2024/03/29 更新

写真a

フランク ビョーン
フランク ビョーン
所属
商学学術院 商学部
職名
准教授
学位
博士(工学) ( 東京工業大学 )
修士(工学) ( エコール・サントラル・ドゥ・リオン(リオン中央大学) )
修士(経営工学) ( ダルムシュタット工科大学 )
プロフィール

経歴

  • 2018年04月
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    早稲田大学   商学学術院   准教授

  • 2015年04月
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    2018年03月

    上智大学   大学院地球環境学研究科   准教授

  • 2009年04月
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    2015年03月

    東京工業大学   大学院社会理工学研究科経営工学専攻   助教

  • 2012年08月
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    AOTS (2012-現在)、上智大学 (2018)、東京農工大学 (2014-2017)、立教大学 (2014-2017)   非常勤講師

学歴

  • 2006年10月
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    2009年03月

    東京工業大学   大学院社会理工学研究科経営工学専攻  

  • 2001年09月
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    2006年03月

    エコール・サントラル・ドゥ・リオン(リオン中央大学)   大学院工学専攻  

  • 2003年10月
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    2005年12月

    ダルムシュタット工科大学   大学院経営工学専攻  

所属学協会

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    日本商業学会

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    日本経営工学会

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    日本品質管理学会

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    Academy of Marketing Science

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    American Marketing Association

研究分野

  • 商学

研究キーワード

  • 顧客関係管理、国際マーケティング、環境マーケティング(CSR)、新商品開発

受賞

  • 早稲田大学リサーチアワード

    2020年   早稲田大学  

  • 最優秀査読者賞

    2019年   Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science  

  • 最優秀論文賞(マーケティング戦略とブランド化)

    2017年   ANZMAC (Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy) Conference  

  • 最優秀論文賞(起業とイノベーション )

    2016年   ANZMAC (Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy) Conference  

  • 日経品質管理文献賞

    2015年   日本経済新聞社  

  • 最優秀査読者賞

    2013年   Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science  

  • 日経品質管理文献賞

    2013年   日本経済新聞社  

  • 最優秀査読者賞

    2012年   Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science  

  • 最優秀査読者賞

    2011年   Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science  

  • 手島博士論文賞

    2010年   東京工業大学  

  • 最優秀論文賞

    2010年   Asian Network for Quality Congress  

  • 研究奨励賞

    2009年   日本品質管理学会  

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論文

  • An extended source attractiveness model: The advertising effectiveness of distinct athlete endorser attractiveness types and its contextual variation

    Bjoern Frank, Shusei Mitsumoto

    European Sport Management Quarterly   23 ( 4 ) 1091 - 1114  2023年  [査読有り]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    Research question: According to past research, the effectiveness of athlete endorsements of advertised products is low on average and strongly depends on the context. This article extends the source attractiveness model to examine two research questions: 1) How do multiple unexplored types of an athlete endorser’s attractiveness affect customer equity drivers? 2) How do these effects vary by the fit of an athlete endorser with the endorsed product and with the consumer’s gender and sports experience?

    Research methods: This research uses hierarchical linear modeling of 1319 consumer evaluations of athlete-endorsed ads in Japan.

    Results and Findings: Among multiple types of an athlete’s attractiveness, an athlete’s success appeal, personality appeal, and athlete-product similarity, but not sex appeal, positively affect customer equity drivers. Due to gender roles, success appeal and personality appeal have stronger effects and athlete-product similarity has weaker effects for male athletes. Contrary to conventional wisdom, sex appeal is not more influential for female athletes. Reflecting sexual preferences in opposite-gender evaluations, a female athlete’s sex appeal more strongly influences male consumers, whereas a male athlete’s success appeal more strongly influences female consumers. A consumer’s sports experience enhances the influence of an athlete’s success appeal.

    Implications: This research identifies a set of contextual moderators (athlete-product fit; athlete-consumer fit in gender and sports experience) of the effectiveness of different attractiveness types in athlete endorsements of advertised products. It provides guidelines on how to enhance the effectiveness of athlete endorsements by using different types of athlete attractiveness in different contexts.

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  • Sustainable supply chains in Bolivia: Between informality and political instability

    Boris Christian Herbas-Torrico, Björn Frank, Carlos Alejandro Arandia-Tavera, Pamela Mirtha Zurita-Lara

    Case Studies on Sustainability in the Food Industry: Dealing with a Rapidly Growing Population     81 - 100  2022年09月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

     概要を見る

    Nowadays, Bolivia is experiencing big social and economic changes. Due to strong economic growth and deep political changes, the Bolivian society has high expectations for a better future. Multiple factors, most rooted in changing consumer realities, are driving the awakening to the importance of the management and sustainability of supply chains in developed and developing countries. More consumers are also looking for reassurance from manufacturers that their purchased goods are sourced and produced in an environmentally, socially sustainable, and safe fashion. As a consequence, more national regulations are expected to appear in the future to reflect these new consumer demands. Due to social and political instability, attaining supply chain sustainability in Bolivia is far from realistic. However, manufacturers should take several steps to address some of the factors that limit their control over supply chains. Bolivian firms will have to reduce suppliers’ complexity, improve supply chain transparency, integrate third parties, and improve material procurement practices. Therefore, our study analyzes sustainable supply chain management practices in the foods and beverage industry of Bolivia. In this chapter, we study the case of Bolivia and attempt to summarize the challenges and opportunities faced by Bolivian firms in the development of sustainable supply chains. In particular, we collected data from nine foods and drink manufacturers of the foods and beverage industry. We find that the implementation of sustainability practices in Bolivian supply chains is still at an early stage. Moreover, due to high political instability and a huge informal economy, supply chains in Bolivia are highly uncertain and extremely challenging to manage.

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  • Market success through recycling programs: Strategic options, consumer reactions, and contingency factors

    Yingfei Hu, Bjoern Frank, Zhenpeng Lu

    Journal of Cleaner Production   353   131003  2022年06月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:責任著者

     概要を見る

    Environmental problems caused by waste are drawing growing concern worldwide. Such waste problems are even worse in many emerging markets, where waste is frequently mismanaged and thus causes significant environmental problems. To alleviate such waste problems and address stakeholders’ growing environmental concerns, firms have launched recycling programs as one specific corporate social responsibility initiative. While past studies examine recycling programs from a technical perspective, very little research investigates the marketing benefits of such programs. This study draws on signaling theory to develop hypotheses about how firms can strategically design and market a recycling program to trigger positive consumer reactions. Using hierarchical linear modeling of survey data on mobile phone recycling programs across multiple brands, it finds that multiple strategic options of a recycling program (i.e., a product buyback program, product recycling convenience, and packaging recycling) differentially influence consumers’ brand attitudes, which consequently affect brand loyalty. Furthermore, an analysis of contingency factors (i.e., brand switching risk, public self-consciousness) suggests that a product recycling program affects brand attitudes only when the brand switching risk is low, and that packaging recycling affects brand attitudes more for consumers with higher public self-consciousness.

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  • Explaining interpersonal differences in COVID-19 disease prevention behavior based on the health belief model and collective resilience theory: A cross-sectional study from Bolivia

    Boris Herbas-Torrico, Bjoern Frank

    BMC Public Health   22   1077  2022年05月  [査読有り]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:最終著者

     概要を見る

    Background: Governments have attempted to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by issuing guidelines for disease prevention behavior (e.g., wearing masks, social distancing, etc.) and by enforcing these guidelines. However, while some citizens have complied with these guidelines, others have ignored them or have even participated in large-scale protests. This research aims both to understand the causes of such variation in citizens’ adherence to government guidelines on disease prevention behavior and to extend the scientific literature on disease prevention to account for the collective resilience of a society to diseases. Thus, this research draws on the health belief model and collective resilience theory to develop hypotheses about the determinants of a citizen’s disease prevention behavior. These hypotheses deal with how citizens’ vulnerability, attitudes toward disease prevention, and social orientation are associated with COVID-19 prevention behaviors.

    Methods: From March 24 to April 4, 2020, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted in Bolivia. It included questions on demographic characteristics, chronic health problems, emotional burden, attitudes towards preventive behaviors, trust in public institutions, and culture. Among 5265 participants who clicked on the survey, 1857 at least partially filled it out. After removing data with missing responses to any variable, the final sample consists of 1231 respondents. The collected data were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling.

    Results: Regarding a citizen’s vulnerability, chronic health problems have a U-shaped association with disease prevention behavior. Moreover, age, female gender, and worries have positive associations with disease prevention behavior, whereas depression showed a negative association. Regarding attitudes toward disease prevention, trust in public institutions, and attitudes toward social distancing, a government-imposed lockdown and the enforcement of this lockdown showed positive associations with disease prevention behavior. Regarding social orientation, individualism and collectivism both have positive relationships with disease prevention behavior.

