• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.123-134
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• 2016

As the internet of things has come into the spotlight, wearable devices have been emerging as a new and growing market and the next hot thing in the world. However, wearable device growth in the market has not met expectations. For continued growth and diffusion of wearable devices, it is important to investigate user resistance factors to them. This study gives attention to people who have resistance to wearable devices' tendency towards innovative uses. Specifically, this study is intended to find out which factors influence consumers' resistance and intention to use wrist-worn wearable devices, which are in high demand among wearable device. Results of the study show that the relative advantage, innovation expectation, complexity, financial risk and physical risk are the predictors of innovation resistance on wrist-worn wearable devices. And consumers' resistance affects the intention of positive acceptance. These findings confirm the importance of consumer resistance to the wrist-worn wearable device.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.431-465
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• 2011

Focusing on open innovation which is regarded as an important framework for strengthening technological innovation capabilities, in this study empirical analysis is conducted on Korean manufacturing companies, particularly based on the survey results of 149 domestic manufacturing companies that carry out innovation activities in order to identify influence factors for open innovation activities. Analysis on the influence factors of open innovation activities categorized into characteristics of environment, firm-specific characteristics, and characteristics of institutions revealed that characteristics of environment in terms of the degree of market competition and technological changes influence outside-in open innovation activities. Such results suggest that companies respond to increased market competition or technological changes by promoting research and development (R&D) and maintaining or acquiring market competitiveness through introduction of external technology and utilization of external information by means of research collaboration, user innovation, and so on. In terms of firm-specific characteristics, outside-in open innovation activities are influence by R&D personnel, R&D investment, number of international business, export, and openness of corporate culture while inside-out open innovation activities are influenced by characteristics of international organization and CEO's capabilities. In order for companies to strengthen outside-in open innovation activities emphasis on research personnel, R&D input factors such as research funds are necessary whereas to increase inside-out open innovation activities organization solely responsible for international affairs should be established while the CEO needs to focus on open and cooperative entrepreneurship rather than internal technological innovation activities. In terms of characteristics of institutions, outside-in innovation activities are influenced by technological networking whereas inside-out innovation activities are influenced by networking for development of technology and the presence in industrial cluster. This means that the government needs to establish industrial clusters and try to expand technological networking to facilitate open innovation activities.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.61-73
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• 2014

While past studies on e-books have mainly focused on the uses and gratifications (UG) and technology acceptance model(TAM), this study rather analysed the innovation resistance factors of adopting the e-book based on the innovation resistance model. The research model comprises of two factors: 1) innovation characteristics which include relative advantages, compatability and complexity, 2) user characteristics which encompass attitudes towards innovation and existing products (i.e., paper books). Using online survey questionnaire, this study examined the effects of those innovation and user characteristics on the innovation resistance, and the relationship between innovation resistance and intention of adoption. The results showed that complexity and attitude towards existing products affected the innovation resistance which has negative influence on the intention of adoption. Accordingly, it is necessary to improve the ease of use in the whole process from purchase to reading experiences, and highlight e-books' own interactive features and functions which are perceived as different from paper-book user experience.

• Journal of Information Technology Application
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.71-90
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• 2001

Research on innovation has a long tradition from various disciplines. MIS research has also been interested in the innovation adoption because IS development and implementation can be regarded as an innovation process. To deal with IT innovations, MIS research adopted existing innovation(diffusion) theories which have been developed on general innovation phenomena. However, the MIS innovation research revealed that there exist some limitations in applying the innovation theories to IT innovations and proposed that research on IT innovations should reflect the unique characteristics of IT. The purpose of this study is twofold; first, to synthesize the past research and propose the uniqueness of IT innovations and second, to survey the Perceptions of managers on If innovations. Three unique characteristics of IT innovations are derived from the past research which are (1) knowledge barriers, (2) increasing returns, (3) organizational decision. Data collected from 68 Korean managers showed that the perceptions of managers support the uniqueness of IT innovations. Some recommendations to facilitate IT innovations are discussed and further research directions are suggested.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.121-146
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• 2019

This study investigates the innovation resistance when blockchain technology is introduced for the shipping and port industry. For the development of a research model with suitable measures, we review and focus on innovation resistance factors with the blockchain technology derived from previous studies. In this research, we consider four factors (innovation characteristics, consumer characteristics, environmental characteristics, and cost characteristics) with innovation resistance as dependent variables. The innovation characteristics include relative benefits, complexity, and perceived risk. The consumer characteristics consider attitude toward existing products, innovation, and self-efficacy. Social impact variables are environmental characteristics and rationality of cost. In the statistical analysis, we set up eight hypotheses to test the significances between variables and find the following four empirical results. First, the relative advantage and the perceived risk have a significant effect on innovation characteristic, but the complexity of this characteristic has no significant effect on innovation resistance. Second, the rationality of cost has no significant effect on innovation resistance. Third, the attitude toward existing products has a positive effect and the innovation of the consumer characteristic has a negative effect on innovation resistance, while the self-efficacy has no significant effect. Finally, the social impact has a significant effect on innovation resistance to blockchain in the shipping and port industry.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.169-178
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of innovation factors and relationship factors ASP service on customer performance for small firms using ASP service and Supplier trust analyzed the regulatory impact of the innovation factors and relationships factors on customer performance. Sample data was collected using questionnaire techniques, and statistical analysis used regression analysis. As a result of analysis, it is analyzed that the relative advantage of innovation factors and the influence of other companies have a positive effect on customer performance. In the relationship factors, the degree of information sharing was analyzed as a variable that positively influenced customer performance. However, the Flexibility of participants was analyzed as a variable that did not positively affect customer performance. As a result of analyzing the regulatory role of supplier trust, supplier trust is analyzed as a variable that plays a moderating role in customer performance along with innovation factors and relationship factors. Therefore, in the case of small enterprises using ASP service, it was found that innovation factors and information sharing factors are important factor to maximize customer performance. And that the trust of ASP vendors is a very important variable for customers.

• Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.199-207
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• 2012

This study analyzed how the subcontracting business relations and structures of cooperation affect the relationship skills (Outcome) that is divided into three steps. We analyzed integrated data every other year from 2005 to 2009. As a results, in the execution of technical cooperation trade relations have influenced the positive attributes, but recently their influence has been weakened. As for technical cooperation, the structure should alleviate the problem of the uneven performance of technical cooperation. We suggested that technical expertise and infrastructure make possible the culmination of the long-term technological competitiveness level.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.147-174
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• 2010

This paper aims to analysis sectoral innovation patterns of technological innovation and localized knowledge spillover in Korean manufacturing sector. Sectoral innovation system approach proposed that the specific pattern of innovative activity and knowledge spillover in an industry can be explained as the outcome of different technological regimes. Technological regime is defined by the particular combination of technological opportunities, appropriability of innovations, cumulativeness of technical advances and properties of the knowledge base. Based on a sample of 2,882 firms in manufacturing sector, this paper provides empirical estimates of the relationships between firm's product innovation and localized knowledge spillover. Results of the analysis provide considerable support to the hypothesis that firm's product innovation and localized knowledge spillover are related to the nature of the underlying technological regime. In the industry based on the tacit and specific knowledge, firm's product innovation is positively related to the localized knowledge spillover. This paper also shows that high stability in the ranking of innovators are related to high degrees of cumulativeness and appropriability.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.205-244
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• 2015

In response to the recent rapid technological and market changes, the importance of the design of ambidextrous organization has been increasingly emphasized as one of the dynamic capabilities. Firms that show a high performance in the rapid technological and market changes appear to design and implement ambidextrous organization successfully. They have achieved both exploitative competence for continuous innovation with product development and exploratory competence for discontinuous innovation with new market and new technologies. We have examined why and how to design and operate ambidextrous organizations and the effects of ambidextrous organizational characteristics on the performance from structural, contextual and leadership perspectives. We conducted case studies on 3 Korean firms that showed different characteristics of industrial product, company size, etc. Longitudinal case studies exhibit different processes of design and operating ambidextrous organization according to innovative strategy and industrial characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.286-291
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• 2008

세계 IT 서비스산업의 최근 동향을 살펴보면, 2008년 시장규모가 5,259억 달러에 달하며, 이후 매년 6% 내외의 지속적인 성장률을 보일 것이라고 한다. 이는 기업들의 가치사슬의 중심이 기존의 제조업 중심에서 새로운 가치를 창출하는 R&D, 마케팅, 재무 등의 서비스 분야로 옮기는 시장흐름에 따라, IT 서비스산업 역시, 새로운 경제 성장엔진으로서 서비스산업의 중요한 영역으로 자리 매김하고 있음을 알 수 있다. 그러나 최근 국내 IT 서비스 기업들은 협소한 시장, 기업들간의 치열한 경쟁으로 성장률이 둔화되는 모습을 보이고 있다. 이에 따라 IT 서비스산업의 기업들은 최근 서비스산업의 성장과 함께 등장한 새로운 '서비스’에 대해 이해하고, 서비스 가치를 극대화시키는 혁신을 이끌기 위해 투자하고 있다. 즉, 단순히 IT 서비스를 기업의 하부구조를 위한 기능으로 이해하였던, 시각에서 벗어나, IT 조직의 상황을 고려하여 기업의 성장을 도모하는 전략으로 IT서비스를 이해하고, 이를 통해 서비스 혁신을 이끌어야 하는 필요성이 지각되고 있는 것이다. 기존 IT 서비스 관련 혁신관점의 연구들을 살펴보면, 기술중심의 시각에서 혁신 수준 또는 특성이 IT 수용성 및 성과에 미치는 영향에 대해 설명하는 연구들이 대부분으로, IT 서비스를 실제 서비스의 관점에서 이해하여 혁신과의 관계를 규명하는 실증 연구는 부족한 상태이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 IT 지배구조와 서비스 혁신특성을 통합적으로 고려하여, IT 서비스와 서비스 혁신에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보고자 한다. 이를 통해 본 연구는 IT 서비스산업의 발전을 위해 전통적인 기술중심의 시각을 극복하고, 비즈니스 관점에서 서비스 혁신을 이끌 수 있는 접근을 제시 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.