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본 연구는 보상프로그램의 구성에 관한 연구이다. 이를 위해 재무가치적 보상프로그램과 서비스 가치적 보상프로그램에 대한 관여수준별 선호도를 분석하였다. 또한 보상 프로그램의 평가모드(SE, JE)에 따라 선호도가 어떻게 달라지는지를 파악하였다. 실험결과 관여수준에 따라 보상프로그램에 대한 선호도는 일부 차이를 보이고 있으며 결합된 보상프로그램에 대한 선호도가 높게 나타나고 있었다. 여기서 특이한 점은 재무적 보상프로그램에 서비스 보상프로그램이 결합되는 경우에 고객들은 보상프로그램에 대해 보다 더 높은 선호도를 보이고 있어, 기존 재무보상 중심에서 벗어나 서비스 보상프로그램에 대한 관심을 제고시킬 필요가 있다. 이는 기존 기업들이 비용에 대한 부담을 갖고 있으면서도 비차별적이로 획일적인 보상프로그램을 진행하는 방식에서 새로운 보상프로그램을 구성하는 계기가 될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

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Currently, the rewards programs offered by many companies to strengthen customer relationships have been working quite well. In addition, many companies' rewards programs, designed for stabilizing revenue, are recognized to be effective. However, these rewards programs are not significantly differentiated between companies and there are no accurate conclusions currently, which can be made about their effects. Because of this, a company with a customer rewards program may not comprehend the true level of active participation. In this environment some companies' rewards programs inadvertently hinder business profitability as a side effect while attempting to increase customer loyalty. In fact, airline and oil companies pass on the financial cost of their programs to the customer, and as a result, they have been criticized publicly. The result of this is that the corporations with bad rewards programs tend to get a bad image. In this study of stores' rewards programs, we centered our focus on the design of the program. The main problem in this study is to recognize the financial value of the rewards program and whether it can create a competitive edge for the companies despite the cost issues experienced by them. Customers receiving financial rewards for their business may be just as satisfied with a particular company or store versus those who are not, and the program, perhaps, does not form a distinctive competitive advantage. When the customer is deciding between competing companies to secure their product needs with, we wanted to figure out how much of an affect a valuable reward program had on their decision making. To evaluate this, we set the first hypothesis as, "based on the level of involvement of the customers, there is a difference between customers' preferences for rewards programs." In the results of Experiment 1 we saw that in a financial compensation program for high-involvement groups and low-involvement groups, significant differences appeared and Hypothesis 1 was partially supported. As for the second hypothesis that "customers will have different preferences between a financial rewards programs (SE) and a joint rewards programs (JE)," the analysis showed that the preference for JE was significantly higher than that for other programs. In addition, through Experiment 2, we were able to find meaningful results, which revealed that consumers have shown a significant difference in their preferences between SE and JE. The purpose of these experiments was to enable the designing of a rewards program by learning how to enhance service information distribution and strengthen customer relationships. From the results, there should be a great amount of value for future service-related endeavors and academic research programs. The research is significant, because the results can be found to have a positive effect on reward program designs however, it does have the following limitations. First, this study was performed using an experiment, and all experiments have limitations. Second, although there was an individual evaluation and a joint evaluation, setting a proper evaluation criteria was difficult. In this study, 1,000 Korean won (KRW) in the individual evaluation had a value of 2 points, and, in the joint evaluation, 1,000 KRW had a value of 1 point. There may have been alternative ways to differentiate the evaluations to obtain the proper results. In this study, since there was no funding, the experiments were performed orally however, this was complementary to the study. Third, the subjects who participated in this experiment were students. Conducting this study through experimentation was unavoidable for us, and future research should be conducted using an actual program with the target customers.

