• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.87-101
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• 2014

The theory of customer-based brand equity emphasizes the importance of brand awareness and brand image or associations in building a strong brand. Marketing scholars have recently begun to identify the two types of corporate associations, that is, corporate ability(CA) and corporate social responsibility(CSR) associations, which had long been conceptualized as a unidimensional construct of corporate image in the literature. In line with the new research stream, I'm developed a research model concerning how CA and CSR associations are related to credibility-based and benevolence-based trust, which in turn will affect emotional trust and consumer attitudes toward company. As for the hypothesized paths, the results confirm that all of the them are supported(H1-H6). First, CA associations have a significant positive relationship with credibility-based trust, and CSR associations are positively related to benevolence-based trust. Second, both dimensions of trust show strong and positive influences on emotional trust. In addition, credibility-based trust directly affect attitude toward firm in the foreign company. But credibility-based trust not affect attitude toward firm in the domestic company.

• Journal of Consumption Culture
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.101-121
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• 2012

In this study we postulated that the trust plays an essential mediating role in the relationship between the corporate social responsibility activities and corporate evaluation and product evaluation. In addition, we examined the perception difference to the Korean-Chinese consumers in these relations. A model integrating four types of CSR activities(economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic), three dimensions of trust(integrity trust, expertise trust, social benevolence trust), and the corporate evaluation, product evaluation was tested using data of 400 consumers. The results of the data analysis showed that the economic responsibility and ethical responsibility had a significant influence on the integrity trust, expertise trust and benevolence trust in the case of the Korean consumers. But, in the Chinese consumers, the economic responsibility positively influenced on the expertise trust and benevolence trust. The legal esponsibility had a significant impact on the integrity trust and benevolence trust in the case of both Korean consumers and Chinese consumers. Also, ethical responsibility positively influenced on the integrity trust and benevolence trust in the case of Chinese consumers. Finally, philanthropic responsibility had not significant influence on the expertise trust in case of both Korean consumers and Chinese consumers. The results of this study will help corporations to understand the relative importance among the four responsibilities and to make decisions in allocating their resources.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.207-216
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• 2011

This paper is for the influence of consulting character how to affect on the word-of-mouth intention and repurchase. Consulting characters consist of expertise, reliability and application. The results of this study are as follows: Firstly, Application except expertise and reliability have a positive effect on word-of mouth intention influence. Secondly, expertise and application except reliability have a positive effect on repurchase intention influence. This study shows that the company marketing performance would be greatly improved by an application of consulting experience and an expertise of consulting need.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.350-361
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• 2018

This study investigated the mediating effect of social capital between social workers' professionalism and service quality. By utilizing a convenience sampling method, a survey data form 276 social workers in Chungbuk province was analyzed. Results of descriptive statistics found that professionalism of social workers is 3.36, subtype of social capital among network being 3.43, credibility is shown for 3.67, and quality of service is confirmed for 4.00points in 5-point Likert scales. Both subtypes of social capital - network and credibility - showed mediating effects in the relations between professionalism and service quality. That is, a causal path of professionalism, social capital and service quality was confirmed by the data. Based on these results theoretical and practical implications for enhancing the level of social support and service quality of social services.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.91-102
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• 2014

Different from the past studies, in this study we postulates that the consumers' trust play an essential mediating role in the relationship between the two dimensions (eco-friendly manufacturing, eco-friendly campaign) of corporate environmental responsibility activities and the corporate image. Trust is conceptualized into three different forms: expertise-based trust, benevolence-based trust, and honesty-based trust. A model integrating two dimensions of corporate environmental responsibility, three forms of trust, and the corporate image is tested using data of 374 student and general consumers. The results of data analysis show that the eco-friendly manufacturing positively influences on the expert-based trust and the eco-friendly campaign positively influences on the benevolence-based trust. The Effects of Corporate Environmental Responsibility Activities on Corporate Image: Focusing on Dimension of Environmental Responsibility. However, eco-friendly manufacturing, eco-friendly campaign activities have a significant impact not on the honesty-based trust. Finally, our results indicate that the expert-based trust, the benevolence-based trust, and honesty-based trust have a significant influence on the corporate image. Thus, this study demonstrates that trust indeed plays a mediating role between corporate environmental responsibility and the corporate image.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.519-528
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• 2020

This study is a study on the relationship between brand trust in beauty companies leading to consumer loyalty behavior. This study investigated the importance of brand trust and verified the moderating effect of brand awareness. The subjects of the survey were consumers with experience in using hair beauty services, and a self-written survey was conducted from December 15, 2019 to December 30, 2019. A total of 288 copies of response data were used for analysis, and the SPSS 21.0 statistical package program was used. Hairshop brand trust was classified into professionalism, favorability, and honesty. As a result of the analysis, professionalism had a significant effect on economic loyalty behavior, and honesty had a significant effect on economic loyalty behavior and social loyalty behavior. Favorability did not show an influence relationship. As a result of verifying the moderating effect of brand awareness, it was found that professionalism and honesty play a moderating effect in the influence relationship between social loyalty behaviors. This study aims to provide an effective direction to stably establish the relationship between the brand trust and customer relationship of the hair shop in a rapidly changing competitive environment.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.159-175
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• 2021

