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Purchasing Avoidance of Digital Convergence Products: Focusing on the Customer's Psychological Factors and the Innovation Resistance

디지털 컨버전스제품 구매회피에 관한 연구: 소비자의 심리적 요인과 혁신저항을 중심으로

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Abstract

There is a big attention to digital convergence products(DCP) nowadays. However, consumers' response on the DCP is not always positive. These products may not match consumers' value and consumers may not know how to use them, because the DCP is generally innovative products. DCP marketers should learn that why consumers do not purchase them. Thus, this paper examines and identifies the consumers' purchase-avoiding psychological factors and antecedents on DCP. In detail, It is empirically checked that how the relationship between purchase-preventing factors such as complexity, incongruence, uncertainty, and unreasonability and purchase-avoiding psychological factors such as dissonance, innovation resistence, and perceived loss is. Also, these purchase-avoiding psychological factors' influence on the purchase-intention is empirically checked. As results, complexity and incongruence have an effect on the innovation resistence significantly. Uncertainty and unreasonability influence perceived loss variable. Unreasonability also influences consumers' cognitive dissonance variable. Additionally, cognitive dissonance have an influence on innovation resistence positively, and such innovation resistence influence consumer's purchase-intention negatively. Therefore, marketers should think twice about the roles of these purchase-preventing factors before launching.

디지털의 주요한 특성인 융합성으로 인해 IT산업분야에서 디지털 컨버전스 제품은 시장에서 큰 주목을 받고 있는 것이 사실이다. 그러나 디지털 컨버전스 제품에 대한 소비자들의 반응이 항상 긍정적이지만은 않다. 디지털 컨버전스 제품이 혁신제품이기에 소비자들의 가치와 부합하지 않거나 복잡한 이용방법에 따른 문제점이 들어나기도 한다. 즉, 디지털 컨버전스 제품이 보다 더 소비자들에게 긍정적인 반응을 얻어 시장을 확대해 나가기 위해서는 디지털 컨버전스 제품에 대한 소비자들의 구매회피 요인이 무엇인지 규명하고 어떠한 불편한 심리를 가지게 되는지 살펴볼 필요가 있다. 구체적으로 본 연구에서는 선행연구들을 토대로 복잡성, 부적합성, 불확실성, 비용의 비합리성과 같은 구매를 저해하는 요인을 확인하고 이러한 요인들이 부조화, 혁신저항, 지각된 손실과 같은 부정적인 심리적 요인을 형성하게 하여 구매회피로 이어지는 것으로 해석하고 있다. 연구의 결과, 복잡성과 부적합성은 혁신저항을 느끼게 만드는 요소이며, 불확실성과 비합리성은 지각된 손실에 영향을 미치며, 비합리성은 부조화에 유의한 영향이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 부조화는 혁신저항에 영향을 미치고 이러한 혁신저항은 구매의도에 유의하게 부(-)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로, 디지털 컨버전스 제품이 시장에 쉽게 확산되어 나가기 위해서는 복잡성, 부적합성, 불확실성, 비합리성과 같은 요소들에 대해 마케터들이 충분히 숙고한 후에 이러한 요소들을 제거할 수 있는 방안을 마련하고 출시되어야 할 것으로 생각된다.

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