• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.111-132
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• 2014

Recently, there have been discussions about the necessity of consumer arbitration such as ADR. The debate has progressed, because this area of arbitration has expanded into the press and medical fields. However, there is not an act for regulating consumer arbitration in South Korea. Thus, this issue has been deliberated at UNCITRAL Working Group III. The core issue of this deliberation is the validity of consumer arbitration. Especially if a pre-dispute arbitration agreement is contracted online, it progresses by using standardized terms; therefore it is possible that the Standardized Terms Regulating Act judges the relevant terms. This thesis consists of the following: First, concepts and categories of arbitration agreements. These include arbitration agreement, pre-dispute arbitration agreement, and arbitration agreement through standardized terms. Second, the validity of the above agreements will be discussed. There are three positions concerning their validity: affirmative as de lege ferenda, negative, and restrictively negative. Similar discussions concerning German law and cases would be helpful to specify and compare the issue. When a consumer arbitration agreement is contracted through standardized terms, it is necessary that the required formality of the agreement has been satisfied, before the effect of the agreement may be regulated by the German Civil Code.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.382-396
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• 2016

This study explores 1) the cultural meanings that television beauty programs deliver, 2) the ways consumers consume TV beauty programs, and 3) the differences in the meaning of television beauty programs according to personality types. An Enneagram was used to define different personality types. The Enneagram explained personalities according to underlying core energies and was useful to grasp consumer behavior. Exploratory data were collected through in-depth interviews of fifteen women in their twenties who watched television beauty programs regularly. The personality types were classified according to three core energies: head-centered, heart-centered, or body-centered. The results were: First, television beauty programs were celebrity-focused, product-focused, and consumer-focused. They were found to help consumers improve their appearance in an appearance-oriented contemporary society by sharing appearance management information. Second, consumers consumed the products from television beauty programs as well as sought a "beautifully transformed self". Third, cultural meanings moved first from a culturally-constituted world to consumer goods through television beauty programs that then moved these goods to the individual consumer through symbolic consumption behavior along with grooming rituals, evaluation practices, appreciation practices, and accounting practices. Symbolic consumption behavior differed with personality type: heartcentered consumers transferred meaning through grooming rituals and appreciation practices, head-centered consumers through evaluation practices, and body-centered consumers through accounting practices.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.415-425
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• 2012

Purpose: ISO 26000 is a newly emerging international standard for corporate social responsibility. This paper aims to derive core subjects of primary concern when introducing and practicing corporate social responsibility. Methods: Perceived performance and importance levels on core subjects in ISO 26000 are investigated, and a survey is conducted from members of organizations having published CSR reports. Frequency analysis, analysis of variance, cross tabulation and IP analysis are used to analyze surveyed data. Results: Items to be improved with high emphasis among 7 core subjects in ISO 26000 are organizational governance for public and private service sectors, fair operating practices for industrial goods manufacturing sectors, and organizational governance and environment for consumer goods manufacturing sectors. Human rights and labor practice are perceived as having high performances in comparison with importance. Conclusion: Organizations should find ways to build social responsibility into their governance systems and procedures with high priority.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.182-193
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to investigate the actual state of introduction and distribution of import apparel and to identify which characteristics of import apparels were different from domestic apparels by analysing consumer's evaluation attitudeto import apparels comparatively. Inaddition, by forming consumer groups who prefered import apparels and who prefered domestic apparels consumer characteristics and factors of each group were investigated. Results of this study are summarized as follows; 1. The degree of recognition of domestic or import well-known apparel brands were both high as 79.1% was to national brandcomparing with 77.0% of import brands. Average holding articles of import apparels were increasing up to 2.08 per person. 2. Consumers gave better evaluation to import apparel in all its aspects. With respects of the economic value and thepractical value, domestic apparel brands were evaluated better than import apparel brands while import apparel brands were evaluated better than domestic apparel brands with respects of design, brand image, and quality value. 3. Consumer group who has preference to import apparel has the tendency of high degree of clothing expenditure and low degree of economical behavior in clothing life st)4e and high degree of brand preferency. Futhermore, such group was not affirmative to negative effect of purchasing import goodsand open-trade policy. 4. Core factors affecting the preference to import apparel were design evaluation attitude, general reluctancy to buying imports, brand-oriented clouting life style, and degree of prossession of import apparel, as enumerated in the order of importance.

