• 마케팅과학연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.68-79
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• 2009

The interplay between hedonic and utilitarian attributes has assumed special significance in recent years; it has been proposed that consumption offerings should be viewed as experiences that stimulate both cognitions and feelings rather than as mere products or services. This research builds on previous work on hedonic versus utilitarian benefits, regulatory focus theory, customer satisfaction to address two question: (1) Is the shopping goal at the point of purchase different from the shopping value? and (2) Is the customer loyalty after the use different from the shopping value and shopping goal? We surveyed 345 peoples those who have bought the electronic-goods within 6 months. This research dealt with the shopping value which is consisted of 2 types, hedonic and utilitarian. Those who pursue the hedonic shopping value may prefer the pleasure of purchasing experience to the product itself. They tend to prefer atmosphere, arousal of the shopping experience. Consistent with previous research, we use the term "hedonic" to refer to their aesthetic, experiential and enjoyment-related value. On the contrary, Those who pursue the utilitarian shopping value may prefer the reasonable buying. It may be more functional. Consistent with previous research, we use the term "utilitarian" to refer to the functional, instrumental, and practical value of consumption offerings. Holbrook(1999) notes that consumer value is an experience that results from the consumption of such benefits. In the context of cell phones for example, the phone's battery life and sound volume are utilitarian benefits, whereas aesthetic appeal from its shape and color are hedonic benefits. Likewise, in the case of a car, fuel economics and safety are utilitarian benefits whereas the sunroof and the luxurious interior are hedonic benefits. The shopping goals are consisted of the promotion focus goal and the prevention focus goal, based on the self-regulatory focus theory. The promotion focus is characterized into focusing ideal self because they are oriented to wishes and vision. The promotion focused individuals are tend to be more risk taking. They are more sensitive to hope and achievement. On the contrary, the prevention focused individuals are characterized into focusing the responsibilities because they are oriented to safety. The prevention focused individuals are tend to be more risk avoiding. We wanted to test the relation among the shopping value, shopping goal and customer loyalty. Customers show the positive or negative feelings comparing with the expectation level which customers have at the point of the purchase. If the result were bigger than the expectation, customers may feel positive feeling such as delight or satisfaction and they would want to share their feelings with other people. And they want to buy those products again in the future time. There is converging evidence that the types of goals consumers expect to be fulfilled by the utilitarian dimension of a product are different from those they seek from the hedonic dimension (Chernev 2004). Specifically, whereas consumers expect the fulfillment of product prevention goals on the utilitarian dimension, they expect the fulfillment of promotion goals on the hedonic dimension (Chernev 2004; Chitturi, Raghunathan, and Majahan 2007; Higgins 1997, 2001) According to the regulatory focus theory, prevention goals are those that ought to be met. Fulfillment of prevention goals in the context of product consumption eliminates or significantly reduces the probability of a painful experience, thus making consumers experience emotions that result from fulfillment of prevention goals such as confidence and securities. On the contrary, fulfillment of promotion goals are those that a person aspires to meet, such as "looking cool" or "being sophisticated." Fulfillment of promotion goals in the context of product consumption significantly increases the probability of a pleasurable experience, thus enabling consumers to experience emotions that result from the fulfillment of promotion goals. The proposed conceptual framework captures that the relationships among hedonic versus utilitarian shopping values and promotion versus prevention shopping goals respectively. An analysis of the consequence of the fulfillment and frustration of utilitarian and hedonic value is theoretically worthwhile. It is also substantively relevant because it helps predict post-consumption behavior such as the promotion versus prevention shopping goals orientation. Because our primary goal is to understand how the post consumption feelings influence the variable customer loyalty: word of mouth (Jacoby and Chestnut 1978). This research result is that the utilitarian shopping value gives the positive influence to both of the promotion and prevention goal. However the influence to the prevention goal is stronger. On the contrary, hedonic shopping value gives influence to the promotion focus goal only. Additionally, both of the promotion and prevention goal show the positive relation with customer loyalty. However, the positive relation with promotion goal and customer loyalty is much stronger. The promotion focus goal gives the influence to the customer loyalty. On the contrary, the prevention focus goal relates at the low level of relation with customer loyalty than that of the promotion goal. It could be explained that it is apt to get framed the compliment of people into 'gain-non gain' situation. As the result, for those who have the promotion focus are motivated to deliver their own feeling to other people eagerly. Conversely the prevention focused individual are more sensitive to the 'loss-non loss' situation. The research result is consistent with pre-existent researches. There is a conceptual parallel between necessities-needs-utilitarian benefits and luxuries-wants-hedonic benefits (Chernev 2004; Chitturi, Raghunathan and Majaha 2007; Higginns 1997; Kivetz and Simonson 2002b). In addition, Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the precedence principle contends luxuries-wants-hedonic benefits higher than necessities-needs-utilitarian benefits. Chitturi, Raghunathan and Majaha (2007) show that consumers are focused more on the utilitarian benefits than on the hedonic benefits of a product until their minimum expectation of fulfilling prevention goals are met. Furthermore, a utilitarian benefit is a promise of a certain level of functionality by the manufacturer or the retailer. When the promise is not fulfilled, customers blame the retailer and/or the manufacturer. When negative feelings are attributable to an entity, customers feel angry. However in the case of hedonic benefit, the customer, not the manufacturer, determines at the time of purchase whether the product is stylish and attractive. Under such circumstances, customers are more likely to blame themselves than the manufacturer if their friends do not find the product stylish and attractive. Therefore, not meeting minimum utilitarian expectations of functionality generates a much more intense negative feelings, such as anger than a less intense feeling such as disappointment or dissatisfactions. The additional multi group analysis of this research shows the same result. Those who are unsatisfactory customers who have the prevention focused goal shows higher relation with WOM, comparing with satisfactory customers. The research findings in this article could have significant implication for the personal selling fields to increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of the sales such that they can develop the sales presentation strategy for the customers. For those who are the hedonic customers may be apt to show more interest to the promotion goal. Therefore