• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.113-145
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• 2009

Recently, due to the globalization of the IT(Information Technology) market, devices and systems designed in one country are used in other countries as well. This phenomenon is becoming the key factor for increased interest on cross-cultural, or cross-national, research within the IT area. However, as the IT market is becoming bigger and more globalized, a great number of IT practitioners are having difficulty in designing and developing devices or systems which can provide optimal experience. This is because not only tangible factors such as language and a country's economic or industrial power affect the user experience of a certain device or system but also invisible and intangible factors as well. Among such invisible and intangible factors, the cultural characteristics of users from different countries may affect the user experience of certain devices or systems because cultural characteristics affect how they understand and interpret the devices or systems. In other words, when users evaluate the quality of overall user experience, the cultural characteristics of each user act as a perceptual lens that leads the user to focus on a certain elements of experience. Therefore, there is a need within the IT field to consider cultural characteristics when designing or developing certain devices or systems and plan a strategy for localization. In such an environment, existing IS studies identify the culture with the country, emphasize the importance of culture in a national level perspective, and hypothesize that users within the same country have same cultural characteristics. Under such assumptions, these studies focus on the moderating effects of cultural characteristics on a national level within a certain theoretical framework. This has already been suggested by cross-cultural studies conducted by scholars such as Hofstede(1980) in providing numerical research results and measurement items for cultural characteristics and using such results or items as they increase the efficiency of studies. However, such national level culture has its limitations in forecasting and explaining individual-level behaviors such as voluntary device or system usage. This is because individual cultural characteristics are the outcome of not only the national culture but also the culture of a race, company, local area, family, and other groups that are formulated through interaction within the group. Therefore, national or nationally dominant cultural characteristics may have its limitations in forecasting and explaining the cultural characteristics of an individual. Moreover, past studies in psychology suggest a possibility that there exist different cultural characteristics within a single individual depending on the subject being measured or its context. For example, in relation to individual vs. collective characteristics, which is one of the major cultural characteristics, an individual may show collectivistic characteristics when he or she is with family or friends but show individualistic characteristics in his or her workplace. Therefore, this study acknowledged such limitations of past studies and conducted a research within the framework of 'theoretically integrated model of user satisfaction and emotional attachment', which was developed through a former study, on how the effects of different experience elements on emotional attachment or user satisfaction are differentiated depending on the individual cultural characteristics related to a system or device usage. In order to do this, this study hypothesized the moderating effects of four cultural dimensions (uncertainty avoidance, individualism vs, collectivism, masculinity vs. femininity, and power distance) as suggested by Hofstede(1980) within the theoretically integrated model of emotional attachment and user satisfaction. Statistical tests were then implemented on these moderating effects through conducting surveys with users of four digital devices (mobile phone, MP3 player, LCD TV, and refrigerator) in three countries (US, Germany, and Russia). In order to explain and forecast the behavior of personal device or system users, individual cultural characteristics must be measured, and depending on the target device or system, measurements must be measured independently. Through this suggestion, this study hopes to provide new and useful perspectives for future IS research.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.284-293
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• 2017

