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A Study on the Relationships among Service Quality, Perceived Benefit, Value, and Behavioral Intention as Perceived by Franchise Snack Bar Restaurant Consumers - Application of Means-End Chain Theory -

수단-목적사슬이론을 적용한 프랜차이즈 분식점의 서비스 품질, 지각된 혜택, 가치 그리고 행동의도 간의 관계 분석

  • Park, Hye-Bin (Dept. of Foodservice Management, Kyungsung University) ;
  • Lee, Soon-A (Dept. of Foodservice Management, Kyungsung University) ;
  • Yu, Seo Young (Dept. of Management, Kyungsung University)
  • 박혜빈 (경성대학교 외식경영학과) ;
  • 이순아 (경성대학교 외식경영학과) ;
  • 유서영 (경성대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2016.03.04
  • Accepted : 2016.04.13
  • Published : 2016.04.30
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Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the relationships among service quality, perceived benefit, perceived value and behavioral intention as perceived by franchise snack bars customers. The service quality of franchise snack bars' was tested in three sub-dimensions: environmental quality interaction quality, and outcome quality, which are based on Brady & Cronin's third-dimensional model. A total of 450 survey questionaires were distributed from March 9th to November 12th in 2015, of whi 411 questionnaires were deemed suitable for statistical analysis. SPSS 20.0 program was employed to conduct frequency analysis and reliability analysis, while AMOS 20.0 program was used to test the hypotheses. The results revealed that all three elements of service quality have a positive impact on perceived benefit. In particular, the outcome quality element had the greatest influence on perceived benefit. In sum, customers of a franchise snack bar considered outcome variables such as food taste, reasonable amount, and general quality of food as the most important factors to fulfill the benefit. This results suggest that Korean snack bar franchise companies need to consider improvements to outcome quality features, such as food quality. In addition, perceived benefit was a critical antecedent of perceived value, which was itself a significant predictor of behavioral intention. In conclusion, this study applied the means-end chain theory on franchise sank bar segmentation, as well as three dimension service quality model as developed by Brady and Cronin, and found results that will enable meaningful strategics for snack bar foodservice segmentation in pursuit of the development of efficient business plans, and that can be utilized as a theoretical data for future studies.

본 연구는 프랜차이즈 분식점 이용객들을 대상으로 프랜차이즈 분식점 방문 시 인지될 수 있는 세 가지 서비스 품질 요인들을 측정하고, 이러한 요인들이 고객들이 지각한 혜택과 가치, 그리고 행동의도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 파악하고자 수행되었다. 연구가설 검증을 위하여 총 450부의 설문지를 최근 3개월 이내에 프랜차이즈 분식점 이용 방문객들을 대상으로 배포하여, 이 중 불성실한 응답 39부를 제외한 총 411부의 설문지가 실증분석에 사용되었다. SPSS 20.0과 AMOS 20.0을 사용하여 기술통계, 요인분석 및 신뢰도검증 및 요인들 간의 인과관계를 검증하였다. 연구결과, 서비스 품질의 세 가지 요인 모두가 지각된 혜택에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었으며, 세 요인 중 결과품질이 지각된 혜택에 가장 높은 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 지각된 혜택은 가치에 중요한 선행변수임이 검증되었고, 긍정적으로 형성된 가치는 미래행동의도에 직접적 영향을 미치는 것을 입증하였다. 이러한 연구결과는 기존에 여러 선행연구에서 검증되었던 수단-목적 사슬이론을 프랜차이즈 분식점을 대상으로 한 연구분야에 적용시켰다는 것에 의의를 가진다. 본 연구의 결과는 최근 외식산업분야에서 중요한 축으로 자리 잡고 있는 분식점 산업의 활성화와 경쟁우위 전략을 구축을 하는데 현실적이고 논리적인 제언을 해줄 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

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