• 한국의류학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.33-52
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• 2020

Some consumers question the safety of imported fashion products. We examine the effects of the use of an ecolabel, product category, and country of origin on consumer responses such as perceived physical risk, attitude towards a product, subjective norm, and intention to purchase imported fashion products. A sample of 508 adults in their 30s to 40s participated in online survey experiments. The survey experiments used 2 (the use of the ecolabel vs no label) × 4 (country of origin: China, Dominican Republic, Norway, and the United States) between-subjects and 4 (product category: men/women's wear, children's wear, underwear, and accessories) within-sub-jects factorial design. A total of 32 product-catalog images (stimuli) and eight versions of the questionnaire were developed. The use of the ecolabel is identified as having a significantly lower perceived physical risk than the no-label. The consumers' perceived physical risk also differs depending on product category and country of origin. Consumers perceive a higher physical risk about children's wear and underwear than other product categories as well as fashion products sourced from developing countries than from developed countries. The reduction of physical risk is found to facilitate consumers' purchase decision-making process.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.1622-1632
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• 2009

This study investigates the influence of the innovativeness of consumers on extended products in brand extensions. 300 surveys were distributed and 283 were used in the final analysis. The results of this study show that consumers evaluate similar product category (i.e., sportswear) better than a dissimilar category (i.e., cosmetics) in brand extension. In addition, innovative consumers evaluated extended product better regardless of similarity with the original brand. The results showed that consumers with higher level of innovativeness were less likely to evaluate differently between a similar product and dissimilar product categories in apparel brand extension.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.470-480
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• 2006

본 연구의 주요주제는 온라인으로 제시되는 정보의 품질이다. 특히 제품의 태나 맞음새 등의 제품 품질이 불완전하게 평가될 수밖에 없는 의류제품의 온라인 쇼핑의 경우 제시되는 제품의 정보가 구매결정에 매우 중요한 단서가 된다. 온라인 제품정보에 대한선행연구가 주로 정보의 수량에 치우친 반면 본 연구에서는 중요성의 가중치로 제품정보의 품질을 알아보았다. 또한 이러한 과정에서 의류제품의 범주나 소비자들의 관여 정도가 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 실증적 연구를 위하여 13가지의 정보가 선정되었고 복종의 영향을 알아보기 위해 청바지와 티셔츠를 판매하는 상황을 가정 한 웹페이지가 설계되었다. 125명의 미국대학생들이 실험연구에 참여하였다. 연구결과 복종에 관계없이 중요한 기준들은 가중치 순서대로 사이즈, 가격, 스타일, 색상, 치수, 재고유무, 제품품질로 나타났다. 섬유조성, 직조방법, 개인화 등의 정보는 복종에 따라 중요도의 가중치가 다른 정보였다. 소비자의 의복관여는 복종에 따라 제품정보의 가중치에 다른 영향을 주었는데 티셔츠의 경우 고관여소비자는 재고유무정보에 보디-민감하며 재고유무와 사이즈 정보에는 덜 민감하였다. 청바지의 경우 고관여소비자는 섬유조성과 색상정보에 민감한 반면 직조방법이나 가격에는 상대적으로 덜 민감한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.41-61
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• 2011

In order to buy products through the Internet, consumers dissipate much time and efforts in collecting and comparing product information from various online shopping malls. Consumers can save their efforts by using price comparison sites, but there are some shortcomings in comparison shopping. Firstly, comparison sites do not show the lowest price of some products that are selling in shopping malls. Secondly, the product information provided by comparison sites is sometimes wrong. Thirdly, there are too many results. In order to overcome the shortcomings, we suggested a comparison shopping system based on RSS by using ontology matching. We used the current RSS standard for syntactic interoperability instead of suggesting new standards. Moreover, we used ontology matching for semantic interoperability to compare product information with different ontologies. The suggested ontology matching consists of three steps. The first step is finding exact sense from WordNet for a given product category, and the second step is searching for matching product category candidates from the products of RSS feeds. The final step is calculating similarities of the candidates with the target product category. From the experiments, we could get better recall rates that are suitable for e-commerce environments and the results show that our system is effective in product comparison.

