공유하기 위해 대구광역시 '신기술 플랫폼 서비스'에 참여하였다. 뿐만 아니라 로봇을 외부 기업에 임대하여 서비스 플랫폼을 공유하고자 노력하고 있다. 본 연구는 중소기업이 다양한 플랫폼을 이용하여 시장을 창출하고 지속적으로 확장할 수 있음을 보여주어 기존 플랫폼 이론에 기여하며 실무자들에게도 유용한 시사점을 준다.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.83-138
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• 2017

한 중 FTA가 2015년 12월 20일 발효되었고, 우리나라 제1위의 교역상대국인 중국과의 FTA로서 발효된 후 1년이 경과하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 한국과 중국 간 항공운송 교역 동향을 살펴보고, 한 중 FTA의 항공운송서비스 부문에 대한 양허내용을 검토하고, 항공운송 부문에 미치는 영향을 분석하며, 이에 대응하기 위한 우리나라 항공정책의 방향을 도출하여 제시하고자 한다. 2016년 한 중 간 항공운송 교역 동향을 살펴보면, 대중국 항공운송 수출액은 전년대비 9.3% 감소한 400.3억 달러로서, 대중국 전체 수출액의 32.2%를 차지하고 있다. 대중국 항공운송 수입액은 전년대비 9.1% 감소한 242.6억 달러로서, 대중국 전체 수입액의 27.7%를 차지하고 있다. 한 중 FTA의 항공운송서비스 부문 양허내용을 검토해 보면, 중국은 한 중 FTA 협정문 제8장 부속서 중국의 양허표에서 항공운송서비스 분야의 항공기 보수 및 유지 서비스, 컴퓨터 예약시스템(CRS)서비스에 대하여 시장접근과 내국민대우에 대한 제한을 두고 양허하였다. 한국은 한 중 FTA 협정문 제8장 부속서 한국의 양허표에서 항공운송서비스 분야의 컴퓨터 예약시스템서비스, 항공운송서비스의 판매 및 마케팅, 항공기 유지 및 보수 서비스에 대하여 시장접근과 내국민대우에 대한 제한을 두지 않고 양허하였다. 한 중 FTA가 항공운송 부문에 미치는 영향을 분석해 보면, 항공여객시장에 미친 영향으로, 2016년 국제선 중국노선 도착여객은 996만 명으로 전년대비 20.6% 증가하였고, 출발여객은 990만 명으로 전년대비 34.8% 증가하였다. 항공화물시장에 미친 영향으로, 2016년 대중국 항공화물 수출물동량은 105,220.2톤으로 전년대비 6.6% 증가하였고, 수입물동량은 133,750.9톤으로 전년대비 12.3% 증가하였다. 대중국 수출 항공화물 주요품목가운데 한 중 FTA 협정문 중국 관세양허표 상 수혜품목의 수출물동량이 증가하였고, 대중국 수입항공화물 주요품목가운데 한 중 FTA 한국 관세양허표 상 수혜품목의 수입물 동량이 증가하였다. 항공물류시장에 미친 영향으로 2016년 국내 포워더의 대중국 수출 항공화물 취급실적은 119,618톤으로 전년대비 2.1% 감소하였고, 대중국 수입 항공화물 취급실적은 79,430톤으로 전년대비 4.4% 감소하였다. 2016년 대중국 역직구(전자상거래 수출) 수출금액은 1억 916만 달러로 전년대비 27.7% 증가하였고, 대중국직구(전자상거래 수입) 수입금액은 8,943만 달러로 전년대비 72% 증가하였다. 한 중 FTA에 따른 우리나라 항공정책의 방향을 도출하여 제시해 보면 다음과 같다. 첫째 한 중 간에 항공자유화를 추진한다. 한국과 중국은 2006년 6월 중국의 산동성과 해남성에 대해 여객 및 화물 제3자유 및 제4자유를 범위로 하는 항공자유화 협정을 체결하였으며, 2010년 하계부터 양국 간 항공운항을 전면 자유화하기로 합의하였으나, 중국 측에서 항공협정 양해각서 문안의 해석 상 이의를 제기함에 따라 추가적인 항공자유화는 이루어지지 못하고 있다. 한 중 FTA와는 별도의 항공회담을 통해 중국과의 점진적 선별적 항공여객시장 및 화물시장의 항공자유화를 추진해야 할 것이다. 둘째 항공운송산업 및 공항의 경쟁력을 확보해야 한다. 한국의 항공운송산업 경쟁력의 강화방안으로 국적항공사 경쟁력의 강화를 위한 지원체계를 마련하며, 국적항공사의 새로운 공정경쟁의 기반을 조성하며, 국익기반 전략적 네트워크를 구축해야 할 것이다. 한국의 공항 특히 인천공항의 경쟁력 강화방안으로 항공수요 창출 네트워크 경쟁력을 강화하며, 공항시설과 안전인프라를 확충하며, 공항을 통한 새로운 부가가치를 창출하며, 세계 1위 수준의 서비스 수준을 유지해야 할 것이다. 셋째 항공물류업의 경쟁력을 강화한다. 한국의 항공물류업 경쟁력의 강화방안으로 산업트렌드 변화에 대응한 고부가가치 물류산업의 육성전략으로 신규 물류시장을 개척하며, 물류인프라를 확충하며, 물류전문인력을 양성한다. 또한 글로벌 물류시장의 확대전략으로 물류기업의 해외투자 지원체계를 구축하며, 글로벌 운송네트워크 확장에 따른 국제협력 강화 및 인프라를 확보해야 할 것이다. 인천공항 항공물류 경쟁력의 강화방안으로 기업의 물류단지 입주수요에 대응하며, 신 성장 화물분야의 비교우위 선점을 하며, 물류허브 역량을 강화하며, 공항 내 화물처리속도 경쟁력을 향상해야 할 것이다. 넷째 한 중 FTA 후속 협상에서 항공운송서비스 분야의 추가 개방을 확보한다. 한 중 FTA 발효 후 2년 내에 개시될 후속 협상에서 중국 측 항공운송서비스 분야의 양허수준이 중국의 기체결 FTA에 비해 미흡한 분야인 컴퓨터 예약시스템서비스 및 항공기 보수 및 유지 서비스의 양허에 대해 추가 개방을 요구하는 것이 필요할 것이다. 결론적으로 한 중 FTA가 우리나라 항공여객시장, 항공화물시장 및 항공물류시장에 미치는 영향에 대응하여 추진해야 할 정책과제로서, 국적항공사의 경쟁력과 국민 편익을 고려하여 중국과의 점진적 선별적 항공자유화를 추진하며, 항공운송산업과 공항의 경쟁력 강화를 위한 지원체계를 구축하며, 물류기업들의 항공물류시장 진출을 확대하며, 중국 측 양허수준이 낮은 항공운송서비스 분야의 추가 개방 요구를 위한 준비를 해야 할 것이다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.123-145
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• 2008

