• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.23-54
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the digital divide is made in different digital divide patterns and also it influences on shopping value and purchase intention as individual e-commerce performance. The major findings of this study are as following: First, this study is focused on the average of the digital divide level regarding the sociodemographic characteristics. In the result, The average of each group is different in all digital divide patterns in age, education, and occupation. Second, in comparative influences of digital divide factors on shopping value and purchase intention, qualitative literacy divide are found to have a strong positive effect on shopping value and purchase intention.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.159-183
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• 2017

Despite the rapid increase in the use of mobile Internet, only a few studies examined digital divide issues in the mobile internet environment. Prior studies on digital divide mainly focused on the usage environments of consumers. The present study analyzes mobile digital divide by considering user environments and the cognitive values of users. Therefore, we estimated the cognitive value of users in mobile Internet environments through contingent valuation method (CVM). We also analyzed the digital divide factors that cause this value difference. We found that domestic users perceive mobile Internet value up to 51,723 Korean Won per month. We analyzed the value differences of digital divide factors, such as "accessibility," "competency," and "usability." Based on this analysis, we found that a difference of 31,878 Korean Won was generated due to accessibility. Competitiveness resulted in a difference of 7,736 Korean Won, whereas that of usability resulted in 6,463 Korean Won. Accessibility is the most important digital divide factor that maximizes the difference of cognitive value of users in a domestic mobile Internet environment.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2003

Many organizations experience that the value they gained from IT (information technology) investment is lower than they expected prior to the actual implementation of a system - the value gap between expected value and realized value from IT. Research on the barriers to the expectation and realization is of high importance both in practice and in IS research. This study analyzed such barriers observed in three companies that have adopted such IT systems as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems each. From analyses of the three companies we specifically identified eight types of barriers: barriers related to industry, organization, knowledge, resource, usage, competence, product, and safety. Common barriers among the three cases were classified into six types, e.g. lack of strategic mind-set, improper organizational structure, lack of human resource, etc. We expect that the results help managers in IS investment to minimize the valuation gap and maximize realized values.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.121-128
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• 2007

This paper suggests a way of estimating the value of interclass equity improvement by railway operations. Equity is understood in this paper in the context of a mobility gap between classes. The value of the reduced mobility gap by railway operations is interpreted as an increase of social equity. In particular, the unit value of equity improvement by rail services is quantified based on the amount of fare reduction through public service obligations. The difference in the surplus calculation between elastic and inelastic demands relative to the reduction is also discussed. The result of this study is expected to be helpful of performing more cautious appraisal for rail investment schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.259-263
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• 2006