    Conclusions: In the COVID-19 pandemic, a citizen’s low vulnerability, weak social orientation, and beliefs about low benefits of disease prevention behavior are associated with poor compliance with guidelines on disease prevention behavior. More research on these associations would help generalize these findings to other populations and other public health crises.

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  • Organisational resources as facilitators and inhibitors of green performance: Non-linearities, interactions and international differences

    Gayani M. Ranasinghe, Yuosre F. Badir, Bjoern Frank

    European Journal of International Management   18 ( 1 ) 154 - 184  2022年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:最終著者

     概要を見る

    While firms face pressure to improve their green (i.e., environmental) performance, little is known about how adapting their resources can help them to more successfully implement green practices and improve their green performance. Drawing on the resource-based view, this study develops novel hypotheses about the effects of a firm’s non-financial and financial resources on its green performance. These hypotheses are tested with hierarchical linear modeling of international, multi-source objective data. Regarding non-financial resources, this study finds a U-shaped effect of female board-of-directors representation on green performance, which is moderated by the directors’ education level. Moreover, the directors’ education level positively influences green performance in Asian countries, but not in Western countries. Regarding financial resources, financial slack and R&D intensity exert non-linear effects on green performance. These original findings help firms to maximize their green performance by resource adjustments, and help public policy makers spread knowledge to develop their economy sustainably.

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  • Corporate social responsibility in Bolivia: Context, policy, and reality

    Boris Herbas-Torrico, Bjoern Frank, Carlos Arandia-Tavera

    Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility     597 - 620  2021年07月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

     概要を見る

    Nowadays, Bolivia is experiencing big social and economic changes. Due to strong economic growth and deep political changes, the Bolivian society has high expectations for a better future. However, historical social injustices, weak government institutions, corruption, poverty, unenforced regulations, low industrial productivity, and high economic informality are hindering that future. In developing countries where weak institutions do not address social problems sufficiently, corporate social responsibility (CSR) can serve as an alternative way to address social problems through corporate actions, rather than government actions, that seek to minimize harm to, and maximize benefits for, both disadvantaged social groups and the environment. Currently, private and public firms are attempting to use CSR practices to improve Bolivian people's lives. However, as a developing country, CSR practices still are developing from philanthropy to sustainable practices. In this chapter, we argue how Bolivia's specific country-specific context has shaped CSR practices in Bolivian private and public firms. Our analysis of contextual influences takes into consideration Bolivia's situation along political, historical, socio-cultural, geographical, environmental, regulatory, institutional, business, economic and technological dimensions. Amongst other results, we find that most public and private firms use philanthropy as their main type of CSR practice. However, as we find through interviews, some firms are moving towards sustainable business practices as a more comprehensive type of CSR practices. We discuss Bolivian cases of successful CSR initiatives undertaken by private and public firms and outline future challenges for the success of CSR programs.

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  • Translating green strategic intent into green process innovation performance: The role of green intellectual capital

    Jirapol Jirakraisiri, Yuosre F. Badir, Bjoern Frank

    Journal of Intellectual Capital   22 ( 7 ) 43 - 67  2021年05月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:最終著者

     概要を見る

    Purpose. Many firms struggle to implement strategies that can successfully enhance the environmental sustainability of their processes. Drawing on the theories of green intellectual capital and complementary assets, this study develops a model describing the mechanism whereby firms can translate a green (i.e., environmental) strategy into a superior green process innovation performance (GPIP).
    Design/methodology/approach. Regression analysis of multi-source survey data collected from 514 managers at 257 firms (257 top management members and 257 safety or environmental managers) was used to test the hypotheses.
    Findings. A firm’s green strategic intent has positive effects on the three aspects of green intellectual capital (i.e., human, organizational, and relational capital). In turn, these three aspects have positive effects on GPIP. Moreover, green organizational capital positively moderates the effect of green relational capital on GPIP, whereas it negatively moderates the effect of human capital on GPIP.
    Practical implications. In order to implement a green strategy successfully, especially in polluted industries such as the chemical industry, managers need to develop not only the firm’s tangible resources, but also its intangible resources. The more they invest in green organizational capital, the higher the level of GPIP that can be achieved. On average, a firm’s green human capital is more important than its organizational and relational capital. Moreover, its organizational capital helps capture the benefits of its relational capital, but it impairs the creativity of its human capital.
    Originality/value. We contribute to the literature on green strategy implementation by suggesting that green intellectual capital plays a mediating role in the relationship between a firm’s green strategic intent and GPIP.
    Keywords. Green strategy implementation, green strategic intent, green intellectual capital, green process innovation performance.
    Article classification. Research paper.

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  • Artificial intelligence-enabled environmental sustainability of products: Marketing benefits and their variation by consumer, location, and product types

    Bjoern Frank

    Journal of Cleaner Production   285   125242 - 125242  2021年02月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

     概要を見る

    Firms are developing AI-enhanced products (e.g., robots) that can tackle environmental problems through autonomous interactions with their surroundings (e.g., removing waste/pollutants, tracking invasive species) and autonomous learning, which results in improved environmental performance characteristics. Such autonomous environmental benefits of products differ from conventional, static environmental benefits, which derive from pre-purchase processes and design decisions. However, the literature still lacks knowledge of how to use such autonomous environmental benefits to attract new customers. Therefore, drawing on signaling theory, this study examines the effect of these environmental benefits on a consumer’s purchase intent and its variation across types of consumers, locations, and products. Based on hierarchical linear modeling of 1635 consumer evaluations of AI-enhanced products, this study finds that both static and autonomous perceived environmental benefits influence purchase intent positively. The effect of autonomous environmental benefits is stronger for women than for men and for products targeted at adults rather than children. The effect of static environmental benefits is stronger for men than women, for products targeted at children rather than adults, for consumers with a higher need for cognition, and in locations with a higher perceived environmental well-being.

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  • The AI-extended consumer: Technology, consumer, and country differences in the formation of demand for AI-empowered consumer products

    Bjoern Frank, Boris Herbas Torrico, Shane J. Schvaneveldt

    Technological Forecasting and Social Change     121018  2021年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

     概要を見る

    Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are set to revolutionize established industries. Drawing on delegation theory, this article extends the marketing literature by explaining technology, consumer, and country differences in the formation of demand for AI-empowered consumer products (AI products). Based on hierarchical linear modeling of 2,775 consumer evaluations of automobile add-on autonomous driving systems across five countries, this study finds that the utilitarian (related to efficient goal achievement), hedonic (related to emotions), and symbolic (related to the consumer’s self-concept) dimensions of perceived product value all contribute to AI product demand. Regarding technology differences, the degree of AI product autonomy enhances the effects of both hedonic and symbolic value and weakens the effect of utilitarian value on AI product demand. Regarding country differences, cultural performance orientation enhances the effect of utilitarian value on AI product demand. Regarding consumer differences, a consumer’s independent self-construal weakens the effects of hedonic and symbolic value. Moreover, a consumer’s inherent activeness weakens the effect of utilitarian value and strengthens the effect of symbolic value on AI product demand. Based on these results, the article discusses implications for marketing scholars and practitioners and for public policy-makers.

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  • Employee-level open innovation in emerging markets: Linking internal, external, and managerial resources

    Yuosre F. Badir, Bjoern Frank, Marcel Bogers

    Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science   48 ( 5 ) 891 - 913  2020年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:責任著者

     概要を見る

    Leveraging external sources of knowledge has become a vital element of innovation strategy, especially in emerging markets, where many firms lack the sophisticated knowledge required to innovate. However, extant research in this domain puts little emphasis on emerging economies and also typically treats openness as a firm-level concept. In contrast, this study investigates how individual employees rely on both internal and external knowledge to increase their innovative work output (and, secondarily, their customer acquisition performance) and how their supervising manager’s characteristics moderate these mechanisms. Using hierarchical linear modeling of data collected from 123 employees and 50 managers in telecommunications companies in the emerging market of Vietnam, we find support for our hypothesized relationships. These findings have important implications for research and practice as they highlight the role of the individual employee in open innovation, the need for considering a more distributed set of organizational functions, and the relevance for emerging markets.

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  • Consumer desire for personalization of products and services: Cultural antecedents and consequences for customer evaluations

    Boris Herbas Torrico, Bjoern Frank

    Total Quality Management & Business Excellence   30 ( 3-4 ) 355 - 369  2019年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:最終著者, 責任著者

     概要を見る

    In order to satisfy customers, marketers increasingly provide customers with the means to personalise their products and services. Based on the social identity approach and international consumer data, this article explores the antecedents and consequences of consumer desires for internal personalisation (perceiving a distinctive identity) and external personalisation (communicating a distinctive identity) of products and services. In terms of antecedents, the results show that desire for (both internal and external) personalisation tends to be influenced negatively by age and positively by both individualism (vs. collectivism) and uncertainty avoidance. In terms of consequences, the results indicate that desire for personalisation moderates the formation of affective, but not cognitive, customer satisfaction. Moreover, desire for personalisation enhances the relative importance of perceived usage benefits, compared with physical performance, in customer evaluations of products and services. These results have important implications for the design and marketing of products and services.