Recently, as the information communication technology develops, the discussion regarding the ubiquitous environment is occurring in diverse perspectives. Ubiquitous environment is an environment that could transfer data through networks regardless of the physical space, virtual space, time or location. In order to realize the ubiquitous environment, the Pervasive Sensing technology that enables the recognition of users' data without the border between physical and virtual space is required. In addition, the latest and diversified technologies such as Context-Awareness technology are necessary to construct the context around the user by sharing the data accessed through the Pervasive Sensing technology and linkage technology that is to prevent information loss through the wired, wireless networking and database. Especially, Pervasive Sensing technology is taken as an essential technology that enables user oriented services by recognizing the needs of the users even before the users inquire. There are lots of characteristics of ubiquitous environment through the technologies mentioned above such as ubiquity, abundance of data, mutuality, high information density, individualization and customization. Among them, information density directs the accessible amount and quality of the information and it is stored in bulk with ensured quality through Pervasive Sensing technology. Using this, in the companies, the personalized contents(or information) providing became possible for a target customer. Most of all, there are an increasing number of researches with respect to recommender systems that provide what customers need even when the customers do not explicitly ask something for their needs. Recommender systems are well renowned for its affirmative effect that enlarges the selling opportunities and reduces the searching cost of customers since it finds and provides information according to the customers' traits and preference in advance, in a commerce environment. Recommender systems have proved its usability through several methodologies and experiments conducted upon many different fields from the mid-1990s. Most of the researches related with the recommender systems until now take the products or information of internet or mobile context as its object, but there is not enough research concerned with recommending adequate store to customers in a ubiquitous environment. It is possible to track customers' behaviors in a ubiquitous environment, the same way it is implemented in an online market space even when customers are purchasing in an offline marketplace. Unlike existing internet space, in ubiquitous environment, the interest toward the stores is increasing that provides information according to the traffic line of the customers. In other words, the same product can be purchased in several different stores and the preferred store can be different from the customers by personal preference such as traffic line between stores, location, atmosphere, quality, and price. Krulwich(1997) has developed Lifestyle Finder which recommends a product and a store by using the demographical information and purchasing information generated in the internet commerce. Also, Fano(1998) has created a Shopper's Eye which is an information proving system. The information regarding the closest store from the customers' present location is shown when the customer has sent a to-buy list, Sadeh(2003) developed MyCampus that recommends appropriate information and a store in accordance with the schedule saved in a customers' mobile. Moreover, Keegan and O'Hare(2004) came up with EasiShop that provides the suitable tore information including price, after service, and accessibility after analyzing the to-buy list and the current location of customers. However, Krulwich(1997) does not indicate the characteristics of physical space based on the online commerce context and Keegan and O'Hare(2004) only provides information