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The Effect Of Construal Level On Variety Seeking Across Subcategories, Jiyeon Suh, Eugene J. S. Won Oct 2019

The Effect Of Construal Level On Variety Seeking Across Subcategories, Jiyeon Suh, Eugene J. S. Won

Asia Marketing Journal

The present study investigates how consumers’ construal level affects their variety seeking behavior when choosing multiple items simultaneously. Especially the authors focus on the perceptual level at which variety seeking takes place and propose that variety seeking can take place not only at brand level but also at category or subcategory level. Categorical variety seeking refers to diversification of one’s choices over multiple brands not within the same category but across multiple categories. Building on construal level theory, the authors expected that people engaging in higher-level construals tend to subcategorize the choice set and distribute their choices across more subcategories …


Asia Marketing Journal Vol.21 No.2 목차 Jul 2019

Asia Marketing Journal Vol.21 No.2 목차

Asia Marketing Journal

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Globalizing The Mediheal Brand: L&P Cosmetic’S Collaboration With Bts, Ick Hyun Kwon Jul 2019

Globalizing The Mediheal Brand: L&P Cosmetic’S Collaboration With Bts, Ick Hyun Kwon

Asia Marketing Journal

L&P Cosmetic, the leading company selling mask packs on the global market, produces MEDIHEAL, the number-one best-selling mask pack brand in Korea and the best-selling imported mask pack brand in China (2017). The company pioneered the premium market for mask packs through its launch of premium mask packs in 2009, and has subsequently achieved outstanding success in Korea and China. Three key factors have contributed to the success of L&P Cosmetic: product leadership with R&D capability, strategic marketing programs tailored for each market segment, and operational excellence focusing on strategic outsourcing and partnership management. Nonetheless, globalization beyond the Chinese market …


Luxury Brand Equity In Online Channel: The Moderating Effect Of Brand Trust, Hyowon Hyun, Jungkun Park, Weon Sang Yoo Jul 2019

Luxury Brand Equity In Online Channel: The Moderating Effect Of Brand Trust, Hyowon Hyun, Jungkun Park, Weon Sang Yoo

Asia Marketing Journal

Branding strategy is important in the hyper-competitive luxury industry. In digitalized market environments, it is critical for luxury brands to transfer their established brand equity from the offline market to the online market. The purpose of this study is to examine the causal relationships between offline brand equity (i.e., brand awareness, brand image, and perceived quality)toward online consumer responses, including satisfaction and loyalty, in the context of luxury brands. In addition, this study investigates the moderating effects of offline brand trust on the relationship between offline brand equity and online satisfaction and loyalty. Data was collected via online surveys. For …


The Effects Of One-Sided Vs. Two-Sided Review Valence On Electronic Word Of Mouth (E-Wom): The Moderating Role Of Sponsorship Presence, Jihye Park, Youjae Yi, Dawon Kang Jul 2019

The Effects Of One-Sided Vs. Two-Sided Review Valence On Electronic Word Of Mouth (E-Wom): The Moderating Role Of Sponsorship Presence, Jihye Park, Youjae Yi, Dawon Kang

Asia Marketing Journal

Prior studies on the effects of online consumer reviews have mainly focused on review valence, but little research has investigated how two–sided (both positive and negative) and one-sided (only positive) reviews influence consumers’ response to online review. In addition, little attention has been paid to how sponsorship presence (firm-sponsored reviews vs. consumer-voluntary reviews) influences individuals’ attitude toward online review. Unlike consumer-voluntary reviews without any monetary incentive, firm-sponsored reviews include messages about brands providing monetary compensation. This study examines whether review valence (two-sidedness vs. onesidedness) influences attitude toward online review via its influence on review credibility. Further, this study examines whether …


The Study On The Effect Of Waiting Line On Consumers’ Perceived Quality And Emotional State, Nan Li, Jae-Do Song Jul 2019

