• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.229-242
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• 2022

Creating a new retailing environment to meet the seamless experience requirements of consumers is a challenge for Omnichannel-related businesses. Based on the "appraisal-emotion-response" chain, the purpose of this research is to explore the psychological mechanism of omnichannel integration influencing customer retention and the moderating effect of customer showrooming experience. This research uses a structural equation model in partial least square software to analyze a two-stage survey (Study 1: n = 210; Study 2: n = 342) conducted in China. The results show that channel control experience has three dimensions: perceived channel attribute familiarity, channel type matching, and cross-channel access convenience; consistent interactive experience has two dimensions: information cross-channel consistency and cross-channel service support. Furthermore, both channel control experience and consistent interactive experience are favorable for customer retention through increased customer satisfaction (transactional and retailer satisfaction). Finally, customer showrooming experience positively moderates the relationship between consistent interactive experience and customer satisfaction. This research proposes a self-regulation process model to explain how omnichannel integration enhances consumers' experience, finally leading to consumer retention. The findings contribute to the omnichannel retail business literature and provide management implications for Asian retailers to implement an omnichannel business strategy.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.71-85
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• 2016

Service channel environments have changed dramatically with the advent of new, online digital channels. This article studies the effects of perceived multi-channel service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty in the banking industry and the moderating role of age, which is a characteristic of customers. The objective is to identify the quality factors that affect the overall satisfaction and loyalty of a multi-channel customer. A quantitative study was conducted on 900 customers, with the main targets being users of the nine primary Korean retail banks. Results show that perceived service quality of the physical environment, human service, Internet banking, mobile banking, and ATM has a positive influence on overall satisfaction and loyalty. Age moderates the relationship among physical environment quality, human service, and customer loyalty.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.33-45
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• 2002

With the advance of information technology, it is possible to build the interactive communication channel among relationship participants with low cost, and this channel makes ties between consumers and company by enabling information sharing and exchange. In order to maintain customer relationship, it is necessary to support customer information that includes of-the-customer, for-the-customer, and by-the-customer information. From the three types of customer information, the proper information for the relationship management like the level and type of commitment can be extracted. Customer Information System (CIS), which includes database, communication channel, application program, should be designed to facilitate the customer relationship management. Since lots of investments to information system are required, it is not easy to implement. This paper develops a framework of dynamic customer relationship management and suggests an effective information technology strategy to support that.

• CRM연구
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.41-51
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• 2009

VIP marketing has recently become the main concern in the field of marketing, which could increase customer loyalty and sales through providing customers in the top 20% with customized services. In this study, some cases of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology based VIP channel management are introduced and analyzed in the technology point of view. As a result of case studies, it has been shown what the companies may consider when applying RFID technology in customer relationship management (CRM) and its general scenario. As one of the AIDC(Automatic Identification and Data Capture) technologies, RFID can enable to identify humans or objects with radio frequency and is being widely used to many industrial areas such as logistics, delivery, inventory management, and so on. If this technology is applied to CRM as a new channel for customer management, it will be possible to provide an individual customer with various types of intelligent services customized to his or her spending habits. RFID for CRM channel management is still in its early stages, but it is sure that RFID technology will be an useful tool to manage customers including especially VIP in many businesses and capture important information applicable to marketing campaign in the near future.

• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.7-19
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aims to examine customer experience toward repurchase intention in offline and online stores and discuss customer satisfaction as a mediator variable. Research design, data, and methodology: This study investigates customer experience that consists of product, customer service, staff service, shopping environment and shopping procedure toward customer satisfaction using Regression Linear. This study also measures customer satisfaction as a mediated variable in the relationship between customer experience and repurchase intention using Sobel Test. Results: Almost all of the customer experience hypothesis is significant toward customer satisfaction, shopping process experience in the context of the online channel to customer satisfaction is not significant. We also found that customer satisfaction can be mediated variable in customer experience toward repurchase intention. Conclusions: Retails who want to make customers feel satisfied to have to make sure that have good resources in improving the product, the customer service is easy to contact to find the solution over customer problem in purchasing product, also develop the staff member skill in functional product knowledge, presentations, and communicating with customers online or offline, the retailer has to create enjoyment and pleasurable customer emotion through the shopping environment and also give seamless shopping experience to their customer in two-channel.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.15-38
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• 2014