about store related to a product, while Fano(1998) does not fully consider the relationship between the preference toward the stores and the store itself. The most recent research by Sedah(2003), experimented on campus by suggesting recommender systems that reflect situation and preference information besides the characteristics of the physical space. Yet, there is a potential problem since the researches are based on location and preference information of customers which is connected to the invasion of privacy. The primary beginning point of controversy is an invasion of privacy and individual information in a ubiquitous environment according to researches conducted by Al-Muhtadi(2002), Beresford and Stajano(2003), and Ren(2006). Additionally, individuals want to be left anonymous to protect their own personal information, mentioned in Srivastava(2000). Therefore, in this paper, we suggest a methodology to recommend stores in U-market on the basis of ubiquitous environment not using personal information in order to protect individual information and privacy. The main idea behind our suggested methodology is based on Feature Matrices model (FM model, Shahabi and Banaei-Kashani, 2003) that uses clusters of customers' similar transaction data, which is similar to the Collaborative Filtering. However unlike Collaborative Filtering, this methodology overcomes the problems of personal information and privacy since it is not aware of the customer, exactly who they are, The methodology is compared with single trait model(vector model) such as visitor logs, while looking at the actual improvements of the recommendation when the context information is used. It is not easy to find real U-market data, so we experimented with factual data from a real department store with context information. The recommendation procedure of U-market proposed in this paper is divided into four major phases. First phase is collecting and preprocessing data for analysis of shopping patterns of customers. The traits of shopping patterns are expressed as feature matrices of N dimension. On second phase, the similar shopping patterns are grouped into clusters and the representative pattern of each cluster is derived. The distance between shopping patterns is calculated by Projected Pure Euclidean Distance (Shahabi and Banaei-Kashani, 2003). Third phase finds a representative pattern that is similar to a target customer, and at the same time, the shopping information of the customer is traced and saved dynamically. Fourth, the next store is recommended based on the physical distance between stores of representative patterns and the present location of target customer. In this research, we have evaluated the accuracy of recommendation method based on a factual data derived from a department store. There are technological difficulties of tracking on a real-time basis so we extracted purchasing related information and we added on context information on each transaction. As a result, recommendation based on FM model that applies purchasing and context information is more stable and accurate compared to that of vector model. Additionally, we could find more precise recommendation result as more shopping information is accumulated. Realistically, because of the limitation of ubiquitous environment realization, we were not able to reflect on all different kinds of context but more explicit analysis is expected to be attainable in the future after practical system is embodied.

