• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.242-247
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• 2008

In the fungal pathogen Candida albicans, the yeast-to-hyphal transition occurs in response to a broad range of environmental stimuli and is considered to be a major virulence factor. To address whether the zinc homeostasis affects the growth or pathogenicity of C. albicans, we functionally characterized the zinc-finger protein Csr1 during filamentation. The deduced amino acid sequence of Csr1 showed a 49% similarity to the zinc-specific transcription factor, Zap1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sequential disruptions of CSR1 were carried out in diploid C. albicans. The csr1/csr1 mutant strain showed severe growth defects under zinc-limited growth conditions and the filamentation defect under hypha-inducing media. The colony morphology and the germ-tube formation were significantly affected by the csr1 mutation. The expression of the hyphae-specific gene HWP1 was also impaired in csr1/csr1 cells. The C. albicans homologs of ZRTl and ZRT2, which are zinc-transporter genes in S. cerevisiae, were isolated. High-copy number plasmids of these genes suppressed the filamentation defect of the csr1/csr1 mutant strain. We propose that the filamentation phenotype of C. albicans is closely associated with the zinc homeostasis in the cells and that Csr1 plays a critical role in this regulation.

• 중소기업연구
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.31-57
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• 2021

본 연구는 기업의 사회적 책임(CSR)이라는 개념이 어떻게 기업 전반으로 퍼져나가는지 그 확산과정을 실증분석한다. CSR은 현재 다양한 표현으로 재정립되기도 하고 기업마다 다른 형식으로 구현방식을 채택하고 있지만, 이러한 이질적인 현상들은 결국은 CSR이라는 개념을 기업이 받아들인다는 점에서 지식의 확산과정과 유사하다고 보았다. 본 연구는 지식 확산과정, 특히 환경의 압력에 의해서 지식을 채택할 수 밖에 없는 제도화과정을 이론적 틀로 채택하고 실제 기업들이 어떻게 CSR의 개념을 받아들이는지 그 과정을 분석한다. 이에 본 연구는 미국의 비코퍼레이션(B-corporation, 이하 비콥) 무브먼트에 참여하는 과정을 근접성의 개념을 통해서 밝혀보고자 하였다. 근접성은 환경의 특성과 조직의 특성 간의 거리를 의미하며, 근접성이 높을수록 환경에 의한 압력이 높은 것으로 보고, 지리적 근접성과 조직 근접성, 그리고 중복 근접성으로 세분화하였다. 2007년부터 2017년 사이 미국 중소기업 및 스타트업 536개 기업을 대상으로 근접성이 비콥인증 받을 가능성에 미치는 영향을 분석한 결과, 지리적, 조직적, 그리고 중복 근접성은 새롭게 비콥 무브먼트에 참여하는 경향성을 높여주는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과는 기업이 내재적인 동기와 더불어 외재적인 압력에 의해서도 CSR 개념을 받아들일 가능성이 큼을 시사하며, 이는 CSR을 어떻게 이해할 수 있을 것인가에 대한 이론적·실무적 시사점을 제공한다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.455-465
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• 2011

This study explores the CSR activities of Korean fashion corporations. A contents analysis of corporate websites was carried out to investigate the structure and function of their websites and the activity dimensions related to the CSR of Korean fashion corporations. The subjects were the Korean top 100 fashion corporations according to total sales in 2009. The findings throughout the research are as follow. First, a total of 46 corporations created the contents about CSR activities on their websites. A total of 32 of them communicated their CSR activities on the main menu at the intro page of the website. Second, the CSR activities of Korean fashion corporate were classified the 3P dimensions, profit (economic responsibilities), planet (environmental responsibility), and people (social responsibility). We found a total of 228 CSR issues for Korean fashion corporations. The issues included in the people dimension were 71.0%, planet issues 16.7%, and profit issues 12.3%. The most significant issue was the economic support responsibility to social organizations included in the people dimension.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.62-71
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate the intra CSR for the sustainable hospital management. The company was proactive stance on CSR carried out in the environmental field as a preemptive countermeasures movement of citizens and government regulations. CSR, while performing for employees, is recognized as a problem within the enterprise, it was reluctant to respond to the performance and results published. This study aims to determine whether the effect is substantially reflect If you want to include in the process of demonstrating the impact of CSR within the organization to make decisions in labor union composed of employees of internal stakeholders as a parameter. In particular, research in the field of performing a public function such situations, hospitals are lacking. Internal CSR performance of the general hospital (professional) in this study was found to have mad that the generally positive effect on improving labor productivity within the organization. In particular, its performance was more positive than in the virtuous cycle that meets the expectations and internal performance improvements improve equity executives expect employees to be borne if your blood and your liver collaborative decision-making behavior. Therefore, the internal CSR awareness by investing in sustainable management of the partnership is expected to achieve improved financial performance and labor productivity by performing more active at the same time.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 2001