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The traditional market in the nation was forced to decrease greatly users as well as sales because of opening of all of the markets, Internet shopping mall, home shopping and other new types of marketing businesses to lose market functions remarkably. Therefore, the Agency for Traditional Market Administration of Small & Medium Business Administration made efforts to develop traditional market, for instance, modernization of the facilities to improve physical environment, and improvement of each shop by using VMD, and so on. The purpose of the study was to examine efficiency of VMD shops for development of traditional market by the Agency for Traditional Market Administration and effects of VMD upon sales of each shop, and to help establish VMD strategies for customer satisfactions as well as visual environment of traditional market. The author visited five shops at Busan Jin Market, special market of articles for wedding ceremony that joined VMD shop guide of traditional market, and taught VMD on-the-spot and investigated it. Questionnaire of Agency for Traditional Market Administration was used to interview shop owners, shopkeepers and consumers, etc and to examine factors of changes of sales and customers' satisfactions before and after VMD. The purpose of the study was to investigate effects and satisfactions of increase of the sales of VMD shop guide that the government promoted to develop traditional market so far. Therefore, the author investigated VMD presentation, increase of the sales before and after VMD presentation, increase of number of customers, and satisfactions, etc of Korean clothes shops that joined improvement of VMD shop guide of traditional market of the government in 2010. The author investigated effects of the sales, increase of customers and satisfactions, etc by case study and empirical analysis, and she presented user-oriented VMD presentation techniques of traditional market and suggested improvement. After applying VMD, the shops could increase sales more than 20 percent in average, and satisfaction of VMD presentation was more than 88 points or more to be very much high. This study suggested VMD strategies and presentation of traditional market to give consumers affirmative visual images and to develop traditional market.

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The number of small businesses being founded nationally is constantly increasing and various kinds of aggressive efforts are being made to remain competitive. As such, political support by the government for small businesses that have great productivity and competitiveness must increase. The founding of small businesses is being promoted by the government in order to boost the economy, and interest in founding new businesses is high amongst not only college students, but even general workers. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine problems regarding the founding of small businesses, and to give new businesses a competitive edge by presenting political answers to these problems. After analyzing the status of current issues concerning the foundation of small businesses, this paper suggests some positive policy alternatives. Existing studies on small businesses were focused on the promotion of small and medium distributors, and studies on policy alternatives aimed directly at promoting the businesses are, so far, insufficient. Further studies are required to examine political alternatives from the perspective of the roles of non-profit organizations, which the Government is responsible for, in supporting small business.

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본 연구는 유통시장의 개방과 함께 다양한 형태의 유통 업태들과의 경쟁으로 인해 어려움을 겪고 있는 시장에 관심을 가진 연구이다. 특히, 미래의 소비자인 대학생들의 관점에서 시장에 대한 점포선택속성과 시장에 대해 갖는 소비감정, 소비자 가치와 관계품질의 관계를 분석함으로써 장기적인 차원의 시장 경쟁력 강화를 위한 단서를 찾고자 하였다. 이를 위해 점포선택속성의 3개 요인의 관계품질의 정도와 함께 점포선택속성과 소비자 가치, 소비자 가치와 관계품질 간을 대학생들이 지각하는 소비감정의 정도가 조절역할을 하는지를 분석하였다. 또한 점포선택속성과 관계품질 간의 관계에 대한 소비자 가치의 매개역할에 대해 분석하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 점포선택속성 중 서비스 요인과 광고 요인이 관계품질에 정(+)적인 영향을 나타내었다. 이런 결과는 대학생들이 시장에 대해 신뢰하고 만족하는 요인이 서비스와 광고임을 의미하고 있다는 것과 시장의 점포분위기가 관계품질에 미치는 영향이 미미함을 의미한다. 추가적인 분석을 하지 않아 속단할 수는 없지만 대학생들이 갖는 시장이라는 이미지의 고정관념은 관계품질에 크게 영향을 주지 않기 때문이라 추정할 수 있다. 둘째, 대학생들은 시장의 점포선택속성에 있어 서비스 요인을 가장 중요한 것으로 선택하여 시장이 대형점포들과의 경쟁에서 우위를 차지하기 위해서는 대형점포들의 셀프서비스 방식이라는 한계점을 넘어 서비스 요인의 강화가 필요함을 의미하고 있다. 셋째, 점포선택속성과 소비자 가치, 소비자 가치와 관계품질 각각의 관계에 대한 소비감정의 조절효과는 모두 통계적으로 유의미하지 않았다. 즉, 소비감정의 정도는 점포선택속성과 소비자 가치의 인과관계에 영향이 없음을 의미하며, 소비자 가치와 관계품질의 인과관계에도 영향이 없음을 뜻한다. 이는 대학생들을 대상으로 설문을 실시한 결과일 가능성이 있어 추가 연구에 일반인을 대상으로 다시 분석해볼 필요가 있다. 마지막으로 소비자 가치는 서비스 요인과 관계품질, 광고 요인과 관계품질 모두에 완전 매개함을 나타내 시장과 소비자의 관계품질 향상을 위해 가장 중요한 요인임을 알 수 있었다. 즉, 시장이 소비자들에 대한 관계품질 개선을 위해서는 미래의 잠재고객인 대학생들에게 시장에 대한 가치를 충분히 느낄 수 있는 다양한 전략을 수립해야 함을 의미한다. 말미에는 이 연구결과를 통해 얻을 수 있는 영향과 향후 연구 방향을 제시하였다.

