• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.51-73
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• 2012

Social network services based on openness, connectedness, and mass participation are reshaping many aspects of how companies conduct business and create value for their customers. For instance, Facebook and Twitter are expected to play a pivotal role as a new communication channel through which companies-forge close relationships with their customers for co-creation of value for mutual benefits. Given the potential of social network services, it is not surprising that many companies have strategically invested in social network services to reach out to customers. Despite the growing interest in social network services as a platform to connect companies and their customers, few guidelines exist about how managers can effectively utilize social network services in forging relationships with their customers. As such, scholars should pay greater attention to how firms can successfully develop relationships with their customers on social network services. In particular, this study employs the S-O-R (stimulus-organism-response) framework as a theoretical lens to develop a research model that explains customers' participation in the value co-creation platform that companies opened on Twitter. According to the S-O-R framework, certain types of individuals' behaviors can be best understood based on a causal link from environmental stimulus to organism, and response. We apply the S-O-R framework to understand how ubiquitous connectivity (stimuli) can influence customers' experience (organism) with companies on Twitter, which in turn influence their participation behavior (response). Two steps have been undertaken to empirically test the research model. First, we conducted a content analysis of tweets written by customers who follow companies on Twitter. As a result, we found event/promotion participation, company support, and giving feedback as three specific types of customer participation behavior. Second, we conducted a web-based survey to test research hypotheses in the research model. Participations in the survey were solicited to customers who followed companies on Twitter. As a result, a total of 115 respondents have completed the survey. Data were analyzed using the partial least square (PLS) technique. The results of data analysis suggest that ubiquitous connectivity (stimuli) had strong positive effects on perceive usefulness, perceived enjoyment, and perceived intimacy (organism). Perceived intimacy showed positive effects on customer participation behavior (response), such as event participation, company support, and giving feedback. Perceived enjoyment was found to have strong positive effects on company support and giving feedback. On the other hand, perceived usefulness did not have significant impacts on the three types of customer participation behavior.

• 산학경영연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.81-108
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• 2005

최근 인터넷 환경이 보편화되면서 마케팅 활동에 있어서 고객들의 참여현상은 폭발적으로 일어나고 있다. 과거 고객들은 단순히 제품을 수용할 것인지, 수용하지 않을 것인지 만을 결정하였으나 이제 고객들은 자신이 쓸 제품을 직접 설계하고 기업에게 해당 제품을 자신들이 희망하는 가격에 만들어 줄 것을 요구하는 단계에 이르고 있다. 이렇듯 인터넷 환경의 마케팅 프로세스에 있어서 고객참여 현상은 폭발적으로 일어나고 있으나 이에 대한 학술적인 논의는 충분하지 않은 편이다. 본 연구에서는 고객참여에 대한 기존 문헌을 고찰하여 과거 오프라인 환경에서의 고객 참여 전략에 대한 논의와 그 활용의 한계를 지적하고, 인터넷 환경에서의 고객 참여 전략을 새롭게 재조명해야 할 필요성을 제기하였다. 또한 인터넷 환경에서 기업이 고객 참여 활동을 활용할 수 있는 구체적인 전략을 제시하였다 본 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 고객 참여에 관한 기존 연구의 고찰을 통하여 마케팅 측면에 있어서 고객 참여의 개념과 형태를 정의하고, 기존 연구의 흐름과 방향을 정리하였다. 또한 오프라인상의 고객 참여의 한계 요인을 지적하여 많은 기대에도 불구하고 실제 오프라인에서 고객 참여가 활성화되지 못했던 원인을 규명하였다. 둘째, 인터넷 환경의 도입으로 인하여 오프라인 상에서 고객 참여가 활성화되지 못했던 제약 요인들이 쉽게 해결될 수 있음을 제시하였고, 이로 인하여 기업과 고객과의 관계에 있어서 고객의 주도적 참여 현상이 급격하게 확산될 수밖에 없음을 제시하였다. 셋째, 급격하게 증가하고 있는 고객들의 참여 욕구를 기업의 성과로 가져가기 위한 방법론을 제안하였다. 인터넷 환경에서 고객 참여가 실질적인 기업의 성과로 이어지기 위해서 기업은 스스로의 생산물을 제품이 아닌 생산 프로세스로 다시 정의할 필요가 있으며, 고객의 참여를 고려하여 프로세스를 재구조화 할 필요가 있음을 지적하였다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.47-74
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• 2015