• 마케팅과학연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.111-131
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• 2007

브랜드의 중요성이 증대됨에 따라 다양한 브랜드 관련 연구가 이루어지고 있는데, 최근 들어서는 소비자-브랜드 관계가 브랜드 연구의 중심이 되어가고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 소비자-브랜드 관계에 있어서 높은 품질과 지속적인 연대를 가능하게 하는 브랜드 관계 품질의 측정을 다루고 있다. 소비자-브랜드 관계에 대한 대부분의 기존 연구들은 Fournier(1994, 1998)가 제시한 6개 구성요소 또는 하위 차원을 바탕으로 하고 있다. 그러나 많은 연구들에서 소비자-브랜드 관계를 구성하는 6가지의 요소 또는 하위차원들이 소비자-브랜드 관계 품질이라는 하나의 단일차원을 이루고 있는지 확인하지 못한 채 소비자-브랜드 관계를 측정하기 위해 이들 하위차원들을 결합하여 점수를 계산하고서 연구를 진행하고 있다. 이러한 문제와 관련하여 본 연구에서는 소비자-브랜드 관계 품질을 구성하고 있는 상호의존, 몰입, 사랑/정열, 자아연관, 친밀감, 브랜드 파트너 품질 등의 6개의 차원들이 단일차원의 개념인가를 검토하였고, 이를 실증적으로 검토하였다. 구체적으로 본 연구에서는 구성개념들의 하위차원들이 단일차원의 구성개념인가를 검토한 선행연구들(Naver & Slater, 1990; Cronin & Taylor, 1992; Chang & Chen, 1998)에서 사용한 방법론을 활용하여 소비자-브랜드 관계를 구성하는 하위차원들이 단일차원을 이루고 있는가를 살펴보았다. 이러한 실증연구를 통해 소비자-브랜드 관계를 구성하고 있는 6개 차원들의 신뢰성, 수렴타당성, 판별타당성을 확인할 수 있었고, 소비자-브랜드관계를 구성하는 6개의 하위차원들이 단일차원을 이루고 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 연구결과는 소비자-브랜드 관계를 구성하는 6개의 하위차원을 결합하여 소비자-브랜드 관계를 연구하였던 기존 연구들, 소비자-브랜드관계를 구성하는 하위차원을 통합하여 소비자-브랜드 관계를 종합적으로 살펴보려는 여러 연구들에 있어서 방법론상의 실증적 근거를 제시하고 있다.

• 복식
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• 제63권7호
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• pp.148-163
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to examine the attributes and internal structure of fashion brand authenticity, which is a new concept of brand association. For quantitative research, a total of 591 samples of consumer survey were taken from 24th of August to 7th of September, 2009. The results of this study were as follows: 1) The scale for the fashion brand authenticity was developed, which consisted of 33 questions. These questions estimated a total of 8 dimensions, including heritage, authority, relationship to place, consistency, non-popularity, trend leading, originality, and ethics. 2) The internal structure of the fashion brand authenticity was confirmed. The internal structure was constituted into core attributes and promoted attributes. 3) The relationship between the fashion brand authenticity and consumer related variables were found. The core attributes of authenticity were putting positive influence directly on brand loyalty. However, paths through brand attachment or brand commitment were not found. The promoted attributes showed that it had a direct negative influence on brand loyalty, but it has also showed positive influence on paths, which underwent brand attachment and commitment.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권7호
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• pp.2516-2533
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• 2023

