• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.67-93
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• 2006

Some consumers prefer online and others prefer offline. What makes them prefer online or offline? There has been a lack of theoretical development to adequately explain consumers' channel switching behavior between traditional physical stores and new virtual stores. Through consumers' purchase decision processes, this study examined the reasons why consumers changed channels depending on purchase process stages. Consumer's purchase decision process could be divided into three stages: pre-purchase stage, purchase stage, and post-purchase stage. We used the intention of channel selection as a surrogate dependent variable of channel selection. And some constructs, that is, channel function, channel benefits, customer relationship benefits, and perceived behavioral control, were selected as independent variables. In buying look-and-feel products, it was identified that consumers preferred virtual stores to physical stores at pre-purchase stage. To put it concretely, all constructs except channel benefits were more influenced to consumers at virtual stores. This result implied that information searching function, which is a main function at pre-purchase stage, was better supported by virtual stores than physical stores. In purchase stage, consumers preferred physical stores to virtual stores. Specially, all constructs influenced much more to consumers at physical stores. This result implied that although escrow service and trusted third parties were introduced, consumers felt that financial risk, performance risk, social risk, etc. still remained highly online. Finally, consumers did not prefer any channel at post-purchase stage. But three independent variables, i.e. channel function, channel benefits, and customer relationship benefits, were significantly preferred at physical stores rather than virtual stores at post-purchase stage. So we concluded that physical stores were a little more preferred to virtual stores at post-purchase stage. Through this study, it was identified that most consumers might switch channels according to purchase process stages. So, first of all, sales representatives should decide that what benefits should be given them through virtual stores at the pre-purchase stage and through physical stores at the purchase and post-purchase stages, and then devise collaborative channel strategies.

• 대한설비관리학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2018

User-based collaborative filtering is a method of recommending an item to a user based on the preference of the neighbor users who have similar purchasing history to the target user. User-based collaborative filtering is based on the fact that users are strongly influenced by the opinions of other users with similar interests. Item-based collaborative filtering is a method of recommending an item by comparing the similarity of the user's previously preferred items. In this study, we create a recommendation model using user-based collaborative filtering and item-based collaborative filtering with consumer's consumption data. Collaborative filtering is performed by using RFM (recency, frequency, and monetary) technique with purchasing data to recommend items with high purchase potential. We compared the performance of the recommendation system with the purchase amount and the performance when applying the RFM method. The performance of recommendation system using RFM technique is better.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.531-541
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• 2011

This study suggests basic data for the standardization of school uniform purchase by examining the statistics of purchasing practice school uniforms from information sources, purchasing methods, and consumer' perception about collaborative purchases. A survey was conducted with first grade male and female middle-school students, and their parents. A total of 344 questionnaires were returned and analyzed. The results were as follows: first, when making purchases, information sources were explained by parents, friends, senior students, or workers at uniform shops. The purchasing methods were popular brand uniforms or specialized uniform shops. Second, four factors were extracted from purchasing data for factor analysis. The factors were comfort, appearance, service, other external factors, and promotions. Third, the perception analysis and need of collaborative purchases were indicated by 90% of the students' parents, who were aware of collaborative purchase. Additionally, 71.2% answered collaborative purchase was necessary. Fourth, for future uniform purchases, 75.6% of the students answered to buy more popular brands, or products from specialized school uniform shops, while 54.4% of the parents answered positively to collaborative purchases. The results of the examination of consumer school uniform purchasing behavior will provide useful strategies for the standardization system for purchasing school uniforms.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.131-149
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• 2004

Collaborative filtering is one of popular techniques for personalized recommendation in e-commerce sites. An advantage of collaborative filtering is that the technique can work with sparse evaluation data to predict preference scores of new alternative contents or advertisements. There is, however, no in-depth study about the sparsity effect of customer's evaluation data to the performance of recommendation. In this study, we investigate the sparsity effect and hybrid usages of customers' evaluation data and purchase data using an experiment result. The result of the analysis shows that the performance of recommendation decreases monotonically as the sparsity increases, and also the hybrid usage of two different types of data; customers' evaluation data and purchase data helps to increase the performance of recommendation in sparsity situation.

• 한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능정보시스템학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.331-339
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• 2004

The preferences of customers change over time. However, existing collaborative filtering (CF) systems are static, since they only incorporate information regarding whether a customer buys a product during a certain period and do not make use of the purchase sequences of customers. Therefore, the quality of the recommendations of the typical CF could be improved through the use of information on such sequences. In this paper, we propose a new methodology for enhancing the quality of CF recommendation that uses customer purchase sequences. The proposed methodology is applied to a large department store in Korea and compared to existing CF techniques. Various experiments using real-world data demonstrate that the proposed methodology provides higher quality recommendations than do typical CF techniques, with better performance, especially with regard to heavy users.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.69-80
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• 2007

고객의 선호도는 시간에 따라 변화하지만 기존 협업필터링기법(Collaborative Filtering : CF)은 정적인 데이터만을 다룬다. 이는 기존 CF 기법이 특정 기간 동안 고객의 구매 여부만 고려할 뿐 고객의 구매순서를 사용하지 않기 때문이다. 따라서 기존 CF 기법은 고객의 동적인 데이터인 구매순서를 고려함으로써 추천의 품질을 높일 가능성이 있다. 본 연구에서는 고객의 구매순서를 활용함으로써 CF 기법의 추천 품질을 향상시키는 새로운 상품추천 방법론을 제안한다. 즉, 군집분석기법인 자기조직화지도(Self-Organizing Map : SOM)를 활용하여 고객의 구매순서를 파악한 후 연관규칙탐사(Association Rule Mining : ARM)를 사용하여 고객들의 구매순서 중 일정 정도의 통계적인 타당성을 갖는 구매순서 패턴을 찾아내어 이를 추천 시에 활용한다. 대형 백화점의 구매자료에 적용하여 제안한 방법론의 효과성을 실험한 결과 제안한 방법론이 기존 CF 기법보다 우수한 추천품질을 가지고 있음이 실증적으로 확인되었다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.232-249
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• 2022

