• 유통과학연구
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2018

Purpose - The third place plays an important role in complex society. The more customers participate in the third place, the higher they have loyalty. It is necessary to identify the mediator between customer participation and loyalty. Thus, the purpose of the study is to analyze the relationship between customer participation and loyalty and a mediating role of psychological ownership. Research design, data, and methodology - A structural equation model representing the relationships between customer participation, psychological ownership, and customer loyalty was proposed and four hypotheses were tested using data collected from visitors of Starbucks as the third place. Results - Three hypotheses regarding relationships between customer participation, psychological ownership, and customer loyalty were supported at the significance level of 0.001. The hypothesis regarding a mediating role of psychological ownership between customer participation and customer loyalty was supported by Sobel test. Conclusions - Customer participation positively affects psychological ownership and customer loyalty. Psychological ownership positively affects customer loyalty. Psychological ownership plays a mediating role in the relationship between customer ownership and loyalty. This study contributes to finding the missing link between customer participation and customer loyalty. The research model can be applied to various retail services. Some implications for academics and practitioners were suggested.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2015

Purpose - This study aims to propose and validate a research model that describes the relationships between customer socialization, customer participation, and customer loyalty in the online service industry. Although customer loyalty is frequently discussed topic in marketing and strategy research, this study takes a novel approach in adopting customer socialization and participation as the antecedents to customer loyalty. Research design, data, and methodology - Based on adopting and modifying measurement items of the constructs from previous studies, this study develops survey regarding the constructs within the proposed research model. Among current registered members of Facebook and DaumKakao, 522 college students and other regular users are selected as the samples for conducting the survey. The collected data is analyzed by structural equation modeling method using SPSS and AMOS. Results Proposed hypotheses of the positive relationships - between customer socialization and customer participation, and between customer participation and customer loyalty are all supported. Conclusions - The results of this study suggest customer participation as an important precursor to customer loyalty in the online service industry. Also, customer socialization is validated as a new strategy to increase customer participation. These results validate the practical importance of communicating mission, purpose, value, and other customer socialization activities that firms undertake.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

In this study, the structure model including the role of servicescape focusing on service participation and customer experience in theme park service is demonstrated empirically. The servicescape construct of theme park service includes three factors such as ambient atmosphere, functionality and layout, and sign, symbols etc. Customer service participation includes suggestion, passion and citizenship. And the emotional and convenience factors are included to customer experience. As an analysis result of examining the 241 respondents of university students, some implications were described. Customer satisfaction is greatly influenced by customer's participation in theme park service, and customer's participation has a significant effect on improving customer satisfaction by inducing customer experiences. It is desirable to consider servicescape priority in order of signs and symbols, ambient atmosphere, functionality and layout factor. The customer's participation in service is a passion for participation, citizenship, and suggesting for problems or improvements. Therefore, participants in planning and designing servicescape in the future, including IT services, should be creative in the direction of inducing various participations of customers and creating positive experiences for customers. In order to apply these findings to the composition of servicescape, the participation of various experts is required. Also, the expertise and competences of various fields must be gathered for each issues, and a more creative and scientific approach is required.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.907-918
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• 2015

With the pervasiveness of digital environment and expansion of new media, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) leads the role of consumer to change from a passive customer into an active co-producer. As customer participation in the fashion industry increases, this study attempts to explore the cases of customer participation as a co-producer in fashion industry through analyzing business models of companies, including Threadless, Blank label, Cut on Your Bias, Acustom Apparel, Thinkgivers. The results show that customer participation is mainly facilitated through design participation in fashion industry, with different level of participation and IT as well as different contribution target. Compared to the past, consumer’s preference is reflected through participation before the stage of production. Results indicate three main characteristics of customer participation in fashion industry. First, value co-creations using customer experiences and understanding customer needs are important. Second, active online communication among customers are critical. Third, it is important to ensure customer’s own item. From a customer perspective, participation enables them to purchase their own distinctive product and offers exciting experience and satisfaction over the production processes, and compensation can be used to increase customer participation. On the other hand, companies using customer participation can take advantage of cost reduction in product development, inventory, and marketing. Customer participation, as a win-win strategy for business and consumer, is expected to expand further in the future with the development of ICT.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.177-186
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• 2022