본 연구는 미혼여성 316명을 대상으로 계획적 행동이론에 근거하여 '모유수유에 대한 태도', '주관적 규범', '인지된 행동통제력' 요인이 미혼여성의 장래 모유수유 행동의도에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 대상자의 평균연령은 만 26세였으며 대학 졸업 이상의 학력수준이 60.8%로 높은 편이었고 다양한 직업군에 종사하는 것으로 조사되었다. 모유수유에 대한 태도는 25점 만점에 $16.77{\pm}3.07$로 긍정적으로 인식하고 있었다. 모유수유 행동에 대한 결과신념보다 모유수유 행동에 대한 결과평가가 더욱 높게 나타났으며 '엄마와 아기가 더 친밀해질 것이다'가 가장 높은 점수로 나타났다. 조사대상자들은 주변 사람들에게서 특히 어머니와 모유수유 경험이 있는 주변인들의 영향을 많이 받으며 모유수유 권유에 적극적으로 따를 의도가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 모유수유 행동의 인지된 행동통제력은 25점 만점에 $6.81{\pm}3.73$으로 상당히 저조하게 나타났다. 공공장소에서 모유수유를 하는 것을 가장 어려운 통제신념으로 응답하였고 인지된 능력도 가장 낮게 나타났다. 반면, 모유수유 행동의 인지된 행동통제력에서 '커피, 술, 담배 등 아기에게 해로운 기호품을 삼가는 것'이 가장 높은 통제신념과 인지된 능력으로 조사되었다. 조사대상자들의 모유수유 행동의도는 5점 만점에 평균 $4.40{\pm}0.87$로 매우 높은 행동의도를 가진 것으로 나타났다. 모유수유 행동의도는 모유수유에 대한 태도 (r = 0.321, p < 0.0001), 주변사람들의 영향 (r = 0.434, p < 0.0001), 인지된통제력 (r = 0.307, p < 0.0001) 등 세 변수와 모두 유의적인 양의 상관관계를 보였다. 다중회귀분석 결과 25세 미만의 조사대상자 그룹에서 모유수유 행동의도는 주변사람들의 영향이 클수록 (p < 0.0001), 인지된 행동통제력이 클수록 (p < 0.001) 높았다. 반면 모유수유에 대한 태도는 모유수유 행동의도와 관련성이 없었다. 그러나 25세 이상의 조사대상자에서는 모유수유 행동의도가 모유수유에 대한 태도가 긍정적일수록 (p < 0.003), 주변사람들의 영향이 클수록 (0.002) 높았으며 인지된 통제력은 p < 0.070으로 유의하지 않았다. 본 연구결과, 모유수유 행동의도는 모유수유에 대한 긍정적 태도, 주변사람들의 영향, 인지된 행동통제력이 연령대에 따라 다르게 작용하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 즉, 25세 이상의 여성에서 모유수유 실천의도를 예측하는데 가장 영향을 미치는 요인은 모유수유에 대한 태도와 주변사람들의 영향력이었으며 25세 미만의 여성에서는 주변사람들의 영향력과 통제신념으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 미혼여성을 대상으로 모유수유 행동의도를 파악하여 실제 모유수유 의도가 결혼과 출산 후 모유수유로의 행동으로까지 실천이 되었는지는 파악하지 못하였고, 또한, 모유수유의 실시기간에 따른 행동의도를 분리하여 분석하지 않아 미래에 모유수유의 시작은 하였으나 6개월간의 완전한 모유수유에 도달하는 모유수유의 지속적 행동의도는 파악하지 못하였다는 한계를 가지고 있다. 추후 계획적 행동이론을 적용한 모유수유의 영양교육 자료개발에서 모유수유에 대한 태도, 주변사람들의 영향, 인지된 행동통제력 등 구성요인을 고려하여 연령별로 다양한 관점에서 접근하여야 할 것으로 사료된다. 모유수유율을 증가시키기 위해 꾸준한 모유수유 영양교육이 필요하며 육아휴직제도, 직장내 모유수유실 설치 등과 같은 사회 전반적인 제도적 지원이 더욱 강화되어야 할 것이다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2017

본 연구는 난지형 마늘 '남도'의 적정 생육 온도 구명과 일 평균온도를 이용한 구중 예측을 위하여 수행되었다. 온도처리는 주간 16시간 야간 8시간 처리로 $11/7^{\circ}C$, $14/10^{\circ}C$, $17/12^{\circ}C$, $20/15^{\circ}C$, $23/18^{\circ}C$, $28/23^{\circ}C$ 로 설정하였다. 구의 생체중과 건물중은 $20/15^{\circ}C$ 처리구에서 가장 높았으며 고온이나 저온으로 갈수록 감소하였다. 엽수와 총엽면적은 저온인 처리구가 고온처리구보다 생장이 느렸으나, 최종적으로는 최고온도인 $28/23^{\circ}C$을 제외하고 유사한 경향을 보였다. 구의 생체중으로 6종의 함수를 개발하였으며 이를 통해 '남도' 마늘의 적정 생육온도와 한계온도, 온도에 따른 구생장량을 확인할 수 있었다. 분석 결과 '남도' 마늘의 적정 생육온도는 $18{\sim}20^{\circ}C$이며 GDD 기본온도와 한계온도는 $7.1^{\circ}C$와 $31.7^{\circ}C$로 추정할 수 있었다. 일 평균온도를 이용한 수확기 기준 구생체중 모델을 검증하기 위하여 온도구배터널의 기상자료를 이용하여 예측하였다. 선형함수를 이용한 예측은 79.0~95.0%, 2차 함수를 이용한 예측은 77.2~92.3%, 로지스틱분포 함수를 이용한 예측은 80.0~95.8% 예측도를 보였다. 이중 가장 예측력이 좋은 함수는 로지스틱분포함수이며 생육적정온도와 한계온도도 잘 표현하였다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.611-635
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• 2014

Information systems (IS) have become ubiquitous and changed every aspect of how people live their lives. While some IS have been successfully adopted and widely used, others have failed to be adopted and crowded out in spite of remarkable progress in technologies. Both the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the IS Success Model (ISSM), among many others, have contributed to explain the reasons of success as well as failure in IS adoption and usage. While the TAM suggests that intention to use and perceived usefulness lead to actual IS usage, the ISSM indicates that information quality, system quality, and service quality affect IS usage and user satisfaction. Upon literature review, however, we found a significant void in theoretical development and its applications that employ either of the two models, and we raise research questions. First of all, in spite of the causal relationship between intention to use and actual usage, in most previous studies, only intention to use was employed as a dependent variable without overt explaining its relationship with actual usage. Moreover, even in a few studies that employed actual IS usage as a dependent variable, the degree of actual usage was measured based on users' perceptual responses to survey questionnaires. However, the measurement of actual usage based on survey responses might not be 'actual' usage in a strict sense that responders' perception may be distorted due to their selective perceptions or stereotypes. By the same token, the degree of system quality that IS users perceive might not be 'real' quality as well. This study seeks to fill this void by measuring the variables of actual usage and system quality using 'fact' data such as system logs and specifications of users' information and communications technology (ICT) devices. More specifically, we propose an integrated research model that bring together the TAM and the ISSM. The integrated model is composed of both the variables that are to be measured using fact as well as survey data. By employing the integrated model, we expect to reveal the difference between real and perceived degree of system quality, and to investigate the relationship between the perception-based measure of intention to use and the fact-based measure of actual usage. Furthermore, we also aim to add empirical findings on the general research question: what factors influence actual IS usage and how? In order to address the research question and to examine the research model, we selected a mobile campus application (MCA). We collected both fact data and survey data. For fact data, we retrieved them from the system logs such information as menu usage counts, user's device performance, display size, and operating system revision version number. At the same time, we conducted a survey among university students who use an MCA, and collected 180 valid responses. A partial least square (PLS) method was employed to validate our research model. Among nine hypotheses developed, we found five were supported while four were not. In detail, the relationships between (1) perceived system quality and perceived usefulness, (2) perceived system quality and perceived intention to use, (3) perceived usefulness and perceived intention to use, (4) quality of device platform and actual IS usage, and (5) perceived intention to use and actual IS usage were found to be significant. In comparison, the relationships between (1) quality of device platform and perceived system quality, (2) quality of device platform and perceived usefulness, (3) quality of device platform and perceived intention to use, and (4) perceived system quality and actual IS usage were not significant. The results of the study reveal notable differences from those of previous studies. First, although perceived intention to use shows a positive effect on actual IS usage, its explanatory power is very weak ($R^2$=0.064). Second, fact-based system quality (quality of user's device platform) shows a direct impact on actual IS usage without the mediating role of intention to use. Lastly, the relationships between perceived system quality (perception-based system quality) and other constructs show completely different results from those between quality of device platform (fact-based system quality) and other constructs. In the post-hoc analysis, IS users' past behavior was additionally included in the research model to further investigate the cause of such a low explanatory power of actual IS usage. The results show that past IS usage has a strong positive effect on current IS usage while intention to use does not have, implying that IS usage has already become a habitual behavior. This study provides the following several implications. First, we verify that fact-based data (i.e., system logs of real usage records) are more likely to reflect IS users' actual usage than perception-based data. In addition, by identifying the direct impact of quality of device platform on actual IS usage (without any mediating roles of attitude or intention), this study triggers further research on other potential factors that may directly influence actual IS usage. Furthermore, the results of the study provide practical strategic implications that organizations equipped with high-quality systems may directly expect high level of system usage.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.147-165
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• 2009

Virtual community(VC) will increasingly be organized as commercial enterprises, with the objective of earning an attractive financial return by providing members with valuable resources and environment. For example, Cyworld.com in Korea uses several community services to enable customers of Cyworld to take control of their own value as potential purchasers of products and services. Although initial adoption is important for online network service success, it does not necessarily result in the desired managerial performance unless the initial usage is continuously related to the continuous usage and purchase. Particularly, the customer who receives relevant online services and is well equipped with online network services, will trust the online service provider and perceive less risk and experience more activities such as continuous usage and purchase. Thus, how to promote continued online service usage or, alternatively, how to prevent discontinuance is a critical