• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.53-84
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• 2013

With rapid development of ICT (Information and Communications Technology), new services by the convergence of mobile network and application technology began to appear. Today, smart phone with new ICT convergence network capabilities is exceedingly popular and very useful as a new tool for the development of business opportunities. Previous studies based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) suggested critical factors, which should be considered for acquiring new customers and maintaining existing users in smart phone market. However, they had a limitation to focus on technology acceptance, not value based approach. Prior studies on customer's adoption of electronic utilities like smart phone product showed that the antecedents such as the perceived benefit and the perceived sacrifice could explain the causality between what is perceived and what is acquired over diverse contexts. So, this research conceptualizes perceived value as a trade-off between perceived benefit and perceived sacrifice, and we need to research the perceived value to grasp user's continuous intention to use of smart phone. The purpose of this study is to investigate the structured relationship between benefit (quality, usefulness, playfulness) and sacrifice (technicality, cost, security risk) of smart phone users, perceived value, and continuous intention to use. In addition, this study intends to analyze the differences between two subgroups of smart phone users by the degree of personal innovativeness. Personal innovativeness could help us to understand the moderating effect between how perceptions are formed and continuous intention to use smart phone. This study conducted survey through e-mail, direct mail, and interview with smart phone users. Empirical analysis based on 330 respondents was conducted in order to test the hypotheses. First, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived usefulness among three factors of perceived benefit has the highest positive impact on perceived value, and then followed by perceived playfulness and perceived quality. Second, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived cost among three factors of perceived sacrifice has significantly negative impact on perceived value, however, technicality and security risk have no significant impact on perceived value. Also, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived value has significant direct impact on continuous intention to use of smart phone. In this regard, marketing managers of smart phone company should pay more attention to improve task efficiency and performance of smart phone, including rate systems of smart phone. Additionally, to test the moderating effect of personal innovativeness, this research conducted multi-group analysis by the degree of personal innovativeness of smart phone users. In a group with high level of innovativeness, perceived usefulness has the highest positive influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, the analysis for a group with low level of innovativeness showed that perceived playfulness was the highest positive factor to influence perceived value than others. This result of the group with high level of innovativeness explains that innovators and early adopters are able to cope with higher level of cost and risk, and they expect to develop more positive intentions toward higher performance through the use of an innovation. Also, hedonic behavior in the case of the group with low level of innovativeness aims to provide self-fulfilling value to the users, in contrast to utilitarian perspective, which aims to provide instrumental value to the users. However, with regard to perceived sacrifice, both groups in general showed negative impact on perceived value. Also, the group with high level of innovativeness had less overall negative impact on perceived value compared to the group with low level of innovativeness across all factors. In both group with high level of innovativeness and with low level of innovativeness, perceived cost has the highest negative influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, the analysis for a group with high level of innovativeness showed that perceived technicality was the positive factor to influence perceived value than others. However, the analysis for a group with low level of innovativeness showed that perceived security risk was the second high negative factor to influence perceived value than others. Unlike previous studies, this study focuses on influencing factors on continuous intention to use of smart phone, rather than considering initial purchase and adoption of smart phone. First, perceived value, which was used to identify user's adoption behavior, has a mediating effect among perceived benefit, perceived sacrifice, and continuous intention to use smart phone. Second, perceived usefulness has the highest positive influence on perceived value, while perceived cost has significant negative influence on perceived value. Third, perceived value, like prior studies, has high level of positive influence on continuous intention to use smart phone. Fourth, in multi-group analysis by the degree of personal innovativeness of smart phone users, perceived usefulness, in a group with high level of innovativeness, has the highest positive influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, perceived playfulness, in a group with low level of innovativeness, has the highest positive factor to influence perceived value than others. This result shows that early adopters intend to adopt smart phone as a tool to make their job useful, instead market followers intend to adopt smart phone as a tool to make their time enjoyable. In terms of marketing strategy for smart phone company, marketing managers should pay more attention to identify their customers' lifetime value by the phase of smart phone adoption, as well as to understand their behavior intention to accept the risk and uncertainty positively. The academic contribution of this study primarily is to employ the VAM (Value-based Adoption Model) as a conceptual foundation, compared to TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) used widely by previous studies. VAM is useful for understanding continuous intention to use smart phone in comparison with TAM as a new IT utility by individual adoption. Perceived value dominantly influences continuous intention to use smart phone. The results of this study justify our research model adoption on each antecedent of perceived value as a benefit and a sacrifice component. While TAM could be widely used in user acceptance of new technology, it has a limitation to explain the new IT adoption like smart phone, because of customer behavior intention to choose the value of the object. In terms of theoretical approach, this study provides theoretical contribution to the development, design, and marketing of smart phone. The practical contribution of this study is to suggest useful decision alternatives concerned to marketing strategy formulation for acquiring and retaining long-term customers related to smart phone business. Since potential customers are interested in both benefit and sacrifice when evaluating the value of smart phone, marketing managers in smart phone company has to put more effort into creating customer's value of low sacrifice and high benefit so that customers will continuously have higher adoption on smart phone. Especially, this study shows that innovators and early adopters with high level of innovativeness have higher adoption than market followers with low level of innovativeness, in terms of perceived usefulness and perceived cost. To formulate marketing strategy for smart phone diffusion, marketing managers have to pay more attention to identify not only their customers' benefit and sacrifice components but also their customers' lifetime value to adopt smart phone.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.1-28
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• 2022