정부주도의 연구개발 프로그램에 있어서 체계적인 평가가 필요하다는 점에 대해서는 그간 정부 및 민간에서 지속적으로 제기되어왔다. 이는 기술에 대한 중요성을 인식하면서 연구개발에 대한 민관의 절대적 자원투입은 급격하게 증가하여 온 반면, 질적인 효율성 측면에서 새로운 단계로의 도약이 필요하다는 광범위한 문제인식에 근거한 것이다. 하지만, 그간의 국내 기술평가는 크게 연구비 배정 등 경영-행정적인 목적을 가지고 행하여 온 평가와 연구개발진을 중심으로 연구대상 기술의 특성을 반영한 연구로 양분되어왔다. 즉, 평가의 항목이나 가중치 등의 선정에 있어서 기술개발 당사자와 경영자 및 평가전문가 간의 기술가치평가에 대한 격차가 크게 존재하여왔다. 1990년 이후 우리나라에서도 체계적인 기술가치평가의 필요성이 증대되면서 이에 대한 다양한 연구가 진행되었지만, 기존의 두 측면간의 격차는 크게 좁혀지지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이는 기술가치 평가가 주로 투자용으로 치우침에 따라 경영적 측면이 강조되는 반면 기술개발자들이 중시하는 R&D 측면에서의 가치가 충분히 반영되지 못한 결과라고 할 수 있다. 따라서 많은 연구들이 본연의 가치를 충분히 입증받지 못하고, 단지 경영적인 측면에서 바라본 단편적인 이유로 사장되는 일이 발생하고 있다. 이를 막기 위해 기술적 측면과 경영적 측면이 함께 하는 학제간(interdisciplinary), 또는 기술-경제(Engineering-Economy) 가치평가 연구가 필요하다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 과학기술부의 21C 프론티어 사업 중 하나인 수자원의 지속적 확보기술개발사업단에서 개발 중인 수자원의 지속적 확보기술을 대상으로 기술가치평가 모형을 구축하였다. 수자원의 지속적 확보기술의 가치를 평가하기 위해서는 위에서 언급한 기존 기술가치 평가방법의 문제점을 해결해야 할 뿐만 아니라 추가로 공공재 및 필수재의 성격을 갖는 수자원의 특성을 반영할 수 있는 기술가치평가 모형의 구축이 요구된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 효율적인 R&D 투자 정책 수립과 정부정책수립에 기여하고자 AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process, 계층 분석 과정)기법을 이용, 수자원의 지속적 확보기술의 특성에 따른 4개의 평가기준과 26개의 평가속성으로 이루어진 2단계 기술가치평가 모형을 구축하였으며 2개의 개별기술에 대한 시범적용을 실행하였다.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.3-18
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• 2021

The 'digital divide' is regarded as a latent dysfunction that impedes the intrinsic role of information to contribute to social equality. Therefore, it has drawn great attention inside and outside of academia. The growing interest in the digital divide has been driven by the realization that it can create a serious crisis that threatens a social system compounded by existing economic, social, and cultural inequality, rather than being limited to an uneven distribution of information. In this paper (1) studies on the digital divide published since 1970 are reviewed, (2) studies noteworthy of discussion are selected to assess their academic significance, and (3) the tasks and prospects of digital divide research are explored. Although meaningful achievements have been amassed through continuous interest and efforts of the academic community, two limitations are raised; the gap between pure research and policy research that hinders the working of synthetic imagination, and the intellectual lag falling behind a rapidly changing society. In addition, it is suggested that the operation, curation, and augmentation gaps would emerge as new agenda for digital divide research in the intelligent information age.

• Proceedings of KHEA Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2004

• Bulletin of Korea Environmental Preservation Association
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• s.405
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• pp.5-7
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• 2013

우리 사회에는 생물다양성을 바라보는 매우 다양한 인식의 스펙트럼이 존재하고 있다. 극단적으로 동식물의 보전을 위해서 인간의 접근을 근원적으로 차단해야 한다고 주장에서부터, 동식물을 인류 발전의 도구나 수단으로 여겨, 인간을 위해서는 폭넓은 포획과 도축을 허용해야 한다는 주장에 이르기까지, 그 인식의 격차가 크지만 생물자원의 진정한 가치를 생각해 본다면 그 가치가 무한히 지속될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.86-98
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• 2013

This study began with the fact that the relationship between eductional environments and housing price needs to be understood in the context of the structuring of socio-spatial disparity. In other words, this paper focuses on the fact that the eduction with public features and functions plays a role of housing price determination and the rising price is privatized only to cause socio-spatial inequality. The study first examines how the education factors determine the housing price and cause increasing social inequality in Seoul at the macro level. It also carried out more detailed quantitative analysis on the relationship between educational environment factors and housing price with the case study of Yangcheon-gu, Seoul. This study found out that the close relationship between educational environment, housing price and social disparity at various spatial scales. It also figured out the the educational environment factors play an important role of housing price determination as much as material features per se. This means that the relationship between education, housing price and inequality needs to be dealt with not just socially but also in spatial perspective. In addition, the housing price determination is not just technical research but an social science issue in the context of rising socio-spatial disparity. This study is of only significance as a starting point of promising related researches in the future and much more efforts will be needed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2002