• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.75-91
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• 2021

Purpose - Social commerce (SC) is the growth of social media highlighting the e-commerce transactions and currently, the greatest challenges of e-commerce have attracted the influence of trust in social commerce intention (SCI). Based on the challenge, the study's purpose is to discover the effect of social support (informational and emotional support) on the SCI. The study also explores the mediation effect of trust and the moderation impact of culture between the USA and Korea. Design/methodology - This study used a sample of 482 surveys filled out by online shoppers from the US and Korea, two countries with divergent cultural values. Structural equation modelling (SEM) is used to analyze the hypothetical paths. In addition, bootstrapping and multi-group analysis are perform to view mediation and moderation effects respectively. Findings - The results of our study shows that both informational and emotional support significantly influences trust and SCI. Our results also supports the mediating effect of trust in social support and the moderating effect of culture in forming SCI. Originality/value - Our empirical results provide important information to businesses formulating cross-cultural SC strategies. This will help SC companies to analyze the aspects of customer trust through social support, which in turn will increase SCI and thereby established a competitive position for SCs. Our results will also be holistic directions for SC vendors in cross-cultural settings, which will offer important social and economic contributions to the sustainable growth of SC's business.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.265-273
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• 2022

본 연구는 COVID-19 팬데믹 하에서 사회적경제기업의 상황을 살펴보고 미래과제를 제시하는데 있다. 2019년말 시작된 COVID-19 팬데믹이 현재까지 건강, 경제, 사회, 네트워킹 등 우리 사회의 다양한 영역에 영향을 미치고 삶을 황폐하게 하고 있다. 바이러스가 호흡기를 통해 전염되는 것으로, 사람 중심의 사회적경제에 장애요인으로서 작용될 것이며, 주요하게는 재정적인 부분에서 기업가들의 활동을 규제하는 모양새로 나타나고 있다. 다만, 팬데믹이 지속되는 과정 속에서도 사회적경제의 규모는 확대되었으며, 청소위생 및 보건업을 중심으로 경제적인 성과와 함께 지역사회 속에서 사회적 성과를 달성하고 있다는 것에서 호혜와 협력에 기반한 사회적경제기업의 협업을 통해 COVID-19 이라는 문제를 해결하고 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있다. 사회적경제의 건강한 생태계 조성을 위해서는 COVID-19에 일차원적으로 대응하기 보다는 경제사회적 안전망 구축차원에서 사회적경제의 지속가능성을 담보할 수 있는 보편적이고 구체적인 미래 과제를 선정, 추진해야 할 것이다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.79-89
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 사회공헌활동이 브랜드충성도에 미치는 영향을 살펴보고자 하였다. 기업의 사회공헌활동은 최근 기업들의 이미지 및 브랜드 가치를 향상시키고자 하는 전략적 수단으로 많은 기업들이 사회공헌활동을 실행하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 사회공헌활동의 효과를 살펴보고자 전통적 마케팅 활동요소인 마케팅믹스 4P전략을 중심으로 마케팅믹스가 브랜드충성도에 미치는 영향에 있어 기업의 사회공헌활동의 조절효과를 살펴보고자 하였다. 분석결과 제품/가격/촉진 전략과 사회 공헌 활동은 브랜드 충성도에 유의미한 영향을 미치고 있으며, 사회공헌활동 수준에 따라 조절되고 있음을 확인하였다. 최근 많은 기업이 전략적 도구로 CSR을 사용하고 또한 사회적으로도 CSR의 효과에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구는 CSR이 고객 브랜드 충성도 향상에 영향을 미치는 것을 재확인함으로서, 기업의 사회공헌활동의 향상과 인식확산에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.81-92
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• 2017

Purpose - One of the main objectives of this paper is to identify the most effective type of social media and to analyze the priority of blogs by their informational attributes in the aspect of their impacts on word-of-mouth intention(WOM) in on-line markets. Research design, data, and methodology - We set 'attitude' variable in the middle to see if there is mediating effects between blog information and word-of-mouth intention. We conducted a survey by questionnaire and received 206 answers. Employing the OLS statistical methods through the SPSS package, we tested our hypotheses. Results - Some of the main results are the followings. First, blog, micro-blog, and profile-based services showed significant effects on WOM, while Internet community and mini-homepages are not significant. Second, blog has positive impacts on WOM. Third, attitude has perfect mediating effects between blog and WOM. Fourth, in terms of effects on WOM, interactivity shows the first priority and reliability and usability follows. Finally, attitude has a more significant effect for users of 3 types of blog compared with those of 2 types. Conclusions - In this paper, we analyzed the effects of social network services by type and identified the priority among various attributes of information contained in blogs. It would provide businesses with viable strategic options to establish public relations in their sales promotion.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.363-372
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to investigate COVID-19's impact on firm survival, as well as the management accounting system's role in adjusting operation efficiency for business survival. Two sets of data comprising small enterprises in the service sector were used. The first business group serves customers who have changed their lifestyle to a new normal. The second business group serves customers who are affected by social distancing measures. The data was collected based on an in-depth interview method. The data was then evaluated using content analysis and analytic comparison. The results show that the COVID-19 situation positively impacts the business survival of the service businesses group that serves customers who have changed lifestyles. However, COVID-19 has a negative effect on the survival of service business groups that serve customers affected by social distancing measures. In addition, the management accounting used during COVID-19, small enterprises have analyzed the operating environment and used the information stored in the database to determine goals for the operation. This study provides comprehensive economic effects and the utilization of management accounting systems. The accounting systems helped to decide to adjust the operation process during the quick changing of the environment of the small enterprise in the service sector.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.311-318
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• 2022