This study aimed to measure the impact of societal participation of Saudi banks on customer satisfaction and determine the statistical differences in customer satisfaction according to sex, age, income, education, and work type. Societal participation has economic and environmental dimensions. The study population includes all Saudis in the government, military, and private sectors reaching 3.58 million in 2021. The unit of analysis is Saudi customers of commercial banks. The 12 banks have societal programs. The research tool is a "Questionnaire," It is distributed face-to-face at places of work. The study concludes that economic participation has no impact on customer satisfaction; however, the impact of environmental participation on customer satisfaction is proved. The study shows no statistical differences in customer satisfaction according to mediators (sex, age, income, education, and work type). Despite the environmental participation being the tangible product by Saudi banks in the local market, the study concludes the positive relationship between societal participation and customer satisfaction. The study presents a set of recommendations for enhancing societal participation in the Saudi businesses environment.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.942-955
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• 2015

Hashtag has emerged and become one of cultural trend. Given that more and more firms in the fashion industry are using hashtag on images based on SNS to provide information of their products and to communicate with their customers. Especially, hashtags through voluntary participation of users provides the perspective of how customers consume their products. Therefore, this study focused on the using motives of hashtag in image based SNS with customer social participation as mediator towards brand equity. The purpose of this study is (1) to investigate the usage motivation of hashtag of image contents based SNS, (2) to expose how each usage motive affects customer social participation and (3) to find out how customer social participation has an effect on brand equity. In order to achieve the objectives of this study, first we conducted an in-depth interview on 8 image based SNS heavy users to understand the using motives of hashtags. Furthermore, we conducted online surveys amongst people aged between 20s and 30s of image contents based SNS users. As a result of this study, followings were figured out. First, four of usage motivation of hashtag were examined through in-depth interview and previous studies; interest sharing, social interaction, ease of use and enjoyment. Second, usage motivation of hashtag has a significant effect on customer social participation. Third, customer-media participation and customer-customer participation impact positively on brand equity. Lastly, level of customer social participation has the moderating effect on the relationship between motivation of hashtag and customer social participation.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.137-164
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• 2013

본 연구는 서비스마케팅 분야에서 주목받고 있는 고객참여행동과 프렌드십의 관계에 대해 살펴보고, 이들의 관계마케팅 성과에의 영향에 대해 규명한다. 고객참여행동은 서비스접점에서 서비스제공자와의 상호작용과정에 강력한 영향을 미치고 있어 서비스접점은 기능적 요소뿐만 아니라 사회적 요소를 발생시키는 주요한 순간이다. 따라서, 지난 선행연구들에서 밝혀진 고객참여행동의 고객만족 및 서비스 품질 향상에의 기여와 같은 내용에서 벗어나 고객참여행동과 사회적 결속에 따른 관계마케팅적 성과에 대해 살펴보고자 하는 것이다. 연구의 결과, 고객참여행동의 상호작용과정에 미치는 영향과 상호작용과정을 통해 형성되는 프렌드십의 관계는 직접적으로 유의한 긍정적인 영향이 있는 것으로 실증되었다. 또한, 고객참여행동 및 상호작용과정을 통해 형성된 프렌드십은 관계의 질 및 고객충성도와 같은 관계마케팅 성과에도 긍정적인 영향이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로, 고객참여행동은 서비스접점에서의 상호작용과정을 풍부하게 하고 이를 통해 고객과 서비스제공자 간의 프렌드십 형성이 가능하며, 이는 궁극적으로 관계적 성과로 이어질 수 있다고 평가할 수 있다.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.37-51
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• 2020