The Study On The Effect Of Waiting Line On Consumers’ Perceived Quality And Emotional State, Nan Li, Jae-Do Song

Asia Marketing Journal

This study examines a model which simultaneously contains two paths between waiting line and purchase intention: one tested the positive effect of waiting line through consumers’ perceived quality, whereas another one go through consumers’ emotional state to test the negative effect of waiting line on purchase intention. To further understand perceived quality, the study divided perceived quality into perceived product quality and perceived service quality. The study used restaurants in the experiment. Results indicated that although long waits in line will directly increase both consumers’ product quality perception and negative emotions, the total indirect effects on purchase intention are still …


Effect Of Online Word Of Mouth On Product Sales: Focusing On Communication-Channel Characteristics, Jaihyun Jeon, Taewook Lim, Byung-Do Kim, Seok Jul 2019

Effect Of Online Word Of Mouth On Product Sales: Focusing On Communication-Channel Characteristics, Jaihyun Jeon, Taewook Lim, Byung-Do Kim, Seok

Asia Marketing Journal

As information and communication technology continue its remarkable development, the exchange of information online becomes as prevalent and frequent as face-to-face communication in daily life. Therefore, the management and application of WOM (word of mouth) practices will become more important than ever to companies. Currently, there are various types of communication channels for online WOM, and each channel has its own unique traits. Most of the previous research studies online WOM by examining the information inside a single communication channel, but this research chooses two different communication channels and analyzes the effects of online WOM with each channel’s unique characteristics. …


The Effect Of Rating Dispersion On Purchase Of Experience Goods Based On The Korean Movie Box Office Data, Lian Chen, Kang Jun Choi, Jae Young Lee Apr 2019

The Effect Of Rating Dispersion On Purchase Of Experience Goods Based On The Korean Movie Box Office Data, Lian Chen, Kang Jun Choi, Jae Young Lee

Asia Marketing Journal

Online platforms often provide rating information to customers to relieve the uncertainty they encounter when purchasing experience goods. Prior research has focused mostly on the roles of rating volume and the valence of an average rating among the various possibilities. However, less frequently investigated is the effect of rating dispersion, which may be associated with uncertainty regarding how well a product fits a customer’s personal preference, on new trials of experience goods. In this study, we examine the effect of rating dispersion on new trials of experience goods and identify the conditions which intensify or reduce the effect. Empirical analyses …


Social Identity And Regulatory Focus, Sangwoo Park, Dakyeong Heo, Dongwoo Shin Apr 2019

Social Identity And Regulatory Focus, Sangwoo Park, Dakyeong Heo, Dongwoo Shin

Asia Marketing Journal

To investigate the interplay between individual and collective self-regulations, the authors propose a dialectic process that describes the changes in the locus of self-regulations between individual self and collective self. The results from three studies display a strong support for the two sets of hypotheses drawn from the proposed process. Our findings demonstrate that consumers can move the locus of self-regulation from individual-self to collective-self when a social identity is activated (preliminary study and study1). Further examination of regulatory swing between individual and collective regulatory orientations revealed group identification as a key variable in determining the locus of self-regulation (study2). …


The Effect Of Inclusion Versus Exclusion On Consideration Set Size, Sarah Heeju Lee, Se-Bum Park Apr 2019

The Effect Of Inclusion Versus Exclusion On Consideration Set Size, Sarah Heeju Lee, Se-Bum Park

Asia Marketing Journal

A great deal of research has explored individuals’ attempts to simplify choices by constructing a consideration set. This research aims to investigate which construction strategy, either inclusion or exclusion, is more likely to be adopted and how the adoption of a particular construction strategy can affect consideration set size while identifying the moderating role of chronic indecisiveness in the construction process. The findings of Study 1 indicate that individuals are more likely to adopt an inclusion strategy to reduce a consideration set to a more manageable size, and that an exclusion strategy results in a larger consideration set. In Study …


