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Why Genuine Luxury Brands Are Consumed? Counterfeits? Examining Consumer Identification

  • Suh, Hyunsuk
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.69-102
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    • 2012
  • Owing to increased number of luxury brand users, both genuine and counterfeit luxury product consumption continues to increase every year. Luxury brand is defined as use or display of a particular branded products which brings the ownership prestige apart from its functional utility(Grossmand and Shapiro 1988). Some luxury brands have imitations sold in marketplace due to their popularity. These imitations or counterfeits have been jumping on the bandwagon of the upturn in sales of their originals. The purpose of our study is to understand consumer's underlying motives to consume luxury brands, genuine and or counterfeits. To do this, we propose functional theories of attitudes, decision-making styles, and life attitudes to form the determining causes for different consumption choices of luxury brands: genuine brands, counterfeit brands, both genuine and counterfeit brands, and no consumption on luxury brands types. In proposed causal pathways, we examine moderated effects of socio-psychological factors to further investigate if consumer profiles would exert influences in causal relationships. From the existing theories of functional attitudes: value-expressive and social-adjustive attitudes, we developed and introduced a new measure of rationality-consumptive attitude. From the existing eight decision-making characteristics of consumer styles inventory(CSI), three measures of high-quality, hedonic-shopping, and price-shopping styles were primarily applied in the study along with newly introduced measure of 'high-price' being added, which makes four total. Seven life attitude measures of life purpose, life control, will to meaning, goal seeking, future mean to fulfill, life satisfaction, and religiosity were applied. Finally, such socio-psychological measures as age, gender, marital status, income, and age-gap between couples were assumed to function as moderators. With 430 valid study samples, ages from 20s to 50s, with more females(316) than males(114), with average personal possessions of 5 genuine and 9 counterfeit luxury brands, we conducted questionnaire survey. Results indicated that social-adjustive function is totally disappeared in the relationship due to current social trend of widespread consumptions on both genuine and counterfeit brands which in turn, make consumers feel less special on wearing or carrying them unlike in the past. Self-expressive function and rationality-consumptive functions act as strong catalysts for genuine brand consumption and counterfeit brand consumption, respectively. On consumers' decision-making styles, high-price sublation is the most powerful indicator anticipating counterfeit consumption, even more powerful than personal incomes. In life attitude, the overall model fit was not validated, and only life control and life satisfaction are proven to be significant on both genuine and counterfeit product consumptions. Employment of socio-psychological factors in the model improved understanding of users further. Young consumers tend to go for genuine products over counterfeits. Consumers in different income groups; low, medium and high, all significantly consume genuine products for reasons of different decision-making styles. The results indicated that consumers whose personal disposition is predisposed to consume products in the form of reflection of his or her personality, go only for genuine brands for quality reason, while consumers who rationally consume products for its function or usability, go only for counterfeits for high-price sublation reason. Meanwhile, both product users support for high-price orientation who are not well off.

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Exploring Determinants of Performance Indicator and Customer Satisfaction of Accommodation Sharing

  • CHO, Yooncheong
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 2020
  • The study aims to investigate determinants of performance indicator and perceptions of existing and potential customers in accommodation sharing. This study uses data of Airbnb in Busan and Jeju from January 1 to December 31 in 2018, provided by AirDNA. The total number of listed accommodation sharing were 5,109 accommodations in Busan and 11,502 accommodations in Jeju. More than 90 property types of registered accommodation are subcategorized and re-classified in this study. Study 1 examined current usage and effects of factors on performance indicator in tourism destinations by applying Airbnb data. Study 2 investigated effects of perceived factors on satisfaction, intention to use, loyalty, and tourism competitiveness by applying online survey data. This study applies statistical analyses such as factor and regression analyses, ANOVA, t-test, and MANOVA. Results of Study 1 showed that usage and effects of accommodation sharing differ from regulation that is related to sharing types. Effects also differ based on travel destinations. Results of Study 2 showed how customers perceive accommodation sharing differ from pure meaning of sharing. The results of Study 1 and 2 found significant effects of price and service factors on performance indicator and customer satisfaction. The findings of Study 2 showed significant effects on loyalty and tourism competitiveness.

Temperature Variations in the Mixed Layer with the Passage of Typhoons Using One-Dimensional Numerical Model (1차원 모델상에서 태풍통과시의 혼합층 수온 변화)

  • Hong, Chul-Hoon;Masuda, Akira
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.107-112
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    • 2018
  • One-dimensional numerical model is implemented to investigate temperature variations in the mixed layer depth (MLD) with the passage of typhoons. In the model, we assume a non-divergent, infinite ocean and consider wind effects only, excluding isostatic effects (inverse barometric effects) and upwelling with vertical movement of the water column. Numerical experiments investigate the effects of typhoon tracks on temperature variations, including their dependence on vertical resolutions in the MLD and these results are compared with those in a three-dimensional primitive equation model (POM). The model reproduces features of the observed temperature variations in the MLD fairly well, and implies that wind effects, rather than isostatic effects, play a predominant role in temporal and spatial temperature variations in the MLD. After the passage of typhoons, however, the model does not reproduce well the temperature variations observed in the MLD, because a limitation of the model is its inability to reproduce events such as cyclonic eddy formation (Hong et al., 2011; Masuda and Hong, 2011). The model also shows well the so called 'rightward bias' (Price, 1981) of sea surface cooling which is the most predominant in the right hand side of typhoon's track.

