• 한국유통학회지:유통연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.107-122
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• 2005

본 연구는 우리나라 통신서비스 소매점의 성과에 미치는 영향요인을 규명하는데 있다. 선행연구들이 소매점의 선택에 영양을 미치는 요인들을 규범적으로 제시하고, 그 요인들이 어떻게 분류되고, 성과에 미치는 영향을 주로 소비자들의 점포선택과 충성도라는 측면에서 진행되어 왔다면, 소매점의 입지환경을 관찰에 의하여 측정하고, 다시 관찰된 소매점의 성과인 방문고객의 수와 관련하여 연구하였다는 점에서 선행연구와 큰 차이가 있다. 소매점의 성과에 미치는 변수로서는 선행연구 결과와 앞서 언급한 우리나라 통신서비스 소매점의 특성을 고려하여 유동인구, 소매점 시계성, 경쟁점포의 수, 점포의 크기, 가판대 설치, 판촉 행사라는 8개의 변수를 선정하여, 이들 변수들이 소매점의 성과라 할 수 있는 소매점 방문고객의 수에 어떻게 영향을 주는 가를 분석하었다. 소매입지 요인과 점두마케팅 요인 중 어떠한 요인들이 소매점의 성과에 영향을 줄것인가를 분석한 결과, 점두유동인구, 점포 시계성, 점포의 크기는 5%의 유의 수준에서 소매점의 방문고객의 수에 긍정적인 영향을 주는 것으로, 가판대설치, 판촉행사는 19%의 유의수준에서 긍정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났으나, 경쟁점포의 수는 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 확인되었다. 끝으로 이러한 결과의 이론적 및 실무적 시사점이 논의되고, 연구의 한계점과 미래의 연구방향이 제시되었다.

• 마케팅과학연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.40-52
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• 2009

Franchising is one of the fastest growing types of business. It is already popular and well-known in the U.S., and has been growing in many other countries including Korea. Furthermore, many Korean franchising companies have expanded their business overseas actively. According to the data by the Ministry of Industry and Resource, 82 companies out of a sample of 500 franchising companies are already operating in many foreign countries and 48% of them have started their foreign business since 2006. This clearly indicates the fast growing current trend of foreign operation by Korean franchising companies. In spite of the fast growing trend of foreign expansion in the industry, academic research on internationalization of franchising companies is extremely difficult to find. Accordingly, academic research on the issue is necessary and urgent in Korea. Among the various research questions on internationalization of franchising business, this study intends to investigate the difference in organizational factors between the franchising companies doing foreign operation and those doing business only domestically. More specifically, this research has the following purposes. First, considering the lack of theoretical basis of previous studies, resource-based theory and agency theory are employed as the theoretical bases. Second, this study explains the difference in internationalization based on organizational factors such as company size, history and growth rate. Third, the five hypotheses regarding the difference in organizational factors are presented and tested empirically, which is the first attempt in the area of this topic. Finally, the study attempts to clarify the conflicting implications among theories regarding some organizational factos such as growth rate. As the theoretical background, resource-based theory and agency theory are discussed. According to resource-based theory, a firm can grow continuously when it has competence and resource, and also the ability to develop them. The competence and resource can include capital, human resource, management skill, market information, ability to manage risk, etc. Meanwhile, agency theory views the relationship between franchisor and franchisee as an agency relationship. In agency theory, bonding capability and monitoring capability are the two key factors which promote internationalization of franchising companies. Based on the two theories, a conceptual model is designed. The model consists of two groups of variables. One is organizational factors including size, history, growth rate, price bonding and geographic dispersion. The other is whether a franchising company is operating overseas or not. We developed the following five research hypotheses basically describing the relationship between organizational factors and internationalization of franchising companies. H1: The size of franchising companies operating overseas is larger than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H2: The history of franchising companies operating overseas is longer than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H3: The growth rate of franchising companies operating overseas is higher than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H4: The price bonding of franchising companies operating overseas is higher than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H5: The geographic dispersion of franchising companies operating overseas is wider than that of franchising companies operating domestically. Data for the analyses are obtained from 2005 Korea Franchise Survey data co-generated by Ministry of Industry and Resource, GS1 Korea, and Korea Franchise Association. Out of 2,804 population companies, 2,489 companies are excluded for various reasons and 315 companies are selected as the final sample. Prior to hypotheses tests, validity and reliability of the measures of size, history, growth rate and price bonding are examined for further analyses. Geographic dispersion is not validated since it is measured using nominal data. A series of independent sample T-tests is used to find out whether there exists any significant difference between the companies internationalized and those operating only domestically for each organizational factor. Among the five factors, size and geographic dispersion show significant difference, growth rate and price bonding do not reveal any difference and, finally, history factor shows conflicting results in the difference depending on how to measure it.