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  • Consumers' switching to disruptive technology products: The roles of comparative economic value and technology type

    Apinya Kamolsook, Yuosre F. Badir, Bjoern Frank

    Technological Forecasting and Social Change   140   328 - 340  2019年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:最終著者

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    This study explores consumers' motivations to switch to new products in the context of disruptive innovation, and investigates the role of technology differences (i.e., network externality vs. stand-alone technology). Switching from an existing technology product to a disruptive technology product (DTP) involves not only benefits but also requires major sacrifices, which are not encountered in the context of continuous innovation. To model the tradeoff between the benefits and sacrifices, this study extends the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model by introducing the construct of comparative economic value (CEV). Based on Thai consumer data, analyses support the hypothesized mediating role of CEV. CEV mediates the effects of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and facilitating conditions, and partially mediates the effect of social influence on the DTP switching intent. Multi-group analysis shows that CEV depends more on effort expectancy for network externality technology and more on the performance expectancy for stand-alone technology.

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  • Corporate social responsibility in Bolivia: Meanings and consequences

    Boris Herbas Torrico, Bjoern Frank, Carlos Arandia Tavera

    International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility   3 ( 7 ) 1 - 13  2018年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:責任著者

     概要を見る

    Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been studied extensively in developed countries. However, although most of the world’s consumers live in developing countries, the study of CSR in developing countries in general, and in Bolivia in particular, still is very limited. Developing countries are characterized by widespread poverty, corruption, inequality, social exploitation, and environmental pollution and, consequently, offer abundant opportunities for CSR. In addition, research on CSR in developing countries has the potential to promote equality, social justice, transparency, and accountability by holding frequently irresponsible local and international organizations to account. For that purpose, this study explores the nature of CSR practices and their effectiveness in influencing consumer attitudes in Bolivia as the least developed among the developing countries in the Americas. To this end, this study uses data collected in Bolivia through both structured surveys (quantitative data) and unstructured questionnaires/in-depth interviews (qualitative data). Using structural equation modeling of the quantitative data on two product categories and multiple brand contexts from 1016 consumers, this study tests a series of hypotheses on the consequences of CSR practices in developing countries. The results indicate that CSR practices exert both a direct influence on customer satisfaction and an indirect, mediated influence on customer loyalty. Moreover, the results of qualitative data analysis suggest that multinational companies and young managers are leading the way in implementing CSR practices in Bolivia. Managerial implications are discussed.

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  • Understanding consumer reactions to product contamination risks after national disasters: The roles of knowledge, experience, and information sources

    Bjoern Frank, Shane J. Schvaneveldt

    Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services   28   199 - 208  2016年01月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

     概要を見る

    This study shows that not all consumers intend to decrease purchases of potentially contaminated products after disasters; some rather intend to increase purchases. Purchase intent reductions derive from contamination risk knowledge, which depends on observed behavior of other consumers, objective media information, and past opposition to the technology causing contamination. Technology hazard expertise reinforces the effects of consumers' risk assessments and of past opposition to technology use. By contrast, purchase intent increases derive from empathy and salient social identity shared with disaster victims, which are triggered by affect-laden media exposure, past disaster-related experience, and disaster involvement of consumers' social networks. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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  • Sustainable innovation: A consumer perspective

    Bjoern Frank, Boris Herbas Torrico, Shane J. Schvaneveldt

    2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)    2015年12月  [査読有り]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

     概要を見る

    In order for innovation to become sustainable, consumers need to actually purchase innovative products and services, even when these happen to be expensive. For these cases, this study addresses a gap in the literature by developing the concept of sustainable consumer innovativeness and by seeking to understand its determinants across countries. Based on data collected from more than 3,000 consumers across five countries, this study finds that sustainable consumer innovativeness tends to be influenced negatively by female sex and savings orientation, whereas it appears to be influenced positively by income satisfaction, financial expectations, curiosity, uncertainty avoidance, and status importance. It does not seem to depend on age. While most of these effects are generally valid, their magnitude tends to differ by country. These results may enable managers of innovative firms to identify lead users and thus to improve marketing strategy during the launch phase of innovative products and services.

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  • The role of individualism vs. collectivism in the formation of repurchase intent: A cross-industry comparison of the effects of cultural and personal values

    Björn Frank, Takao Enkawa, Shane J. Schvaneveldt

    Journal of Economic Psychology   51   261 - 278  2015年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

     概要を見る

    As repurchase intent drives profitability and firms are facing culturally diverse customers, managers should know how individualism (vs. collectivism) influences the formation of repurchase intent. This research models individualism as a dimension of both national culture and personal values. Based on HLM of data from six countries and ten industries, study 1 shows that cultural individualism is more influential than personal individualism. Individualism positively moderates the effect of customer satisfaction and negatively moderates the effects of public brand image and relational switching costs on repurchase intent. While the effects of customer satisfaction and relational switching costs are moderated more strongly for services, the effect of public brand image is moderated more strongly for products. Study 2 illuminates psychological processes operating behind these moderating effects: importance of relational switching costs - reliance on salespeople; importance of public brand image - meeting social preferences (impressing others, expressing group identify), but not trustworthiness; importance of customer satisfaction - customization, distinctiveness, but not functional benefits. This research also tests extant theories about the main effect of individualism on repurchase intent. The results provide valuable, novel suggestions for cross-cultural adaptation of marketing strategy.

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  • Antecedents and consequences of innate willingness to pay for innovations: Understanding motivations and consumer preferences of prospective early adopters

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa, Shane J. Schvaneveldt, Boris Herbas Torrico

    Technological Forecasting and Social Change   99   252 - 266  2015年10月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

     概要を見る

    Managers use knowledge of innate consumer innovativeness (inherent interest in new products and services) to adapt the marketing mix to preferences of the consumers most likely to adopt new products/services. As mere interest in new products/services may not sufficiently characterize early adopters in contexts with price differences between established and innovative, new products/services, this article introduces the concept of innate willingness to pay for innovations (IWTPI). Based on data from Germany, Indonesia, Bolivia, USA, and Japan, it tests hypotheses about the antecedents to IWTPI, the moderating effects of IWTPI on the formation of customer satisfaction, and their differences between products and services. IWTPI tends to be positively influenced by income (satisfaction), financial expectations, and importance of status symbols and negatively influenced by female gender, savings orientation, and stress avoidance. These effects are moderated by cultural and economic factors. IWTPI positively moderates the effects of perceived quality (only for products, not services), competitive advantages, public brand image, and social recognition and negatively moderates the effect of perceived value on customer satisfaction. These results inform managers on how to adapt marketing strategy to early vs. late adopters in different country and industry contexts with price differences between established and innovative, new products/services.

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  • Self-preservation vs. collective resilience as consumer responses to national disasters: A study on radioactive product contamination

    Bjoern Frank, Shane J. Schvaneveldt

    Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management   22 ( 4 ) 197 - 208  2014年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    This article extends the literature on consumer reactions to national disasters. Because of the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japanese consumers face the long-term risk of radioactive product contamination as products come from contaminated regions. When facing this risk in purchase situations, Japanese consumers have the choice of reducing their purchases to protect personal health from perceived risk or increasing their purchases to economically support suffering Japanese regions. Based on analysis of variance and regression analysis of data on mobile phones and fast food restaurants from 99 consumers in Japan and 677 consumers in the United States, this study confirms that consumers respond to the risk of radioactive product contamination by reduced or increased purchase intent. Moreover, it finds that purchase intent reductions (vs. increases) vary by consumer age and are more pronounced for fast food restaurants than mobile phones, for non-Japanese consumers in Japan and the United States than for Japanese consumers in Japan, and for more health-conscious consumers. While purchase intent reductions only weakly depend on cultural values, they tend to be positively influenced by uncertainty avoidance and negatively influenced by individualism, masculinity values and long-term orientation. This article thus informs policy makers and marketing managers on how to more effectively address psychological needs of different consumer segments to support the economic reconstruction of disaster-stricken regions.

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  • Affect versus cognition in the chain from perceived quality to customer loyalty: The roles of product beliefs and experience

    Bjoern Frank, Boris Herbas Torrico, Takao Enkawa, Shane J. Schvaneveldt

    Journal of Retailing   90 ( 4 ) 567 - 586  2014年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    To support managerial practice and help improve analytical models in retailing, this article extends the literature on processes in the psychological chain of effects from perceived quality to customer loyalty by making three original and fundamental contributions. Based on multilevel structural equation modeling of consumer data from Bolivia, Japan, and the USA, it shows that product beliefs mediate this chain of effects and that cross-over effects connect rational and emotional processes within this chain. Moreover, it elucidates conditions moderating the strength of these emotional and rational processes. Breadth of experience positively moderates the mediating role of product beliefs. Relative price positively moderates the effect of hedonic product beliefs on affective customer satisfaction and negatively moderates the effect of utilitarian product beliefs on cognitive customer satisfaction. Time since purchase positively moderates the role of emotional processes and negatively moderates the role of rational processes. The moderating effects of sensory, affective, and intellectual brand experience support the predictive validity of the research model. Further analyses illuminate how social recognition, customer value co-creation through product usage patterns, and product-service bundling affect product beliefs, as well as how affective and cognitive customer satisfaction influence positive word-of-mouth.