With an objective of evolving quantitatively and qualitatively superior bivoltine breeds/hybrids of silkworm Bombyx mori L. for tropical conditions, breeding work was initiated in Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Mysore during 1992 by utilizing two Japanese hybrids namely BNl8$\times$BCS25 and Shunrei$\times$Shogetsu along with Indian evolved breed, KA. The breed CSR12 which is characterized with sex-limited larval marking and white oval cocoons was evolved from the Japanese hybrid BNl8 ${\times}$ BCS25 by crossing with KA, while the breed CSR6 which is characterized with normal marking (marked larvae) and white dumbbell cocoons was extracted from the Japanese commercial hybrid Shunrei${\times}$Shogetsu through continuous inbreeding coupled with selection. After fixation, these breeds along with other newly evolved breeds were subjected to hybrid study under optimum environmental conditions in the laboratory for expression of full potential of the genotypes. These hybrids were evaluated by Multiple Trait Evaluation Index (Mano et al., 1993). The hybrid CSR12${\times}$CSR6 was selected based multiple trait evaluation index value. The hybrid CSR12$\times$CSR6 recorded survival of 96.0%, shell weight of 50.0 cg, shell ratio of 24.3%, raw silk percentage of 19.6, filament length of 1,216 m, boil off loss of 22.4% and renditta of 5.1. On the other hand, the control hybrid (KA ${\times}$ NB4D2) has recorded survival of 90.6%, shell weight of 42.1 cg, shell ratio of 20.4%, raw silk percentage of 15.9, filament length of 999 m, boil off loss of 24.8% and renditta of 6.3. The hybrid CSR12$\times$CSR6 was authorized during 1997 by Central Silk Board, Government of India for commercial exploitation during favourable months based on national level race authorization test.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.31-42
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• 2014

Purpose - Recently, a variety of activities for practicing the continuing management of domestic and foreign companies have been conducted and further, corporate social responsibility for maximizing the value of stakeholders such as customers, cooperative companies, and the local community emerges as a key business strategy. Accordingly, the issue of whether corporate image and customer value through corporate social responsibility activities positively affect customer loyalty and customer attitude is investigated in this study. Research design, data, and methodology - Corporate social responsibility activities are classified into legal and moral activities, environmental protection activities, economic activities, and community service activities; further, customer values are classified into emotional value, functional value, and social value, to determine the parameters. In addition, the strategic approach direction of social responsibility activities is justified as a strategy for effectively achieving the expected results that corporations seek by proving the effect of these parameters on customer loyalty. Results - The study results can be summarized as follows. First, legal and moral activities, environmental protection activities, economic activities, and community service activities are four types of CSR activities affecting meaningful improvements in corporate image. Second, legal and moral activities affect factors that meaningfully improve customer value, including factors such as emotional value, functional value, and social value, while environmental protection activities affect improvements in the factor of social value only. Third, corporate image affects meaningful improvements in customer value. Fourth, corporate image affects improvements in customer loyalty positively. Fifth, the three factors of customer value, that is, emotional value, functional value, and social value affect meaningful improvements in customer loyalty. Sixth, customer value acts to partly mediate the effect of companies' CSR activities on customer loyalty. As shown in the study results above, it was verified that CSR activities affect meaningful improvements in corporate image and customer value and, in turn, corporate image and customer value affect meaningful improvements in customer loyalty. In addition, it was verified that customer value acts to partly mediate the effects of companies' CSR activities on customer value. Conclusions - Accordingly, the results of this study suggests as follows. First, it was clearly verified that customers' recognition of CSR efforts has a positive effect on corporate image, customer value, and loyalty because CSR activities improve the relationships between customers and corporations by providing customers with value. Second, it was suggested that corporations implement social contribution activities strategically according to the theory that the higher the rate of CSR activities, the better the corporate image and repurchase intention would be, which is a theory verified through practical analysis. Corporations should do this by constructing positive relationships from the value perceived by customers. To summarize the study results in a brief manner, it is suggested by the results of the study that a corporation should conduct CSR more actively to make customers recognize the positive image of their products and services.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2015