Several practical methods for accelerating the depletion calculation in a GPU-based Monte Carlo (MC) code PRAGMA are presented including the multilevel spectral collapse method and the vectorized Chebyshev rational approximation method (CRAM). Since the generation of microscopic reaction rates for each nuclide needed for the construction of the depletion matrix of the Bateman equation requires either enormous memory access or tremendous physical memory, both of which are quite burdensome on GPUs, a new method called multilevel spectral collapse is proposed which combines two types of spectra to generate microscopic reaction rates: an ultrafine spectrum for an entire fuel pin and coarser spectra for each depletion region. Errors in reaction rates introduced by this method are mitigated by a hybrid usage of direct online reaction rate tallies for several important fissile nuclides. The linear system to appear in the solution process adopting the CRAM is solved by the Gauss-Seidel method which can be easily vectorized on GPUs. With the accelerated depletion methods, only about 10% of MC calculation time is consumed for depletion, so an accurate full core cycle depletion calculation for a commercial power reactor (BEAVRS) can be done in 16 h with 24 consumer-grade GPUs.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.119-132
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the perceived motivations of the corporate social marketing to fashion brand and the process of consumer-brand relationship building. In this study, we proposed the hypotheses on the relationships among six focal variables. The collected data were analyzed by frequency analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis and covariance structure analysis with SPSS 12.0 program and AMOS 7.0. 519 complete responses were obtained from core female adults consumers in fashion market. The results were as follows. First, philanthropic motivation significantly affected both benevolence and expert-based trust, but economic motivation significantly affected expert-based trust only. Second, there were significant effects in consumer trust and brand emotion. Third, the brand emotion had a strong influence on brand commitment. The results of this study will help fashion corporations to understand the relative importance of the two different motivations of CSR activities in building consumer-brand relationships.

• 한국유통학회지:유통연구
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.83-107
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• 1996

The concern of external environment is growing up in the field of channel distribution. In the former channel distribution, the channel distribution environment is little bit unmoveable owing to a powerful manufacture control against poor distributor. Therefore intra-efficiency is channel member's core interest. The structure of channel governance, however, come to be changable because of the mature distributor power against manufacturer such as a Price Break, JIT of channel governance, and a serial of change. Accordingly, it is acceptable that the interest of external-environment of channel members' is more and more enlarged, and external-environment change in the channel distribution make the serious problems in intraorganizational system. Thus, it is meaningful that this study try to discover the consumer power as external environment factor and to find the best strategy to overcome this consumer power. Resource dependence theory, Transaction cost theory, Political Economic Approach, and Working partnership Approach are the theory foundation of the reasearch. Apparel franchise is a sample to analyse the hypothesis and correlation and multi-regression are a chief tools to estimate the hypothesis. Thus, the above results imply that a flexible governance is appropriate to consumer power, conflict is not intervening value between consumer power and channel governance, and the channel member's satisfaction can be confirmed in the flexible governance better than control governance.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.181-198
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• 2024

Fashion stress is a pertinent aspect of modern consumer culture that has been underexplored in academic research. This study developed a conceptual framework of fashion stress and a multidimensional scale to measure consumers' fashion stress. The qualitative study included literature reviews on consumption stress, shopping stress, and consumer behavior, as well as focus group interviews to gain insight into various dimensions of fashion stress. NVivo 12.0 was used to analyze the qualitative data and identify core categories following the grounded theory methodology. The quantitative study involved a preliminary and a primary surveys to verify the validity and reliability of the fashion stress scale. A total of 220 questionnaires were used for data analysis. The results show that fashion stress consists of eight factors: care, shopping, fit, brand, financial, closet, style, and disposal. Choice difficulty plays a significant role in all factors of fashion stress. Moreover, shopping stress had a negative impact on impulse buying, while other factors such as fit, brand, closet, and disposal stress had a positive impact on impulse buying. Thus, fashion stress is a potential antecedent of impulsive consumer behavior. The results also confirm the validity and reliability of the scale. The fashion stress scale developed in this study offers researchers a valuable tool for assessing and understanding consumer experiences.