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This study is focused on traditional market's competitiveness in Korea. Ever since the Korean retail industry had been opened to the big conglomerates, the traditional markets have faced very serious competition from various types of distribution channels. In particular, this study has been conducted to find another way to help the Korean traditional market from the perspective of college students who are consumers of the future. This study examines the relationships among store choice attributions, consumption emotion, consumer's value, and relationship quality from the perspective of college students. In order to verify the relationship, and moderating and mediating effects, data were collected from 126 college students in Whasung, Gyeonggi Province to test the theoretical model and its hypotheses. The results of this study are as follows: First, service (= .263, p < .01) and advertising (= .188, p < .05) are significantly positively related to relationship quality. However, store atmosphere (= .176, p = .052) is not statistically significantly related to relationship quality. The result that students have stereotypes about the atmosphere of traditional markets and are therefore excluded from their store choice attributions can be expected. Second, college students selected service division (= .230, p < .05) as the most important factor among the traditional market's store choice attributions. This result reflected that enhancing service strategy would strengthen the traditional market against discount stores. The process of product selection by customers in discount stores is based on the concept of self-service. However, traditional market traders can make various contacts with their customers. If traditional market traders can enhance various service factors just like in the process of product selection, it will effect strong competitive advantages. Third, it is also revealed that consumer's value exhibit complete mediation effect in the relationships between service and advertising. These results showed that traditional markets must be considered for consumer value. Because previous studies showed that values refer to "enduring belief that &#x2026; specific mode of conduct or end-stat of existence &#x2026; personally or socially preferable to an opposite of converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence" (Rokeach, 1973; George and Jones, 1996). Furthermore, Schwartz (1994) defined values as desirable trans-situational goals, varying in importance, that serve as guiding principles in the life of a person or other social entity. As conceptions of desirable end-states of existence or modes of conduct, values help people choose, evaluate, and give meaning to their experiences (Rokeach, 1973). Efforts (e.g. promote the consumers value) of the traditional market traders will improve the preferences for the traditional market of consumers and college students. Implications and future research directions are also discussed.