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Asia Marketing Journal

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Genesis Standing Alone As A Luxury Sedan Brand In The U.S. Market, Hyerin Ryu, Sunkyu Jun Apr 2019

Genesis Standing Alone As A Luxury Sedan Brand In The U.S. Market, Hyerin Ryu, Sunkyu Jun

Asia Marketing Journal

A decade has passed since the first generation of Genesis was launched in the U.S. with the plaque of Hyundai-Genesis. Genesis Motors was separated from Hyundai Motor in 2015, and has struggled to have the Genesis stand alone in the competitive U.S. luxury sedan market. The present case study aims to find challenges facing the Genesis, which Hyundai has positioned as a luxury sedan competing against conventional luxury brands such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Lexus; evaluate Genesis Motors’ strategic response to meet these challenges; and explore an alternative positioning strategy. Specifically, the present case study addresses barriers against the Genesis’ …


The Effects Of Variety And Visual Cue On Perceived Quantity And Consumer Attitude Toward Participation Into Sales Promotion Events, Changhyun Lee, Youngchan Kim Apr 2019

The Effects Of Variety And Visual Cue On Perceived Quantity And Consumer Attitude Toward Participation Into Sales Promotion Events, Changhyun Lee, Youngchan Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

Most studies on how people perceive a given quantity of items were conducted with visual cues exclusively and only offered spatial area based explanations, such as spatial estimation and perceptual grouping theories. This article establishes how people perceive a given quantity when only a written description is provided without any visual cues. Across two studies we show that variety decreases perceived quantity when a variety cue is given, while variety increases perceived quantity when a visual cue is not given. This is because people tend to rely heavily on spatial areas when a visual cue is present and because people …


Asia Marketing Journal Vol. 21 No. 1 목차 Apr 2019

Asia Marketing Journal Vol. 21 No. 1 목차

Asia Marketing Journal

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You Want More When You Have Something In Your Hand, Hakkyun Kim, Youngjee Han, Eunmi Jeon Jan 2019

You Want More When You Have Something In Your Hand, Hakkyun Kim, Youngjee Han, Eunmi Jeon

Asia Marketing Journal

In this research, two studies show that the bodily experience of holding objects in the hand is tied to the mental concept of acquiring material wealth. Holding objects in the hand (a) increased people’s desires for possessing fairly luxurious goods (Study 1) and (b) made people judge a controversial issue (e.g., “sweatshops” run by global companies) more favorably based on wanting to generate more wealth for individuals and society rather than on humanitarian concerns (Study 2). These results provide evidence that the bodily experience not only helps to represent an abstract concept but also can shape attitude and judgment congruent …


Labeling And Customer Loyalty, Zheltauova Gulzira, Sang-Lin Han Jan 2019

Labeling And Customer Loyalty, Zheltauova Gulzira, Sang-Lin Han

Asia Marketing Journal

The purpose of this study was to analyze the brand loyalty formation by positive labeling. Affecting such factors as involvement, self-image, community engagement, preference, and choice cutback, positive labeling can be seen as one of psychological factors that shapes consumer’s behavior and their decision.
This study was carried out because little research was done to examine the influence of positive labeling toward brand loyalty, and also to find out the benefits that consumers can get from being labeled in positive terms.
Data were collected through survey questionnaire and 151 usable responses were used. Following a series of pretests and confirmatory …


Asia Marketing Journal Vol.20 No.4 목차 Jan 2019

Asia Marketing Journal Vol.20 No.4 목차

Asia Marketing Journal

No abstract provided.


