• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.122-130
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• 2013

As the level of competition has increased in the construction management market, it becomes a critical issue for CM firms to secure competitive edges. The objective of the study is to investigate elements of competitive strategy as perceived by CM firms and to discuss key features and implications. Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy Model was used as a framework to analyse the elements under three strategy categories. A major finding includes that Differentiation Strategy is generally perceived most important strategy category but, depending on the group to which a CM firm belongs, there exist a gap in the perception. However, regardless of the group, Cost Leadership is commonly considered least important strategy category. In particular, lowest-bidding strategy element showed the least importance. Understanding CM firms' perceptions on elements of competitive strategy provides an insight into CM firms' current strategy directions and can be useful for future tuning in a firms' own strategy.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.183-192
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• 2021

Along with the changing times, organizational culture is also rapidly changing, and such organizational culture enables companies to secure discriminatory competitive advantage in the mid-to long-term perspective. This study aims to examine the impact of organizational culture on improving competitive advantage of enterprises by dividing organizational culture into three dimensions: development culture, rational culture, and consensus culture. To this end, a survey was conducted on small and medium-sized companies. As a whole, the rational culture, which is task-oriented and puts competition as a motivating factor, was more strongly prevalent than other organizational cultures, and in order of development culture, rational culture, and consensus culture, it affects the improvement of competitive advantage. This means that development culture and rational culture, which emphasize high-tech and productivity, are more important to improve the competitive advantage of small and medium-sized companies. In addition, the analysis of differences according to the size of employees showed that rational culture was important when the size of employees was small, but the larger the size of employees, the more important the development culture was to improve the competitive advantage of companies. Through this study, we were able to understand what organizational culture should be emphasized according to the size of small and medium enterprises.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2002

Background: Due to the concern of flow competition or retrograde steal, it has been generally suggested that the right gastroepiploic artery(RGEA) pedicled graft should be used in critical coronary stenosis lesion. The study was designed to evaluate the potential of retrograde flow competition in the RGEA pedicled graft by measuring the native pressure differences(PD) between the normal coronary artery and celiac arterial pressure, which would be compared with trans-stenosis pressure gradients(TSPG) in coronary artery occlusive disease. Material and Method: Between July, 1998 and February, 1999, pressures of the right coronary artery and the right gastroepiploic artery(or the celiac artery) were measured in patients with the patent right coronary artery(n=12). The PD between the arteries was compared with the TSPG in the occlusive coronary arteries(n=32). Result: The pressures of the normal right coronary artery and celiac artery were 143$\pm$23 vs. 134$\pm$17mmHg in systole(p<0.005), 74$\pm$13 vs. 73$\pm$14mmHg in diastole(p=NS), and 100$\pm$16 vs. 97$\pm$15mmHg in mean (p<0.05). The PD between the arteries were -8~25mmHg in systole, -4~7mmHg in diastole, and -1~10mmHg in mean. The TSPG measured in the occlusive coronary arteries were -4~19(7$\pm$5.8)mmHg in the lesion less than 75% stenosis vs. 7~74(27$\pm$18.3)mmHg in the 75% or over stenosis lesion(p<0.005). The normally existing pressure difference between the coronary arteries and RGEA(15~20mmHg) was significantlyless than the TSPG in .the occlusive coronary artery with 75% or over stenosis(p<0.001). Conclusion: If the pressure gradient between the RGEA and the coronary artery distal to the stenosis is the main determinant of development of retrograde flow competiton in the RGEA pedicled graft, the above data suggests that there will be little chance of competition when It is used in the coronary lesion with 75% or over stenosis.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.310-333
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• 2007

This paper introduces a relative comparative advantage index and a composite concentration index of university research activity in science and technology. Three hypotheses were tested regarding differences of degree of concentration based on the size of government R&D fund, location of university, and source of foundation, respectively. T-test results imply that there are significant differences of concentration based on the size of R&D fund and source of foundation, while location of university does not show a significant difference. The paper generally suggests that the lesser size of government R&D fund would lead higher level of concentration, and public funded universities tend to maintain far higher concentration ratio. The paper contributes by introducing relevant indexes for analyzing university research competence, concentration and competitiveness, and hence by proposing policy direction and implication for university competitiveness policy.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.66
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• pp.159-183
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• 2014

This study analyzed the competition among three game platforms, PC, Console and Mobile in aspect of user's gratifications using niche analysis. To do this, four gratification factors, 'transportability and accessibility', 'liveliness and variety', 'availability and economic feasibility', 'relationship', were assessed. To investigate competition level among three game platforms, niche breadth, niche overlap, competitive superiority of four gratification factors were analyzed. The results of niche analysis show that mobile platform appeared as a most competitive platform because it utilized diverse resources for game user gratification and had competitive superiority in 'transportability and accessibility' which appeared as most important factor determining user's gratification. However there was no game platform which had competitive superiority in all four gratification factors.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.557-562
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• 2008

