• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.83-99
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• 2007

The purpose of this research is to identify the determinants of loyalty in online games. This study developed a research model to analyze the factors explaining the loyalty level from gamers, employing social identification, flow, and positive anticipated emotion as major research variables, and collected 1308 survey responses from gamers. Within the context of arguing that the exploration of age range issues with respect to online games is important, this research also examines the age differences in path coefficients. To this end, the structural model was tested with the data from entire data sample (i.e., the age of 10s, 20s, and 30s pooled together) and each of the subsamples (i.e., teens taken separately, twenties taken separately, and thirties taken separately). Properties of the causal paths, including standardized path coefficients, the significance of difference, in the hypothesized model, are also presented, so that we can investigate the relative influences of different dominants, demonstrating how teens, twenties, and thirties differ in their decision-making processes regarding the flow, social identification and loyalty from online games.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제32권7호
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• pp.561-568
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• 2008

Due to the rapid changes in world trade and shipping environment, today's ports face ever-increasing competition, from adjacent competing ports. To this reason, port service quality has been recognized as an important strategy to take competitive advantage for those competition. In general, service quality has effect on customer loyalty, and customer loyalty is the resource to sustain competitive advantage which service providers or service producers. By improving customer loyalty, companies can get more benefits and added value. However, this causality qf port service quality has not been clearly identified. Thus, various empirical studies in relation to port service quality are needed. The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of perceived port service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty. To achieve this aim, we established 8 hypotheses based on SERVPERF in order to test correlations of 5 dimensions of port service, port service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty. From the result of the hypothesis testing, we found that customer satisfaction and port service quality do not affect customer loyalty in spite of high effect of port service on customer satisfaction.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2024

Purpose: This study used the SORmodel (or cue utilization theory) to examine the impact of expanded quality factorsincluding product quality on customer satisfaction, attitude, and behavioral loyalty. This study examined the moderating effect of gender on the customer satisfaction-attitudinal and behavioral loyalty relationship. Research design, data, and methodology: 364 respondents were collected through an online survey and analyzed using the SmartPLS 4.0 program. Results: The findings show that product quality, along with system quality and service quality, are key determinants of customer satisfaction. In addition, this study shows that the relationship between customer satisfaction and attitudinal loyalty (repurchase and word-of-mouth intention) does not differ depending on gender, but the relationship between customer satisfaction and behavioral loyalty (share-of-visit and share-of-wallet) is stronger for women than for men. Conclusions: This research integrates concepts from environmental psychology and marketing focusing on website quality (information, system, service, and product), as well as satisfaction, attitudinal and behavioral loyalty. Online shopping mall practitioners must systematically analyze and assess the quality of online shopping, a pivotal factor driving customer satisfaction, attitude, and behavioral loyalty. Acknowledging the influence of gender on consumers' online purchasing behavior can aid online retailers in devising tailored e-commerce marketing strategies aimed at attracting and retaining customers.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.79-94
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• 2024

Purpose: The popularity of social media has altered how customers interact with businesses, and an increasing number of customers prefer to voice their complaints on social media. Bystanders can observe the customer complaint process on social media, but the impact of transparency on bystanders remains uncertain. Therefore, this study established and verified a model for defining the effect of transparency and service recovery types on bystanders. Research Design and Methodology: In this study, we used the internet survey platform "So Jump" to collect data. And we validated three studies with SPSS 26.0 and Smart PLS 4.0. Result: First, we showed that the transparency process (vs. result) is more likely to increase customer forgiveness and E-loyalty and reduce E-NWOM intention among bystanders. Second, customer forgiveness also plays a complementary mediating role between transparency and E-loyalty, as well as between transparency and E-NWOM intention. Finally, we found a modest interaction effect between transparency (process vs. result) and service recovery types (psychological vs. tangible vs. hybrid) on bystanders' customer forgiveness and E-loyalty. Conclusions: This study provides actionable recommendations for how service managers can effectively employ social media as a means for distributing feedback information to manage service recovery in the future.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2019

