• Title/Summary/Keyword: Convergence Hypothesis and Rationality

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Testing the Convergence Hypothesis of Health Care Expenditure: Empirical Evidence from Korea

  • Rhee, Hyun-Jae
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 2013
  • This research explores the convergence of health care expenditure in Korea with different income groups and the world level by applying different concepts of convergence, including growth rates, trends, differences as well as rationality and statistical variation of health care expenditure. The empirical evidence shows that, in general, the health care expenditure in Korea seems to be on the right track in terms of both level and difference, given the fact that convergence exists with the expenditures of the high income group and the world level. It is also worth mentioning that the Korean public health care system has been performing much better than its private health care counterpart. Such a result suggests that the private health care system has to be more elaborately and systematically managed through the establishment of an operational policy to stimulate an increase in private health care expenditure.

The Influence of Collaborative Communication on the Intention to Share Knowledge: Analysis of the Moderating Effect of Task Interdependence and Territoriality (협력적 커뮤니케이션이 지식공유 의도에 미치는 영향: 업무 상호의존성과 지식 영역성의 조절 효과 분석)

  • Hwang, Inho
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.91-103
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    • 2021
  • As knowledge management is recognized as an important competency of organizations, organizations are continuously investing in knowledge management policies and technologies. Knowledge management preemptively requires employees to share knowledge, but sharing activities for continuous knowledge management have not been performed. The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of the organization's mutual exchange efforts through collaborative communication on the knowledge sharing intention of its employees. The study surveyed workers of organizations that operate knowledge management policies and verified the research hypothesis by applying 326 samples to structural equation modeling. As a result of the analysis, factors of collaborative communication(rationality, reciprocal feedback, formality) had a positive effect on the intention to share knowledge, and task interdependence and territoriality had a moderating effect on the relationship between collaborative communication and intention to share knowledge. The study has implications in terms of suggesting an activity strategy that an organization should pursue to improve knowledge sharing among its employees.

The Influence of Organizational Culture Characteristics on Employees' Innovation Behavior : A study on the mediating effect of creative self-efficacy (조직문화 특성이 종업원의 혁신행동에 미치는 영향 :창의적 자기효능감의 매개효과에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ji Woong;Kang, Min Jung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.406-415
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    • 2021
  • In this study, a research model was established and analyzed in order to examine how the characteristics of organizational culture affect the innovation behavior of employees. This study divided the characteristics of organizational culture into development, stability, and rationality as sub-factors, and conducted a study on the relationship between characteristics of organizational culture and innovation behavior. This study also attempted to confirm whether creative efficacy mediates between the characteristics of organizational culture and innovation behavior. To this end, the data collection was targeted to 80 members of the organization in the company, and the SPSS and PLS programs were used to analyze the collected data. As a result of hypothesis testing, only stability among the characteristics of organizational culture had a significant direct effect on innovation behavior. These results can be interpreted as meaningful results in a study between the characteristics of organizational culture and the innovation behavior of employees. In addition, creative efficacy was found to significantly mediate the influence of organizational cultural characteristics (development, stability, and rationality) on employees' innovation behavior. We suggest that companies should focus on forming an organizational culture in terms of internal stability perceived by employees, and lead employees' innovation behavior to create organizational performance. We propose that companies should create an organizational culture so that the characteristics of the organizational culture (development, stability, rationality) increase the creative efficacy of the employees and lead to the innovation behavior of the employees.