This paper explores the influence of pursuing goals on customer channel preference in Chinese rural market. With the rapid change in distribution channels and increase in multi-channels, it is necessary to understand the preference for channel choice as well as product choice. This study empirically validated the conceptual framework of the relationship between the pursuing goals and customer channel choice proposed by Balasubramanian, Raghunathan, and Mahajan (2005). Based on the survey data of 232 fertilizer customers in Chinese rural market, this study explores how economic, social, and psychological pursuing goals can impact customer channel preference by mediating variables of product utility and process utility. The results indicate that pursuing goals positively related with product utility and process utility, and product / process utility can mediate the relationship between pursuing goals and customer channel preference positively. Consequently, we can conclude that customers' economic-social-psychological pursuing goals can directly influence customer channel preference via their purchase process utility and product utility. This result also implies that product utility is effective on process utility during consumer's buying decision making, and process utility and product utility are not mutually independent. Therefore, purchase process utility is a "latent driving force" on customer's channel choice decision.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.29-43
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• 2004

This research analyzed multi-channel strategy from the viewpoint of the customer relationship management. We hypothesized that the purchase frequency, monetary, purchase quantity of the existing customers should have increased after they used multiple channels of a company for shopping, All the hypothesis were supported in an empirical test using the customer database of a Korean TV home-shopping company, The result showed that the multi-channel strategy can be used to increase the life-time value of existing customers. Still there were a lot of customers who insists using traditional channel, which calls for a new strategy inducing them to use multi- channel for shopping.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.633-638
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• 2004

Main purpose of existing VOC (the voice of customer) analysis is suppressing the VOC occurrence. But, in real situation, it is impossible to reduce the VOC occurrence to the zero level. Company's strategy to decrease specific customer complaints may cause another customer's complaints increase. Especially, in a financial industry, customer complaints are directly connected with company's profit. That is, the VOC from their profitable customer, product and channel is major concern of companies. In this paper, 1 reveal the relationship between CRM (customer relationship management) activity and VOC analysis and various analysis methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.5 s.153
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• pp.788-799
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to analyze fashion merchandising process, to apply customer information in merchandising process and to examine customer management strategies of fashion industry in on-line and off-line channel. In depth, face to face interviews with structured questionnaires were conducted with MD and customer managers from selected 4 brands, one from each categories of men's, women's, casual and sports wear. Key findings of the study were as follows: First, they followed fashion merchandising process of 18 steps and collected trend information and sales data were applied to planning, selling/promoting process to plan season concept, design, and promotion activity. Second, commonly applied customer information types in fashion merchandising process were all from indirect information collected from sales data and forecasting companies. However, casual and sports wear conducted consumer monitoring activity f3r collecting customer data directly from customer participation. Third, in off-line channel, customers are segmented by amount of purchase they make in a specific time period and all the categories show high interest in valuable customers. However, only men's and woman's wear conducted promotion activities for valuable customers as a differentiated marketing strategy. In on-line channel, companies were interacting with the customers through internet web site to determine their demands. In conclusion, this study has significance in that it propose the necessity and strategy of differentiated customer management approaching by analyzing and comparing fashion merchandising activity process cases.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.665-684
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test and verify on the interrelationship among Service Quality, and Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty in the Humidifier Goods industry. Especially, we study on the relative importance of each CS variables by distribution channel. Nowadays, most of manufacturing companies are proceeding the product servitization, which is combined service contents with product characteristics in the field of manufacturing industries. Methods: We surveyed humidifier purchaser about the some of CS variables and analyzed it using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 as a statistical analysis tool. We use the frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, multi-regression analysis and structural equation modeling analysis for our empirical study. Results: As the result of study, we find that Service Quality(SQ) influence Customer Satisfaction(CS) and CS influence Customer Loyalty(CL). Also, we verify that CS works mediate interaction on the effects between SQ and CL. And there are the significant relative effect of SQ to Customer Satisfaction in some of distribution channel. Conclusion: Finally, we make certain that the market size of the Humidifier goods industry will be increased rapidly. And the distribution channe l is more important to medium and small-sized enterprise. So, we have to pay attention to the study on the distribution channel of the Humidifier goods industry. And then, we expect more researches and studies on Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction in the field of manufacturing industries.