Abstract

The purpose of this study was to verify the relationships among attitude, corporation image, and purchase behavior in Korean running event. Through this study, running event of Korea may attempt to develop sports event and sports industry infrastructure. To achieve the goal of this study, 432 surveys were collected form male and female adults who planned to participate in Korean running event in October 2016 to February 2017 were delineated as the study population. A convenient, non-random sampling method was used to select participants. After examining the correlation among attitude, corporation image, and purchase behavior, the relationships among the three variables was assessed through multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this were as follows. First, regarding sub-factors of event attitude and brand attitude had positive effects on corporate image. Second, the sub-factors of event attitude and brand attitude had positive effects on purchase behavior. Third, the sub-factor of corporate social responsibility image had positive effects on purchase behavior, and good image of corporation was statistically significant.

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