issue for VC service providers to consider. By aggregating a wide range of information and online environments for customers and providing trust to its members, the service providers of virtual communities help to reduce the perceived risk of continuous usage and purchase. Drill down, online service managers realize that achieving strong and sustained customers who continuously use online service and purchase on it is crucial. Therefore, the research into this online service continuance will identify the relationship between the initial usage and the continuous usage and purchase. The research of continuous usage or post adoption has recently emerged as an important issue in the IS literature. Individuals' information systems(IS) continuous usage decisions are congruent with consumers' repeat purchase decisions. The TAM(Technology Acceptance Model) paradigm has been strongly confirmed across a wide range from product purchase on EC to online service usage contexts. The analysis of IS usage based on TAM has proven to be successful across almost online service contexts. However, most of previous studies have focused on only an area (i.e., VC or EC). Just little research has tried to analyze the relationship between VC and EC. The effect of some factors on user intention, captured through several theories such as TAM, has been demonstrated. Yet, few studies have explored the salient relationships of VC users' EC acceptance. To fill this gap between VC and EC research, this paper attempts to develop a research model that extends the TAM perspective in view of the additional contributions of trust in the service provider and trust in members on some factors that affect EC and VC adoption. In this extension, we applied the TAM-to-TAM(T2T) model, and analyzed the transfer effect of trust between these two TAMs. The research model was empirically tested on the context of a social network service. The model was to extend TAM with the trust concept for the virtual community environment from the perspective of tasks. By building an extended model of TAM and examining the relationships between trust and the existing variables of TAM, it is aimed to explain a user's continuous intention to use VC and purchase on EC. The unit of analysis in this paper is an individual user of a virtual community. The population of interest is the individual with the experiences in virtual community. The data for this paper was made available via a Web survey of VC users. In total, 281 cases were gathered for about one week, but there were some missing values in the sample and there were some inappropriate cases. Thus, only 248 cases were finally analyzed. We chose the structural equation analysis to test the hypotheses and it is better suited for explaining complex relationships than the other methods. In this test, AMOS was used to test the Structural Equation Model (SEM). Noticeable results have been found in the T2T model regarding the factors affecting the intention to use of virtual community and loyalty. Our result showed that trust transfer plays a key role in forming the two adoption beliefs. Overall, this study preliminarily confirms the salience of trust transfer in online service.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.119-144
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• 2021

최근 시장에서의 경쟁이 기업 간의 경쟁에서 공급사슬 간의 경쟁으로 진화해 감에 따라, 공급사슬관리(이하 SCM)를 고도화하기 위한 기업들의 관심이 높아지고 있다. 특히 다양한 기술적 강점을 갖고 있는 블록체인 기술이 SCM과 결합되면서 블록체인 기반의 SCM 서비스 도입을 검토하고 있는 국내 제조, 유통 기업들이 늘어감에 따라, 우리 기업들의 블록체인 기반 SCM 도입에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 대한 연구가 중요해지고 있는 시점이다. 그러나 기존 블록체인 및 SCM에 대한 수용연구들은 대체로 기술수용모형이나 통합기술수용모형에 기반하여 수행되어 왔다. 그러나 이 두 이론적 기반은 개인의 정보기술 수용을 설명하기에는 적합하지만, 기업을 대상으로 하는 정보기술 수용을 설명을 하기에는 다소 부적합한 한계가 있다. 본 연구는 기술-조직-환경(TOE) 프레임워크 이론을 바탕으로 기업을 분석단위(unit of analysis)로 하는 새로운 관점의 블록체인 기반 SCM 수용모형을 제시하고, 기업들이 새로운 정보기술의 도입을 검토할 때 그 기술이 제공하는 혜택(benefit)과 그 기술로 인해 발생하는 손실(sacrifice)을 종합적으로 고려하는 특성을 반영하고자, 본 연구에서는 가치 기반 수용 모형(Value-based Adoption Model)의 관점을 추가로 적용하였다. 본 연구에서는 제안된 연구모델을 검증하기 위하여 국내 제조, 유통 기업 126곳을 대상으로 설문을 통해 데이터를 수집하였으며, PLS 구조방정식모델을 통해 실증적으로 분석하였다. 분석결과 '비즈니스 혁신', '경로추적', '보안강화'와 같은 기술적 관점의 혜택 요인들과 '비용'과 같은 손실 요인이 블록체인 기반 SCM의 '인지된 가치'에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 이는 다시 '사용의도'에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 조직적 관점의 '조직준비도'는 '사용의도'에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났지만, 환경적 관점의 '규제환경'은 예상과 달리 '사용의도'에 유의한 영향을 미치지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 본 연구의 발견은 국내 블록체인 기반 SCM 활성화를 위한 실무적, 정책적 대안을 마련하는데 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.