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  • Regional differences in consumer preference structures within China

    Bjoern Frank, Gulimire Abulaiti, Takao Enkawa

    Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services   21 ( 2 ) 203 - 210  2014年03月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    This study examines whether a single marketing strategy is sufficient to cover the Chinese market. Using data from four regions and nine industries, it finds that major regional differences in consumer preferences make regional market segmentation an attractive option. In more developed regions, consumers rely more on perceived quality and public brand image but less on quality expectations. Uyghurs care more about perceived quality and personal recognition but less about quality expectations than Han Chinese. Personal recognition is more important to southern than northern Chinese. Overall, consumer preference structures are influenced more strongly by differences in economic development than subculture. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

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  • How do the success factors driving repurchase intent differ between male and female customers?

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa, Shane J. Schvaneveldt

    Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science   42 ( 2 ) 171 - 185  2014年03月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    As customers' repurchase behavior leads to long-term corporate profitability, managers should know the success factors influencing repurchase intent. Knowledge of gender differences in these success factors would enable managers to separately optimize repurchase intent for men and women. This research thus develops original hypotheses on gender differences in the formation of repurchase intent. Based on hierarchical linear modeling of data from five countries and ten industries, this research finds that public brand image more strongly influences customer satisfaction and repurchase intent for women than for men. Perceived value has a weaker effect on repurchase intent for women than for men. The analyses do not detect any gender difference in the influence of customer satisfaction on repurchase intent. Contrary to conventional wisdom, relational switching costs more strongly influence repurchase intent for men than for women. Further analyses illustrate moderating effects of country differences in gender egalitarianism and of contextual differences between products and services.

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  • Leveraging customer orientation to build customer value in industrial relationships

    Dinush C. Wimalachandra, Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    Journal of Japanese Operations Management and Strategy   4 ( 2 ) 46 - 61  2014年  [査読有り]

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    While the importance of customer value creation has been confirmed in numerous studies in the literature, there is a lack of empirical studies on how new product development may optimize distinct types of B2B customer value. This study develops a conceptual framework considering four dimensions of B2B customer value (functional, cost, hedonic, and symbolic) and two dimensions of B2B customer orientation: needs orientation and relationship orientation. Based on data collected in 10 countries, hierarchical linear modeling is used to test hypotheses on the decomposed effects of these different B2B customer orientation approaches on the creation of each type of B2B customer value. Numerous theoretical contributions and managerial implications are discussed.

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  • Strategic openness in quality control: Adjusting NPD strategic orientation to optimize quality control

    Dinush Chanaka Wimalachandra, Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice   21 ( 6 ) 348 - 359  2014年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    Many firms have shifted to an 'open innovation' strategy by integrating external information into new product development (NPD). This study extends the open innovation paradigm to the area of product quality control practices in NPD. Using data collected in 10 countries, this study investigates the role of external information acquired through B2B/B2C customer, competitor, technology, and manufacturing orientation in meeting quality and performance specifications of newly developed products. It also illuminates the interconnected roles of B2B and B2C customer orientation in meeting these specifications. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the results show that leveraging a variety of external information sources (in particular, frequent and informal communication with B2B customers and coordination with the manufacturing department) indeed helps firms improve internal product quality control practices in NPD. Information on B2C customers is beneficial in B2B contexts only if effectively integrated by means of B2B affective information management.

  • Implications of radioactive contamination near production sites for product quality-related risk perceptions and customer loyalty

    Bjoern Frank, Dinush C. Wimalachandra

    2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2013)    2013年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    To help understand consumer reactions to risks of product contamination caused by national disasters, this article studies radioactive contamination caused by the 2011 nuclear accident in Japan. Purchase situations confront consumers with products manufactured at production sites near contaminated regions of Japan. Consumers may either reduce their purchases of such products to protect their health, or increase their purchases to support suffering Japanese regions. Based on consumer data from Japan, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Sri Lanka, this article illuminates the influence of knowledge, information sources, past experience, and personal characteristics on purchase decisions. Consumers indeed reduce or increase their purchases as a response to the risk of radioactive contamination. While health risk estimates, past experience with natural disasters, and the country of residence most strongly influence this purchase decision, media reports and past opposition to radioactivity most strongly influence health risk estimates. Estimates of radioactivity levels are not influential.

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  • Enhancing NPD operational performance through B2B and B2C customer involvement for varying degrees of product technology

    Dinush C. Wimalachandra, Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2013)     714 - 718  2013年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    The present article addresses how different types of B2B customer involvement motives and B2C customer involvement motives affect different dimensions of new product development (NPD) operational performance in the B2B context. This study also explores the moderating effects of high vs. low product technology on the relationships between different types of customer involvement motives and different dimensions of NPD operational performance. Based on data collected from the textile and apparel industry in 10 countries, the current study illustrates that B2C customer involvement has a greater impact than B2B customer involvement on time-tomarket. Nevertheless, B2B customer involvement plays an important role as it contributes more to quality than does B2C customer involvement. In addition, the study explains the different strategies that should be adopted in B2B and B2C customer involvement when high vs. low product technology is present.

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  • How do Asia's two most important consumer markets differ? Japanese-Chinese differences in customer satisfaction and its formation

    Bjoern Frank, Gulimire Abulaiti, Boris Herbas Torrico, Takao Enkawa

    Journal of Business Research   66 ( 12 ) 2397 - 2405  2013年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    Little is known about international differences in the formation of customer satisfaction, particularly regarding developed and emerging markets in Asia. This lack of knowledge limits the competitiveness of Western companies in Asia. From the perspectives of economic and cultural country differences, this study thus compares customer satisfaction and its formation between Japan, China, and Germany (Western reference country). Customer satisfaction is higher in Japan than China for goods and private services but lower for public services. It is influenced more strongly by perceived quality and less strongly by perceived value ( difference moderated by switching costs), public brand image, and quality expectations in Japan than China. Economic differences between developed (Japan, Germany) and emerging (China) markets influence consumer preference structures more strongly than cultural differences. Due to larger inter-Asian cultural variance than Western managers might expect, Chinese consumer preference structures differ more from Japanese than German consumer preference structures. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • 日本の製品・サービスを対象とした不確実性回避性向の消費者態度への影響メカニズムの解明

    フランク・ビョーン, エルバストッリコ・ボリス, 圓川隆夫

    日本経営工学会論文誌   63 ( 4 ) 201 - 209  2013年  [査読有り]

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    グローバルな競争が加速される中,ホフステードによる国の文化次元とそのスコアによる消費者態度への影響の研究が多くある.日本人の文化的特徴として不確実性回避が高く,それがCS(顧客満足度)等の品質評価について厳しい態度に結びついていることが知られている.しかしながら,それは国の平均値としての傾向であり,消費者個人の文化性向としての不確実性回避の影響については必ずしも明確な結論は得られていない.そこで,本研究では,10の製品・サービスを対象とした消費者のCSおよびその先行要因指標(知覚品質,知覚価値,企業イメージ)と不確実性回避の文化性向を測定することによって,不確実性回避の消費者態度の影響メカニズムの解明を目指すものである.その結果,不確実性回避は直接CSに影響を与えるよりも知覚品質等の先行要因指標を通して間接的に負の影響を与える,さらにその傾向はサービスよりも製品で顕著であることを示した.このような結果は,個人の文化性向が市場セグメント変数として有効であるとの新たな知見を与えるものである.

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  • Customer value creation through product quality and customer usage of product functions: Managing the industry shift towards smartphones

    Bjoern Frank, Boris Herbas Torrico, Takao Enkawa

    2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)     1507 - 1511  2012年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    This article investigates how the industry shift from traditional cell phones to smartphones has impacted the process of customer value creation and thus caused the rapid demise of industry leaders and the rise of new global leaders. It explores this mechanism within the chain from quality-induced and customer-co-created product functionality via hedonic, symbolic, and utilitarian customer value to customer loyalty. Based on consumer data from Bolivia and Japan, the study illustrates that the greater market success of smartphones than traditional cell phones can mainly be explained by higher hedonic and symbolic value creation. This additional value creation is caused by higher product quality and greater opportunities for customers to co-create value through active usage of customized product functions.

