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A Study on the Effect of Market Orientation on Marketing Efficiency, Adaptability of Foodservice Company (외식기업의 시장지향성이 마케팅 효율성과 적응성에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoo, Kyung-Min;Kim, Yi-Su
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.13 no.1 s.32
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    • pp.143-151
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to fine out a relation to the profitability in the view of market-orientation and examine the roles of marketing efficiency and adaptability in foodservice companies. In the previous studies, because of the concepts of market-orientation have mostly focused on hotels or common companies, in this study aimed to foodservice companies. This study was on the basis of Kohli & Jaworski (1990)'s theory. For the validity verification of measured items, SPSS WINDOW 10.0 was used to analyze factors and, for the reliability verification, Cronbach's Alpha coefficient was used. The result was as follows. First, market-orientation has great influence on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Second, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty were acquired for the good marketing efficiency and adaptability in foodservice companies. Thus, from now on, the foodservice company need to carry out the market-orientation concept.

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The Effect of Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction in a Internet Shopping Mall : The Moderating Role of the Internet Community Type (인터넷 쇼핑몰에서 서비스 품질요인이 고객이용만족에 미치는 영향 : 인지된 커뮤니티 유형의 조절효과)

  • Kim Jung Wook;Koh Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.169-184
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    • 2005
  • This study aims to identify service factors that satisfy customers in the internet shopping mail context. The study examines the relationship between service qualify and customer satisfaction, and explores the moderating role of the internet community type (i. e., transaction community group, interest community group and fantasy community group). By analyzing 188 questionnaires, we found that out of the five service quality dimensions, only reliability, tangibility, assurance and responsiveness dimensions have positive effects on customer satisfaction. We also found that there is a significant difference in the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction by the perceived type of internet community implications of the findings and future research directions are discussed.

A Study on the Effects of Service Quality of Korean Tofu Restaurants on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty - Focused on Seoul and Gyeonggi Area- (두부 전문 음식점의 서비스 품질이 고객 만족과 충성도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 - 서울.경기 지역을 중심으로 -)

  • Chang, Dae-Sung;Chae, Gyu-Jin;Kim, Min-Su
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.269-282
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    • 2008
  • Quality is recognized as one of the key components of business strategies. In this respect, this study aims to investigate quality factors that influence customer satisfaction and loyalty in Korean Tofu restaurants and promote the quality improvement in their service operations. The experimental data were collected from the questionnaire answered by 130 customers in Seoul and Kyonggi area. They were statistically analyzed using SPSS Win.12.0. For statistical analysis, frequency, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and regression analyses were conducted. The results of the analyses show that two dimensions such as "empathy" and "IT use" influence the satisfaction of customers. "Empathy", "tangibles", "well-being food", and "customer satisfaction" were identified as critical factors influencing the loyalty of customers.

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The Effects of Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction and e-Loyalty in e-learning Site

  • Han, Dae-Mun;Kim, Yeong-Real;Kim, Jong-Woo;Lee, Jung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.110-113
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of relationships among service quality, customer satisfaction and e-loyalty in e-learning site. In order to achieve the study purpose, survey method was applied As a result. it was revealed that service quality had significant effects on customer satisfaction in e-learning site. The influential factors of service quality on customer satisfaction included convenience of use, personalization, tangibles, responsiveness, and reliability in learning site. In addition, service quality had significant effects on e-loyalty as well.

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An Affection of Blog Service Quality on Service Value and Customer Satisfaction : Focusing on Cyword (블로그 서비스품질이 서비스가치와 고객만족에 미치는 영향 : 싸이월드를 중심으로)

  • Cho, Chul-Ho;Kang, Byung-Suh
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.35-51
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    • 2007
  • In terms of company management for market segmentation and creating new market opportunity, Blog service has much important meanings. This study was designed to investigate the casual relationship among service quality, service value, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty in the given blog service site "Cyworld". Through the empirical results, specific factors of blog service quality were discovered to be amusement, interaction, customization, reliability and convenience. Also rte confirmed that service value intervening between blog service quality and customer satisfaction plays an important role. This paper presents much implications both theoretical and practical side.

