Globally, the consumption rate for smart phone is increasing rapidly. Due to this fact, the competition between the smart phone manufacturing companies are intensifying since a lot of commodity values can be created through this business. Besides, t...
Globally, the consumption rate for smart phone is increasing rapidly. Due to this fact, the competition between the smart phone manufacturing companies are intensifying since a lot of commodity values can be created through this business. Besides, the rapid growth of technology for wireless internet and display panel, has allowed consumers to use the internet without any limitation of time or place, and with more enhanced resolution of display panel. With these upgraded technologies, new consumer group that are using social commerce and exchanges all kinds of data with other people, is being formed. In purchasing such smart phones, many consumers make a careful judgement on functional figures such as price rate, voice quality, and extra services when choosing the maker of smart phone. However, apart from these apparent functional aspects, the attitude and image of a smart phone manufacturer such as consumer's inherent preference and favorability of a company can make positive impact on consumer's purchasing intention for smart phones. Among those intangible factors, the CI color which is being applied most widely as the corporate's visual communication method, makes faster impact on consumer's perception than any other methods, and also has a great influence on product purchasing intention by touching the emotional metal process of consumers. This CI color also can create consistent corporate image by applying unified color in product design, interior and exterior design, advertisement, brand merchandize, corporate philosophy, and business administration. This allows the company to create its unique corporate image by differentiating itself with other competitors.
Within such industry environment, this research has chosen consumers who have used smart phones, and the top 4 smart phone makers which include Samsung, LG, Pantech, and Apple. And with Consumer attitude phase (Perception phase → Emotional phase → Action phase) of these company's CI color as a base, we have restructured each phase into CI color acknowledgement(Perception phase) → Corporate image (1st emotional phase), Corporate attitude (2nd emotional phase) → Smart phone purchasing intention, then investigated what sort of influence it has in each phase. Furthermore, the difference on corporate image, corporate attitude, and smart phone purchasing intention according to the 7 favored color group of individuals, was analysed, And how the 2 groups formed by the accordance and discordance of individual's favored color with CI color, affects corporate image, corporate attitude, and smart phone purchasing intention was also studied.
The summarized result is as following.
First, the consumer's CI color perception level(attractiveness, harmony differentiation, recollection), has made positive influence on all of top 4 companies, Samsung, LG, Pantech, and Apple's corporate image(globalization, diversified investment, consumer oriented, environment-friendly, high technology, creativity, reliability). On the other hand, such corporate image(globalization, diversified investment, consumer oriented, environment-friendly, high technology, creativity, reliability) of consumers made positive impact on smart phone purchasing intention(intention to use, purchasing intention, psychology of recommendation) for Samsung only, and did not have any effect on LG, Pantech, and Apple.
Secondly, it showed that the CI color perception level(attractiveness, harmony differentiation, recollection) of consumers has positive influence on consumer's attitude towards corporate(preference, positivity, favorability) in all of these 4 companies. In addition, the study showed that such corporate attitude of consumers(preference, positivity, favorability) has good impact on smart phone purchasing intention(intention to use, purchasing intention, psychology of recommendation) for all 4 companies. Apart from corporate image, this proves that the corporate attitude of consumers can be suggested as a good base to support hierarchical effect model (Perception phase → Emotional phase → Action phase) of consumer's attitude phase. Thirdly, for all these 4 companies, there was no effect on corporate image (globalization, diversified investment, consumer oriented, environment-friendly, high technology, creativity, reliability), consumer's attitude towards corporate (preference, positivity, favorability), and purchasing intention (intention to use, purchasing intention, psychology of recommendation) from 7 favored color group of individuals (red color type, orange color type, green color type, blue color type, purple color type, black and white color type).
And Pantech also did not have any difference between corporate image, and purchasing intention. However, in consumer's attitude towards Pantech, when green color type and red color type were compared, totally conflicting corporate attitude towards Pantech was found because the green color type showed positive, and red color type showed negative influence. The group who has preference of similar color with the green color type that is Pantech's CI color, showed positive corporate attitude, but the group who prefers contradistinctive color showed negative attitude towards Pantech. Fourthly, the 2 groups formed by the accordance and discordance of individual's favored color with CI color, did not have any difference in corporate image, attitude, and purchasing intention in all 4 companies.
In summary, the preceding researches argue that the CI color types have great impact on corporate perception, image, attitude, and product purchasing intention. However, this research suggests that before doing the color marketing through the perception of CI color, it is more effective to approach consumers strategically by making use of the existing CI color with business administration, marketing, service, and product's technology. Through such strategy, once corporate's image and attitude is formed and recognized optimistically, it could be combined with the color marketing using CI color in later stage, and will cause positive corporate image and attitude. And furthermore, this will bring more competitive selling power of the company's own product.