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  • What characterizes Chinese consumer behavior? A cross-industry analysis of the Chinese diaspora in Japan

    Bjoern Frank, Gulimire Abulaiti, Takao Enkawa

    Marketing Letters   23 ( 3 ) 683 - 700  2012年09月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    In order to profit from China's enormous business opportunities, international firms need to know Chinese consumer preferences. To learn more about intrinsic Chinese consumer preferences and their distinction from other Asian consumer preferences, this study analyzes differences in the formation of customer satisfaction, repurchase intent, and word-of-mouth intent between Chinese-born and locally born consumers in Japan. Verifying culture-based hypotheses, cross-industry analyses show that Chinese-born consumers pay less attention to the public brand image and risk-related switching costs, but more attention to quality expectations, perceived value, experienced usefulness, and financial switching costs than Japanese consumers. Marketing strategies should account for these preference structures.

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  • 顧客満足度とマーケットシェアの関係メカニズムについての国際比較研究

    アブレート・グルミレ, エルバス・ボリス, 蜂屋聡子, 松川祐子, フランク・ビョーン, スワナベルト・J・シェーン, 圓川隆夫

    品質   42 ( 3 ) 95 - 105  2012年  [査読有り]  [国際共著]

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    顧客維持や創造のためにCS向上の企業努力がなされる中,同時期におけるCSとマーケットシェアの関係は相関がないか,負の相関をもつというFornell等の研究が知られている.しかしながら,これはCS向上を目指す企業努力の正当性と矛盾しかねない.そこで本論文ではそのメカニズムを解明するために, CS関連指標とシェアとの関係は,製品・サービスや国によって異なるという仮説のもとに, 8つの国・地域そして8つの製品・サービスのCS関連指標の調査を行った.その結果,先進国か新興国かの国の成熟度と,製品・サービスのその国における相対CS尺度という2つの媒介変数が,両者の関係に介在していること,そして先進国で相対CSが低い製品・サービスのみFornell等の見解は成り立つ,新興国や先進国でも相対CSが高い製品・サービスでは,相関がないかむしろ正の相関をもつことを, CSだけでなく知覚品質,知覚価値,企業イメージ等のCS関連尺度との関係を含めて明らかにした.

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  • The formation of consumer attitudes and intentions towards fast food restaurants: How do teenagers differ from adults?

    Bjoern Frank

    Managing Service Quality   22 ( 3 ) 260 - 280  2012年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    Purpose - Past research showed that overly positive attitudes and intentions towards fast food contribute to obesity. In the face of rising childhood obesity, the purpose of this paper is to explore attitudinal and behavioral reasons behind adolescents' suboptimal food choices. It tests hypotheses about differences between teenagers and adults in customer attitudes and intentions regarding fast food restaurants.
    Design/methodology/approach - The hypotheses are tested with German survey data and moderated regression analysis.
    Findings - Teenagers do not underestimate the negative effects of fast food. However, their decision making fails to incorporate existing knowledge on competitive advantages and gives greater weight to customer satisfaction compared with adults. Behavioral differences between teenage and adult consumers result from differences in cognitive development rather than social pressure.
    Research limitations/implications - As this study uses subjective consumer data from Germany, future research could validate the conclusions with objective behavioral data from various countries.
    Practical implications - Of importance to fast food restaurant managers, the primary determinants of customer attitudes and intentions are food quality, the public brand image, social recognition, and perceived competitive advantages. By contrast, service quality and perceived value are less influential. Satisfying teenage customers is more important than informing them about competitive advantages.
    Social implications - The results imply that fast food-related childhood obesity may be caused by lack of rationality rather than peer pressure or lack of knowledge.
    Originality/value - As an original contribution, the paper compares adolescents' and adults' decision making regarding fast food restaurants and captures the regularly overlooked influences of the public brand image, social recognition, and perceived competitive advantages.

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  • How should foreign retailers deal with Chinese consumers? A cross-national comparison of the formation of customer satisfaction

    Gulimire Abulaiti, Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa, Shane J. Schvaneveldt

    Journal of Marketing Channels   18 ( 4 ) 353 - 373  2011年10月  [査読有り]

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    China is becoming one of the world's most attractive retail markets. Though the literature lacks a comprehensive theory on country differences in the formation of customer satisfaction, such knowledge would enable foreign retailers to better adapt their marketing strategies to Chinese consumers. This study creates such a theory and tests it with data from seven countries. Hierarchical linear modeling shows that country differences in economic development and culture influence both (a) the level of customer satisfaction and (b) how customer satisfaction is influenced by its antecedents. Additional analyses specifically inform foreign retailers about how to adapt to Chinese consumer needs. © 2011 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

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  • CS関連指標への経済危機の影響とモデレータとしての文化の役割

    アブレート・グルミレ, 圓川隆夫, フランク・ビョーン

    品質   40 ( 2 ) 69 - 77  2010年  [査読有り]

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    激しい競争の中で企業は顧客を維持し獲得するため,顧客満足度(以下,CS)の向上に努力している.一方,最近の研究では,CSは企業成果や努力と関係のない経済変動を受けることが報告されている.本研究は,2008年後期に起こった経済危機の前後に実施した14の製品・サービスについてのCS関連指標(CS,知覚価値,企業イメージ)および消費者である回答者の文化特性の調査に基づき,CS関連指標に経済危機がどのような影響を及ぼすか,そしてその影響に消費者の文化特性がどのような違いを与えるかを分析したものである.その結果,(1)CSは経済危機による不況感により有意に上昇するが,知覚価値や累積尺度である企業イメージではそのような効果は認められない(2)CS関連指標への消費者の文化の影響として,高リスク回避の消費者はこれらの指標にプラスに,技術志向の消費者はマイナスに働く(3)経済危機のCS関連指標への影響に,リスク回避,集団主義の文化や主婦という属性がモデレータとして作用するというようなCSにおける経済変動のバイアスの存在や,消費者の文化特性のマーケティング戦略上有効となる示唆が得られた.

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  • Does economic growth enhance life satisfaction? The case of Germany

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy   29 ( 7/8 ) 313 - 329  2009年07月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether economic growth enhances life satisfaction. It provides a conceptual solution to the heavily debated Easterlin paradox which states that aggregate income positively relates to life satisfaction in one-time international comparisons but not in longitudinal analyses. First empirical results are presented for Germany. Design/methodology/approach – The present study uses path analysis to capture not only direct but also mediated effects of economic growth on life satisfaction. Findings – The paper finds that economic growth does enhance life satisfaction over time. The effect is not direct but mediated via consumer confidence, customer satisfaction, income satisfaction, health satisfaction and job satisfaction. Modeled by consumer confidence, adaptive expectations reduce this effect but cannot entirely compensate for it, as suggested by literature. In addition to this negative compensatory effect which is mediated by customer satisfaction, consumer confidence has a positive direct influence on life satisfaction. Research limitations/implications – Since the history of aggregate customer satisfaction measurement is still young, this empirical analysis should be seen as pioneer work. Future research on the Easterlin paradox should utilize future data, model mediated relationships and time lags, and integrate customer satisfaction and consumer confidence. Practical implications – Economic growth strategies are successful in raising life satisfaction. Governments should not only pay attention to quantitative but also to qualitative growth. Collective optimism can improve life satisfaction. Originality/value – This study contributes to solving the Easterlin paradox. Unlike the extant literature on the Easterlin paradox, this paper integrates national customer satisfaction and consumer confidence into a sociologic model and explicitly accounts for mediated effects. National customer satisfaction is used to model qualitative aspects of economic growth. © 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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  • Economic drivers of dwelling satisfaction: Evidence from Germany

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

      2 ( 1 ) 6 - 20  2009年03月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    Purpose – Sociologists are discussing whether or not economic growth enhances subjective well-being. To complement their research from a housing perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether aggregate income enhances dwelling satisfaction over time. While cross-sectional studies have only examined the direct influence of income on dwelling satisfaction, this paper suggests that there are additional influences mediated by other social indicators. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data from Germany, correlation and regression analyses examine the impacts of aggregate income and other social indicators on dwelling satisfaction. Path analysis is used to test for the existence of mediated relationships. Findings – The paper finds that aggregate income positively influences dwelling satisfaction. Environmental satisfaction, customer satisfaction and satisfaction with family relations also positively impact dwelling satisfaction and mediate influences of aggregate income. The mediated effects are stronger than the direct effect of aggregate income on dwelling satisfaction. Research limitations/implications – The longitudinal availability of aggregate customer satisfaction data is still limited. Future research on dwelling satisfaction is encouraged to account for customer satisfaction and to reexamine the analyses of this study with future data. Practical implications – Stimulating economic growth is a good strategy to improve dwelling satisfaction. Policies improving the environment, family support and shopping opportunities are also effective. Originality/value – This paper is original in that it examines the impacts of economic growth and customer satisfaction on dwelling satisfaction. While the extant literature has only analysed direct effects of income on dwelling satisfaction, this study also accounts for mediated effects. © 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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  • Economic influences on perceived value, quality expectations and customer satisfaction