최근 기업의 사회적 책임은 지속 가능한 경영 및 긍정적인 기업신뢰의 형성을 위해 필수적인 기업 활동이 되었다. 그러나 CSR 활동이 기업 수준에서 기업성과에 미치는 연구는 많이 이루어졌으나, 산업별 전략적 접근은 부족하다. 본 연구의 목적은 금융기관의 CSR과 기업명성이 충성도에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석하고자 한다. 본 연구의 내용은 CSR 활동, 기업명성과 충성도와의 관계를 경험적으로 분석하고, CSR 활동, 기업명성과 충성도의 관계에 있어 기업신뢰의 매개효과를 파악하고자 한다. 분석방법은 설문지를 배포하여 SPSS 통계 프로그램을 사용하여 분석하였으며, 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 분석결과 소비자보호책임, 경제적 책임, 기업 경영능력이 기업신뢰에 정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 매개효과를 검증하기 위해 3단계 회귀방정식과 Sobel-Test을 사용한 결과 기업신뢰의 매개효과가 규명되었다. 연구결과 CSR과 기업명성의 유형에 따라 기업에 미치는 영향이 다르다는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과는 기업이 사회적 책임을 수행할 때 산업별 전략적 접근이 필요함을 알 수 있다.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.167-179
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• 2013

In recent years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has received particular attentions from both practitioners and scholars. This study focused on Korean national fashion businesses and identified various types of CSR practices in addition to social contributions. Besides, comparison in corporation by size of the number of full-time employees and sales volume were examined. A total of 1054 cases of 147 brands, 86 corporations between 2000 and 2012 were collected from internet articles and brand home pages. Findings were as follows. First, the types of CSR activities were categorized into the following six: economic responsibility, legal responsibility, consumer protection, protection of worker's right, protection of environment, and social contribution. Social contribution took largest portion of CSR activities (67.7%), followed by environmental protection (14%), and protection of worker's right (6.2%). The other three types presented limited cases but included negative aspects of CSR. Social contribution consisted of six sub categories (culture & art, sports, education, donation, voluntary service, and campaign), and donation took the largest part of social contribution area. Second, comparing 86 corporations by the size of the number of full-time employees, companies more than 300 employees (38.1%) were more likely to practice CSR activities. Similarly, companies with more than 500 billion won sales (13.1%) were more active in their CSR activities than their counterparts. Suggestions are given for improving CSR practices to fashion business.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.185-199
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• 2020

본 연구는 보험회사의 차별적 마케팅전략으로써 CSR활동의 가능성을 규명하기 위하여 보험회사의 CSR활동이 고객기반 브랜드자산과 고객의 프리미엄가격 지불의도에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 보험가입 경험이 있는 국내 소비자를 대상으로 설문하여 최종 510부를 선정 및 분석한 결과, 경제적, 자선적 책임활동은 고객기반 브랜드자산에 영향을 주었고, 경제적, 환경적 책임활동은 프리미엄가격 지불의도에 영향을 주었다. 또한 고객기반 브랜드자산의 매개역할은 경제적, 자선적 책임활동과 프리미엄가격 지불의도 간의 관계에서 확인하였다. 마지막으로, CSR활동과 고객기반 브랜드자산 관계에서 SNS 활용수준의 조절효과는 경제적 책임활동에서 영향이 있었다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 본 연구는 보험회사에서의 CSR 프로그램 효율성을 높이는 마케팅전략 수립에 중요한 시사점을 제공해준다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권10호
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• pp.161-169
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• 2020

The condition of mining companies that exploit natural resources in their business processes underline this research to emphasize on social and environmental issues. After twelve years of government regulation on CSR practices, this study investigates the factors that influence mining companies in disclosing information about corporate social responsibility based on legitimacy, stakeholders, and agency theory. Thus, independent variables are foreign ownership, company size, leverage, and the board of commissioners. The dependent variable is the corporate social reporting disclosure that is measured using GRI indexing. For sampling, we have used thirty-four Indonesian mining companies listed in IDX during the 2014-2018. out of which only fifty-two companies meet the sample criteria. All data should pass the classical assumption test to get the best estimator. Multiple linear regression is used to test the hypothesis, and the results show that the model is good, and can explain 60% of the dependent variable. Based on F-test, all four variables affect CSR practices simultaneously. The findings of this study suggest that foreign ownership and firm size influences CSR disclosure in a positive direction. However, this study did not support the hypothesis that leverage negatively affects CSR disclosure and board size measures positively affect CSR disclosure.