• 마케팅과학연구
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2009

The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced in May 2008 that U.S. retail e-commerce sales for 2006 reached $ 107 billion, up from $ 87 billion in 2005 - an increase of 22 percent. From 2001 to 2006, retail e-sales increased at an average annual growth rate of 25.4 percent. The explosive growth of E-Commerce has caused profound changes in marketing channel relationships and structures in many industries. Despite the great potential implications for both academicians and practitioners, there still exists a great deal of uncertainty about the impact of the Internet channel introduction on distribution channel management. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the ownership of the new Internet channel affects the existing channel members and consumers. To explore the above research questions, this study conducts well-controlled mathematical experiments to isolate the impact of the Internet channel by comparing before and after the Internet channel entry. The model consists of a monopolist manufacturer selling its product through a channel system including one independent physical store before the entry of an Internet store. The addition of the Internet store to this channel system results in a mixed channel comprised of two different types of channels. The new Internet store can be launched by the independent physical store such as Bestbuy. In this case, the physical retailer coordinates the two types of stores to maximize the joint profits from the two stores. The Internet store also can be introduced by an independent Internet retailer such as Amazon. In this case, a retail level competition occurs between the two types of stores. Although the manufacturer sells only one product, consumers view each product-outlet pair as a unique offering. Thus, the introduction of the Internet channel provides two product offerings for consumers. The channel structures analyzed in this study are illustrated in Fig.1. It is assumed that the manufacturer plays as a Stackelberg leader maximizing its own profits with the foresight of the independent retailer's optimal responses as typically assumed in previous analytical channel studies. As a Stackelberg follower, the independent physical retailer or independent Internet retailer maximizes its own profits, conditional on the manufacturer's wholesale price. The price competition between two the independent retailers is assumed to be a Bertrand Nash game. For simplicity, the marginal cost is set at zero, as typically assumed in this type of study. In order to explore the research questions above, this study develops a game theoretic model that possesses the following three key characteristics. First, the model explicitly captures the fact that an Internet channel and a physical store exist in two independent dimensions (one in physical space and the other in cyber space). This enables this model to demonstrate that the effect of adding an Internet store is different from that of adding another physical store. Second, the model reflects the fact that consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences for using a physical store and for using an Internet channel. Third, the model captures the vertical strategic interactions between an upstream manufacturer and a downstream retailer, making it possible to analyze the channel structure issues discussed in this paper. Although numerous previous models capture this vertical dimension of marketing channels, none simultaneously incorporates the three characteristics reflected in this model. The analysis results are summarized in Table 1. When the new Internet channel is introduced by the existing physical retailer and the retailer coordinates both types of stores to maximize the joint profits from the both stores, retail prices increase due to a combination of the coordination of the retail prices and the wider market coverage. The quantity sold does not significantly increase despite the wider market coverage, because the excessively high retail prices alleviate the market coverage effect to a degree. Interestingly, the coordinated total retail profits are lower than the combined retail profits of two competing independent retailers. This implies that when a physical retailer opens an Internet channel, the retailers could be better off managing the two channels separately rather than coordinating them, unless they have the foresight of the manufacturer's pricing behavior. It is also found that the introduction of an Internet channel affects the power balance of the channel. The retail competition is strong when an independent Internet store joins a channel with an independent physical retailer. This implies that each retailer in this structure has weak channel power. Due to intense retail competition, the manufacturer uses its channel power to increase its wholesale price to extract more profits from the total channel profit. However, the retailers cannot increase retail prices