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    International Journal of Consumer Studies   33 ( 1 ) 72 - 82  2009年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    Consumer research has extensively analysed psychological determinants of customer satisfaction. As macro-level customer satisfaction data were not available until recently, researchers have only taken first steps towards analysing economic determinants of customer satisfaction. Based on a more complex conceptual framework and on data from Germany and Japan, this article examines how economic processes influence the perceived value of goods and services, quality expectations and customer satisfaction. Using principal component analysis, regression analysis and structural equation modelling, this study finds that perceived value is positively influenced by both economic growth and lagged economic expectations. Customer satisfaction is positively influenced by economic growth and negatively by current economic expectations, with half of the impact mediated by perceived value. Economic expectations positively influence expectations regarding the quality of goods and services. These results imply that consumer researchers should no longer ignore economic influences on consumer attitudes. Marketing managers are advised to be cautious not to misinterpret economic-induced variations in customer satisfaction as caused by corporate performance. © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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  • Interpreting time series of patient satisfaction: Macro vs. micro components

    Bjoern Frank, Shuichi Sudo, Takao Enkawa

    Journal of Hospital Marketing and Public Relations   19 ( 1 ) 15 - 39  2009年01月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    Recent research discovered that economic processes influence national averages of customer satisfaction. Using time-series data from Japanese and South Korean hospitals, we conducted principal component regression analyses to examine whether these findings are transferable to patient satisfaction. Our results reveal that aggregate income has a positive impact and economic expectations have a negative impact on patient satisfaction. Further analyses demonstrate that these strong economic influences make it difficult for hospital managers to use patient satisfaction scores to assess the performance impact of their customer-oriented actions. In order to improve performance evaluations based on patient surveys, we thus recommend managers to remove economic influences from time-series of patient satisfaction. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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  • Economic influences on customer satisfaction: An international comparison

    Björn Frank, Takao Enkawa

    International Journal of Business Environment   2 ( 3 ) 336 - 355  2009年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    The marketing literature has extensively analysed firm-level influences on customer satisfaction. Since macro-level customer satisfaction data have not become available until recently, researchers have just taken first steps towards analysing economic influences on customer satisfaction. Identifying economic influences is important because their existence would impair the interpretability of corporate customer satisfaction surveys. Using principal component and regression analyses, we examine economic influences on customer satisfaction across a number of countries: Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Sweden and the USA. Our analyses reveal that economic expansion exerts a positive influence on customer satisfaction, whereas economic expectations exert a negative influence. As a measure to improve today's quality management practices, we thus recommend that firms correct the scores of multiperiod customer satisfaction surveys for economic influences.

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  • 顧客満足度への経済変動バイアスの影響と企業努力を反映するその補正方法について

    フランク・ビョーン, 圓川隆夫, 須藤秀一

    品質   39 ( 1 ) 119 - 128  2009年  [査読有り]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    CS(顧客満足)経営が標榜なされる中,自社の経年的なCS測定が多く実践されている.このような経年的なCS値には,経済変動の影響による無視できない大きなバイアスを伴うことが国家レベルのCSの研究から知られている.個人のCSを集計しその平均で求められる製品や企業のCS値も同様に経済変動の影響が見られるはずであり,企業努力を反映したCS値を求めるにはこのようなバイアスを取り除く必要がある.本研究は,30年にわたる耐久消費財3製品の企業別CS,そして約20年間継続的に測定されているK病院の経年的なCS値を用いて,それらに共通的なパターンでの株価,GDPなどの経済変数の実質的な有意な効果が存在することを示すとともに,その簡便な補正法を提案するものである.加えて,そのような補正によりCS値と企業努力の結果であるマーケットシェアや経営成果指標の改善との関係が鮮明になることを示し,その妥当性を検証するものである.

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  • 顧客満足度に対する経済変数の影響とその構成品質要素による違い

    フランク・ビョーン, 圓川隆夫, 大隈信孝

    日本経営工学会誌   60 ( 2 ) 87 - 94  2009年  [査読有り]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    本論文は,耐久消費財の経年的な顧客満足度(CS値)に,株価に代表される景気感バイアスが存在することを指摘した先行研究を発展させ,さらに2004年,2007年の調査データを加えた上で,CS値への経済変数の影響として景気期待感と経済成長の因子がそれぞれ負と正の影響,そして景気期待感の方がより大きな影響を与えること,さらにそれが主に製品を構成する品質要素のうちで表層機能を介したCS値への影響によるものであるという仮説のもとで分析を行った.その結果,経済成長因子については必ずしも統計的有意な影響は確認できなかったが,景気期待感因子の強い負の影響,そしてそれが付加機能や嗜好性等の表層機能のCS値への影響を介したものであるという影響メカニズムの一端を実証でき,この結果を踏まえた企業努力を反映したCS値への補正方法を示唆した.

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  • Economic influences on customer satisfaction: Variation by product function

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    2008 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2008)     203 - 207  2008年12月  [査読有り]

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    Based on longitudinal customer satisfaction data from three durable goods industries in Japan, this study analyzes how economic processes influence customer satisfaction and how these effects vary by product function. Our research hypotheses are based on a conceptual extension of the disconfirmation of expectations theory of customer satisfaction formation. Using principal component and regression analyses, we show that customer satisfaction is positively influenced by economic growth and negatively by economic expectations. These effects, especially the influence of economic expectations, are much stronger for customer satisfaction with peripheral product functions than with core product functions. Quality managers should be aware of misinterpretations when measuring customer satisfaction to evaluate business performance. Variations in customer satisfaction are not only caused by variations in corporate performance but also by external economic influences.

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  • Improving interpretations of customer satisfaction survey results

    Björn Frank, Takao Enkawa

    Proceedings of the 6th ANQ Congress    2008年  [査読有り]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    Recent research demonstrated that economic processes influence customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is positively influenced by economic growth and negatively by the national stock index. These results are very important to marketing and quality managers using customer satisfaction surveys to benchmark changes in their firm’s customer-oriented performance over time. Managers may misinterpret economic-induced variations in customer satisfaction as caused by changing customer-oriented performance. In our study on the durable goods and hospital industries, we show that this danger is justified because economic processes explain 49 to 95%, thus the majority, of the variations in customer satisfaction. To help firms interpret variations in customer satisfaction, we propose two methods to correct customer satisfaction scores by removing economic influences. We verify the corrected scores by their impact on future business performance and confirm that our correction methods can help managers better understand their firm’s customer-oriented performance and predict future business performance.

  • What should we do to keep our customers?

    Björn Frank, Takao Enkawa

        45 - 48  2008年

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    One of the most important questions that marketing managers are facing is how to keep current customers. While acquiring new customers may incur higher costs than yield financial returns, repeat patronage is the key to real profitability. Although there has been a lot of research on repurchase intentions in international markets, no major scientific study has yet deeply analyzed the factors affecting repurchase intentions in Japan. To counter this lack of information available to firms, our study aims at exploring the determinants of repurchase intentions across a variety of consumer markets in Japan. Knowing these determinants and their relative weights should enable managers to invest in those strategic areas maximizing repeat patronage.

  • How economic growth affects customer satisfaction

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    Asia Pacific Management Review   13 ( 2 ) 531 - 544  2008年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    Changes in customer satisfaction are usually linked to a firm’s performance in satisfying its clients or to developments within its direct competitive environment. In order to correctly interpret such changes in corporate consumer surveys, managers should also account for macroeconomic influences on customer satisfaction. Using data from national consumer barometers in Germany, South Korea, Sweden, and the United States, this study reveals that economic growth positively affects customer satisfaction. Based on correlation analysis and Granger tests, these results challenge recent studies claiming that, conversely, there is a unidirectional impact of customer satisfaction on economic growth. With more comprehensive data from Germany, structural equation modeling shows that economic growth drives customer satisfaction via the expansion of the average consumer’s budget and via an increasing perceived value of offerings. The effect is stronger in high-tech industries, industries with rapid innovation cycles, and industries with fierce price competition.

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  • Does aggregate income influence satisfaction with the standard of living?

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    International Journal of Society Systems Science   1 ( 2 ) 113 - 131  2008年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    Sociologists have been arguing whether aggregate income enhances subjective well-being and, more specifically, satisfaction with the standard of living. The empirical results were mixed. This article suggests that aggregate income affects standard-of-living satisfaction not only directly but also indirectly. Using path analysis and a dataset from Germany, this study finds that absolute income, short-term income fluctuations, and income inequality do not have direct impacts on standard-of-living satisfaction. However, they have indirect impacts mediated by income satisfaction, aggregate customer satisfaction, and satisfaction with the household role. Hence, public policy can rely on economic growth to enhance standard-of-living satisfaction. Government must ensure that economic growth translates into more satisfactory consumption experiences and that growing economic activity rather strengthens than divides families. Future sociological research should account for mediated effects of aggregate income on subjective well-being and no longer ignore the role of customer satisfaction.

