This study aimed to the impact of utilizing artistic content based on company characteristics, with a focus on arts management and its influence on customer engagement in achieving corporate goals. Recognizing the limitations of exploring various area...
This study aimed to the impact of utilizing artistic content based on company characteristics, with a focus on arts management and its influence on customer engagement in achieving corporate goals. Recognizing the limitations of exploring various areas in the broad domain of art, this research limited the scope to the domain of music to propose and elucidate a study that integrates artistic content utilized in corporate management and management techniques employed in arts management. For this purpose, a research model was set and tested with a total of five hypotheses. In order to investigate the effects of artistic contents utilized in corporate management on the achievement of corporate goals, the study followed classic categorization of companies: manufacturing and services, as well as low-tech and high-tech companies. Within the realm of artistic content, the study divided music genres into single genres and composite genres, and stimuli, in the form of visual materials representing traditional Korean music, Western music, and mixed music, were directly produced and presented to participants for experimentation based on surveys. The study was conducted with university students as participants. The collected data underwent descriptive statistics, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and t-test using SPSS 21.0.
The analysis result showed that customer engagement was greater for companies perceived to be in the service industry than for companies perceived to be in the manufacturing industry, and that customer engagement was greater for companies perceived as high-tech than for companies perceived as low-tech. We also found that customer engagement was higher for companies that used multi-genre performances than for companies that used single-genre performances. Positive customer engagement was found to be greater for companies that used multi-genre performances than for companies that used single-genre performances, and in the manufacturing sector, companies perceived as utilizing composite genre performances showed higher customer engagement than those perceived as utilizing single genre performances. Similarly, in the service sector, companies perceived as utilizing composite genre performances exhibited greater customer engagement than those perceived as utilizing single genre performances. For companies perceived as low-tech, those utilizing composite genre performances displayed higher customer engagement compared to those utilizing single genre performances. Similarly, for companies perceived as high-tech, those utilizing composite genre performances showed greater customer engagement than those utilizing single genre performances. Finally, when utilizing composite genre performances, it was observed that high-tech manufacturing companies had greater customer engagement than low-tech service-oriented companies.
These findings are of great theoretical significance in expanding the academic and practical meaning of arts management, as existing arts management focuses on the consumption of art itself, but this study verifies the conceptual expansion of arts management and the achievement of corporate goals using art. Moreover, from a managerial perspective, the validation that corporate characteristics have a meaningful impact on customer engagement, influenced by the type of artistic content, expands the traditional realms of management theory. Furthermore, based on these results, practical implications suggest that industry practitioners, considering these benefits, could enhance strategic dimensions of arts management related to corporate objectives. Developing and utilizing composite genre performances that seamlessly integrate compatible single genres could prove beneficial in the strategic realm of arts management for companies. Therefore, practitioners in the field should consider encouraging the creation of more composite genre performances (fusion of compatible genres) in the future to promote practical applications of arts management.