accordingly because of the intense retail level competition, leading to lower channel power. In this case, consumer welfare increases due to the wider market coverage and lower retail prices caused by the retail competition. The model employed for this study is not designed to capture all the characteristics of the Internet channel. The theoretical model in this study can also be applied for any stores that are not geographically constrained such as TV home shopping or catalog sales via mail. The reasons the model in this study is names as "Internet" are as follows: first, the most representative example of the stores that are not geographically constrained is the Internet. Second, catalog sales usually determine the target markets using the pre-specified mailing lists. In this aspect, the model used in this study is closer to the Internet than catalog sales. However, it would be a desirable future research direction to mathematically and theoretically distinguish the core differences among the stores that are not geographically constrained. The model is simplified by a set of assumptions to obtain mathematical traceability. First, this study assumes the price is the only strategic tool for competition. In the real world, however, various marketing variables can be used for competition. Therefore, a more realistic model can be designed if a model incorporates other various marketing variables such as service levels or operation costs. Second, this study assumes the market with one monopoly manufacturer. Therefore, the results from this study should be carefully interpreted considering this limitation. Future research could extend this limitation by introducing manufacturer level competition. Finally, some of the results are drawn from the assumption that the monopoly manufacturer is the Stackelberg leader. Although this is a standard assumption among game theoretic studies of this kind, we could gain deeper understanding and generalize our findings beyond this assumption if the model is analyzed by different game rules.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.211-232
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• 2014

Recently, there is a growing interest toward social commerce using SNS(Social Networking Service), and the size of its market is also expanding due to popularization of smart phones, tablet PCs and other smart devices. Accordingly, various studies have been attempted but it is shown that most of the previous studies have been conducted from perspectives of the users. The purpose of this study is to derive user-centered CSF(Critical Success Factor) of social commerce from the previous studies and analyze the CSF perception gap between social commerce service providers and users. The CSF perception gap between two groups shows that there is a difference between ideal images the service providers hope for and the actual image the service users have on social commerce companies. This study provides effective improvement directions for social commerce companies by presenting current business problems and its solution plans. For this, This study selected Korea's representative social commerce business Ticket Monster, which is dominant in sales and staff size together with its excellent funding power through M&A by stock exchange with the US social commerce business Living Social with Amazon.com as a shareholder in August, 2011, as a target group of social commerce service provider. we have gathered questionnaires from both service providers and the users from October 22, 2012 until October 31, 2012 to conduct an empirical analysis. We surveyed 160 service providers of Ticket Monster We also surveyed 160 social commerce users who have experienced in using Ticket Monster service. Out of 320 surveys, 20 questionaries which were unfit or undependable were discarded. Consequently the remaining 300(service provider 150, user 150)were used for this empirical study. The statistics were analyzed using SPSS 12.0. Implications of the empirical analysis result of this study are as follows: First of all, There are order differences in the importance of social commerce CSF between two groups. While service providers regard Price Economic as the most important CSF influencing purchasing intention, the users regard 'Trust' as the most important CSF influencing purchasing intention. This means that the service providers have to utilize the unique strong point of social commerce which make the customers be trusted rathe than just focusing on selling product at a discounted price. It means that service Providers need to enhance effective communication skills by using SNS and play a vital role as a trusted adviser who provides curation services and explains the value of products through information filtering. Also, they need to pay attention to preventing consumer damages from deceptive and false advertising. service providers have to create the detailed reward system in case of a consumer damages caused by above problems. It can make strong ties with customers. Second, both service providers and users tend to consider that social commerce CSF influencing purchasing intention are Price Economic, Utility, Trust, and Word of Mouth Effect. Accordingly, it can be learned that users are expecting the benefit from the aspect of prices and economy when using social commerce, and service providers should be able to suggest the individualized discount benefit through diverse methods using social network service. Looking into it from the aspect of usefulness, service providers are required to get users to be cognizant of time-saving, efficiency, and convenience when they are using social commerce. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the usefulness of social commerce through the introduction of a new management strategy, such as intensification of search engine of the Website, facilitation in payment through shopping basket, and package distribution. Trust, as mentioned before, is the most important variable in consumers' mind, so it should definitely be managed for sustainable management. If the trust in social commerce should fall due to consumers' damage case due to false and puffery advertising forgeries, it could have a negative influence on the image of the social commerce industry in general. Instead of advertising with famous celebrities and using a bombastic amount of money on marketing expenses, the social commerce industry should be able to use the word of mouth effect between users by making use of the social network service, the major marketing method of initial social commerce. The word of mouth effect occurring from consumers' spontaneous self-marketer's duty performance can bring not only reduction effect in advertising cost to a service provider but it can also prepare the basis of discounted price suggestion to consumers; in this context, the word of mouth effect should be managed as the CSF of social commerce. Third, Trade safety was not derived as one of the CSF. Recently, with e-commerce like social commerce and Internet shopping increasing in a variety of methods, the importance of trade safety on the Internet also increases, but in this study result, trade safety wasn't evaluated as CSF of social commerce by both groups. This study judges that it's because both service provider groups and user group are perceiving that there is a reliable PG(Payment Gateway) which acts for e-payment of Internet transaction. Accordingly, it is understood that both two groups feel that social commerce can have a corporate identity by website and differentiation in products and services in sales, but don't feel a big difference by business in case of e-payment system. In other words, trade safety should be perceived as natural, basic universal service. Fourth, it's necessary that service providers should intensify the communication with users by making use of social network service which is the major marketing method of social commerce and should be able to use the word of mouth effect between users. The word of mouth effect occurring from consumers' spontaneous self- marketer's duty performance can bring not only reduction effect in advertising cost to a service provider but it can also prepare the basis of discounted price suggestion to consumers. in this context, it is judged that the word of mouth effect should be managed as CSF of social commerce. In this paper, the characteristics of social commerce are limited as five independent variables, however, if an additional study is proceeded with more various independent variables, more in-depth study results will be derived. In addition, this research targets social commerce service providers and the users, however, in the consideration of the fact that social commerce is a two-sided market, drawing CSF through an analysis of perception gap between social commerce service providers and its advertisement clients would be worth to be dealt with in a follow-up study.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.97-117
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• 2020

상품 평가 기준은 상품에 대한 속성, 가치 등을 표현한 지표로써 사용자나 기업이 상품을 측정하고 파악할 수 있게 한다. 기업이 자사 제품에 대한 객관적인 평가와 비교를 수행하기 위해서는 적절한 기준을 선정하는 것이 필수적이다. 이때, 평가 기준은 소비자들이 제품을 실제로 구매 및 사용 후 평가할 때 고려하는 제품의 특징을 반영하여야 한다. 그러나 기존에 사용되던 평가 기준은 제품마다 상이한 소비자의 의견을 반영하지 못하고 있다. 기존 연구에서는 소비자 의견이 반영된 온라인 리뷰를 통해 상품의 특징, 주제를 추출하고 이를 평가기준으로 사용했다. 하지만 여전히 상품과 연관성이 낮은 평가 기준이 추출되거나 부적절한 단어가 정제되지 않는 한계가 있다. 본 연구에서는 이를 극복하기 위해 잠재 디리클레 할당(Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LDA) 기법으로 리뷰로부터 평가 기준 후보군을 추출하고 이를 k-최근접 이웃 접근법(k-Nearest Neighbor Approach, k-NN)을 이용해 정제하는 모델을 개발하고 검증했다. 제시하는 방법은 준비 단계와 추출 단계로 이루어진다. 준비 단계에서는 워드임베딩(Word Embedding) 모델과 평가 기준 후보군을 정제하기 위한 k-NN 분류기를 생성한다. 추출 단계에서는 k-NN 분류기와 언급 비율을 이용해 평가 기준 후보군을 정제하고 최종 결과를 도출한다. 제안 모델의 성능 평가를 위해 명사 빈도 추출 모델, LDA 빈도 추출 모델, 실제 전자상거래 사이트가 제공하는 평가 기준을 세 비교 모델로 선정했다. 세 모델과의 비교를 위해 설문을 진행하고 점수화하여 결과를 검정했다. 30번의 검정 결과 26번의 결과에서 제안 모델이 우수함을 확인했다. 본 연구의 제안 모델은 전자상거래 사이트에서 리뷰 특성을 반영한 상품군 별 차원을 도출하는데 활용될 수 있고 이를 기초로 인사이트 발굴을 위한 리뷰 분석 및 활용에 크게 기여할 것이다.

