Within today's corporate environment that can be defined by uncertainty, complexity and dynamics due to internationalization or advancements of information technology, corporations are seriously concerned with growing up with society to occupy competi...
Within today's corporate environment that can be defined by uncertainty, complexity and dynamics due to internationalization or advancements of information technology, corporations are seriously concerned with growing up with society to occupy competitiveness over other corporations and already, many corporations are using the strategic social contribution activities as the main measure. In accordance, many corporations have transgressed the simple pursuit of profits to set the achievement of over fixed levels for social, environmental and ethical aspects as the official performance indicator of corporations and due to such occurrences, the social contribution activities of corporations are being recognized as important elements that determine the rise and fall of corporations. Furthermore, it is recognized to be favorable in achieving corporate goals as well as marketing while taking the role as the corporate citizen. Thus, the studies on social responsibility activities of corporations are being conducted around the field of marketing. Since the value of intangible products is high for hotel corporations, there is great importance since the selection standards and satisfaction of hotels differ according to the corporate image. Therefore, the present study has attempted to empirically analyze the influences of social responsibility activities of corporations on customer citizenship behavior that are recognized by customers and how customers recognize service quality recognition by customer citizenship behavior. In addition, it has verified the control effects of belief in the relationship of customer citizen activity and the social responsibility activities of corporations and customer citizenship behavior. As a result of the analysis, the following results were drawn.
First, as a result of verifying the influential relationship of customer citizenship behavior and social responsibility activities, only the ethical aspects and charitable aspects were positively influential towards customer citizenship behavior as the low variables of social responsibility activities and the financial aspects did not appear to have regardful effects statistically. Therefore, hotel corporations must place maximum efforts in the legal and ethical responsibility activities such as zeroing customer complaints, competition in good faith with other corporations, transparent management and ethical responsibility activities and promote corporations through visible promotion activities such as street cleaning and minimizing food wastes as efforts to improve natural environments. Moreover in relation to charitable responsibility activities, appropriate charitable activities must be conducted since the wrong type of charitable activities such as inviting the needy or parentless children to hotels can bring on negative effects. In addition, the corporation must occupy superiority over the competition that is conducting different social responsibility activities by predicting social occurrences and accomplishing the suitable activities. Furthermore, the social responsibility activities of economical aspects appeared not to be influential to the customer citizenship behavior. Such results are considered to have appeared because there is less relevance with the profits of customer individuals. Therefore, hotel corporations must directly and indirectly inform that they are accomplishing active responsibility activities in other fields through the economical activities. For this, the corporations must help customers recognize that they are returning parts of their profits to society through various media and public service announcements.
Secondly, the customer citizenship behavior appeared to have positive influence on service quality. Therefore, hotel corporations must increase customer satisfaction through various monetary and non-monetary compensations including database marketing and LTV(Life Time Value) using customer information system to increase customer citizenship behavior. Moreover, they must provide the space and time to enable communication through organizations and gatherings to smoothen the relationships between customers to help recognize that hotels are providing considerate and cooperative atmosphere for its customers. By participating customers in various social service activities to show that customers themselves are placing efforts to increase social value, the customer citizenship behavior may increase.
Lastly, as a result of verifying the control effects of faith in the relationship of social responsibility activities and customer citizenship behavior, only the economical aspects and ethical aspects appeared to be controlled by faith. In other words, the customer citizenship behavior can be seen as increasing as the faith increased when there is higher recognition for economical and ethical aspects for social responsibility activities of corporations. However, the faith in the relationship of customer citizenship behavior and charitable aspects were non-significant statistically(p>.05). Thus, hotel corporations must strengthen the customer faith in the economical aspects in relation to the social responsibility activities of corporations by helping customers recognize that they are returning certain amount of their profits to society and are being socially recognized by this accomplishment and in addition, construct faith from customers through transparent public announcements for management information and conditions.