Purpose By participating in the business ecosystems, customers make both positive and negative impacts in the ecosystem. In particular, users of platform businesses participate in the business ecosystem as partial employees who voluntarily create and manage content. According to the organizational behavior literature, employees' psychological ownership toward the organization has an influence on the organizational competitiveness. Thus, with an assumption that customers gain psychological ownership toward the business that they participate in, it is important to analyze the process and the factors that influence their psychological ownership. This study proposes a research model that describes the process: customers undertake customer socialization, which then lead them to participate in the business-level and the business ecosystem-level activities. Through the participation, customers gain psychological ownership toward the business. Design/methodology/approach Based on a structural equation model, this study analyzes the data regarding the factors in the research model. Data was collected by surveying college students who represent themselves as Facebook and DaumKakao users. By analyzing the collected data, the relationships are validated between customer socialization and customer participations (i.e., both business-level and business ecosystem-level participation), and between the participations and customers' psychological ownership. Findings Based on the validation, this study confirms the importance of managing customers' psychological ownership and offers customers' participation by their socialization as a solution for increasing customers' psychological ownership. Also, this study proposes the business ecosystem research model as the general research framework for future research and expands the scope of strategic management from the individual level strategy to the business ecosystem wide perspective.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.19-47
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• 2006

디지털 환경이 보편화됨에 따라 고객들은 기업과의 관계에 있어서 보다 적극적이고 참여적으로 변화하고 있다. 이에 따라 과거 산업 혁명 이후에 형성된 기업위주의 고객-기업 간의 관계가 깨지고 고객들이 고객- 기업 간의 관계를 주도하는 현상들을 주변에서 쉽게 찾아볼 수 있게 되었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 고객이 주도하는 새로운 고객-기업간 관계구조의 형성 가능성에 대하여 디지털 환경을 중심으로 구체적으로 모델을 설정하고 실증을 통하여 그 가능성을 검토하였다. 연구의 결과 디지털 환경의 정보개방성, 연결성, 공동체 상호작용, 구조 명확성의 특성이 고객의 정보 공유 의도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 가상 커뮤니티를 기반으로 한 연구에서는 고객의 정보 공유로 인하여 축적된 제품 속성 정보와 소비 경험 정보가 집단 효능감을 매개로 고객들의 적극적인 관계 구조 변화 노력인 리버스 마케팅에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 디지털 환경은 장기적으로 고객 주도적인 고객-기업 간의 관계가 형성될 수 있는 기반을 마련하여 주고 있다고 볼 수 있으며, 점차 고객-기업 간의 관계의 주도권은 고객으로 이전될 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 향후 연구 과제로서 고객-기업 간 관계가 고객 주도적으로 변화한 이후의 마케팅 프로세스와 기업의 마케팅 시스템에 대한 연구가 필요함을 제안하고 있다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.75-104
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• 2016

Purpose The business ecosystem perspective offers a new lens in which to view customers. Customers as the member of business ecosystems influence firms by participating in both the firm level activities and the business ecosystem level activities. For example, customers participate in the business ecosystems by forming interest groups, allowing their voice to be heard the within business ecosystems. Customers can also, turn public opinion around and foster the business ecosystems favorable to firms. On the other hand, as an extreme case of customer participation, customers can engage in community activities to boycott the purchase of products or services from certain firms or business ecosystems. Design/methodology/approach This study views content creation and feedback activities as customer participation in the firm level. On the other hand, word-of-mouth (WOM) and boycott activities are considered as customer participation in the business ecosystem level. This study presents a research model regarding the relationships among customer socialization, customer participation, and psychological ownership. The proposed model is validated through an empirical analysis on online platform business ecosystems. Findings When the two business ecosystems are compared, different results were drawn. In the Facebook ecosystem, boycott and psychological ownership did not have a significant relationship. However, in the Kakao ecosystem, the two had a significant positive relationship. The mediating effect of the business ecosystem type sheds a light on the mission, purpose, vision, and other values associated with the theory of the business on the customer-firm relationship. Further implications for theory and practice were discussed in this study.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.1438-1449
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• 2008