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2011년은 유엔(UN)이 지정한 '세계 산림의 해'이다. 최근 들어 산림은 환경, 경제, 사회, 문화 등 우리 사회 제 분야에서 그 가치와 기능이 점차 확대되고 있다. 특히 기후변화에 따른 지구환경문제가 국제적인 아젠다로 부각되면서, 산림은 지구온난화의 주범인 이산화탄소에 대한 유일한 흡수 원으로서 그 가치가 새롭게 조명되고 있다. 또한 산림은 생태관광자원의 주요한 구성요소의 하나로서 현재 생태관광객이 널리 이용하는 자원이기도 하다. 게다가 한국의 경우 국토의 60%이상을 차지하는 산림은 국민들한테 아주 좋은 생태환경을 제공함과 동시에 국민들의 생태관광지에 대한 환경보전의식도 제고를 가져왔다. 따라서 환경에 대한 관심이 급증하면서 보전가치가 우수한 산림생태지역을 방문하는 관광객이 매년 큰 폭으로 증가함과 동시에 정부에서도 많은 관심을 보이고 있다. 반면에 생태환경은 관광지를 개발하는 과정과 결과에서 부적절한 개발로 오히려 손상을 받게 되는 경우가 더 많으며, 생태관광객의 높은 환경의식과 엇갈려 실패를 보는 경우도 존재한다. 그럼에도 불구하고 생태관광객의 환경에 대한 관점이나 의식 등에 관한 연구가 미흡하여 지속가능한 생태관광개발에서 생태관광지와 관광객사이에 초점을 맞추지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구는 산림생태관광의 지속가능한 발전을 위하여 산림자원을 이용한 생태관광객과 그들의 환경의식을 정의하여 관광지에 대한 매력성, 만족 및 관광 후 태도에 어떠한 영향관계가 있는지 실증적으로 규명함으로서, 관광객의 입장에서 어떠한 생태관광지를 선호하는지를 파악하는데 그 중점을 두었다. 연구결과 산림생태관광객의 높은 자연보호의식은 관광지 매력성, 만족 및 관광 후 태도에 모두 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 해석되었고 환경오염의식은 관광지 매력성 유의한 영향을 미치지 못하는 것으로 해석되었다. 이에 따라 우리는 지속적인 생태관광지 개발과 생태관광 프로그램을 작성함에 있어서 관광객의 자연보호의식 전환 및 생태관광객의 심리적 반응을 중심으로 진행되어야 한다는 점을 시사한다.

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With the slowdown in environmental issues and the change of environmental consciousness, ecotourism is being discussed in various social fields. Ecotourism is being popularized for environmental protection, and now it is becoming a mainstream product from one of mass tourism. Ecotourism's emphasis on sustainable development in the tourism destination's society, economy, and environment, through ecotourism study and education, enable people to understand the core value of the ecological environment. 2011 was nominated as "the Year of World Forest" by the UN. In the recent years, forests are becoming increasingly important with their own values and functions in environment, economy, society, and culture. In particular, the global environmental issues caused by climate change are becoming an international agenda. Forests are the only effective solution for the carbon dioxide that causes global warming. Moreover, forests constitute a major part of ecotourism, and are now most used by ecotourists. For example, Korea, wherein 60% of the land is forest, attracts ecotourists. With the increasing interests in environment, the number of tourists visiting the ecosystem forest, which is highly valued for its conservation, is increasing significantly every year and is receiving considerable attention from the government. However, poor facilities in the forest ecotourism sites and improper market strategies are the reasons for the poor running of these sites. Furthermore, tourists' environmental awareness affects ecology environmental pollution or the optimization of forest ecotourism. In order to verify the relationships among tourist attractiveness, environmental consciousness, charm degrees of the attractions, and attitudes after tours, we established some scales based on existing research achievement. Then, using these scales, the researcher completed the questionnaire survey. From December 20, 2010 to February 20, 2011, after conducting surveys for 12 weeks, we finally obtained 582 valid questionnaires, from a total of 700 questionnaires, that could be used in statistical analysis. First, for the method of research and analysis, the researcher initially applied the Cronbach's (Alpha) for verifying the reliability, and subsequently applied the Exploratory factor analysis for verifying the validity. Second, in order to analyze the demographics, the researcher makes use of the Frequency analysis for the AMOS, measurement model, structural equation model computing, and also utilizes construct validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and nomological validity. Third, for the analysis of the ecotourists' environmental consciousness, impacts on tourist attractiveness, charm degrees of the attractions, and attitudes after the tour, the researcher uses AMOS 19, with the path analysis and equation of structure. After the research, researchers found that high awareness of natural protection lead to high tourist motivation and satisfaction and more positive attitude after the tour. Moreover, this research shows the psychological and behavioral reactions of the ecotourists to the ecotourist development. Accordingly, environmental consciousness does not affect the tourist attractiveness that has been interpreted as significant. Furthermore, people should focus on the change of natural protection consciousness and psychological reaction of ecotourists while ensuring the sustainable development of ecotourists and developing some ecotourist programs.