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1980년대 마케팅 분야에서 Relationship Marketing이란 새로운 접근방법이 등장한 이후 미국, 유럽 및 아시아 등지에서 다양한 연구가 활발히 이루어져 왔다. 급속한 환경변화와 경쟁의 세계화로 말미암아 기업들은 보다 적극적으로 환경과의 관계를 고려하지 않을 수 없게 된 상황에서 Relationship Marketing은 마케팅뿐만 아니라 전략분야에서도 중추적인 패러다임으로 자리를 잡아가면서 전통적인 마케팅 연구의 한계를 극복하는 동시에 기업의 마케팅 활동에 보다 풍부한 시사점을 제공하고 있다. 그러나 Relationship Marketing의 연구들은 마케팅 시스템의 상적 영역(commercial sector)에서의 관계구조 및 특성에 초점을 맞추는 조직간 관계 중심이 대부분이었다. 역설적으로 Relationship Marketing에 있어서 다시금 소비자 측면을 고려하지 않으면 안 되는 상황이 전개되고 있다. 1990년대 정보통신 기술의 발달과 웹의 상업적 적용이 빠르게 적용되고 있고, 이러한 새로운 기술들은 커뮤니케이션 개념을 변화시키고 있다. 2000년대 뉴미디어와 혁신 기술의 발달로 소비자들은 스스로 확대된 정보 네트워크를 갖추고 활발하게 정보교환을 하면서 생산이나 판매에 참여하고 있다(Kelly 1998: Jenkins 2006). 이러한 기업과 소비자의 변화는 기업과 소비자의 관계를 근본적으로 변화시키고 있는데, 그에 따라 최근 소비현상에서 소비자의 주도적인 역할이 자주 논의되고 있다. (Seybold 2000: Sharma and Sheth 2004: 임종원, 양석준 2006). 디지털 모바일환경에서의 서비스 유통구조인 플랫폼을 통한 새로운 관계 지배구조로서의 공동체(community)가 연구대상이 되고 있고, 행위적 측면에서도 디지털 환경과 맞물린 소비자 참여 역할 변화는 마케팅 시스템에서 커다란 변화를 요구하고 있다. 본 연구는 지금까지의 Relationship Marketing 연구 성과를 (1) 철학적 측면, (2) 구조적 측면, (3) 행동적 측면, (4) 마케팅 성과 측면에서 전통적 마케팅 연구 관점과 비교 검토하는 동시에 21세기의 새로운 현실, 즉 디지털 환경에서 뉴미디어의 보편화와 고객 참여의 고도화에 따른 마케팅 환경과 마케팅 시스템의 변화에 초점을 맞추어 소비자의 조직화라는 관점에서 공동 가치창조를 위한 연결마케팅공동체의 형성 가능성을 제시하고 향후 Relationship Marketing 연구의 방향을 모색해보고자 하였다.
After relationship marketing emerged as a new approach in the marketing field in the 1980s, it has been widely studied in the United States, Europe and Asia. Rapid environmental changes and global competition has made it inevitable for companies to consider their relationships with the environment more closely. Under these circumstances, relationship marketing has held a position as a pivotal paradigm in the field of strategy as well as in marketing. In addition, relationship marketing has overcome the limitations of a traditional marketing research while providing richer implications in company's marketing activities. The paradigm shift to relationship marketing has brought fundamental changes in a marketing point of view. First, in philosophical aspects, unlike past research which focused solely on customer satisfaction, organizational relationship parameters which focuses on trust and commitment has become key elements of successful relationship marketing while shifts in thoughts naturally take place from adaptive marketing to strategic marketing. Second, in structural aspects, the relational mechanism of governance such as network structure with a variety of relational partners has emerged as a new marketing organization from the previous simple structure focusing on the micro-economic, market- based trading between seller and customer. Third, in behavioral aspects, it proposed the strategic course of the action of gaining an advantage over the competition on the individual firm level by focusing on building long-term relationships and considering partnership with the components in the entire marketing system, rather than with one-time transaction-centric action between a seller and a customer. Fourth, in the aspects of marketing performance, marketing performance was sought through the long-term and cooperative relationship with various stakeholders, including customers in the marketing system, focusing on the overall competitive advantage based on relationship rather than individual performance of individual companies' marketing activities, such as market share and customer satisfaction. However, studies of relationship marketing were mostly centered in interorganizational relationships focusing on the relational structure and properties of commercial sector in the marketing system. Paradoxically, the circumstance of the consumer's side that must be considered is evolving again in relationship marketing. In structural aspects, a community, as the new relationship governance structure in the digital environment, and in behavioral aspects, the changing role of consumer participation demanding big changes in the digital environment engaged in the marketing system. The possibility of building a relationship marketing community for common value creation is presented in terms of organization of consumers with the focus on changing marketing environment and marketing system according to the new realities of the 21st century- the popularity of digital environments and the diffusion of customer participation. Therefore, future research of relationship marketing must seek for a truly integrated model including all of the existing structure and properties of the research oriented relationship from both the commercial and consumer sector.
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Relationship Marketing, Marketing Environment, Digital Environment, Marketing System, Customer Participation, Platform, Relationship Marketing Community(RMC)