• 한국학교보건학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.57-71
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• 1994

I investigated actual conditions of smoking of teenagers who were randomly chosen middle and high school students. 1. Juvenile smoking 1) Parents' opinions of juvenile smoking Most parents do not want their children to smoke after growth : 88.6% of fathers (middle school students: 88.9%, high school students: 88.4%) and 95.1% of mothers (middle school students: 93.4%, high school students :95.5%). 2) Teenagers' opinions of smoking after growth The rate of students who will smoke after growth is 10.8% (middle school students: 12.0%, high school students: 9.9%): students in agricultural areas show the higher rate than those in cities. 3) Parents' opinions of their children's smoking now 1.5% of fathers want their children to smoke now (middle school students: 1.3%, high school students: 1.6%) and 1.1% of mothers do (middle school students: 0.6%, high school students: 1.5%). This shows that most parents do not want their children to smoke now. 4) Students' opinions of their friends' smoking now Students who want their friends smoke now cover 7.8% (middle school students: 7.1%, high school students: 8.4%). This rates are higher than those of parents shown in (3). And more high school students and more girl students gave the positive reponse than middle school boy and girl students, respectively. 5) Students' views of smoking "Look like an adult" covers the rate of 4.0% (boy: 7.8%, girl:3.6%) 6.7% of middle school students have this view, while 3.7% of high school students have. 16.1% of students had an experience of smoking during the last one year (boy: 29.9%, girl: 8.6%): this shows that the rate of the boy students is more than 3 times greater than that of the girl students and high students who experienced smoking last year covers 20.2%, while middle school students shows 10.9%. 6) Actual conditions of students' smoking The present rate of students' smoking is 22.4% (boy:38.3%, girl:13.8%): the rate of boy students is greater than that of girl students. Students who smoke more than pack of cigarettes a day cover 8.2% (boy: 17.5%, girl: 3.2%): 5.2% of middle school students (boy:11.4%, girl: 2.1%) smoke more than one pack while 10.7% of high school students do (boy:21.5%, girl: 4.2%). This shows that the rate of boy students' smoking is greater than that of girl students' smoking. 7) The rate of smoking of students' parents 75.4% of fathers (city: 74.5%, agricultural area:75.9%) smoke: and more than a half (62.4%) smoke more than a pack cigarettes a day. On the other hand, the rate of smoking mothers is 5.2%(city: 4.3%, agricultural area: 7.3%): the rate is higher in agricultural areas. 8) Opinions of smoking population in the future 61.4% of students answered that smoking population will increase, while 27.0% have the opinion that smoking population will decrease. 2. Opinions of the effects of smoking on health 1) Have you heard that smokers are likely to suffer from tuberclosis? 78.3% of students said yes (boy: 80.8%, girl: 76.4%): it is shown that the rate of boys is greater than that of girls. 2) Have you heard that smokers are likely to get out of endurance? 76.6% of students (boy: 69.3%, girl: 49.7%) answered yes: it is shown that the rate of boys is greater than that of girls. 3) Have you heard that heart-beats get fast when one smokes? 32.5% of students (boy: 35.5%, girl: 30.9%) answered yes: 32.2% in cities(boy: 33.0%, girl: 31.8%) and 33.5% in agricultural areas(boy: 41.8%, girl: 28.8%): and 28.7% middle students and 35.5% of high school students answered yes. 4) Have you heard that smokers are likely to have heart-diseases? 35.1% of students (boy: 34.0%, girl: 34.1%) answered yes: 35.3% in cities (boy: 37.2%, girl: 34.2%) and 36.7% in agricultural areas (boy: 39.0%, girl: 33.9%): 34.8% of middle school students and 35.4% of high school students. 5) Have you heard that smokers are likely to have a lung cancer? 91.4% of students (boy: 93.2%, girl: 89.9%) answered yes: 90.35% in cities and 94.2% in agricultural areas. 6) Have you heard that the life of smokers gets shorter? 94.3% of students (boy:94.6%, girl: 92.2%) answered yes. 7) Have you heard that pregnant smokers will deliver a baby with low birth weight? 29.6% of students (boy: 29.8%, girl: 29.4%) answered yes: the rates of boys and girls almost the same. 8) Have you heard that one feels calm when one smokes? 80.1% of students (boy: 81.8%, girl: 79.2%) answered yes: boys and girls showed almost the same rate. 3. Preventive measures Smoking people continued to increase all over the world because smoking not only mitigated emotional uneasiness such as loneliness, nervousness and so on, but also could be very helpful from the social perspective. This was so because they did not consider harmful effects of smoking on health, and victims. However, because any -one can have physical disorders caused by smoking, people should always keep in mind the following preventive measures. 1) Doctors or teachers should set an example of giving up smoking. Informing patients or students of harmful effects of smoking to persuade their family and relatives not to smoke. 2) Through mass media like newspapers, periodicals or broadcasting, to make people know harmful effects of smoking and not smoke. 3) To prohibit selling teenagers cigarette by law. 4) To prohibit smoking in public places like work places, offices, lecture rooms, recreation rooms, buses, trains and so on. 5) To decrease the rate of life insurance for non-smokers as in foreign countries and to give a warming of the harmful effects on cigarette packets or ads.