Image is extremely important toward the success of a business in today's market ;
market situation from seller's market to buyer's market.
Consumer behavior depends on not only product knowledge and information but also corporate image.
Therefore,...
Image is extremely important toward the success of a business in today's market ;
market situation from seller's market to buyer's market.
Consumer behavior depends on not only product knowledge and information but also corporate image.
Therefore, organizations have a vital interest in learning about their images in the marketplace and making sure that these images facilitate rather than impede the delivery of satisfactions.
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between corporate image and purchaser's choice.
For the purpose of this study, the methodology has three steps :
1. determination of factors related with corporate image
2. measurement of corporate image
3. analysis of relationship between corporate image and purchaser's choice
221 persons in first survey and 240 persons in second survey who live in Seoul City were chosen by judgement as sample persons for this exploratory study.
Individual interview with questionnaire was used to collect data.
The Statistical Package for the Social Science(SPSS PC ) was used to analyze the data.
The result of this study can be summerized as follows :
1. The attributes constructing corporate image were compressed into 6 factors as follows ; social contribution, quality of product, consumber's benefit, promotion strategy, condition of purchase, saleman's ability.
2. Correlation between overall image and 6 image factors and multiple regression equation were statistically significant. As a result, the 6 image factors appear to be suitable measure of overall image.
3. Results of ANOVA and Discriminant analysis provided consistent support for the image effect on the choice of compact car.
By virture of this study results, marketers can build strategies to create efficiencies in maintaining and controlling the corporate image.