• 한국의류학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.394-407
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• 2015

Prior research highlighted personalized services as a crucial antecedent to website loyalty, yet little has been discussed on the underlying mechanism. The current study explores the intervening effects of the three psychological constructs in the personalization-loyalty relationship: cognitive efficiency, perceived enjoyment, and socialness. An experiment was conducted with a total of 414 U.S. shoppers on a fictitious e-tail site for jeans that employed different levels of personalized content. The results found that the participants exposed to the high-level personalization condition reported a higher cognitive efficiency and higher socialness perception regarding the fashion e-tail site; however, no direct effect of intensity of e-personalization was found on perceived enjoyment. Cognitive efficiency and enjoyment perceptions on the site significantly increased customers' loyalty intentions regarding the site, while website socialness perception had no direct effect on loyalty intentions. Website socialness showed indirect effects on website loyalty intentions only through cognitive efficiency and perceived enjoyment; however, no direct effect from website socialness was found. Implications and limitations of the study were discussed.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.63-93
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• 2016

As one of the most popular forms of electronic commerce, cross-border e-commerce provides numerous consumer benefits, such as broad and deep product assortments at low prices. However, consumers tend to exhibit high involvement in cross-border e-commerce purchases due to high risks associated with such purchases. The paper focuses on identifying causal relationships between e-commerce website traits (i.e., website trustworthiness, interactivity and convenience) and consumer satisfaction and along with loyalty. We proposed a reflective-reflective hierarchical model (first-order reflective and second-order reflective model) and used the Partial Least Square Analysis Statistical method to test the hypotheses. The results demonstrated that website trustworthiness, convenience and interactivity were all positively related to consumer satisfaction. Also, higher satisfaction led to stronger customer loyalty, which may well increase revisit intentions. We also compared the strength of each path from a website trait to satisfaction. Results illustrated that the path from website convenience to satisfaction is the strongest among the three website traits. In addition, we separately examined differences within Korean group and Chinese group. No statistically significant difference among website traits was found within Korean group. However, within Chinese group, we found that website convenience is the most important predictor of satisfaction. This indicates that Chinese consumers are more concerned about the website convenience than interactivity and trustworthiness when they make cross-border e-commerce purchases. Moreover, this study investigated possible differences between Korean and Chinese group. We used multi-group analysis of Smart PLS 3.0 to test the results. It was shown that the two groups do not display statistically significant difference in trustworthiness, interactivity, or convenience in influencing customer satisfaction. Finally, we presented further implications which are useful for understanding of the proposed model. Limitations and improvements of this research were presented, too.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2014

Purpose - This study is aimed at examining Indian consumers' online shopping motivations, information search, and shopping intentions. The study intends to reveal the relationship between online shopping motivations, information search, and shopping intentions. Research design, data, and methodology - The study employs factor analysis to verify correct loading of items on corresponding factors, and to confirm the applicability of constructs in the Indian context. The model was verified using stepwise regression analysis. Results -The findings show that hedonic and utilitarian motivations significantly affect online information search and shopping intentions. The information search is a significant predictor of online purchase intention. Conclusions - Hedonic and utilitarian motivations are the salient factors affecting online information search and purchase intentions. Marketers are required to design websites that foster an enjoyable online experience. This will attract customers who will browse the website for a longer duration. More time devoted to information search will ensure brand building and loyalty.

• 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.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.439-456
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• 2020

In online shopping, "out-of-stock" and "sold-out" are used to indicate product unavailability, and this unavailability and its effects on consumers' behaviors have been studied with great interest for practical purposes. However, few studies have specifically discussed out-of-stock and sold-out products in the same paper. We hypothesized that consumers might cognitively interpret items marked out-of-stock and sold-out differently, and in this paper, we studied these potential differences from the perspectives of consumers' emotions, behaviors, and loyalty based on the stimulus-organism-response framework. In order to explore the differences, we used a multi-method approach that consisted of experiments, surveys, and interviews. Specifically, we built an experimental website on which the same products were categorized as either out-of-stock or sold-out, and we measured the participants' emotions, attitudes, and intentions after the experiment. After two weeks, we conducted interviews to confirm our results and to learn more about consumers' everyday behavior. In the results, males and females demonstrated differences in emotion, behaviors, and loyalty with the interaction effects of an item's being marked out-of-stock versus sold-out. We found that the consumers demonstrated different levels of loyalty based on whether the item was marked out-of-stock or sold-out. We discuss the strategic implications of our findings.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.49-73
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• 2010

고객만족과 신뢰에 관한 문제는 인터넷쇼핑몰의 발전에 걸림돌이 되고 있다. 불확실성과 리스크가 존재하는 B2C 전자상거래에서 불안 요소를 불식시키거나 감소시켜 고객만족과 소비자의 신뢰를 구축하는 것이 인터넷쇼핑몰의 성공을 위해 필수적 요소라 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 효율적인 웹사이트 구축을 위해 오픈마켓에서 고객만족과 중개자의 신뢰가치성 요인 간의 영향관계를 조명한다. 또한 오픈마켓 이용자의 개인적 특성으로서 신뢰성향과 자기효능감이 신뢰와 구매의도 형성에 어떠한 역할을 하는지 조명하고 이해하는데 그 목적이 있다. 본 연구의 결과에 따르면 오픈마켓에서 고객만족은 신뢰가치성으로 능력, 배려, 무결성 요소에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 특히 배려와 강한 관계를 맺고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 오픈마켓에서 신뢰성향은 신뢰나 구매의도에 영향을 주지 못하며, 신뢰가치성 요소로서 배려와 무결성에만 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 자기효능감은 신뢰와 구매의도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 따라서 자기효능감이 높은 고객에게는 이탈 방지를 위해 고객충성도를 높일 수 있는 전략이 요구되며, 반면에 자기효능감이 낮은 고객을 유인하기 위해 웹사이트의 사용성 및 유용성을 고려한 기술적 측면과 마케팅적 측면에 초점을 두는 전략이 요구된다.