Nepotism practices have had a severe impact on the social, ethical, and economic culture of not only corporations but also countries in the modern world. Nepotism behavior not only discourages the determined and motivated employee, but also has a detrimental impact on the worker's satisfaction, performance, and contribution to the firm's success. This increases economic tensions due to workers' dissatisfaction with their jobs and occasionally withdrawal intentions, resulting in poor economic activity and a decline in society as a whole. The purpose of this study is to see how organizations' nepotism affects individual work happiness, withdrawal behavior, social and ethical values, and the country's economic development. The study's target audience was private-sector employees, including managers, non-managerial staff, and middle and lower-level employees. Convenient sampling was used to ensure that the target population was accessible and available. The findings demonstrated that organizational nepotism causes substantial harm not only to employees but also to businesses and the economy. The employee who is happy with his or her job and working environment is less likely to withdraw.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.293-302
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• 2014

본 연구는 서해5도서 마을기업의 성공요인과 지원요인이 마을기업 목표에 미치는 영향관계를 분석하였다. 연구방법은 기존연구를 바탕으로 마을기업의 성공요인과 지원요인을 세부적으로 도출하고, 서해5도서 마을기업과 관련된 학계, 공공기관의 전문가를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하여 마을기업의 목표, 성공요인과 지원요인간 영향을 분석하였다. 분석방법은 마을기업의 성공요인 및 지원요인의 타당성과 요인특성을 평가하기 위해 요인분석을 실시하였으며 전문가 근무경력에 대한 평균의 차이가 통계적으로 유의미한가를 검정하기 위해 일원배치 분산분석을 실시하였다. 최종적으로, 성공요인과 지원요인이 마을기업 목표에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 다중회귀분석을 하였다. 본 연구결과는 서해5도서 마을기업 육성 정책 마련뿐만 아니라 침체된 서해5도서의 경제 및 사회적 활성화를 도모하는데 기여할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국의상디자인학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to find the consumer perception and purchasing behaviors of beauty service products based on recent consumer purchasing patterns utilizing social commerce. The research method looked at general characteristics, exploratory factor analysis, reliability T-test, correlation analysis, one way ANOVA, regression analysis of the consumer awareness and purchasing status in the use of beauty social commerce of 228 research subjects in their 20s and 30s residing in Seoul and Gyeonggido. SPSS v. 21.0 was used. The results found the following. First, service quality, interaction, user convenience, and price were set as factors for the validity verification of consumer perception in beauty social commerce. Second, as a result of studying consumer perception regarding beauty social commerce, interaction had the largest correlation while price, service quality, and user convenience followed. As a result of studying the differences according to the general characteristic of gender, user convenience had a larger correlation for female consumers than male consumers. Third, the following was the result of studying purchasing behaviors in beauty social commerce. Among diverse social commerce businesses, Pokemon was the most popular, while among the various coupons available, hair salons were most commonly purchased. The modal value for the number of times consumers used beauty service products was two times a month, and the most popular price ranges were 100,000 KRW or less and 100,000~200,000 KRW. Accordingly, it was observed that social commerce is receiving attention and being considered as the next generation for shopping in the beauty industry. This channel should be well utilized by related industries through the improvement of customer satisfaction, which will lead to repurchases, and consequently result in becoming an actual means for sales in the beauty industry.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.167-179
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• 2013

In recent years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has received particular attentions from both practitioners and scholars. This study focused on Korean national fashion businesses and identified various types of CSR practices in addition to social contributions. Besides, comparison in corporation by size of the number of full-time employees and sales volume were examined. A total of 1054 cases of 147 brands, 86 corporations between 2000 and 2012 were collected from internet articles and brand home pages. Findings were as follows. First, the types of CSR activities were categorized into the following six: economic responsibility, legal responsibility, consumer protection, protection of worker's right, protection of environment, and social contribution. Social contribution took largest portion of CSR activities (67.7%), followed by environmental protection (14%), and protection of worker's right (6.2%). The other three types presented limited cases but included negative aspects of CSR. Social contribution consisted of six sub categories (culture & art, sports, education, donation, voluntary service, and campaign), and donation took the largest part of social contribution area. Second, comparing 86 corporations by the size of the number of full-time employees, companies more than 300 employees (38.1%) were more likely to practice CSR activities. Similarly, companies with more than 500 billion won sales (13.1%) were more active in their CSR activities than their counterparts. Suggestions are given for improving CSR practices to fashion business.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.968-979
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• 2008

농촌 지역사회의 지속적인 성장과 활성화는 지역경제에 의해 좌우되고, 마찬가지로 지역주민들의 생필품 공급은 지역소매업자들에게 의해 이루어진다. 이러한 현실에서, 농촌지역의 영세소매업자에 대해 관심을 가지고 이들을 연구하는 것은 지역공동체의 지속적인 성장에 중요할 것이다. 본 연구의 목적은 대규모의 할인점들과의 경쟁에 직면하고 있는 미국 농촌 지역의 영세소매업자들(의류, 보석, 꽃, 철물 등)중에서 대규모의 할인점들과의 치열한 경쟁에 성공을 거둔 영세소매업자들이 어떠한 마케팅, 머천다이징, 고객서비스, 경영전략을 실시하고 있는지를 살펴보는 것이다. 또한, 영세소매업자들의 성공을 가능케 한 사업전략으로 사회적 자본인 지역사회참여가 어떻게 사용되고 있는지도 고찰하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 미국 중서부 지역의 세 도시를 대표하는 27명의 농촌소매업자들과의 인터뷰 및 내용분석방법을 사용하였다. 연구결과, 이들은 몇 가지 효과적인 경영전략들을 실시하고 있지만, 아직도 미흡한 부분들이 있었다. 결과부분에서는 이들이 사용하고 있는 주요 경영관행들에 대해 논의하였다.