The university is facing an extreme change in social, cultural environment, which represents globalized, information-oriented and generalized education society, and is experiencing double pains in existence and competition.
Due to the changes in the ...
The university is facing an extreme change in social, cultural environment, which represents globalized, information-oriented and generalized education society, and is experiencing double pains in existence and competition.
Due to the changes in the society’s viewing and understanding on the university and the criticisms on a property of the university and the role itself expands, the necessity that exists as culture of a society and other multi-valued university in a comprehensive meaning has been required.
The educational market changed from the seller's market to the buyer's market, the width of selections to the students; who are educational consumers, can select a desired university in a wide selection. In addition, as the consumption paradigm transfers from functional consumption to emotional consumption, consumers try to satisfy their own desires in their personal dimensions and show the trend that selects products in dependence on the corporate image.
The differentiated and specialized tool integrally managing the identity and image of a university is necessary to communication the significance of existence and the identity of a university to the persons concerned and the general public with a meaning of existence amid social change in an aspect of the history of civilization, and the brand shop of a university could play such a role.
The brand shop in the university’s identity is an induction of strategic system which can communicate and enhance the university’s image by guaranteeing and differentiating the personality of a university. The brand shop of a university, which is associated with the university’s image, can show function as multi-fields of connected device and unity the process from idea to the educational market by using as ways and means to fix and maintain a university’s identity corresponds with a university’s principle and vision, and can enhance value and quality of a university through visual or figure media.
As there is the necessity that should understand the brand shop of a university comprehensively and multi-dimensionally, the present research has a purpose in suggesting the value and possibility of the brand shop of a university as a part of basic activities for preparing a method to communicate a university’s definite identity.
For this purpose, a general concept of identity and image as well as the relationship between identity and image was considered, and the university’s identity in the dimension of the corporate identity was established. Also, the brand shop of a university through a general concept, identity and distinguished strategy of the brand shop were investigated and the importance of the brand shop of a university in establishing the university's identity was found out through a relationship between the university’s identity and brand shop. And the empirical analysis on the Ewha Womans University was carried out on the basis of close analysis on its theoretical basis. The identity of Ewha Womans University and a direction that the brand shop should move forward in the future were searched for amid competition.
The proposed management strategies to operate the brand shop of university in a dimension of the identity are as follows.
First, a dedicated organization is necessary. Second, visual guidelines should be reestablished. Third, the brand shop should more actively cope with development of products matched with desire of buyers. Fourth, the consistent university image should be strengthened through the independent brand shop. Fifth, the qualitative improvement of products quality and acquisition effect of human resources should be obtained through linkage with students. Sixth, the redesign of a sale process through construction of an online shop and the integrated on-off-line service design should be achieved.
The research results could propose a long-term development strategy and a method approaching management of the brand shop for the image enhancement and identity establish of university on the future.
Most of all, Because the environment of the university is largely changing due to the university culture that is becoming globalized, infomationized and characterized, it is thought that the brand shop will have a value as a revitalizing strategy of the total university that spiritual, behavioral and visual aspects are comprehensively managed in a point that a separate response of the university also become to bump into its limit easily.