• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.95-106
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• 2020

The study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of professional volleyball teams' integrated marketing communication(IMC) activities. The subjects of this study were a total of 400 surveys of visitors who visited the stadium to watch mans professional volleyball games from 2019 to 2020, and 385 questionnaires except for invalid or error questionnaires were used for research purposes. For factor analysis and reliability testing, IBM SPSS Statistics Ver 21.0 was used. Frequency analysis was conducted to examine the general characteristics. To verify differences between groups according to demographic and general characteristics, independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA were performed, and correlation analysis was performed to examine the relationship between variables. In addition, regression analysis was conducted to verify the influence between variables. The results of the study are as follows. First, there was no difference in club image, club reputation, and club loyalty by gender. Second, there was no difference in club image, club reputation, and club loyalty according to age. Third, there was no difference in the club image, club reputation, or club loyalty according to the viewing experience. Fourth, professional volleyball team IMC activities were found to affect the club image. Fifth, professional volleyball team IMC activities were found to have an impact on the club's reputation. Sixth, it was shown that professional volleyball team IMC activities have an effect on club loyalty. Eighth, the club image was found to affect the club loyalty. Finally, it was found that the club reputation influenced the club loyalty.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.312-323
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• 2010

The objective of this study was to examine the effects of relationships between food service companies and their client companies by surveying employees working at cafeterias among a food service companies' client companies. For this purpose, previous research was reviewed, and confirmatory research was conducted using a questionnaire. In the questionnaire survey, the subjects were sampled through convenience sampling from the client companies of A Food Service Company, and 182 valid questionnaires were used in the analysis. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the characteristics of the relationship between the food service company and its client companies, which were reputation, communication, operation skill, and contact-point employees' service quality, had a significant effect on trust, and the effect was high in the order of contact-point employees' service quality, communication, operation skill, and reputation. Satisfaction was significantly affected by reputation, operation skill, and contact-point employee' service quality, but not by communication. The effect was high in the order of contact-point employees' service quality, reputation, and operation skill. In addition, reputation, communication, operation skill, and contact-point employees' service quality had a significant effect on long-term orientation, and the effects were high in the order of reputation, contact-point employees' service quality, communication, and operation skill. Second, with regard to the quality of relationships between a food service company and its client companies, trust had a significant effect on satisfaction. Third, among the factors related to the quality of relationships between the food service company and its client companies, trust and satisfaction had a significant effect on long-term orientation, and the effect of satisfaction was higher than that of trust. This study has scientific significance as one of only a few studies on factors affecting the long-term relationship between food service companies and their client companies, along with managerial implications that contact-point employees' capabilities are most important in service businesses, and thus efforts should be made at employing and educating them properly.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.73-102
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• 2007

The paper aims to examine the relationships among a company's design, brand, and reputation orientations. DBR (Design, Brand, Reputation) have been regarded as invisible growth engines for companies and draws a lot of interests among Brand, PR and IR mangers recently. We have tested 3 hypotheses and have developed a relationship mechanism how to develop those three key intangible marketing assets. We have conducted 131 interviews with company managers who are involved in DBR activities, used Structural Equation Model (SEM) to estimate those relationships. It was found that a company's design orientation influenced the company's brand orientation positively and this brand one influenced reputation orientations consequently. However, design orientation does not show any significant relationship with a company's reputation orientations. Thus, there is a D->B >R chain mechanism concerning these 3 intangible marketing assets. Finally, the implications of this study and suggestions of further studies are discussed.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.15-28
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• 2001

This paper investigates the service quality determinants in management consulting. Quality dimensions in SERVQUAL research, as well as several dimensions specific to the consulting service, have been reviewed. A survey has been conducted by carefully developed questionnaires for the hypothesized eight quality dimensions. The results of the statistical analyses support the eight quality dimensions in the consulting service : reliability, assurance, responsiveness, empathy, ethics, participation, communication, and reputation. The results demonstrate that reliability, assurance, participation, and reputation are especially influential in determining customer satisfaction. The research results provide useful insights for a customer in assessing alternative service providers and foreseeing the outcome from the chosen consultants.