it may work to strengthen the design, style or new technology of the products to the hedonic customers. On the contrary for the utilitarian customers, it may work to strengthen the price competitiveness. On the basis of the result from our studies, we demonstrated a correspondence among hedonic versus utilitarian and promotion versus prevention goal, WOM. Similarly, we also found evidence of the moderator effects of satisfaction after use, between the prevention goal and WOM. Even though the prevention goal has the low level of relation to WOM, those who are not satisfied show higher relation to WOM. The relation between the prevention goal and WOM is significantly different according to the satisfaction versus unsatisfaction. In addition, improving the promotion emotions of cheerfulness and excitement and the prevention emotion of confidence and security will further improve customer loyalty. A related potential further research could be to examine whether hedonic versus utilitarian, promotion versus prevention goals improve customer loyalty for services as well. Under the budget and time constraints, designers and managers are often compelling to choose among various attributes. If there is no budget or time constraints, perhaps the best solution is to maximize both hedonic and utilitarian dimension of benefits. However, they have to make trad-off process between various attributes. For the designers and managers have to keep in mind that without hedonic benefit satisfaction of the product it may hard to lead the customers to the customer loyalty.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.155-175
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• 2017

최근 독감 예측이나 당선인 예측, 구매 패턴, 투자 등 다방면에서 웹검색 트래픽 정보. 소셜 네트워크 내용 등 거대한 데이터를 통해 사회적 현상, 소비 패턴을 분석하는 시도가 이전보다 늘어났다. 구글, 네이버, 바이두 등 인터넷 포털 업체들의 웹검색 트래픽 정보 공개 서비스와 함께 웹검색 트래픽 정보를 활용하여 소비자나 사용자와 관련된 연구가 실시되기 시작했다. 웹검색 트래픽 정보를 활용한 사회 현상, 소비 패턴 분석을 연구는 많이 수행되었으나, 그에 비해서 도출된 여행 수요 모델을 토대로 의사결정을 위한 실질적 대책 수립으로 이어지는 연구는 많이 진행되지 않은 실정이다. 관광산업은 상대적으로 많은 고용을 가능하게 하고 외자를 유치하는 등 고부가가치를 창출하여 경제 전체에 선순환 효과를 일으키는 중요한 산업이다. 그 중에서도 국내 입국외래객중 수년간 2위와의 큰 차이로 1위를 차지해왔던 중국 국적의 관광객 '유커' 및 그들이 지출하는 1인당 평균 관광 수지는 한국 경제에 매우 중요한 한 부분이다. 관광 수요의 예측은 효율적인 자원 배분과 합리적인 의사 결정에 있어서 공공부문 및 민간부문 모두 중요하다. 적절한 관광 수요 예측을 통해서 한정된 자원을 더욱 효과적으로 활용하여 더욱 많은 부가가치를 창출하기 위한 것이다. 본 연구는 중국인 인바운드를 예측하는 방법에 있어, 이전보다 더 최신의 트렌드를 즉각적으로 반영하고 개인들의 집합의 관심도가 포함되어 예측 성능이 개선된 방법을 제안한다. 해외여행은 고관여 소비이기 때문에 잠재적 여행객들이 입국하기 전 웹검색을 통해 적극적으로 자신의 여정과 관련된 정보를 취득하기 위한 활동을 한다. 따라서 웹검색 트래픽 수치가 중국인 여행객의 관심정도를 대표할 수 있다고 보았다. 중국인 여행객들이 한국 여행을 준비하는 단계에서 검색할만한 키워드를 선정해 실제 중국인 입국자 수와 상관관계가 있음을 검증하고자 하였다. 중국 웹검색 엔진 시장에서 80%의 점유율을 가지는 중국 최대 웹검색 엔진 '바이두'에서 공개한 웹검색 데이터를 활용하여 그 관심 정도를 대표할 수 있을 것이라 추정했다. 수집에 필요한 키워드의 선정 단계에서는 잠재적 여행객이 여정을 계획하고 구체화하는 단계에서 일반적으로 검색하게 되는 키워드 후보군을 선정하였다. 키워드의 선정에는 중국 국적의 잠재적 여행객 표본과의 인터뷰를 거쳤다. 트래픽 대소 관계 확인 결과에 따라서 최종 선정된 키워드들을 한국여행이라는 주제와 직접적인 연관을 가지는 키워드부터, 간접적인 연관을 가지는 키워드까지 총 세 가지 레벨의 카테고리로 분류하였다. 분류된 카테고리 내의 키워드들은 바이두'가 제공하는 웹검색 트래픽 데이터 제공 서비스 '바이두 인덱스'를 통해 웹검색 트래픽 데이터를 수집했다. 공개된 데이터 페이지 특성을 고려한 웹 크롤러를 직접 설계하여 웹검색 트래픽 데이터를 수집하였고, 분리되어 수집된 변수에는 필요한 변수 변환 과정을 수행했다. 자동화 수집된 웹검색 트래픽 정보들을 투입하여 중국 여행 인바운드에 대한 유의한 영향 관계를 확인하여 중국인 여행객의 한국 인바운드 여행 수요를 예측하는 모형을 개발하고자 하였다. 정책 의사결정 및 관광 경영 의사결정 같은 실무적 활용을 고려하여 각 변수의 영향력을 정량적으로 설명할 수 있고 설득이 명료한 방법인 다중회귀분석방법을 적용해 선형 식을 도출하였다. 수집된 웹검색 트래픽 데이터를 기존 검증된 모형 독립변인들에 추가적으로 투입함으로써 전통적인 독립변인으로만 구성된 연구 모형과 비교하여 가장 뛰어난 성능을 보이는 모형을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서 검증하려는, 웹검색 트래픽으로 대표되는 독립변인을 투입한 최종 도출된 모형을 통해 중국인 관광 수요를 예측할 때 유의한 영향을 끼치는 웹검색 트래픽 변수를 확인할 수 있다. 최적 모형 설명력을 가지는 모형을 기반으로 최종 회귀 식을 만들었고 이를 '유커마이닝' 시스템 내부에 도입하였다. 데이터 분석에서 더 나아가 도출된 모형을 직관적으로 시각화하고, 웹검색 트래픽 정보를 활용하여 도출할 수 있는 인사이트를 함께 보여주는 데이터 분석 기반의 '유커마이닝' 솔루션의 시스템 알고리즘과 UX를 제안하였다. 본 연구가 제안하는 모형과 시스템은 관광수요 예측모형 분야에서 웹검색 트래픽 데이터라는 정보 탐색을 하는 과정에 놓인 개인들의 인터랙티브하고 즉각적인 변수를 활용한 새로운 시도이다. 실무적으로 관련 정책결정자나 관광사, 항공사 등이 활용 가능한 실제적인 가치를 가지고, 정책적으로도 효과적인 관광 정책 수립에 활용될 수 있다.