FPD(Flat Panel Display) 시장은 디지털 기술의 발전으로 급속하게 성장하고 있으며, 이는 TV 시장에서도 마찬가지이다. 많은 전문가들은 LCD(Liquid Crystal Display)와 PDP(Plasma Display Panel)의 기술적 차이로 인해 LCD는 소형 크기의 TV에 적합하고, PDP는 대형 TV에 적합할 것이라 예상하고, 이에 따라 FPD TV 시장에 적용되는 기술이 목표시장(target market)에 따라 양분할 것으로 전망하였다. 그러나 LCD 생산기술상의 예상치 못한 급속한 진전은 PDP가 목표로 하는 대화면 TV 시장에서 LCD가 독자적인 틈새시장을 형성하고 이를 점차 확대할 수 있도록 하였다. 이러한 시장 전개 양상은 LCD와 PDP의 경쟁을 심화시키고, 현재 앞에서 전망한 바와 같은 현상은 발견되지 않고 있으며, 오히려 대화면 TV 시장에서조차 LCD가 우위에 있음을 보여주는 사례가 많다. 본 연구에서는 LCD가 PDP와의 기술적 격차를 줄이고, 결과적으로 LCD와 PDP간 경계를 무너뜨린 보다 근원적인 원인을 분석한다. 특히 이러한 잠재적 메커니즘을 시스템 다이나믹스 방법론을 도입하여 분석한다. 특히 PDP에 대하여 점진적으로 LCD가 우위를 확보하게 되는 피드백 루프들을 밝혀 내고자 한다. 그리고 이러한 피드백 루프 중에서 가장 효과가 큰 메커니즘을 찾아낸다.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.525-536
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• 1999

경제위기 직후, 산업분야는 뼈를 깎는 기업의 구조조정과 다시 일어서려는 기업의 몸부림 속에서 조금씩 예전의 모습을 되찾아 가고 있다. 하지만 그 피해가 너무 커서 회복을 위해서는 많은 시간과 노력이 요구되고 있다. 이러한 노력은 기술 개발과 품질향상에 바탕을 둔 독특한 비교우위의 확보, 그리고 소비자 요구의 다양화에 따른 틈새화 되어가고 있는 세계시장의 공략을 위한 품질 차별화 기술을 필요로 하고 있으며, 이를 위해서는 품질경영시스템의 올바른 이해와 실천이 뒷받침되어야 한다. 따라서 기업들은 자신의 위치에 맞는 품질 시스템의 구축과 실천이 절실히 요구되고 있으며, 이런 취지에서 중소기업과 대기업간의 품질경영의 차이에 관련된 문제를 다룸으로써 도움이 되고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 품질경영시스템의 이해를 높이기 위해 중소ㆍ대기업간 품질 및 품질경영시스템상의 차이가 경제적 성과의 차이에 어떤 영향을 미치고 있는지 양자간 상관관계를 알아본다.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.16
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• pp.169-184
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• 2003

IR(Investor Relation) is an active management activity to provide well balanced information to investors which can reduce asymmetry of information between investors and management. This activity could contribute to the long-term development of corporation with increased mutual trust between investors and management. Consequently, in these days, ill is widely recognized as an effective measure of securing corporate transparency, maximization corporate value, and stock-holder oriented management. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of corporate IR activity on investment behavior as well as stock price. It is assumed that if asymmetry of information between investors and management is cured by active ill activity from a corporation, with more transparent and reliable information of the firm at hand investors would more actively involved in trading. Statistically speaking, I assumed that the more information provided by ill activities, the higher value of a corporation at the stock trading.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.83-92
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to provide a rational management strategy to improve the management performance of companies through intellectual property activities. Through this study, we aim to explore countermeasures to strengthen competitiveness in a changing global environment. A survey of 200 companies was conducted from September 1 to October 30, 2023. Statistical analysis was conducted using frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and difference analysis. The conclusions are as follows. First, the impact of intellectual property activities on management performance was found to be creation and utilization. Second, the impact of management strategies on management performance was found to be differentiation strategy, cost advantage strategy, and concentration strategy. Third, cost advantage strategy has a partial mediation effect on the relationship between creation activities and managerial performance of intellectual property activities. Fourth, the differentiation strategy has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between the creation of intellectual property activities and managerial performance. In addition, differentiation strategy has a full mediating effect on the relationship between the utilization of intellectual property activities and performance. Fifth, concentration strategy has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between intellectual property activity utilization and management performance. Sixth, there is a difference between creation activities, protection activities, utilization activities, cost advantage strategy, differentiation strategy, financial performance, and non-financial performance based on venture certification status. As the importance of intellectual property is increasing in the era of technological hegemony, IoT companies will need to improve their management performance through venture certification and strategies utilizing intellectual property in order to secure future competitiveness. Based on this study, we hope that IoT companies will maximize their performance by implementing efficient strategies that consider IP activities.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.91-116
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• 2003

This study empirically analyzes the relationships among small and medium-sized stores' competitive strategies, marketing capabilities, and retail performance to cope with hostile environments like mass merchandisers' threats. To accomplish the proposed research objectives, data were collected from 325 small and medium-sized stores scattered nationwide. Three types of competitive strategies were significantly classified as follows cost leadership, merchandise differentiation, and service differentiation. Also, several strategic groups such as doing-nothing type, service differentiation type, cost leadership type, and merchandiser differentiation type were recognized through the cluster analysis. The test results show that the small and medium-sized stores perceiving hostile environments less importantly marked the high retail performance among clusters like cost leadership type, merchandise differentiation type, and even doing-nothing type. On the other hand, the moderating effects resulted from the interaction between strategic groups and environmental hostility did not have significant influence on retail performance. Additionally, merchandise differentiation cluster obtains and accumulates marketing capability most efficiently and the cluster like cost leadership, service differentiation, and doing-nothing follows next in order. Finally, merchandise differentiation cluster shows the most highest retail performance among the clusters while there was no difference between cost leadership and service differentiation cluster in terms of retail performance.