• 경영과학
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.15-33
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• 2017

This paper considers a Bayesian Network analysis for understanding the heterogeneous cross-category effects of different promotion activities and developing an efficient overall promotion strategy for a large retail store. More specifically we differentiate price reduction promotion and floor promotion and study their heterogeneous effect on consumer purchase behavior under a market basket setting. We then utilize Bayesian networks in identifying complex association structure in market basket dataset by analyzing the effects of different promotional activities and also include the effects of time, family income and size. We find from our Bayesian network analysis that the dominant cross-category promotion effect of price promotion is the indirect effect whereas the dominant cross-category promotion effect of floor promotion is the direct effect. Also, among the demographic variables we find that family size of the household is linked with more product categories compared to income and see that there are differences in the extent of the effects by product category. Finally, we also show the existence of products acting as a network hub and how they can be utilized by retailers faced with a limited marketing budget and suggest a more efficient promotion strategy.

• International Journal of Costume and Fashion
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-35
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate the benefits sought by luxury good customers contingent on product category, and to understand the relationship between the benefits sought and brand loyalty. A qualitative approach was used; therefore in-depth interviews were conducted with seven panels of professionals in the luxury industry. The findings are as follows: 1) Handbag customers mainly seek the social benefits in order to express their social status by purchasing well-known, easily-recognizable brands. 2) Shoe customers primarily seek the practical-functional benefits, which are comfort and function. 3) Small Leather Goods customers seek the social benefits for themselves and as gifts for others. 4) Brand loyalty for handbag customers is reported to be low, as their primary goals are the social benefits. Rather than devoting themselves to one specific brand, handbag customers prefer to purchase from various brands. 5) Shoe customers have reportedly higher brand loyalty, as they tend to come back to brands when they are satisfied with the benefits they pursue. The findings of this study provide more information on the practical implications of luxury good customer purchasing habits. Firstly, customers pursue different benefits depending on product category, and secondly, brand loyalty differs by customers' benefits.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.1759-1767
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• 2006

본 연구의 목적은 한국 소비자의 선물증여의 과정에서 품목에 따른 성별, 선물 수령자, 대상 중요도의 상호 관계를 밝히고자 함이다. 한국의 소비자를 대상으로 5점 리커트 척도를 이용한 자기응답식 설문지가 사용되었다. 총 672부의 설문지가 데이터분석에 사용되었으며, 친척, 친구, 동료를 위한 선물 구매시, 의류나 전자제품을 구입하고자 할 때, 대상의 중요성에 따라 구매 행동에 어떤 차이가 있는지를 측정하였다. 연구결과, 성별, 선물 수령자, 대상 중요도간에 통계적으로 유의한 상호작용이 측정되었다. 연구결과에 따라 후속연구를 위한 제안이 논의되었다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제33권7호
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• pp.1152-1163
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• 2009

Product development and marketing that appeal to consumer emotions are important as shown by a variety of product and service industries that integrate fashion and arts into product design and marketing through collaboration. This study attempted to analyze the patterns in the collaborations of fashion and arts across industry disciplines. A total of 278 collaboration cases reported in news articles were collected from internet databases. Cases were categorized into 5 disciplines of fashion-fashion, arts-arts, fashion-arts, fashion-other industries, and arts-other industries, with each category analyzed in frequency distribution and collaboration type along with related partner and industry characteristics. Collaborations with other industries were observed more than internal ones, and individuals (rather than firms) were more involved in collaborations. Though the collaboration characteristics were different by partner category and sub-category, by individual or firm, and by related industries, a variety of collaborations integrating fashion and arts into product design and development, a new brand launching, product line extension, and co-marketing were observed across product and industry disciplines. The study also described fashion and arts that were integrated into consumer life styles.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.25-43
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• 2017

This paper addresses the central issue of whether it is effective for a firm to discourage the purchase of its own product in order to support a social cause. The objectives of this study were: a) to examine whether a cause-related self-prevention ad would stimulate more positive evaluations compared to promotional ad, particularly when the product category is more negatively socially accepted; and 2) to determine if a negative attitude toward the product could induce a boomerang effect of a selfprevention ad. Results from three experiments revealed that socially responsible prevention campaigns against firm's own product may be more effective for the product category negatively associated with social concerns or welfare. If products are more limited in the social context, communications of product prevention are beneficial to improve the public image of the brand. However, the self-hurting approach may be inappropriate for potential customers who currently possess a strong negative attitude toward the product.

• 한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능정보시스템학회 2005년도 공동추계학술대회
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• pp.346-355
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a meta-search engine which provides distributed product information through a unified access to multiple e-commerce. The meta-search engine proposed in this paper performs the following functions: (I) The user is able to create a category-based user query, (2) by using the WordNet, the query is semantical refined fined for increasing search accuracy, and (3) the meta-search engine recommends an e-commerce site which has the closest product information to the user's search intention, by matching the user query with the product catalogs in the e-commerce sites linked to the meta-search engine. An experiment shows that the performance of our model is better than that of general keyword-based search.