Structural Relationships of Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Evaluations of Coffee Shops (커피 전문점의 인지적, 감정적, 그리고 행위적 평가의 구조적 관계)

  • KIM, Jin-Young
    • The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.31-43
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: Service quality is a topic of constant interest in marketing research and practitioners. Service quality is an important factor influencing performance even in the context of coffee shops, and research on service quality management strategies continues by coffee shop researchers and practitioners. The service quality of coffee shops is a source of competitive advantage and is an important factor in enhancing customer and business performance. This study aims to identify the effects of cognitive evaluation on emotional and behavioral responses using a cognitive-emotional-behavioral framework and SOR model in the coffee shop context. Cognitive evaluation (service quality) consists of tangibles, responsiveness, assurance, reliability, and empathy dimensions. Research design, data, and methodology: In the proposed model, positive and negative emotions and satisfaction mediate the relationship between service quality and money to spend and visit frequency. The data were collected from customers who visited a coffee shop within the last 1 month. The survey was conducted for about one month. Among a total of 300 distributed questionnaires 261 responses were used for data analysis. The data were analyzed using frequency analysis, measurement model analysis, and structural equation modeling analysis with SPSS 28.0 and SmartPLS 4.0. Results: Tangibles, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy had significant positive effects on positive emotion, while only reliability had a significant negative effect on negative emotion. Both positive and negative emotions had significant positive effects on customer satisfaction, but not on money to spend and visit frequency. Lastly, customer satisfaction had significant positive effects on money to spend and visit frequency. Conclusions: The study revealed the relative weight of cognitive factors on customer emotions and confirmed the validity of SOR model. The fact that tangibility is the most important factor in increasing positive emotions and reliability is the most important factor in reducing negative emotions provides a direction for emotional branding strategies using the service quality mix of coffee shops. This study confirmed the full mediating role of satisfaction between positive and negative emotions and consumer behaviors (money to spend and visit frequency). This infers that when a coffee shop increases customer satisfaction through customer emotion management, the customer's money to spend and visit frequency in the coffee shop increases.

Assessment of Customer Interruption Cost by Regional Groups for Macro Approach (거시적 방법을 이용한 지역별 정전비용 평가)

  • Park, Choong-Yeul;Huh, Chang-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.124-129
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    • 2005
  • Reliability of electric power supply by power system becomes major issue as the electric power industry is recently being regulated. Also a change of environmental condition related to power supply reliability should be considered in the view of power supplier since the competition between energy-industries is strengthen. In other words, because customers may choose other energy source instead of electric power due to an expensive energy charge, enhancing recklessly the reliability of power supply might not be an essential strategy. So to effectively cope with this problem, it is necessary to perceive the reaction of customers against power supply reliability and interruption cost. This paper evaluates the annual interruption costs of customers by regional groups in Korea using a macro approach to cope with these internal and external environment. That is, the each ratio of customer's interruption costs to price of electric power charge is evaluated for public, service, agricultural, fishery, mining, manufactural, and residential consumption by every cities and provinces.

Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty of Mobile Communication Industry in China (중국이동통신산업중적복무질량(中国移动通信产业中的服务质量), 고객만의도화고객충성도(顾客满意度和顾客忠诚度))