The Synergy Effect Of A Corporate-Level Loyalty Program Integration On Customer Equity, Dae-Yun Park, Shijin Yoo Jan 2019

The Synergy Effect Of A Corporate-Level Loyalty Program Integration On Customer Equity, Dae-Yun Park, Shijin Yoo

Asia Marketing Journal

This study empirically examines the synergy effect of a corporate-level loyalty program on customer equity (CE) known as the lifetime value of current and future customers (Blattberg et al. 2009). A corporate-level loyalty program refers to a company-wide integration loyalty program at the corporate-level in which subsidiaries (multi-divisions) participate as program members. It does not merely examine whether there is an integration effect of a corporate-level loyalty program from the CE perspective, but it provides practical implications for a firm’s strategic focus by identifying which value creation channels (i.e., acquisition, retention, and cross-selling), brand characteristics (i.e., size of the customer …


Pioneering New Markets, Shijin Yoo, Myung Soo Kang, Minjeong Kim Jan 2019

Pioneering New Markets, Shijin Yoo, Myung Soo Kang, Minjeong Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

This paper reports a case study of SevenBräu, the first company to acquire a license for small and medium scale beer manufacturing in Korea. This study explores how SevenBräu analyzed its consumers, competition, and environment to set its target market and successfully positioned itself to explore new markets in Korea. The company accomplished this through a mixture of marketing strategies with differentiated products and consumer benefits.
SevenBräu has been growing fast and establishing its image as a “high-quality craft beer locally produced in a traditional way” and a “beer with regional characteristics,” with young consumers (aged 20 to 35) as …


Differentiated B2b Marketing Strategy Of Dongwon Systems, The No.1 Packaging Solution Company In Korea, Mina Jun, Sang Yong Kim, Janghyuk Lee, Koo Oct 2018

Differentiated B2b Marketing Strategy Of Dongwon Systems, The No.1 Packaging Solution Company In Korea, Mina Jun, Sang Yong Kim, Janghyuk Lee, Koo

Asia Marketing Journal

Dongwon Systems established in 1977 to exclusively supply Dongwon tuna cans, the parent company. Instead of its stable management and profits by relying on the parent company, the company was not complacent and started innovating and challenging new markets. Dongwon Systems decided to expand the business area and pioneer new markets so that it becomes the first domestic company to successfully expand into independent businesses other than parent company products. Such success of Dongwon Systems was driven by its differentiated B2B strategies. Unlike the characteristics of usual B2B companies, Dongwon Systems has been thinking both of its client companies and …


Customer-Contact Employee Support And Service Recovery Efforts, Younhee Moon Oct 2018

Customer-Contact Employee Support And Service Recovery Efforts, Younhee Moon

Asia Marketing Journal

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of customer-contact employees support on service recovery efforts. Service companies should try to prevent the service failure situation from occurring, but it is realistic that the service failure occurs due to the characteristics of the service. Service recovery efforts of service providers are important because effective responses to service failures can enhance customer satisfaction despite service failures. Social support for customer-contact employees needs to improve service recovery efforts. Specifically, this study focuses on the mediation roles of job burnout and customer orientation in relationship between social support for customer-contact employees …


The Dark Side Of Star Marketing, Hojoon Jang, Kyoungmi Lee Oct 2018

The Dark Side Of Star Marketing, Hojoon Jang, Kyoungmi Lee

Asia Marketing Journal

This research examines how the announcement of a celebrity endorsement contract with a brand can influence consumers’ judgment of its future growth in a market. Using both behavioral experiments and an event study analysis, we find that when the brand is perceived to be technology-focused (versus marketing-focused), the information about the celebrity contract can lead consumers to view the brand’s future as less promising. Furthermore, we identify consumers’ inferences about the quality of the brand as a psychological factor underlying this effect. This paper provides evidence that star-marketing can sometimes signal management’s misjudgment about resource allocation for a brand, which …


The Impact Of Salesperson Look-Brand Personality Congruence On Brand Affect, Heekyung Lee, Youjae Yi Oct 2018

The Impact Of Salesperson Look-Brand Personality Congruence On Brand Affect, Heekyung Lee, Youjae Yi

