• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.34
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• pp.244-274
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• 2006

To explore the social construction of the concept of leadership, image of media mogul depicted in the popular business newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, was analyzed. Then, the reconstructed image of the CEO was compared with the firm's stock price change to see their relationship, if any. This paper focused on the case of Steve Case (previous chairman of AOL Time Warner), who was the leader of the world largest media company. The period for the analysis was three years and five months from his inauguration(January 2000) to the resignation(May 2003). In general, CEO of a firm represents the firm itself. Thus, the image of the CEO is highly transcends to the image of the firm as well. Consequently, the image of CEO might have an impact on the firm's performance. Since business newspaper works as one of the most important information intermediaries in the stock market, the image of CEO constructed in the newspaper might be a critical indicator for the investors. The results revealed that media coverage of Steve Case was commensurate with the financial performance, particularly stock price change of the AOL Time Warner.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.27-34
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• 2002

Utilizing information and knowledge is one of the major objectives in the management of construction firm. This trend has been developed both inside of the firms and overall industry-wise. Therefore conventional methods of performance evaluation based on the financial statements such as balance sheet under GAAP(Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) are not sufficient to cover various Performance of constriction firms. Core competency of construction firms needs to be evaluated by the new performance evaluation model. In this research, the concept of BSC (Balanced Score Cards) is utilized to develop the performance evaluation model for construction firms considering four major performance indicators including financial perspective, customer perspective, learn and growth perspective, anti internal business perspective. A model of performance evaluation including criteria is proposed to evaluate construction firms based on their vision and strategy.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.496-500
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• 2015

International construction projects are inherently more risky than domestic projects with multi-dimensional uncertainties that require complementary risk management at both the country and project levels. However, despite a growing need for systematic country evaluations, most studies have focused on project-level decisions and lack country-based approaches for firms in the construction industry. Accordingly, this study suggests data-driven approaches for evaluating countries using two quantitative models. The first is a two-stage country segmentation model that not only screens negative countries based on country attractiveness (macro-segmentation) but also identifies promising countries based on the level of past project performance in a given country (micro-segmentation). The second is a multi-criteria country segmentation model that combines a firm's business objective with the country evaluation process based on Kraljic's matrix and fuzzy preference relations (FPR). These models utilize not only secondary data from internationally reputable institutions but also performance data on Korean firms from 1990 to 2014 to evaluate 29 countries. The proposed approaches enable firms to enhance their decision-making capacity for evaluating and selecting countries at the early stage of corporate strategy development.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.62-69
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• 2014

Since a government policy greatly affects markets and firms, an evaluation on government's policies is recognized as a critical issue. In Korea, two major policy plans on CM(Construction Management) include the Construction Industry Promotion Plan and the Construction Technology Promotion Plan from which Government's CM policies can be understood. The objective of the study is to analyze and discuss CM firm's perception and evaluation toward the Government's CM policies of the two plans based on the Gap analysis. The paper identified that the CM firms perceive that the Government's CM policies properly deal with key issues of the industry. However, they evaluate that the execution of the policies has been overall under-performed. As a way forward, the Government needs to improve on the execution plan and performance measurement rather than to develop new policy agenda.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.5 no.1 s.17
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• pp.88-98
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• 2004

In recent, Information Technology(IT) is the biggest issue on the social whole including the construction industry. IT is recognized as a key strategic means to reinforce competitive power and raise the effectiveness. However, CEOs of each firm have trouble with IT investment decision-making. Because there is neither any case to measure real value of IT nor any confidence to economic effect of information system. IT evaluation is so helpful for most construction firms to make a plan of IT investment. In addition, which will eventually facilitate to achieve their management goal and have the maximum of the firms' value. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to develop IT evaluation system for monitoring IT level continually. And this will be enable a construction company to increase IT investment and improve the level of IT in the construction industry.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.977-987
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• 2014

Since 1960's, international construction market have explosively increase and have reached up to 600 Bil. US$ through active participation of construction firms and steady support of government. Nevertheless, owners, clients and financial institutions required reasonable criteria to effectively assess the overseas business capabilities of construction firms. However, the existing methods for construction firms rarely considers the perspective of overseas business capabilities. To overcome these problems, this study proposes an evaluation system for overseas business capabilities of construction firms. First, the needs for new evaluation system is derived through FGI, and the direction of new evaluation system is presented by reviewing the limitations of existing methods. Also, the capabilities that are required for the performances for overseas businesses were analyzed through expert interviews. Finally, 31 primary evaluation indices consisting of 3 criteria - appropriateness of index, possibility of quantification, possibility of data gathering - are derived under 9 categories and 3 perspectives through surveys and consultation meeting. The preliminary investigation of 24 Korean construction firms are conducted for comparing the existing evaluation systems and to verify its applicability. The proposed method could provide a rational criterion to evaluate the construction firms, improve internal capacity of firms, and ultimately supports the success of the construction industry.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.77-91
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• 2004

Integrating computer-aided design with computer-aided fabrication and construction will fundamentally redefine the relationship between design and construction. Rapid prototyping(RP) is evaluated as one of the integration method available but it has been regarded as very expensive and complex design evaluation tool and is only suitable for large mechanical design shops in automobile and aerospace industry. However current status of rapid prototyping is changing since the new generation of RP equipment, less expensive and more user-friendlier, now can be installed and use in design firms. Simultaneously increasing use of 3D CAAD software is also helping to use rapid prototyping widely. It is crucial to acknowledge rapid prototyping technologies are not only for avant-garde architect such as Frank O. Gehry but ordinary 90% architects, who can have benefit from fast and cost-effective technology. With its fast development and adaptation in architectural industry, it is quite necessary to include rapid prototyping education in regular CAAD courses either undergraduate or graduate level.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.525-528
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• 2003

In recent, Information Technology(IT) is the biggest issue on the world at large including construction industry as core strategic means for reinforcing competitive power of company and nation and raising its effectiveness. However, CEO of each finn is deferring IT investment decision because there's no case to measure real value of IT and confidence to economic effect of information system. IT Evaluation will be so helpful that most construction finns make a plan of IT investment. and it is necessary to achieve their management goal and have the maximum of firm's value with the usage of IT system. Therefore, The purpose of this research is to promote the increase of IT investment and the improvement of the standard in IT with the development of IT evaluation system to be monitoring IT level continually.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.677-689
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• 2013

This paper derives the evaluation indicators relating to the mechanism and success factors of culture industrial cluster from the successful cases of culture industry in foreign countries and provides policy implications for the successful construction of culture industrial cluster by comparing with the survey of Gwang-Ju city's culture content companies. This paper shows that policy implications are linkage by leading firm of successful companies, securing huge hinterlands nearby metro city, cultivating of creative talented persons, operating of capital funds, promoting main force business(game, animation, mobile)-oriented culture industry, positive vitalization of network, role strengthening of city or Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency as vision provider, and aggressive granting of incentives for attracting companies.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.203-209
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• 2015

In this paper, we conducted a conventional regression and fuzzy regression analysis of the core competencies of construction subcontractors. The study was undertaken to check whether these two types of regression core capabilities affect the rating of construction subcontractor. Conventional regression result showed some effect on the rating of construction subcontractors on which core competencies to management and firm contribution were conducted. With fuzzy regression analysis, on the other hand, the rating of construction subcontractors could see the Min and Conjunction problem which utilize 100% reliability of Min. Max and Conjunction. From the above, the dependent variable of conventional regression could determine the evaluation grade of construction subcontractor. The fuzzy regression analysis shows the estimator of evaluation grade of the construction subcontractor including or corresponding to the fuzzy output data.