• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2018

Purpose - This paper discusses cross-cultural management (CCM) in China and how its business students get prepared by university cross-cultural management courses for an international market. Research design, data, and methodology - It was therefore decided to do an online content analysis looking at CCM courses offered by a number of Chinese universities first, and second to conduct a quantitative survey on CCM courses as well as topics among Chinese undergraduate business students at a large Eastern Chinese university. Results - From fundamental aspects, seven Chinese cultural standards emerge which highly influence the behaviour of the Chinese. There is a tendency to imply the integration of not only local but also cross cultural issues in academic management courses. Besides Hong Kong, there are currently 17 Chinese universities and schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) that explicitly requires cross-cultural management competencies in undergraduate and graduate degree programmes. In addition, the study confirmed that two-third of the sample (Chinese undergraduate business students) had taken cross-cultural management courses. Conclusions - The results of this research have made it clear that Chinese universities and schools are aware of the importance of cross-cultural management competencies.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.83-100
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• 2004

Understanding characteristics of Internet businesses from a cross-cultural perspective could offer valuable insights on developing business strategies and policies. This work is concerned with revealing divergence and convergence of Internet businesses in their financial performance, given organizational conditions and cultural context. For this, we studied the association between static organizational attributes (core activity, origination, firm age, and industry type) and a firms financial performance (gross revenue and net income). Relevant data was gathered from representative Internet firms in Korea and U.S. Data analysis indicated that, besides industry type, overall connection between selected organizational variables and financial performance was weak. Cross-national comparison showed that Korean firms financial performance was comparable to U.S firms during the period of economic turbulence. A noticeable difference was that Korean Internet firms and their business models were more service-oriented than U.S. counterparts.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.121-142
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• 2005

We're living in a world of one global village. The globalization of business is acceleration as more companies cross national borders to find customers, materials and money. Many foreign companies and organizations are doing their business aggressively in Korea and many Korean companies and rushing into foreign market. When people communicate for business with someone from another culture, there could be difficult communication barriers to overcome resulting from differences in their values, beliefs, norms for behavior, expectations, attitudes and so on. To do successfully business, we need to understand culture background and communication style that is different from nation, race, language. Communication barriers stemming from cultural differences may vary. Largely, they can be divided into value system, non-verbal communication, and perception process. Value system can be divided into individualism versus group orientation, avoidance of uncertainty degree, power distance, and high- context culture versus low-context culture. Also non-verbal communication method and perception process may play decisive roles in communication effectiveness. Especially nonverbal communication barriers which sometimes play more important roles than the verbal parts are composed of eye contact, gesture, kinesics, proxemics, chronemics, paralanguage and language of color Cross-cultural communication affect business situation. I expect that if we understand cultural background, and then we overcome cross-cultural communication barriers. To overcome and to adapt inter-cultural business, we need to develope curriculum on the cross-cultural education which I will study in the next paper.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.47-69
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• 2008

단기간에 경이적인 인터넷 사용률 증가를 기록한 한국은 세계적인 IT 강국으로서의 면모를 보여주고 있다. 그러나 특정 업체에 종속적인 한국의 웹 브라우저 시장은 한정된 기술에만 치우쳐 기술표준에 위배된다라는 논쟁이 진행되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 한국의 대표적 웹사이트들이 특정 업체의 웹 브라우저에 얼마나 종속적인지를 웹 접근성 국제표준과 웹 호환성을 통해 실증적으로 확인하였다. 그 결과 Firefox를 통해 웹사이트에 접근한 경우에는 웹 호환성이 Internet Explorer를 통해 접근할 때에 비해 19% 낮게 나타났다. 웹 호환성 세부 평가항목인 웹사이트 표현 부분에 있어 Firefox와 Internet Explorer의 웹 호환성의 차이가 18.39%이었고, 웹사이트 기능 부분에 있어서는 17.96% 차이가 발생했다. 웹 브라우저별 기업군 평균평가점수를 분석해 본 결과 공공기관의 웹 호환성이 가장 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 오프라인, 온라인 그리고 금융기관 순으로 웹 호환성이 낮아졌다. 또한 E-business 5단계에 따라 웹 호환성을 분석한 결과 E-business 단계가 증가할수록 웹 호환성이 낮아지는 것으로 나타났다. Firefox로 접근했을 때에는 온라인 결제 사용불가, 각종 온라인 콘텐츠 재생불가, 프레임 오류로 인한 웹사이트 인식 장애 등 심각한 문제점들이 발생하였다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 국내기업들의 웹 호환성 문제의 원인을 살펴보며 웹 호환성에 대한 개선책을 제시하였다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.252-283
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• 2020

Online retail is a growing opportunity for retailers and consumers. Cross-buying provides companies with an opportunity to increase their revenue contributions from existing consumers. In many fields, especially in the service sector, cross-selling is an easier strategy to use relative to increasing revenue rather than acquiring new consumers. Website personalization has been a powerful indispensable tool for web-based companies and end users. Using the Mehrabian and Russell's Stimulus-Organism-Response framework, we experimentally examined how an online retailing merchant's environmental stimuli (S) arouses internal affective and cognitive states (O), that affect consumers' approach-avoidance behavior (R) in cross-buying and shopping cart abandonment in online transactions.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2023