Asia Marketing Journal

Branded service encounters, in which various aspects of frontline employees are strategically aligned with the firm’s brand positioning, can be achieved along several dimensions such as employee appearance, manner, and personality. While previous research has mainly focused on behavioral traits of employees, this research examines the employee’s physical appearance in association with the brand personality trait across two studies. Study 1 shows that salesperson look-brand personality congruence enhances brand affect by inducing positive affect. Specifically, a brand-congruent look of a salesperson increases positive affect among customers by confirming their prior expectations about what a salesperson of a certain brand should …


Exploring Consumers’ Alcoholic-Beverage Type-Specific Drinking Motives, Hyejeung Cho Oct 2018

Exploring Consumers’ Alcoholic-Beverage Type-Specific Drinking Motives, Hyejeung Cho

Asia Marketing Journal

Despite the abundance of research on alcoholic-beverage consumption in the food and beverage marketing literature, research directly assessing and comparing consumers’ psychological motives for drinking different types of alcoholic beverages is relatively limited. There is also a paucity of research comparing drink-type specific consumption motivations in an Asian market. Paying attention to some recent new changes in the alcoholic-beverages market of South Korea, this study investigated South Korean young adult female consumers’ alcoholic-beverage type-specific drinking motives. A self-administered online survey of 340 young adult female drinkers about their alcohol-consumption patterns, alcoholic-drink preferences, involvement with alcohol, and four types of drinking …


Asia Marketing Journal Vol.20 No.3 목차 Oct 2018

Asia Marketing Journal Vol.20 No.3 목차

Asia Marketing Journal

No abstract provided.


A Future Contraction Effect In Intertemporal Choice For Durable Goods, Byung Kyu Kim Jul 2018

A Future Contraction Effect In Intertemporal Choice For Durable Goods, Byung Kyu Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

Recent research reported that perception of future time is non-linearly scaled. That is, as objective time gets longer, subjective perception of the objective time does not grow proportionally. The non-linear time perception implies that the same future time feels shorter when it starts in the future than when it starts immediately. The authors call this as a future contraction effect. The current research tests two important implications of the effect regarding consumers’ intertemporal preference for durable goods. First, consumers who contract future more will be more impatient for durable goods compared to those who contract less because the former would …


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Asia Marketing Journal

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Strengthening Market Position Through Branding “Cheongkwanjang”, Kay Ryung Koo, Sang Yong Kim, Seok Kyun Kim, Jun Jul 2018

Strengthening Market Position Through Branding “Cheongkwanjang”, Kay Ryung Koo, Sang Yong Kim, Seok Kyun Kim, Jun

Asia Marketing Journal

Korea Ginseng Corporation is a global ginseng company, owning one of the most leading brands in Korea, CheongKwanJang. Although Korea Ginseng Corporation was an undoubted market leader in the red ginseng market, it faced a new challenge in 2012 due to the changes in market environment. In order to keep its market leadership in a saturated and competitive market, the company decided to extend its product lines alongside the launches of new brands. In this article, the authors demonstrate the development process of the company’s brand portfolio strategy to reveal how the company turned CheongKwanJang into a mega-brand. Also, this …


Asia Marketing Journal Vol. 20 No. 2 목차 Jul 2018

Asia Marketing Journal Vol. 20 No. 2 목차

Asia Marketing Journal

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Dependence And Conflict On Qualitative And Quantitative Organizational Performances In Partnership, Bohyeon Kang Jul 2018

The Effects Of Dependence And Conflict On Qualitative And Quantitative Organizational Performances In Partnership, Bohyeon Kang

Asia Marketing Journal

This study examines the effects of dependence and conflict on organizational performances in partnership, qualitatively (trust) and quantitatively (sales) under four control variables (period of business, number of goods, competition density, and number of employees). Also, this study presents termination cost and alternative attractiveness as the antecedents of dependence, goal incongruity and unfairness as the antecedents of conflict. As the results of analysis with survey data from 360 distributors in manufacturer-distributor partnership, 7 hypotheses are supported and 2 hypotheses are rejected. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) verify that termination cost increases dependence, that alternative attractiveness reduces dependence, that …