As the postsecondary school-age population continues to decline, the competition among universities to attract potential students has intensified. As an alternative, we propose to introduce a collaborative marketing strategy to universities to gain the attention of precollege students and parents. This study examines perceived fit, the prestige of university and fashion brands, consumption values, and the category of fashion brands in the context of collaboration between university identity and fashion brands. Utilizing an online survey, we collected 391 responses. The results indicate that perceived fit between universities and fashion brands has a significant impact on the purchase intention of collaborative university merchandise. In addition, the prestige of fashion brands plays a key role, while the prestige of universities has no direct effect on purchase intention. However, the indirect effect of university prestige on purchase intention mediated by perceived fit is significant. Also, this study confirms that social value and emotional value have significant impacts on purchase intention. These findings present a guideline for selecting a collaborative partner, which is the most important task in a collaboration strategy. Finally, merchandising strategies reflected consumption values based on precollege students and their parents' needs are proposed.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.139-161
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• 2019

전자상거래 시장의 이용이 보편화 되며 고객들에게 좋은 품질의 물건을 어디서, 얼마나 합리적으로 구매할 수 있는지가 중요해졌다. 이러한 구매 심리의 변화는 방대한 정보 속에서 오히려 고객들의 구매 의사결정을 어렵게 만드는 경향이 있다. 이때 추천 시스템은 고객의 구매 행동을 분석하여 정보 검색에 드는 비용을 줄이고 만족도를 높이는 효과가 있다. 하지만 대부분 추천 시스템은 책이나 영화 등 동종 상품 분류 내에서만 추천이 이뤄진다. 왜냐하면 추천 시스템은 특정 상품에 매긴 구매 평점 데이터를 기반으로 해당 상품 분류 내 유사한 상품에 대한 구매 만족도를 추정하기 때문이다. 그밖에 추천 시스템에서 사용하는 구매 평점의 신뢰성에 대한 문제도 제시되고 있으며 오프라인에선 평점 확보 자체가 어렵다. 이에 본 연구에서는 일련의 문제를 개선하기 위해 RFM 다차원 분석 기법을 활용하여 기존에 사용하던 고객의 구매 평점을 객관적으로 대체할 수 있는 새로운 지표의 활용 가능성을 제안하는 바이다. 실제 기업의 구매 이력 데이터에 해당 지표를 적용해서 검증해본 결과 높게는 약 55%에 해당하는 정확도를 기록했다. 이는 총 4,386종에 달하는 이종 상품들 중 한번도 이용해 본 적 없는 상품을 추천한 결과이기 때문에 검증 결과는 상대적으로 높은 정확도와 활용가치를 의미한다. 그리고 본 연구는 오프라인의 다양한 상품데이터에서도 적용할 수 있는 범용적인 추천 시스템의 가능성을 시사한다. 향후 추가적인 데이터를 확보한다면 제안하는 추천 시스템의 정확도 향상도 기대할 수 있다.

• 경영과학
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2006

With the diffusion of the Internet, firms try to electronically collaborate with their partners in order to cut costs and gain profits. This, electronic Partnership, called 'Collaborative IT' is quite popular between large purchase enterprises and small-to-medium sized sub-contractors. This study investigates such relations. This study proposes three groups of research variables-interorganizational relationship, collaborative IT activity, and firm performance. the interorganizational relationship consists of trust, commitment, and asymmetry of commitment. Collaborative IT activity is composed of information sharing and workflow integration. The ultimate dependent variable is firm performance. It is hypothesized that the relationship factors influence the level of collaborative IT activity, while the latter in turn affects the firm performance. The relationship factors nay also directly affect the dependent variable. In addition, collaborative IT motive, as a moderating variable, may influence the causal relationship. By means of survey, ore hundred and eighty-two responses were obtained. Most sample companies are small-sized, in the manufacturing sector. The analysis of data reveals that both trust and commitment positively affects the level of collaborative IT activity, while asymmetry of commitment has negative effects. The workflow integration is significantly related with firm performance. Information sharing, however, has no signific3nt effects. Furthermore, asymmetry of commitment shows reverse relationship with firm performance. Collaborative IT motive works as a moderating variable between information sharing and firm performance. Finally, workflow integration is believed to mediate between relationship factors and firm performance.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.19-45
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• 2005

Collaborative filtering is one of the most common methods that e-commerce sites and Internet information services use to personalize recommendations. Collaborative filtering has the advantage of being able to use even sparse evaluation data to predict preference scores for new products. To date, however, no in-depth investigation has been conducted on how the data sparsity effect in customers' evaluation data affects collaborative filtering-based recommendation performance. In this study, we analyzed the sparsity effect and used a hybrid method based on customers' evaluations and purchases collected from an online bookstore. Results indicated that recommendation performance decreased monotonically as sparsity increased, and that performance was more sensitive to sparsity in evaluation data rather than in purchase data. Results also indicated that the hybrid use of two different types of data (customers' evaluations and purchases) helped to improve the recommendation performance when evaluation data were highly sparse.