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  • How economic growth affects customer satisfaction: A study from Germany

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    Proceedings of the 13th APMC Conference    2007年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    Changes in customer satisfaction are usually linked to a firm’s performance in satisfying its clients or to developments within its direct competitive environment. Managers should better extend their view towards accounting for the overall economic development. Based on consumer data from the German Customer Monitor, a national consumer barometer in Germany, this study reveals that the economic development is driving customer satisfaction via the expansion of the average consumer’s budget and via an increasing perceived value of offerings. These findings challenge studies based on US data claiming that, in the opposite sense, there is a unidirectional impact of customer satisfaction on economic growth.

  • The impacts of economic long-term expansion and consumer confidence on perceived value and customer satisfaction

    Björn Frank, Takao Enkawa

    Proceedings of the 5th ICQR Conference     20 - 25  2007年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    Measuring customer satisfaction at the firm-level is not enough for companies to validly assess corporate performance from the customers’ point of view because customer satisfaction is as well influenced by industrial and economic developments distorting firm-level results. In order to deepen initial findings, our study identifies the economic antecedents to customer satisfaction and to the consumer-perceived value of goods and services, which is the primary antecedent to satisfaction at the firm-level, and integrates the results into a structural model. Based on data from Germany, we find that the consumer-perceived value of goods and services is positively influenced both by economic long-term expansion and by consumer and investor confidence. Customer satisfaction is negatively influenced by retail confidence and positively influenced by economic long-term expansion, with more than half of the impact being mediated by perceived value. We also show that these results are not limited to Germany but are reflected by all countries where customer satisfaction is measured on a large scale.

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  • How switching costs affect consumer attitudes: A cross-industrial study from Germany

    Bjoern Frank, Takao Enkawa

    Proceedings of the 5th ANQ Congress    2007年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

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    Numerous studies have proposed the creation of consumer switching costs as a viable alternative to quality efforts in order to reach strong consumer repurchase intentions and thus profitability. However, these studies have exclusively focused on individual consumer differences under fixed market conditions, which should have overstressed short-term aspects. Based on data from the German Customer Monitor, a national customer survey covering 79 industries in Germany, we conduct a cross-industrial analysis to verify how switching costs impact long-term market outcomes of quality perceptions, customer satisfaction, repurchase intentions, and recommendation intentions which comprise the four most important variables of the consumer attitude chain. In clear opposition to the extant literature, our results indicate that switching costs have significantly negative impacts on repurchase intentions and the other three analyzed consumer attitudes and thus also on profitability in the long run. Establishing switching costs may hence rather endanger corporate long-term success than outstrip the strategic importance of quality efforts. Further analyses substantially add to the distinction between ‘positive’ vs. ‘negative’ types of switching costs with presumed positive vs. negative impacts on consumer sentiments, which has become a hot topic of discussion in latest research. Our investigation reveals that no switching cost type has positive long-term impacts on consumer attitudes, but we identify a distinction between ‘positive’ and ‘neutral’ switching costs. In particular, creating psychological switching costs does not entail detrimental effects on repurchase and recommendation intentions, the two major profitability drivers in the chain of consumer attitudes. Combining our results with positive short-term effects reported by literature, we recommend managers to strategically set up psychological switching costs as to incrementally secure competitive short-term ad-vantages without facing long-term penalties.

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  • 企業・社会利益を目指す環境イノベーション戦略策定の国家・業種・企業特性による差異

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    研究期間:

    2020年04月
    -
    2023年03月
     

    フランク ビョーン

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    環境イノベーションとは、製品やプロセスの革新を通じて企業の環境的持続可能性を高めることである。本研究は、環境イノベーションの利益性とその最適な戦略策定が複数の国、業種、そして企業特性といった文脈によってどのように異なるかを見極めることを目的とする。本研究の目的を達成するために、企業経営者と消費者を対象にアンケート調査を行い、データを収集し、階層線形モデルという統計解析手法で分析する予定である

  • 人工知能製品の購入動機における消費者層、国家文化、製品種類の差異

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    研究期間:

    2019年07月
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    2022年03月
     

    フランク ビョーン

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    センサー技術、通信技術、および機械学習等、人工知能の技術は近年、大幅に発展し、人工知能を活用する製品の開発の加速に貢献してきた。人工知能製品は、顧客価値の創造を通じて企業利益の増加および社会問題の解決に貢献する可能性が高いが、この目標の達成に繋がる技術発展の最適な方向性を定めることは大きな挑戦である。この挑戦を乗り越えるために、本研究では、企業がどのような人工知能製品を開発すべきか予測するために、人工知能製品を購入したくなる動機およびその購入を意図的に避ける動機、またその動機の文脈による差についての理論を構築し、アンケート調査で収集するデータで検証することを目的とする。センサー技術、通信技術、および機械学習等、人工知能の技術は近年、大幅に発展し、これが一般商品の開発の加速、そして新たな製品カテゴリーとして人工知能の開発に貢献してきた。人工知能製品は、顧客価値の創造を通じて企業利益の増加および社会問題の解決に貢献する可能性が高いが、この目標の達成に繋がる技術発展の最適な方向性を定めることは大きな挑戦である。この挑戦を乗り越えるために、本研究では、企業がどのような人工知能製品を開発すべきか予測するために、人工知能製品を購入したくなる動機およびその購入を意図的に避ける動機、またその動機の文脈(消費者層、国家文化、製品種類)による差についての理論を構築し、アンケート調査を用いてデータを収集し、構築した理論を収集したデータと統計分析で検証することを目的とした。この目的を達成するために、令和1年度に、2つのアンケート調査を設計した。第1のアンケートは、人工知能製品の顧客価値を対象にし、顧客価値の中のどの次元が消費者の意思決定に特に強い影響を与えるか見極める目的がある。本アンケートを設計し、予備調査を行い、そして日本及び米国、ボリビアからデータを収集した。これらデータを電子化し、データを整理し、データの収束妥当性及び判別妥当性を検証した。対象とする国のデータ収集は、全ては終わっていないが、予備的な統計分析の段階に入った。その分析結果に基づいて、学会発表を行った。第2のアンケートは、当初想定しなかった追加的プロジェクトとして、消費者のニーズの特定などを含めた商品開発での人工知能技術の利用とその有効性を検証する目的である。本アンケートを設計し、予備調査を行い、そしてインドネシアでのデータ収集を開始した。当初、令和1年度に日本と米国からデータを収集する予定だったが、その目標を達成して、さらに、最初のアンケート調査を用いて、日本、米国、そしてボリビアからデータを収集した。また、実現可能なプロジェクトとして当初は想定していなかった、2つ目のアンケート調査を設計し、インドネシアでのアンケート調査を開始した。令和2年度は、前年度に開始したアンケート調査を継続する予定である。第1のアンケート調査を用いてさらに中国からデータを収集する計画がある。韓国で計画したアンケート調査の代わりに、第2のアンケート調査を用いてインドネシアでのデータ収集を継続する予定である。また、第3のアンケート調査を設計する計画がある

  • 消費者向けロボットの顧客価値の決定要因と行動帰結、文化・製品・使用形態による差異

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    研究期間:

    2016年04月
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    2019年03月
     

    フランク ビョーン

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    本挑戦的萌芽研究は、消費者向けロボットの技術的特徴と法的環境が顧客価値と消費者行動に与える影響、及びその文化・製品類型・使用パターン・消費者特性による差を解明することを目的とした。この目的を達成するため、本研究では、複数の国においてアンケート調査を行うことによって、複数のロボット製品について消費者の態度と購買意図を測定し、収集したデータを、多変量解析を用いて分析した。その結果、ロボット製品の実用的価値及び情緒的価値の双方が消費者の購買意図に影響を与える他に、その影響力が製品の技術発展、国の実績主義の文化と法的環境、そして消費者の独立性と行動力によって異なることを見出した。近年、人工知能が製品の付加価値の創造と企業の競争優位の確立に不可欠と見なされるため、日本企業など数多くの企業は、人工知能を搭載する製品を開発し、この新しい技術で企業や国家経済全体の競争力を高めようとしている。本研究は、マーケティングの視点から、どのような消費者向けロボットの要素が消費者の購買意欲に繋がり、新商品開発の中で重視すべきかという知識を創造することで、企業に成功に繋がる知識を提供し、また企業の成功に影響を受ける社会にも間接的に貢献している。さらに、ロボット製品を購買する際の心理的プロセスを解明する研究は少ないため、本研究は、新たな分野の学問にも貢献するものである。

  • CSR経営志向の消費者行動における個人的・社会的動機、文化・業種・政策による差異

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    研究期間:

    2015年04月
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    2018年03月
     

    フランク ビョーン

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    本研究では、CSRのマーケティング効果における消費者の心理的メカニズムとその文脈(価値観、業種、政策)による差を解明した。消費者データの分析結果として、社会的CSRの方が消費者行動に影響を与える一方で、環境的CSRの方がCSRの口コミに影響を与える。CSRの影響力は、社会的価値観が強い消費者ほど、また企業の非責任の事件の後ほど強まり、CSRを促す政府の政策により弱まる。また、顧客が企業以外の情報源から得る、CSR活動情報は企業イメージに正の影響を与える一方で、企業が直接発信する情報は負の影響を与える。さらに、CSR活動が主に企業の親近感及び便益、ステータスの企業イメージには影響を及ぼす。

  • 理性・感情二元プロセスに基づくCS生成モデルの解明と品質設計指針への応用

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    研究期間:

    2012年04月
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    2015年03月
     

  • 顧客関係管理における成功要因の未探求の国際・国内差の解明

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    研究期間:

    2012年04月
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    2015年03月
     

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  • 製品の放射能汚染リスクに対する消費者反応の原因・文化的相違とそれへの経営対策

    JSPS  科学研究費

    研究期間:

    2012年04月
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    2014年03月
     

    フランク ビョーン

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    本研究では、福島第一原子力発電所の事故から生じた放射能汚染の結果、消費者が被災地で生産された商品の購買を減らす要因として、食べ物に関連する製品カテゴリー、外国籍、中高年齢、不確実性回避、観察した他消費者の購買パターン、マスコミの客観的な報道、原子力の使用に反対する今までの姿勢を特定した。一方、これらの商品の購買を増やす要因として、本研究では、男性らしさ、長期的志向、災害経験、社会的ネットワークの災害による被害、マスコミの情緒に訴えることを狙う報道を特定した。企業や公共機関は、後述の要因を活用すれば、災害による経済的な影響を和らげることができるのではないかと思われる。

  • 顧客満足度の国際比較と文化・経済状況の影響メカニズムの体系化(連携研究者)

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    研究期間:

    2008年04月
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    2011年03月
     

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  • ブロックシェーン技術に基づくサービスのマーケティング効果とその文脈による差異

    2022年  

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      Blockchain technology is a decentralized digital ledger that records transactions in a secure and transparent manner. It has unique features that can help e-commerce firms regain consumers' trust that was lost due to widespread online fraud. Online fraud is a growing problem that has led to a loss of trust among consumers in e-commerce platforms. This research compared the effectiveness of these features. It used a multi-method approach combining two studies and showed that the unique features of blockchain technology affect consumers’ trust in e-commerce platforms. Some of these effects depend on other moderating variables. Finally, trust mediates the effects of these blockchain technology features on consumers’ behavioral intentions and future behavior. In summary, blockchain technology can be an effective tool for e-commerce firms to regain consumers’ trust and improve their behavioral intentions and future behavior by providing unique features that enhance trust in e-commerce platforms.

  • Enhancing the success of digital marketing

    2021年   Y.F. Badir

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      As new technologies are being introduced into firms’ marketing practices, both managers and academic researchers are wondering about the most profit-enhancing ways of using these technologies to achieve key marketing objectives. Several leading marketing journals have published special issues on new technologies in marketing, underscoring the academic interest in addressing the research gap in this area. Specifically, this research aimed to examine (a) which forms of digital marketing are the most effective/efficient ones, (b) which internal capabilities help maximize the potential of digital marketing, and (c) whether digital marketing works not only in developed countries but also in developing countries.  To achieve these objectives, multiple research projects collected data from developing countries and analyzed these data using statistical techniques. One such research project examines how different types of marketing analytics affect the profitability of a firm and which factors moderate these effects. Another research project examines how to overcome human barriers in the implementation of digital marketing use within the firm.

  • 企業・社会利益を⽬指す環境イノベーション戦略策定の国家・業種・企業特性による差異

    2019年  

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      Green innovation deals with a firm’s activities that aim to minimize the use and pollution of environmental resources. Such activities involve green product innovation, green process innovation, and other internal and collaborative projects meant to contribute the natural environment. Firms have multiple reasons to engage in green innovation. They may seek to improve their reputation and brand image by taking actions that benefit society, rather than immediately addressing the firm’s own financial interests. Moreover, firms may seek to minimize the risk of future environmental regulation, which results from their operations. In addition, they may seek to differentiate their brand from other brands in the market in order to attract new customers and satisfy current customers. Green innovation has become more important because consumers in most countries have become more aware of environmental problems and of the societal need to address these problems. However, despite the importance of green innovation, firms investing in pro-environmental activities also have to carry the costs of these activities.  Based on statistical analysis of data, the studies within this project examine both ways to enhance the influence of environmental performance on the firm’s profitability and ways to improve the firm’s efficiency in implementing green innovation.

  • Pro-environmental purchasing behavior:Differences between Japan and South Korea

    2019年  

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      Pro-environmental purchasing behavior refers to a consumer’s tendency to incorporate environmental considerations into the evaluation and purchase of products and brands. That is, a consumer that engages in pro-environmental purchasing behavior is more likely than other consumers to purchase an environmentally friendly product or to purchase from a brand perceived as more environmentally responsible. This particular research focuses on pro-environmental purchasing behavior in Japan and South Korea. A key objective of this research is to compare pro-environmental purchasing behavior with other types of responsible consumer purchasing behavior, which are grouped together under the framework of sustainable consumption practices. In addition to pro-environmental purchasing behavior, these practices comprise pro-social purchasing behavior, which deals with making purchases that benefit socially disadvantaged groups and society as a whole, and pro-local purchasing behavior, which deals with making purchases that benefit the consumer’s local community.  Based on consumer data collected from multiple product categories in Japan and South Korea, this study compares the influences of pro-environmental, pro-social, and pro-local purchasing behavior. This comparison between two culturally similar countries yields strong differences in sustainable purchasing practices, implying that country culture plays only a limited role as a potential cause of sustainable purchasing.

  • International differences in the customer value of robotic vehicles

    2019年  

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      Intelligent products that once appeared like science fiction, such as self-driving vehicles and household robots, have become the focus of product development in both start-up firms and established global players. Many firms even view their future existence in consumer markets as tied to their success in developing intelligent products. Such intelligent products are empowered by artificial intelligence, which refers to intelligence demonstrated by machines and differs from the naturally evolved intelligence exhibited by humans and other intelligent forms of life. Artificial intelligence-empowered products autonomously perceive their environment and take autonomous actions to achieve their goals without necessarily requiring feedback from consumers. To succeed in consumer markets, firms will have to persuade consumers to purchase these artificial intelligence-empowered products. This implies a need for marketing scholars and practitioners to obtain knowledge about the determinants of consumer purchases of artificial intelligence-empowered products.  To extend the literature and support firms that develop artificial intelligence-empowered products, this study compares the roles of distinct types of consumer value in the formation of consumer decisions to purchase artificial intelligence-empowered products. In addition, this study proposes moderating variables that explain the variation of this formation process across different countries, artificial intelligence technologies, and consumers.

  • Cross-national differences in the motives for CSR-oriented consumer behavior

    2018年  

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      CSR refers to business practices that benefitsociety (e.g., employees, local community), the environment, and consumers(e.g., consumer health). Rather than focusing on profits alone, CSR-orientedfirms are committed towards minimizing harmful effects, and maximizingbeneficial effects, of business processes on society. As empirical research onthe marketing benefits of CSR is still rare, context-specific, and narrow inscope, firms lack knowledge of how to adapt their CSR strategy across countriesto maximize their marketing benefits.  The results of this research indicate that consumerperceptions of a firm’s CSR impact consumer attitudes and consumer loyalty notonly in developed countries, but also in developing countries, for differentreasons. While consumers in developing countries frequently are not asdemanding as consumers in developed countries, they often feel they cannottrust in the fulfillment of domestic firms’ ethical obligations. In developing countriesCSR can remedy lack of trust in corporate practices and thus leads to increasedcustomer satisfaction and loyalty.  Further research investigates regional differencesin the influence of CSR, both regarding the overall influence and regarding theunderlying psychological processes. Another research project examines theinfluence of environmental CSR in artificial intelligence products and the regionalvariation in this influence.

  • 環境イノベーションの利益性と実施における国家・業種・企業特性による差異

    2018年  

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      Green innovation refers to the improvement of a firm’s environmental sustainability through product and process innovation. Firms engage in green innovation to address societal needs, to preserve environmental resources for future use, to minimize risk from regulations, and to differentiate the firm from competition. Rising societal expectations for ethical behavior and rising awareness of environmental limits have increased the importance of green innovation. Consequently, the literature has identified green innovation as a possible way of increasing a firm’s profitability. While green innovation has been shown to be beneficial, many firms have struggled at its implementation. Therefore, this particular research focuses on the implementation of green innovation within the firm.  One research project focuses on the firm’s executive-level strategic intent to pursue environmental sustainability and on its effectiveness in influencing the firm’s green operations and, consequently, the green innovation outcomes.  Based on a separate dataset, another research project focuses more specifically on green supplier cooperation. It illuminates the effects of green supplier cooperation on green innovation outcomes and their dependence on contextual conditions.

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