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The Mediating Role of Affective Commitment in Explaining Relationship between Characteristics of Service-offer and Loyalty: Focused on Department Stores

서비스전달 특성과 충성도 관계에서 감정적 몰입의 매개역할: 백화점 중심으로

  • Received : 2014.08.18
  • Accepted : 2014.09.22
  • Published : 2014.10.28

Abstract

This study confirmed structural causal relations among concepts such as characteristics of service-offer, satisfaction, trust, affective commitment, and loyalty and surveyed mediating roles of affective commitment. The results are as follows. First, Customized service and service reliability influenced satisfaction while service competency did not. Service reliability affected trust while customized service and service competency did not. Second, satisfaction influenced trust and affective commitment but not loyalty while trust affected affective commitment and loyalty. Third, affective commitment influenced loyalty through the mediating role. The results mean that the seller-buyer relationship is a dynamic relationship. Finally, we discussed the role of affective commitment and the strategies of affective commitment development, and suggested future studies.

본 연구는 백화점 판매원의 서비스전달 특성과 고객만족, 신뢰, 감정적 몰입, 충성도 간의 관계를 확인하고, 감정적 몰입의 매개역할을 조사하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 21.0과 AMOS 20.0을 이용하여 연구가설을 검증하였다. 연구결과로는 첫째, 서비스개별 능력 및 서비스신뢰성은 만족에 긍정적으로 영향을 미쳤지만, 서비스능력은 영향이 없었다. 또한 서비스신뢰성은 신뢰에 정(+)의 영향을 준 반면, 서비스개별화 능력과 서비스역량은 신뢰에 영향이 없는 것으로 확인되었다. 둘째, 고객만족은 신뢰 및 감정적 몰입에 정(+)의 영향을 주었지만 충성도에는 영향이 없었고, 신뢰는 감정적 몰입과 충성도에 정(+)영향이 있었다. 셋째, 고객의 감정적 몰입은 충성도에 정(+)영향이 있었다. 또한 고객신뢰 및 만족과 충성도 관계에서 감정적몰입이 매개효과를 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 판매자-구매자 관계가 역동적임을 의미한다. 마지막으로 본 연구결과를 통해서 고객관계에서 몰입의 발전전략을 논의하였으며, 향후 연구방향을 제안하였다.

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