서비스접점에서의 고객참여는 상호작용과정에서 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 뿐만 아니라, 고객참여는 고객-서비스제공자 간의 관계발전에도 영향을 미치고 있다. 지난 선행연구들은 단편적이고 횡단적인 접근을 통해 고객참여의 역할을 밝히고 있지만, 관계의 역동성을 고려한다면, 장기적 관점에서 고객참여의 역할을 규명할 필요가 있다. 또한, 고객참여의 선행변수와 후행변수가 겹치는 문제에 대해서도 그 원인을 규명할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 관계적 변수의 핵심인 신뢰와 몰입을 중심으로 종단적 관점에서 고객참여가 어떻게 관계발전에 영향을 미치는지를 밝힘으로써 고객참여의 관계적 역할을 확인하고자 한다. 이에 종단적 자료를 통해 고객참여의 관계적 역할을 회귀분석을 통해 분석하고자 한다. 연구의 결과, 신뢰(t1)와 몰입(t1) 중 몰입이 고객참여에 직접적으로 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나, 신뢰(t1)는 개인적 상호작용 및 책임 있는 행동과 같은 고객참여의 하위차원에 직접적으로긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 신뢰와 몰입의 영향을 받은 고객참여(t2)는 다시 신뢰(t3)와 몰입(t3)에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로, 고객참여는 관계적 변수들에 의해 영향을 받지만, 상호작용과정을 통해 다시 관계적 변수들을 향상시킬 수 있는 주요한 요인임을 알 수 있다. 서비스기업은 고객의 정보교환 및 상호작용 욕구를 이끌어 내고 이를 활용함으로써 고객과의 관계발전을 모색할 수 있다.

• 한국조리학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.232-242
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• 2007

Consumers are not simply consuming products anymore. They now take part in developing new products. Thus, it is essential that we devise a variety of consumer-oriented marketing strategies to keep close relationships with consumers. The purposes of this study were as follows: 1) to explore the relationship between customer participation and surveys on its effect, 2) to compare groups with respect to customer participation, and 3) to see whether there is a cause-effect relationship between the customer participation and surveys on its effect. Frequency analysis, correlative analysis and discriminate analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of testing hypotheses can be summarized as follows. we find that, as for customer participation factors, there is significant relationships among survey factors including customer satisfaction, cost reduction, customers' prior occupations. The current analysis exhibits favorable results in the customer participation and such factors. The analysis shows that there is significant difference between the active groups and the passive groups in all the new product development related factors; customer satisfaction, cost reduction, customers' prior occupations. Finally, this perhaps indicates that the result of the survey depends on whether firms are positive or negative in introducing customer participation.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.81-96
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• 2019

서비스는 생산과 소비가 동시에 일어나는 특징으로 인해 고객이 서비스의 전달 및 생산과정에 직접적으로 참여해야 한다. 이러한 이유로 고객참여라는 변수는 서비스마케팅 분야에서 많은 실증적 결과들을 집적 해오고 있다. 최근 고객참여관련 연구들은 고객참여의 관계마케팅적 요소에 주목하고 있으며, 실증적으로 고객참여의 관계적 가치와의 관련성을 규명하고 있다. 즉, 고객참여도 관계속에서 이해되어야 한다는 것이다. 본 연구는 기존의 잘 알려진 고객참여와 관계형성의 토대라고 할 수 있는 접점만족의 영향관계에서 추가적으로 관계의 역동성을 고려한 몰입속도와 고객참여가 관계속에서 이해되어야 한다는 점을 고려한 고객참여속도라는 변수들의 접점만족과의 관계를 다중회귀분석 및 위계적 회귀분석을 통해 규명하고자 한다. 연구의 결과, 고객참여는 접점만족에 직접적으로 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었으며, 몰입속도 및 고객참여속도 역시 접점만족에 유의한 영향이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 고객참여의 접점만족에의 영향을 조절할 것으로 기대한 부분은 모두 기각되었다. 조절적 역할을 규명하는 데는 실패하였으나, 관계의 역동성을 고려한 변수들이 서비스 산업에서 중요한 접점만족에서 비롯되는 다양한 변수들에 어떠한 영향관계를 가질 수 있는지에 대해 다양한 서비스 유형에 적용함으로써 연구의 폭을 넓힐 수 있는 계기를 마련하였다고 볼 수 있다.