The Determinants of Usefulness and Intention In Mobile Game Service (모바일 게임 서비스에서 유용성과 수용의도 결정요인에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Hui-Seon;Park, Gi-Ho;Jo, Jae-Wan
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2006
  • This study tried to find the determine of intention to mobile game service acceptance. Our research proposes the theoretical model consisting of factors such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease of using the mobile phone, perceived price. The data was analyzed using LISREL based on th structural equation modeling, a second-generation multivariate technique. The result shows that the perceived usefulness have significant effects on the mobile game service acceptance.

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Quantitative Causal Reasoning in Stock Price Index Prediction Model

  • Kim, Myoung-Joon;Ingoo Han
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.228-231
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    • 1998
  • Artificial Intelligence literatures have recognized that stock market is a highly unstructured and complex domain so that it is difficult to find knowledge that belongs to that domain. This paper demonstrates that the proposed QCOM can derive global knowledge about stock market on the basis of a set of local knowledge and express it as a digraph representation. In addition, inference mechanism using quantitative causal reasoning can describe the qualitative and quantitative effects of exogenous variables on stock market.

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The Determinants of Usefulness and Intention in Mobile Game Service (모바일 게임 서비스에서 유용성과 수용의도 결정요인에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Hui-Seon;Park, Gi-Ho;Jo, Jae-Wan
    • 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.399-407
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    • 2006
  • This study tried to fine the determine of intention to mobile game service acceptance. Our research proposes the theoretical model consisting of factors such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease of using the mobiliphone, perceived price. The data were analyzed using LISREL based on th structural equation modeling, a second-generation multivariate technique. The result show that the perceived usefulness have significant effects on the mobile game service acceptance.

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The Meaning of Sustainable Agriculture and its Policy Implications (지속적(持續的) 농업(農業)의 의의(意義)와 정책방향(政策方向))

  • Kim, Jai Hong
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.211-220
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    • 1993
  • Sustainable agriculture is a management system for ecological equilibrium and long-run productivity. Conversions from conventional to sustainable farming systems could have good effects on future generations' productivity and agricultural market opening in Korea. However, farmers are not willing to adopt sustainable farming system as because of farm income reductions, so government programs may be needed. Government programs should have research support for cost reductions, direct support for advocational livestock breedings and income security, and relative price changes for reducing agricultural chemicals.

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Current and Future Prospects for Insect Behavior-modifying Chemicals in China

  • Du, Jia-Wei
    • Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.222-229
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    • 2000
  • In this paper we will assess the feasibility of some insect behavior-modifying chemicals for insect control, such as male orientation inhibitor, female calling interrupter and female attractant of cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera. These behavior-modifying chemicals have advantages of simple chemical structure, easy to synthesize and low price of products. The effects of sub-lethal insecticides on insect chemical communication system and the differences of pheromone communication systems between the resistant and susceptible strain of H. armigera will also be discussed.

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Metabolism and Fermentation of Clostridium acetobutylicum (Clostridium acetobutylicum의 대사와 발효)

  • 이상엽
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 1993
  • The acetone-butanol fermentation by C. acetobutylicum has gained increasing attention for the following reasons. First, the finite supply of petrochemical resources, combined with increasing concern over global environmental effects and the unstable nature of the price of petroleum has renewed interest in the development of fermentation technology that allows utilzation of biomass wastes for the production of alcohol. Second, it serves as excellent model system for understading the regulation and molecular biology of tightly regulated complex primary metabolism, and for applications of metabolic engineering. In this review various aspects of acetone-butanol fermentation by C. acetobutylicm including strain and fermentation characteristics, enzyme regulation, and solvent formation mechanism, and product recovery and summarized.

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A Study on the Effects of Maintenance Schedule in a Competitive Electricity Market (경쟁시장에서 보수계획의 수익영향과 최적보수 방향)

  • Kim, C.S.;Rhee, C.H.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.593-595
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    • 2003
  • The introduction of electricity industry provides generators incentives to recover the related cost through the market. Hence, the generator should sell his/her electricity at high market-clearing price with optimal operation of his/her power plant. The maintenance of power plant is the most critical factor in affecting generators' decision-making. This paper analyzes technique for establishing maintenance schedule reflecting recovery cost and considers differences in monthly load pattern in minimizing LOLP.

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