• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2004

This study examines the relationship between multiple sales force management practices and performance within each of Miles & Snow (1978)'s strategy types and Walker & Ruekert (1987)'s strategy types. The findings are as follows : First, Prospectors seem to be associated with increased performance when they are utilizing a relationship selling strategy, internal sales force, moderate levels of supervision, outcome-based control system and incentive-oriented compensation system. Second, Analyzers seem to be associated with increased performance when they are utilizing a relationship selling strategy, internal sales force, outcome-based control system to deal with the instability in their strategic focus. Third, Low Cost Defender seem to be associated with increased performance when they are utilizing a relationship selling strategy, external sales force, low levels of supervision, outcome-based control system and salary-oriented compensation system. Fourth, Differentiated Defenders seem to be associated with increased performance when they are utilizing a relationship selling strategy, high levels of supervision, balanced (outcome+behavior) control system and salary-oriented compensation system.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.233-242
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• 2008

종사원의 선발, 교육, 보상, 그리고 평가 등과 같은 영업사원의 관리의 실행은 영업력 관리시스템에 있어서 중요한 위치를 차지하는데, 이는 종사원의 역할 모호성, 직무만족, 그리고 성과 등에 지대한 영향을 미치기 때문이다. 이러한 중요성에도 불구하고 호텔의 영업력 관리시스템에 대한 연구가 미진한 형편이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 영업력 관리시스템(STD, 교육, 보상, 상사지원 등), 직무태도, 그리고 성과와의 영향 관계를 보다 자세히 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 경로모형과 가설을 설정하고 제시하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 호텔의 영업사원과 이들의 관리를 위한 몇 가지 중요한 사항을 제시하는데 공헌하였다. 즉, 이번 연구는 호텔의 실무책임자들과 연구자들에게 새로운 관점과 시사점을 제시할 수 있었다. 먼저, 학술적 측면에서는 영업력 관리시스템에 관한 새로운 접근 방식을 제시하였다. 둘째로, 실무적 측면을 보면, 종사원의 영업성과와 직무만족을 향상시키고, 역할모호성을 감소시키기 위하여, 관리자는 종사원을 대상으로 격려, 영업에 대한 지도, 그리고 영업 노하우 등에 교육과 행동을 취해야 한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.89-116
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• 2004

Insurance companies are in a fierce race to catch a new customer. In this situation. sales force automation technologies are often used to support customer relationship management strategies. This study sets out a research model predicting SFA(Sales Force Automation) usage through theoretical studies. Survey data were collected from 145 salespeople across 2 firms that had implemented sales force automation tools and hypotheses were tested empirically. Data were analyzed by path-analysis method of AMOS. The major findings of this study are as follows: Computer self-efficacy, user involvement and voluntariness have a statistically significant influence on the positive perceptions of SFA. These perceptions have a statistically significant influence on user satisfaction and usage of SFA. while user satisfaction has a statistically significant influence on SFA usage. This paper concludes with the discussion of these results and their implications for academic researchers and insurance company managers.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.81-92
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• 2019

Purpose: The salesperson, the core of the operating activities, plays the role of connecting the inside and outside of the company, representing the company to the consumer and identifying and responding to the customer's needs. The department store industry is the most representative retail industry in South Korea, and competition among its peer group and industry is intensifying, requiring differentiated service sales activities and performance from its employees. This study divided the sales force system into activity control(process-oriented control) and output control(performance-oriented control) and verified the differential impact on the job attitude of the salesperson (e.g., job satisfaction and burn-out), respectively. In addition, the effect of job satisfaction and burn-out of the salesperson on the job performance were checked. Research design, data, and methodology: The survey was conducted on 200 sales people working at five branch stores of Hyundai department store in Seoul, and 194 of them were analyzed. The reliability and validity of the variables were analyzed and hypotheses were verified through the SEM. Results: Results have shown that activity control has a greater impact on burn-out compared to output control, and output control has a greater impact on job satisfaction compared to activity control. It has been shown that the salesperson's burn-out does not affect sales performance, but that job satisfaction has a positive effect on sales performance. Conclusions: This study examines the effect of sales force management system such as activity control and output control, on the job attitude and sales performance in department stores. According to the results of this research, each of two control systems have a discriminatory effect on the job attitude variables. For the sales managers of department store, it is recommended to increase the efficiency of sales management by increasing the use of outcome control compared to activity control.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.283-290
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• 2011

According to the rapid evolution of information technology, the salesperson's business efficiency and faster information sharing within the enterprise that need to improve competitiveness has been increasing steadily. In general, many companies has been managed the sales through the ERP system. However, the ERP informations as a result of operating activities can not perform customer maintenance activities from strategic planning. Therefore, a series of sales activities information as corporate intellectual assets is needed strategic business solutions for managing it. In this study, the web-based SFA systems were designed for salesperson. Salespersons improve the efficiency of the business through management and improvement activities of sales information. The systematic customer information management contribute to improving the company's revenue through improved customer service satisfaction.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.211-214
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• 2003