Purpose: This study analyses the current development of cross-border e-commerce in China, outlines the challenges faced by Chinese cross-border e-commerce SMEs, and finally summarises the development strategies of Chinese cross-border e-commerce SMEs in the post-covid-19 era, which will provide opinion references for the development of Chinese cross-border e-commerce SMEs. Research design, data and methodology: The methodology used in this study is to analyse the current situation of cross-border e-commerce development in China in the context of covid-19 through literature; and to summarise the challenges encountered by Chinese cross-border e-commerce SMEs through semi-structured interviews. Results: The article summarises the current status of China's cross-border e-commerce development in the context of covid-19 in terms of cross-border e-commerce trade volume, cross-border e-commerce enterprise and user scale, cross-border e-commerce logistics, cross-border e-commerce global co-operation, government policy, and cross-border e-commerce product distribution, outlining challenges encountered by China's cross-border e-commerce SMEs in terms of logistic pricing, operating capital chain, product service support, and trade protection The paper Finally, it is pointed out that Chinese cross-border e-commerce SMEs must adopt new strategies to adapt to the new development in the context of covid-19. Conclusions: Specific development strategies are provided for Chinese cross-border e-commerce enterprises and reference suggestions are provided for the post-covid-19 era.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.371-388
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• 2023

최근 몇 년 동안 중소기업의 비즈니스 혁신 모델은 주목 받는 연구주제로 부상하였으며, 중소기업의 혁신과 발전을 촉진하고 경제적 전환과 성장을 촉진하는 중요한 이유로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문은 중국 중소기업의 국경간 검색 및 동적 능력이 기업 비즈니스 혁신 모델에 미치는 영향을 분석하고 있다. 영향 요인과 관련하여 연구모형을 수립하고 설문 조사를 통하여 관련 데이터를 수집하였다. 연구 결과, 중국 중소기업의 국경간 검색과 동적 역량이 중소기업 비즈니스 혁신 모델에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 동적 역량이 국경간 검색과 기업 비즈니스 혁신 모델 사이에서 중개 효과가 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구 결과를 토대로 중국 중소기업의 비즈니스 모델 혁신에 일정한 시사점을 제공하였다.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.87-105
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• 2020

Purpose - The purpose of the study is to propose a theoretical framework of cross-border e-commerce ecosystems based on blockchain technology. The ecosystem includes five systems, namely, crossborder supply chain intelligent system, cross-border logistics system, cross-border payment system, cross-border product quality traceability system and cross-border customs supervision system. Design/methodology - This study firstly derived the main improvement factors for the new ecosystem based on blockchain through prior research and expert interviews on cross-border e-commerce. Then explored the use of virtue of decentralization, anti-counterfeiting traceability, consensus mechanism, smart contract and other means of the core technology of blockchain to overcome the bottleneck of cross-border e-commerce development among Korea, China, and Japan. Finally, proposed valuable implications in both theoretical and practical perspectives. Findings - As a result, we combined with the problems existing in cross-border e-commerce among Korea, China and Japan, this paper proposes a solution based on blockchain. On this basis, it constructs a cross-border e-commerce ecosystem among these three countries, including five systems. In addition, we discuss the main problems existing in the current blockchain, such as low transaction concurrency, security loopholes, and inconsistent standards, the corresponding countermeasures are proposed from the technical level, security level and industry standards. Originality/value - This study is the first to apply the blockchain technology to solve the cross-border e-commerce problems in Korea, China and Japan, which is of pioneering significance in both literature and practice. Block chain technology is in the ascendency. This study provides technical solutions for promoting the development of cross-border e-commerce import and export trade between Korea, China and Japan.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.93-114
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• 2009

This paper presents a knowledge-based view of the multi-business firm. The multi-business firm has advantages in technological innovation and knowledge creation to the extent that it embodies various ideas and resources, and recombines them more effectively and efficiently than market contracts. The purpose of this paper is to identify how to organize the multidivisional form (M-form) structure to realize such advantages. We first differentiate within-division innovation and cross-division innovation, and explain why cross-division innovation, despite its higher performance potential, would be more difficult to achieve, compared to within-division innovation. Then, we offer the propositions about how to promote cross-division innovation with references to resource capability and coordination capability that is, in turn, composed of structural and control system, social capital, and human resource management system. We conclude by discussing theoretical and practical implications.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.207-220
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• 2019

In the context of export-oriented growth strategy, Korea has promoted the conclusion of FTAs and 16 FTAs have entered into force or concluded so far. Despite of these efforts, the expansion of the global value chain (GVC) has resulted in fragmentation of production processes and international companies have been struggling to meet the criteria for determining the rule of origin. In order to overcome these difficulties, some foreign FTAs have been introducing cross-cumulation of origin. In this paper, we try to examine empirically whether the easing of the rules of origin using cross-cumulation contributes to the increase in actual value-added exports. we quantify the effects of cross-cumulation included in the EU-Vietnam FTA on Korean exports of the textile through a gravity model using the concept of value-added export. Based on the analysis results, the proportion of value-added exports in Vietnam increased by adoption of cross-cumulation of origin, which consequently resulted into an increase in total exports. This paper tries to draw several implications for the rules of origin in Korea's FTAs including cross-cumulation considering the export value chain of Korea.