부정적 언론보도에 대한 기업의 대응시점 효과 = The Effects of Corporate Corresponding Time on the Negativity Publicity

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Product harm crises can distort long standing favorable equality perceptions, tarnish a company's reputation, cause major revenue and market-share losses, lead to costly product recalls, and devastate a carefully nurtured brand equity. However, in spite of the devastating impact of product-harm crises, little systematic research exists to asses its marketing consequences.
So, this study focuses on the negative publicity about companies and their products. Namely, this study presented how inclusion effect supported the relationship between negative publicity and consumers' response, market performance. According to the results, after negativity publicity was happened, it was appeared that the negativity image spread into other product lines(spillover effect; inclusion effect). Also, when they contact with the negative publicity, respondents negatively evaluated both production evaluation and corporate evaluation.
And, in that case of the products with negativity publicity, compared with refutation strategy(defense strategy<study 2>), improving strategy(correction notice) had positive influence on recovery of sales, product evaluation, and corporate evaluation. Finally, as the reaction time toward negativity publicity was faster, the market performance got worse. Especially, according to two-way interaction, when the reaction time was fast, the difference between refutation strategy(defense strategy<study 2>) and improving strategy was not existed in product evaluation and corporate evaluation. However, when the reaction time was late(after a month), improving strategy had more positive evaluation than defense strategy in product evaluation, and corporate evaluation.

국문 초록 (Abstract)

기업이 소비자들의 안전에 위험을 미치는 제품을 판매함으로써 발생하는 ‘제품위험 위기(product-harm crisis)'는 신문이나 방송 등에서 즉각적으로 보도되기 때문에, 소비자들은 이를 매우 심각한 사건으로 받아들이게 된다. 이로 인하여 소비자들은 해당 기업 및 제품에 대하여 부정적인 태도를 형성하고, 나아가 낮은 구매의도 경향을 보인다. 이에 본 연구는 부정적 언론보도에 대한 기업의 대응방식과 대응시점이 매출액(<연구 1>), 나아가 소비자 반응(<연구 2>)에 미치는 효과를 실증적으로 고찰하였다.
분석결과에 의하면, 부정적 언론정보에 노출된 제품의 경우, 이러한 부정적 영향이 다른 제품군에도 전이되는 것으로 나타났다(<연구 1>). 또한, 부정적 언론정보에 노출된 제품의 경우, 반박보도(변명보도; <연구 2>)보다는 개선보도를 내는 것이 제품평가, 기업평가, 나아가 매출액 회복에 더 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.
끝으로 대응방식과 대응시점의 상호작용결과에 의하면, 개선보도는 대응시점이 빠른 경우보다 느린 경우에 제품 및 기업평가가 더 높게 나타났으며, 반박보도(변명보도; <연구 2>)의 경우는 느린 경우보다 빠른 경우 더 높게 나타났다. 다시 말해, 부정적 언론정보에 대한 대응시점이 빠른 경우에는 반박보도(변명보도; <연구 2>)와 개선보도 간의 제품평가, 기업평가 차이는 없는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 부정적 언론정보에 대한 대응시점이 느린 경우에는 반박보도(변명보도; <연구 2>)보다는 개선보도가 제품평가, 기업평가에 있어 더 긍정적인 평가를 받는 것으로 나타났다.

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