The current research investigates customers' voluntary participation, using a sample of 446 consumers who visit fashion retail stores. The main focus of this study is to test a social exchange CVP model, including three antecedents of customers' perceived justice through mediators of service satisfaction and brand commitment. In support of the proposed model, I identify fully mediated relationships from interactional justice to the three CVP via service satisfaction and brand commitment and partially mediated relationship from distributive justice to the three CVP through brand commitment. No mediated relationship found for procedural justice neither through service satisfaction nor brand commitment to the CVP behaviors. The results generally support that the significantly indirect effects of perceived justice to the three CVP and satisfaction and commitment are the important mediators in between. The concept of justice can be interpreted in light of the normative value of social exchange relationship.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.5721-5727
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 SI 프로젝트에 참여하는 내부조직 구성원들 즉, 고객사 조직구성원들이 얼마나 열심히 참여하는가에 초점을 두고 조직구성원의 참여가 IT 프로젝트의 만족도와 성과에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 분석하고자 한다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 K 은행의 차세대 인터넷 뱅킹 구축 프로젝트를 대상으로 연구를 수행하였다. 연구 결과, IT부서의 참여도 및 현업부서의 참여도가 모두 프로젝트 만족도에 매우 유의하게 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 이러한 만족도는 시스템 성과와 산출물 성과에 모두 매우 유의한 긍정적 영향을 주는 것으로 검증되었으며, 이러한 연구결과에 대한 실무적, 학문적 시사점을 제시하였다.

• 한국조리학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.120-131
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the structural relationship between customers' perception of authenticity, justice, customer commitment, and customer behavior in franchise coffee shops. To test the hypotheses of the study, a total of 428 customers in Korea were considered in an empirical analysis using a two-step structural equation model (SEM) approach. In particular, employees' authenticity had relatively great influence on customers' continuous and affective commitment and their justice had greater influence on customers' normative commitment. Also, customers' continuous commitment, normative commitment, and affective commitment significantly influence customer participation behavior, while normative commitment and affective commitment have a significant effect customer citizenship behavior. Research thus far divided justice and authenticity into separate concepts and examined relation with customer commitment or behaviors but the present study put cognitive process of justice and emotional process of authenticity on the same line and evaluated their different influence on customer commitment and behaviors, thereby verifying that not justice perceived by customers induced desirable customer behaviors but authenticity they felt with their heart played a more superior role in customer commitment or behaviors. This means that authentic services rather than justice induce customers' positive behaviors.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

In this study, the structure model including the role of servicescape focusing on service participation and customer experience in theme park service is demonstrated empirically. The servicescape construct of theme park service includes three factors such as ambient atmosphere, functionality and layout, and sign, symbols etc. Customer service participation includes suggestion, passion and citizenship. And the emotional and convenience factors are included to customer experience. As an analysis result of examining the 241 respondents of university students, some implications were described. Customer satisfaction is greatly influenced by customer's participation in theme park service, and customer's participation has a significant effect on improving customer satisfaction by inducing customer experiences. It is desirable to consider servicescape priority in order of signs and symbols, ambient atmosphere, functionality and layout factor. The customer's participation in service is a passion for participation, citizenship, and suggesting for problems or improvements. Therefore, participants in planning and designing servicescape in the future, including IT services, should be creative in the direction of inducing various participations of customers and creating positive experiences for customers. In order to apply these findings to the composition of servicescape, the participation of various experts is required. Also, the expertise and competences of various fields must be gathered for each issues, and a more creative and scientific approach is required.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.71-90
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• 2003

가상공동체는 고객을 유치하고 고객 충성도를 구축하며 상거래를 활성화하는 데 중요한 역할을 수행한다고 한다. 가상공동체의 중요성이 업계 및 여러 개념연구에서 지적되어온 데 비하여 여기에 대한 마케팅 관점의 연구는 매우 부족하고, 특히 가상공동체 참여에 이르게 하는 선행변수와 그 결과에 대한 실증연구는 매우 부족한 상황에 있다. 이 연구는 이러한 배경을 인식하여 가상공동체 사용자의 참여동기가 공동체의식(Sense of Community)에 미치는 영향과 공동체의식이 당해 웹사이트에 대한 충성도 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 분석하였다. 가상공동체에 가입하여 활동하고 있는 개인을 대상으로 서베이를 실시하였고 196부의 설문지를 분석하였다. 연구 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 참여동기는 공동체의식에 유의적 영향을 미치며, 특히 지각된 사용 용이성과 재미가 중요한 역할을 한다. 둘째, 공동체의식은 충성도에 긍정적 영향을 미치고 특히 '소속 및 유대감'은 매우 큰 역할을 수행한다. 셋째, 공동체의식은 구매의도에 직접 영향을 미치지 않는다. 넷째, 충성도는 구매의도에 한계적이지만 긍정적인 영향을 미친다.