• The Journal of Economics, Marketing and Management
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.20-32
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• 2016

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the audit quality and Investment efficiency of the listed companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The population includes 94 firms selected through systematic sampling. The data is collected from the audited financial statements of the firms provided by TSE's website from 2008 to 2015. In this study the variables, auditor industry specialization, auditor reputation, auditor tenure and auditor independence has been used to investigate audit quality. The results of multiple linear regression analysis show that there is a significant relationship audit quality and Investment efficiency.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.219-225
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• 2014

Competition between corporations is getting more intense, so they need customer feedback in order to fulfill an effective management. Recently, SNS (Social Network Service) such as Twitter and Facebook has grown dramatically because of smart phones. Social media like Twitter and Facebook let customers to express their needs, and using big data such as data on SNS is a very effective method for getting customer's feedback. Collecting and analyzing social big data are operated by Buzz monitoring system. This research suggests how to utilize big data for getting customer's feedback on hotel CRM(Customer Relationship Management), which considers customer itself as asset of business. This paper demonstrates the research of buzz monitoring system that analyzes big data, and presents results of hotel customer reputation using buzz monitoring system. It would analyze the result from the hotel customer reputation, and research the implication in this paper.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2439-2446
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• 2013

Recently, SNS (Social Network Service) such as Twitter and Facebook has grown dramatically because of smart phones. Since development of IT has created massive information, social big data extremely increased. Competition between corporations is getting more intense, so they need customer feedback in order to fulfill an effective management. Because social big data plays an important role for getting customer feedback, a lot of corporations are interested in analyzing and applying of social big data. Collecting and analyzing social big data is operated by Buzz monitoring system. This paper demonstrates the research of buzz monitoring system that analyzes big data, and presents examples of customer reputation using buzz monitoring. In the paper, after all, it would analyze the result from the customer reputation, and research the implication.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.644-660
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• 2015

The social responsibility of fashion companies has become a crucial factor considering company image and awareness. Businesses have thus increased their CSR activities. However, few studies have shown clear and consistent results regarding the effectiveness of CSR activities. Therefore, this study focuses on the evaluation of the direct effect of CSR on trust and corporate reputation including its moderation by consumer's perceived fit and motivation. A total of 284 completed questionnaires were obtained from adult consumers in the fashion market with promotional leaflets for CSR activities as stimuli. The results were as follows. First, the dimensions for CSR activities were categorized as follows: Social welfare responsibility, environment protection, economic responsibility, social regulation compliance, customer protection, and culture and arts support. Further social regulation compliance, and economic and social welfare responsibilities positively affected corporate trust and reputation. Second, the main effect of perceived CSR activities and fit on corporate trust and reputation was significant, and the interaction effects of the social welfare, environment protection, and culture and arts support of CSR activities and fit were significant. Finally, the interaction effect of perceived CSR activities and motivation on corporate trust and reputation was not significant, but the main effect was significant. Implications of how to manage and enhance the effectiveness of CSR activities are offered.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.315-322
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• 2008

Objectives : This study was performed to explore customer royalty and the related factors. Methods : 900 households(a 1% sample) were randomly selected from the total population of K city located in Kangwon province. An interview survey was performed with using a structured questionnaire for the subjects(923 persons) who had used medical service during the year before the survey, and the survey was done September, 2002. Results : When comparing the relating factors related with customer royalty according to the sociodemographic characteristics, the older group showed a significantly higher level of recognition for service quality, service reputation, internal customers' attitudes and switching cost. The lower income group showed a higher level of recognition for service quality, service image and switching cost. The lower educated group showed a higher level of recognition for service reputation, service image and internal customers' attitudes. The higher educated group showed a higher level of recognition for perceived risk, and seeking variety. In addition, the expert group or the service and manufacturing workers group showed a higher level of recognition for service involvement. On multiple regression analysis, internal customers' attitudes, service image, service reputation, service quality, switching cost, and substitutability showed significant relations with customer loyalty. Conclusions : This study showed that customer loyalty was significantly influenced by service factors like internal customers' attitudes, service image, service reputation, and service quality, and by market factors like switching cost, and substitutability. The results of this study can be used as a baseline for developing strategies to create and keep customers with high loyalty.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.91-101
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• 2018

This research verified the effects of anchors' reputation and brand equity evaluation of news on the continuous watching intention for general news channels such as KBS, JTBC, and YTN. Data collection was conducted on nationwide 539 adults who were watching news for each channel, and Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to analyze the impact of the anchors' reputation and news brand equity evaluation factors. As a result, first, KBS showed continuous watching intention as viewers are men, their academic background is lower, they are more conservative, viewing frequency is higher, anchor awareness is higher, and news awareness and news preference are higher. Second, JTBC showed continuous watching intention as viewers are more advancing, viewing frequency is higher, anchor confidence, news awareness, and news preference, and evaluation on news quality are higher. Third, YTN showed continuous watching intention as their viewing frequency is higher, anchor confidence and anchor attraction are higher, news preference and evaluation on news quality are higher.