This study attempted to analyze the relationship between influencer's characteristic factors such as professionalism, authenticity, and interactivity and content quality factors consisting of accuracy, completeness, and diversity on brand attitude and purchase attitude through trust and self-consistency. To reveal the structural relationship between main variables, a survey was conducted on 201 users. An EFA, CFA, and reliability analysis were performed to confirm reliability and validity. And structural equation was conducted to verify hypothesis. The main results are as follows. First, it was found that professionalism and interactivity had a significant positive effect on trust. And, accuracy, completeness, and variety were all found to have a significant positive effect on trust. Second, in the relationship between individual characteristic factors and self-consistency, it was found that professionalism and authenticity had a significant positive effect on self-consistency. In addition, in the relationship between content quality and self-consistency, accuracy, completeness, and diversity were found to have a positive effect on self-consistency along with trust. Third, in the relationship between trust and self-consistency on brand attitude and purchase intention, both trust and self-consistency were found to have a statistically significant positive effect on brand attitude. It was found that only self-consistency and brand attitude had a statistically significant positive effect on purchase intention. These findings showed that when users perceive professionalism and interaction with influencer, trust increases, and professionalism and progress increase self-consistency with influencer. In addition, in the case of content quality, it was found that trust and self-consistency responded positively when perceived content quality through content accuracy, completeness, and diversity. Also, trust and self-consistency increased attitudes toward brands and could influence consumption behavior such as purchase intention. Therefore, for effective marketing performance using influencer's influence in the field of influencer marketing, which has a strong information delivery on products and brands, not only personal characteristics such as professionalism, authenticity, and interactivity, but also quality of content should be considered. The above research results are expected to suggest implications for marketing strategies and practices as one available basic data to exert the expected effect of marketing using influencer.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.238-248
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• 2019

Trust is a personal emotion that is affected by individual characteristics and social atmosphere. However, a lot of studies on government trust focus on government factors such as fairness and expertise of the government. Government trust is mainly affected by the capacity and characteristics of government. However, government trust is likely to have a significant impact by personal factors such as personal disposition and character. Therefore, this study examines whether government trust is influenced not only by government factors but also by personal factors such as individual values and general trust tendencies. The results of this study show that government trust is positively related to government factors such as government expertise and fairness. In addition, individual values and general trust tendencies, such as age, political tendency, happiness, prospects for the future, and corporate trust level, are also affecting government trust. This indicates that government trust is influenced not only by government variables such as government expertise and government fairness but also by individual values and trust tendencies. It suggests that government trust is not just a variable influenced by government behavior, but also related to individual values and trust tendencies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2017.08a
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• pp.89-94
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• 2017

오늘날 페이스북을 통해 접하는 여행정보는 블로그 유형의 SNS 여행정보와는 달리 정보의 출처, 정보 제공자의 정보가 불분명하여 이용자는 해당 정보를 수용하기 위해 보다 심층적인 판단이 요구되고 있으나 이에 대한 연구는 충분치 않은 상황이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이용자의 페이스북 여행정보 수용에 영향을 미치는 요인이 무엇인지 파악하고자 하였다. 먼저 선행연구 분석을 통해, 제공되는 정보의 내용적 특성(최신성, 풍부성, 정확성)과 정보제공자 특성(인기, 전문성), 정보수용(신뢰성, 유용성)을 중요한 요인으로 도출하였다. 이를 바탕으로 분석한 결과, 정보의 내용적 특성과 정보 제공자 특성 모두 페이스북 여행정보 수용에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 세부적으로는 정보 내용적 특성 중 정확성이 신뢰성과 유용성에 가장 큰 영향을 미치고 있었다. 그리고 정보 제공자 특성 중에서는 전문성이 신뢰성에, 인기가 유용성에 더 많은 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타나 블로그 유형의 SNS 여행정보 수용에 대한 연구 결과와 전반적으로 유사한 결과를 보였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.575-585
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• 2022

Negative perceptions about corporate social responsibility (CSR) crises and repeated crises are increasing. It is necessary to examine the effects of a proactive strategy of disclosing crisis information against the negative perceptions. The research is intended to analyze ability-based trust, and benevolence-based trust by crisis type, crisis history, and timing of crisis disclosure. In this regard, a 2 (crisis history: present vs. absent) x 2 (crisis type: corporate ability crisis vs CSR crisis) x 2 (timing of crisis disclosure: stealing thunder vs thunder) between-groups design experiment was conducted. Research results show crisis type and crisis history have significant interaction effects on ability-based trust. In the CSR crisis, the case with crisis history shows lower ability-based trust than the case without crisis history. Timing of crisis disclosure showed significant interactions with crisis history and crisis type. The stealing thunder strategy heigntened ability-based trust and benevolence-based trust against the CSR crises and the cases without crisis history more than the corporate ability crises and the cases with crisis history. Considering that the stealing thunder strategy is more effective with the CSR crises than the corporate ability crises, the research results suggest that future CSR crisis responses should prepare active disclosure of crisis information before news media disclosure of such information.