Recently mobile SFA(Sales Force Automation) system makes rapidly progress specially in industries like insurance, manufacture, and distribution. However, there are some problems that information about products and trades is not promptly shared among sales agents or customers, since the current mobile SFA system has simply extended the existing systems for sales management. In order to improve these weaknesses, we introduce LBS(Location Based Service) and mobile P2P(Peer to Peer) service into the existing systems, then design and implement the enhanced system (or mobile SFA using them. Through this improvement, our system makes it possible for customers or sales agents to quickly share various information and increases the efficiency of sales activity by facilitating the competition and cooperation among sales agents and reducing time-cost.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.143-165
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• 2013

Sales force automation (SFA) technologies are increasingly used to support customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. However, the popular press reports mixed results among companies incorporating SFA technologies and the previous studies have less interested in relationship quality between sales person and customer as an outcome of SFA. Actually the improved quality of the salesperson-customer relationship may be the most important outcome of SFA usage. This outcome is especially meaningful in today's marketplace given the increasing focus placed on customer retention and other customer related performance such as customer lifetime value. Therefore, this study seeks to further examine the impact of SFA usage within two different firms using SFA technologies to examine the impact of SFA usage on both customer relationship quality and sales performance. Additionally, the moderating roles of perceived managerial support and salesperson experience on the outcomes of SFA usage are examined. The results shows that direct effect of SFA usage on performance was not significant but highlight the mediating role of customer relationship quality in the SFA usage - sales performance relationship. Also, this research examines a number of moderating effects of both management supports for SFA and salesperson's sales work experience. The results indicate that management support has a significant direct influence on relationship quality and salesperson performance, but not a significant moderating effect on the relationship between SFA usage and the outcomes (relationship quality and performance). Thus moderating effects were not supported but find significant main effects. First of all, finding of this study suggest that a formula for successful SFA implementation must be one that highlights a SFA usage → relationship quality → sales performance sequence. This means when sales person use SFA they must build relationship with customer first then will return some long term performance. Second, the implications of not considering the introduction of big technology initiatives in terms of fit within the company's culture, strategy, structure, and environment may in many cases be quite noteworthy. Therefore, the launching of a new technology in the firm, such as SFA, may have a nonlinear impact upon overall firm performance, depending on the presence of other complimentary resources and capabilities. Finally the authors offer a number of implications for research and practice, and suggest directions for future SFA research that may further improve our understanding of this increasingly relevant topic.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2016

Studies in key account management (KAM) have identified the importance of cross-functional coordination in firms to effectively implement KAM. However, these studies have ignored how companies integrate KAM and other customer management (non-KAM). This paper explores coordination design between KAM units and non-KAM units by analyzing a case study through three dimensions: front-end coordination, back-end-coordination, and organizational translation at the beginning of research. The case study shows that non-KAM conditions can require a modification of the coordination design. This research performs an in-depth analysis of changes in the implementation of sales reforms for an IT-related machinery and system vendor in Japan. Data sources include interviews with KAM units and non-KAM sales units and an analysis of secondary data. This paper suggests that studying the coordination between KAM units and non-KAM units will further our understanding of internal coordination in KAM research.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.105-126
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• 2021

Purpose The purpose of this study is to implement a optimal machine learning model about the cancellation prediction performance in car sales business. It is to apply the data set of accumulated contract, cancellation, and sales information in sales support system(SFA) which is commonly used for sales, customers and inventory management by imported car dealers, to several machine learning models and predict performance of cancellation. Design/methodology/approach This study extracts 29,073 contracts, cancellations, and sales data from 2015 to 2020 accumulated in the sales support system(SFA) for imported car dealers and uses the analysis program Python Jupiter notebook in order to perform data pre-processing, verification, and modeling that is applying and learning to Machine learning model after then the final result was predicted using new data. Findings This study confirmed that cancellation prediction is possible by applying car purchase contract information to machine learning models. It proved the possibility of developing and utilizing a generalized predictive model by using data of imported car sales system with machine learning technology. It can reduce and prevent the sales failure as caring the potential lost customer intensively and it lead to increase sales revenue by predicting the cancellation possibility of individual customers.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.464-471
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• 2018

영업사원이 영업수단으로 가장 많이 사용하면서 간단한 방법이 명함일 것이다. 매일 많은 고객과 명함을 주고받고 있지만 종이 명함은 버려지기 싶고 정보 검색도 어렵다. 해결책으로 스마트 폰으로 명함을 촬영하여 데이터베이스로 만든다면 언제든지 영업에 필요한 고객 정보를 쉽게 얻을 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 전자명함 데이터베이스 구축과 전자명함을 기반으로 영업관리를 지원하는 앱 기반 솔루션을 개발한다. 본 시스템은 클라우드 환경에서 작동되며 고객인맥관리, 고객 분류, 유망고객 발굴 등의 다양한 의사결정 지원 기능을 갖추고 있다.