  • Zhang, Ruijin;Li, Xiangyang;Zhang, Yunchang
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.269-277
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    • 2010
  • Previous studies have shown that the most important factor affecting customer loyalty in the service industry is service quality. However, on the subject of whether service quality has a direct or indirect effect on customer loyalty, scholars' views apparently vary. Some studies suggest that service quality has a direct and fundamental influence on customer loyalty (Bai and Liu, 2002). However, others have shown that service quality not only directly affects customer loyalty, it also has an indirect impact on customer loyalty by influencing customer satisfaction and perceived value (Cronin, Brady, and Hult, 2000). Currently, there are few domestic articles that specifically address the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty in the mobile communication industry. Moreover, research has studied customer loyalty as a whole variable, rather than breaking it down further into multiple dimensions. Based on this analysis, this paper summarizes previous study results, establishes an effect mechanism model among service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty in the mobile communication industry, and presents a statistical test on model assumptions by using customer investigation data from Heilongjiang Mobile Company. It provides theoretical guidance for mobile service management based on the discussion of the hypothesis test results. For data collection, the sample comprised mobile users in Harbin city, and the survey was taken by random sampling. Out of a total of 300 questionnaires, 276 (92.9%) were recovered. After excluding invalid questionnaires, 249 remained, for an effective rate of 82.6 percent for the study. Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ coefficient was adapted to assess the scale reliability, and validity testing was conducted on the questionnaire from three aspects: content validity, construct validity. and convergent validity. The study tested for goodness of fit mainly from the absolute and relative fit indexes. From the hypothesis testing results, overall, four assumptions have not been supported. The ultimate affective relationship of service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty is demonstrated in Figure 2. On the whole, the service quality of the communication industry not only has a direct positive significant effect on customer loyalty, it also has an indirect positive significant effect on customer loyalty through service quality; the affective mechanism and extent of customer loyalty are different, and are influenced by each dimension of service quality. This study used the questionnaires of existing literature from home and abroad and tested them in empirical research, with all questions adapted to seven-point Likert scales. With the SERVQUAL scale of Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry (1988), or PZB, as a reference point, service quality was divided into five dimensions-tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy-and the questions were simplified down to nineteen. The measurement of customer satisfaction was based mainly on Fornell (1992) and Wang and Han (2003), ending up with four questions. Based on the study’s three indicators of price tolerance, first choice, and complaint reaction were used to measure attitudinal loyalty, while repurchase intention, recommendation, and reputation measured behavioral loyalty. The collection and collation of literature data produced a model of the relationship among service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty in mobile communications, and China Mobile in the city of Harbin in Heilongjiang province was used for conducting an empirical test of the model and obtaining some useful conclusions. First, service quality in mobile communication is formed by the five factors mentioned earlier: tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy. On the basis of PZB SERVQUAL, the study designed a measurement scale of service quality for the mobile communications industry, and obtained these five factors through exploratory factor analysis. The factors fit basically with the five elements, indicating the concept of five elements of service quality for the mobile communications industry. Second, service quality in mobile communications has both direct and indirect positive effects on attitudinal loyalty, with the indirect effect being produced through the intermediary variable, customer satisfaction. There are also both direct and indirect positive effects on behavioral loyalty, with the indirect effect produced through two intermediary variables: customer satisfaction and attitudinal loyalty. This shows that better service quality and higher customer satisfaction will activate the attitudinal to service providers more active and show loyalty to service providers much easier. In addition, the effect mechanism of all dimensions of service quality on all dimensions of customer loyalty is different. Third, customer satisfaction plays a significant intermediary role among service quality and attitudinal and behavioral loyalty, indicating that improving service quality can boost customer satisfaction and make it easier for satisfied customers to become loyal customers. Moreover, attitudinal loyalty plays a significant intermediary role between service quality and behavioral loyalty, indicating that only attitudinally and behaviorally loyal customers are truly loyal customers. The research conclusions have some indications for Chinese telecom operators and others to upgrade their service quality. Two limitations to the study are also mentioned. First, all data were collected in the Heilongjiang area, so there might be a common method bias that skews the results. Second, the discussion addresses the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty, setting customer satisfaction as mediator, but does not consider other factors, like customer value and consumer features, This research will be continued in the future.

Customer Satisfaction and Relationship Marketing according to Service Quality of Men's Character Casual Clothing Brand Stores (남성 캐쥬얼 웨어 점포의 서비스품질에 따른 고객만족과 관계 마케팅)

  • 신수연;류인숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.27 no.11
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    • pp.1179-1189
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    • 2003
  • This study had a focus on service quality, customer satisfaction and relationship orientation. The subjects of this study were: 1) to examine the conceptual structure of service quality perceived by males consumers of character clothing brands, 2) to examine of the service quality on customer satisfaction, and 3)to examine relationship between customer satisfaction and relationship orientation. The questionnaire was collected between October, 28 and November, 8 in 2002. Samples of 271 respondents were obtained. The sample consisted of males in their twenties and thirties who had a experience on buying character clothing brands in Seoul. To analyze the data, reliability analysis, percentage, frequency analysis, factor analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were applied. The results were as followings: 1) As a result of factor analysis, the service quality were identified by four dimensions: environmental service, personal service, products service, and promotion service. 2) As a result of correlation analysis and regression analysis, the service quality had a positive influence on customer satisfaction. Especially products service was the most important factor for customer satisfaction, followed by environmental service. 3) As a result of correlation analysis, customer satisfaction had a positive influence on relationship orientation.

A Study on the Effect of Nonverbal Communication of Airline's Flight Crew on Customer Attitudes

  • Lee, Yun-Young;Park, Hye-Yoon
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2018
  • Purpose - This study focuses on the quality of nonverbal communication by the flight attendants at the airline, and the factors that contribute to improve customer behavior, thereby providing positive implications for corporate management. Research, design, data, and methodology - For the empirical analysis of this study, reliability analysis and frequency analysis were conducted. T-test and ANOVA analyses were performed. In addition, the effects of nonverbal communication have on customer behavior have regressed analysis. The collected data was empirical suing the SPSS Win 18.0. Results - Among the non-verbal communication qualities were found to significantly influence customer attitudes, and demographic differences in airline flight attendants were also shown to influence their perceptions. Empirical analysis revealed significant differences in demographic characteristics between gender, age and airlines used. Conclusions - All of the non-verbal communication's attributes were found to significantly impact customer attitude. It is used to train the importance of nonverbal communication quality for the role of cabin crew members and to enhance the loyalty of the customers to Airline. This study identifies the relationship between the impact of non-verbal communication quality on customer attitudes and implies the importance of non-verbal communication quality for airline flight attendants. Also, this study suggests that there is a close mechanism between the nonverbal communication and the customer attitudes to airlines.