• Title/Summary/Keyword: Corporate Contribution Conduct

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The Effect of Corporation Cultural Support Activities in Customer Loyalty : Focus on Mediating Role of Corporate Image (기업의 문화지원 활동이 고객충성도에 미치는 영향 : 기업이미지의 매개역할을 중심으로)

  • Hwang, Rak-Gun
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.41-54
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    • 2019
  • Today, companies are supporting filed of culture and art forms as part of its social contribution activities to cultural support. Also, improvement of commercial interests and profit structure for enhancing the image of support taking shape at the same time, such as a strategic approach. Culture of companies in building confidence and enhance its operational activity is the image of the positive effect that charitable point of view social contribution projects and strategic point of view of culture support activity. Therefore, corporate culture in the study formed in supporting a variety of factors recognized the importance, culture support for business activity is the image of the factors which are behavior, social responsibility actions, corporate contributions to analyze the impact. Then the company's corporate image formed by supporting a culture and see if any influence on customer loyalty to carry out an empirical study. The conclusions of this study are as follows: first of all, corporate culture support activity is affecting contributions to corporate social responsibility actions and behavior of the corporate image, and image formed to consumers has shown to have a positive impact on customer loyalty. Second, corporate image formed by supporting a culture wac shown to have a positive impact on customer loyalty.

Affecting Customer Loyalty by Improving Corporate Image and Customer Value through Corporate Social Responsibility Activities (기업의 사회적 책임활동을 통한 기업이미지 및 고객가치 향상이 고객충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jong-Ho;Hwang, Hee-Joong;Song, In-Am
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - Recently, a variety of activities for practicing the continuing management of domestic and foreign companies have been conducted and further, corporate social responsibility for maximizing the value of stakeholders such as customers, cooperative companies, and the local community emerges as a key business strategy. Accordingly, the issue of whether corporate image and customer value through corporate social responsibility activities positively affect customer loyalty and customer attitude is investigated in this study. Research design, data, and methodology - Corporate social responsibility activities are classified into legal and moral activities, environmental protection activities, economic activities, and community service activities; further, customer values are classified into emotional value, functional value, and social value, to determine the parameters. In addition, the strategic approach direction of social responsibility activities is justified as a strategy for effectively achieving the expected results that corporations seek by proving the effect of these parameters on customer loyalty. Results - The study results can be summarized as follows. First, legal and moral activities, environmental protection activities, economic activities, and community service activities are four types of CSR activities affecting meaningful improvements in corporate image. Second, legal and moral activities affect factors that meaningfully improve customer value, including factors such as emotional value, functional value, and social value, while environmental protection activities affect improvements in the factor of social value only. Third, corporate image affects meaningful improvements in customer value. Fourth, corporate image affects improvements in customer loyalty positively. Fifth, the three factors of customer value, that is, emotional value, functional value, and social value affect meaningful improvements in customer loyalty. Sixth, customer value acts to partly mediate the effect of companies' CSR activities on customer loyalty. As shown in the study results above, it was verified that CSR activities affect meaningful improvements in corporate image and customer value and, in turn, corporate image and customer value affect meaningful improvements in customer loyalty. In addition, it was verified that customer value acts to partly mediate the effects of companies' CSR activities on customer value. Conclusions - Accordingly, the results of this study suggests as follows. First, it was clearly verified that customers' recognition of CSR efforts has a positive effect on corporate image, customer value, and loyalty because CSR activities improve the relationships between customers and corporations by providing customers with value. Second, it was suggested that corporations implement social contribution activities strategically according to the theory that the higher the rate of CSR activities, the better the corporate image and repurchase intention would be, which is a theory verified through practical analysis. Corporations should do this by constructing positive relationships from the value perceived by customers. To summarize the study results in a brief manner, it is suggested by the results of the study that a corporation should conduct CSR more actively to make customers recognize the positive image of their products and services.

Sustainability Criteria Identified in the Global Sourcing Practices of Global Fashion Retailers (글로벌 패션 기업의 해외 소싱 프로세스에서 나타난 지속 가능성 기준)

  • Lee, Ji Yeon
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.206-216
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    • 2022
  • This study sought to examine the sustainability criteria found in the global sourcing practices of global fashion retailers. Sustainable supply chain management, with a particular focus on the sustainability criteria of global sourcing, was analyzed. This qualitative study was based on a focus group interview and corporate social responsibility (CSR) annual reports. Eight master categories, 18 middle categories, and 37 bottom categories were extracted. The key categories and their middle categories were as follows: (1) Social compliance (working conditions, employment, safety); (2) Environment concerns (environmental pollution management, eco-friendly production, supply chain environment); (3) Energy efficiency (energy saving program, store environment); (4) Consumer protection (restricted substances management, consumer product safety improvement); (5) Management system (code of conduct, triangle audit system); (6) Community social activities (local community service, voluntary activities, charitable activities); (7) External stakeholder engagement (media & non-governmental organization management, maintenance of relationship with local authority); (8) Brand protection (respect for companies' intellectual property). The findings of this study offer academically significant insights into the sustainability criteria that can be encountered by companies under diverse global sourcing scenarios, revealing that global sourcing by fashion retailers is not merely a means of reducing costs, but a way of generating new jobs and making a social contribution to developing countries. The study's findings also have practical significance, offering guidelines for general CSR activities in the global sourcing process.

A Study on the Forward Method of "Single PPM Quality Innovation" for Special types : Focused on Mold Industry (특수 업종에서의 "싱글PPM 품질혁신" 추진 방법에 관한 연구 : 금형산업을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Tae-Min;Shin, Hyun-Jae
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.85-95
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    • 2007
  • Single PPM Quality Innovation activity made a great contribution to strengthening the quality competitiveness and the international competitiveness for the domestic small and medium enterprises. But it doesn't work to companies that deal with the particular products for the difficulties during the promotion and the business management. Then, SQ-Mark, which is currently adopted to domestic automobile companies, was benchmarked and studied for its accessibility and solutions. Quality Innovation activity in the particular industry is requested to conduct the confirmation and the inspection in deeper level caused by the specialty of product itself, product engineering manufacturing processes. This study improved 6 steps of the Single PPM activity so that the Single PPM Quality Innovation activity is progressed well for the Mold industry especially among the particular industries. It shows the improvement to the management of the delivery schedule, which has been problematic, if adopted to the relating industries based on this study, it is anticipated to help the corporate operation much.