연구의 목적은 미국 온라인 쇼핑몰에서의 고객 충성도에 영향을 미치는 변인들을 분석해보는 것이다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 사이트 품질, 사이트에 대한 만족, 태도 그리고 충성도의 관계를 살펴보기 위한 모형을 제안하고, 구조모형방정식을 통해 이를 검증하였다. 미국 소비자 280명의 샘플을 분석에 사용하였으며, AMOS 20.0을 이용하여 확인적 요인분석과 구조방정식 모형 분석을 실시하였다. 제안된 연구 모형은 비교적 양호한 적합도를 보였다. 사이트 품질 중 이용 용이성과 정보 품질은 만족에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 특히 정보 품질은 태도에도 긍정적인 영향을 미쳐 만족과 태도에 중요한 변수임을 확인하였다. 만족은 태도와 충성도에 유의한 영향을 미쳤으며, 태도 역시 충성도에 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 즉 사이트에 대한 고객 만족과 호의적인 태도 형성이 결국 사이트의 충성으로 이끌 것이라는 점을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 미국 소비자들의 e-충성도에 대한 이론적 시사점을 제시하였으며, 이를 토대로 실천적인 마케팅 전략이 제안될 수 있다는 점에서 의의가 있다.

• 서비스연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.39-56
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• 2023

COVID-19로 인한 오프라인 활동에 대한 제약으로 비대면 상거래인 온라인 쇼핑 거래에 관한 관심과 함께 모바일 애플리케이션의 활용이 더욱 높아지면서 모바일 애플리케이션과 다양한 산업의 결합이 이루어지고 있으며 패션 산업에서도 모바일 애플리케이션을 활용하는 사례가 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 패션 모바일 애플리케이션의 e-서비스 품질이 국내 사용자의 몰입 및 사용자 만족과 서비스 충성도에 미치는 영향에 관해 살펴보았다. 본 연구를 위해서 274명의 에이블리 패션 모바일 애플리케이션을 사용해본 경험이 있는 사람들을 대상으로 한 설문조사를 분석에 활용하여 제시한 가설을 검증하였다. 분석결과, 패션 모바일 애플리케이션의 e-서비스 품질 중 정보성, 반응성은 몰입에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 정보성, 신뢰성, 반응성은 사용자 만족에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것인 확인 되었다. 또 몰입은 사용자 만족에 정(+)의 영향을 미치고, 사용자 만족은 서비스 충성도에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 패션 모바일 애플리케이션의 e-서비스 품질 중 신뢰성은 몰입에 정(+)의 영향을 미치지 않았으며, 이용 용이성은 몰입과 사용자 만족에 모두 정(+)의 영향을 미치지 않는 것을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 몰입은 서비스 충성도에 직접적인 정(+)의 영향을 미치지는 않는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통해서 모바일 기술의 발전과 함께 점점 증가하고 있는 패션 모바일 애플리케이션 사용자들을 위한 관련 기업의 마케팅 전략 수립에 기여할 것을 기대하며 포스트 코로나 시대를 겨냥한 실무적 시사점을 제공하고자 한다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.97-116
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• 2004

Recently, e portion of on-line stock brokerage has been rapidly increased to be more than 50%, on the basis of contracted money. The usage of wCTS(Web Based Cyber Trading Systems) has now got into the steady state over the initial diffusion stage, which means wCTS has got more-than-half customer base in on-line service. Therefore, brokerage service providers have their competitive strategic focus on customer retention through the enhancement of customer loyalty. This study provides framework and survey results on explanation of wCTS user's loyalty, what and how factors affect wCTS user's loyalty. We adopt the results of early studies on information technology acceptance and diffusion such as TAM(Technology Acceptance Model) and IDT(Innovation Diffusion Theory). We also referred loyalty theory of marketing area and studios on CTS usage. We categorized explanation factors as three groups characteristics of users, characteristics of system, social environment. And we assumed that these three factors could affect the loyalty through two parameters : customer satisfaction and trust to the system. This study firstly shows that the ease of use and usefulness, the major factors of TAM. can also be applied to the loyalty of wCTS with resulting that the usefulness is more important than the ease of use In wCTS. Secondly, it shows that the innovative and risk-sensitive user has the lower degree of loyalty. Thirdly, it shows that the satisfaction and trust impact the loyalty simultaneously, the trust particularly impacts more strongly than the loyalty, due to the characteristics of monetary transaction in wCTS. This study provides meaningful results to the other on-line EC service fields as a first empirical research regarding the loyalty to wCTS which is a typical on-line EC service.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.39-57
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• 2014

There has been recognition of the increasing importance of cooperation as an element of marketing strategy. Such cooperation is confined to four levels based on product development, sales promotion, pricing arrangements, and place (or distribution) mechanisms as the usual marketing 4Ps mixed (Varadarajan 1986). At present, however, little is known about the nature of tie-in promotion as a cooperative sales promotion comparing three other levels. The primary goal of this study is to examine the effect of consumer - tie-in promotion relationship on loyalty. The construct of consumer - tie-in promotion relationship is based on the previous research on consumer-brand relationship. In addition, this study divides the concept of loyalty into host brand loyalty and partner brand loyalty to reflect the characteristics of tie-in promotion including program in order to determine the effect of the consumer - tie-in promotion relationship on loyalty. The results showed that the three dimensions of the consumer - tie-in promotion relationship (i.e., commitment, intimacy, and interdependence) had significantly positive effect on program loyalty. The effect of program loyalty is significantly on both host and partner brand loyalty. This study empirically tested the relationships among consumer - tie-in promotion relationship, program loyalty, host brand loyalty, and partner brand loyalty, and then compared with the difference in the suggested model for the target customers and non-target customers. As a result, for target customers, intimacy and interdependence among dimensions of consumer - tie-in promotion relationship had significantly positive influence on program loyalty. In case of non-target customers, however, commitment and interdependence among dimensions of consumer - tie-in promotion relationship had significantly positive influence on program loyalty. Also, program loyalty had significantly positive impact on host brand loyalty and partner brand loyalty in both target and non-target customers. This study has significance in that it addresses the need to identify research and academic implications by analyzing the consumer - tie-in promotion relationship to determine the relationship between tie-in promotion and loyalty, which has not been clearly described by previous studies. Furthermore, this study builds a foundation for firms and managers actively using tie-in promotion to establish tie-in promotion strategies that can maximize loyalty for both host and partner brands from the consumers' point of view.

• 한국조리학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2016

Since protecting the environment became a major issue in modern society, an increasing number of individuals have engaged in lifestyles of health and sustainability (LOHAS). The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of restaurant and LOHAS images on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Particularly, this study analyzes the incremental information content of LOHAS image in the relationship between restaurant image and customer satisfaction/loyalty. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to customers of casual-dining restaurants in three major cities (i.e., Seoul, Daegu, and Busan) in South Korea. The empirical findings suggest significant incremental information content of LOHAS image beyond general restaurant image in explaining customer satisfaction and loyalty.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.317-326
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify factors related to the loyalty of Chinese customers who use Korean medical and tourism services. Methods: Participants were 158 Chinese who visited plastic surgery clinics in Korea. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, One-way ANOVA, $Scheff{{\acute{e}}$ test, Pearson Correlation and Hierachical Multiple Regression. Results: Medical service quality, tourism service quality and medical and service satisfaction were positively correlated with customer loyalty. Medical service quality and medical and tourism service satisfaction had significant influence on customer loyalty. The explained variance for customer loyalty was 84.9%. Conclusion: These results suggest the need to improve the tourism service and medical and tourism service satisfaction to retain loyal customers.