To realize the vision of internet of things (IoT), where it is expected to bring significant impact to the global economy in the future, consideration of business models in the IoT context is necessary. This research attempts to build an enhanced artifact business model framework based on the definitions of IoT and literature on business models for analysis of IoT businesses. The framework is used to analyze four different types of players: the owner of things, vendors of devices, providers of connectivity and providers of IoT application services. The findings suggest that the owners of things tend to partner with ICT players to complement their weakness, and it tends to be connectivity providers. The device vendors leverage their strength of devices and device platforms to attract and enable 3rd party sensor/devices to interconnect, while the service providers are aiming to penetrate into customer premise. These lead to the following recommendations for non-IT players to consider in expanding into IoT business: 1) take into account differences in product development process between IT and non-IT businesses in expanding into IoT market; 2) collaborate with ICT players that acknowledge and understand the differences.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.23-43
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• 2021

최근 비대면 사회로의 전환으로 많은 조직이 빠르게 스마트워크 환경을 조성하고 있다. 스마트워크의 도입은 단순히 ICT 시스템 또는 솔루션 도입이 아닌 기술적 진보에 맞춰 일하는 방식이나 직무 형태의 다양한 변화를 초래한다. 그러나 스마트워크 관련 기존 연구들은 기술수용관점에서 스마트워크 도입으로 생산성 및 효율성이 향상된다는 연구가 대부분으로 기업의 ICT 시스템이 도입되었을 때 구성원들이 느끼는 혁신저항의 문제와 조직의 관리 통제에 대한 현실적인 문제에 대한 논의는 부족하다. 본 연구는 스마트워크 도입에 대한 혁신요인과 혁신저항에서 구성원들에 대한 조직통제 방법의 조절효과를 실증분석하고 혁신저항의 관점에서 조직의 혁신이 들어왔을 때 구성원들이 저항하는 구조적인 특징을 이직의도로 확장하여 프로세스에 대한 개념적 모델과 가설을 제안하였다. 실증 분석 결과, 스마트워크 도입 관련 ICT 기술의 기업 내부 도입에 대하여 상대적 이점, 자기효능감의 수준이 높을수록 혁신저항의 수준이 낮아지고, 이용복잡성이 높을수록 혁신저항의 수준이 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 사용자들의 행동통제를 하였을 때 혁신저항이 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 사례 분석을 통해 향후 스마트워크 도입에 대한 고려 사항을 제시하여 신규 도입을 위한 경영개선에 기여하는 바를 제공하고자 한다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.192-203
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• 2016

Uganda is a country blessed with the biggest number of mountain Gorillas in the whole world. These animals contribute at least 12% in revenue generation to the Tourism sector through tracking by both local and foreign tourists who pay for the tracking permits. However, Gorilla tracking is also a big challenge even in the presence of highly skilled and well-trained game rangers. Development and implementation of a secure Computer and Mobile based Gorilla Tracking (GT) system that uses GIS and GPS technologies would be the most ideal technology to use. Therefore, this study aimed to find out the critical factors that would affect the Behavioral Intention of the would-be users to successfully decide to use such GIS/GPS-GT system. We used the existing UTAUT model to integrate six factors such as Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Employee Peer Influence, Facilitating Conditions, Behavioral Intention and System Use. However, Infrastructure Availability and Non-Technical Facilitating Conditions were added to reflect Ugandan ICT context. This amended UTAUT model was used to carry out the survey. The questionnaire was emailed to 220 government employees in the fields of ICT, Tour and Travel, Environmental Groups officials and Farmers who garden near the game reserves. A total of 133 were obtained fully completed, whereas 127 were deemed usable thus yielding a response rate of 58%. The analysis results show that except for non-technical facilitating conditions, effort expectancy, peer influence, performance expectancy and infrastructure availability positively affects behavioral Intention to use GIS/GPS-GT. This indicates that people in Uganda don't bother about regulations and rules in regard to using information system. As long as the system does what they want it to, anything else does not matter. As an employee in an organization is told to use a system by their supervisor, they have no objection to otherwise they risk losing their job. This implies that, supervisors have a great responsibility in the process of developing, implementing and using the system in Uganda.

• Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.69-85
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• 2017

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has seen as the potential to improve profitability and productivity in many areas as well as gaining notable attention in many countries. Despite, there has been some uncertainty about the e-commerce impacts for developing countries. The sufficient basic infrastructural deficiency, socio-political, economic and the lack of government public ICT policies have formed the significant barriers to the adoption and e-commerce growth in developing countries. Even though there are many researchers have found the common barriers to e-commerce in the developing nations, all business models targeting those countries are not equally successful. Small companies' persistence failed to challenge the e-commerce barriers in Cambodia because the firms didn't know the correct business model to succeed in this country online market. Therefore, this study will discuss the existing barriers which lead to limit e-commerce growth in Cambodia and the suggested solutions with the suitable business model for the e-commerce business in the country too.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.20-25
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• 2015

It is predicted the mass retirement of the post-war generation and the lack of young people according to reduces the recruitment. Therefore, industry fields are concerned by the low level of occupational safety and health from issued problem in a variety of industries; the charge of expanding business range/multi-functional, black box of technology, difficulty of systematic training, relative decrease in the skill of workers, loss of know-how in the field of information followed restricted site information. In response to these problems, it is necessary to establish the long-termly and actively based on for the adoption of a safety and health management techniques utilizing IT, which is digital assistant(tablet PC, PDA, etc.), RFID/USN/ICT, database systems, and etc. In this study, we developed and evaluated a worker's safety sensing apparatus using smart phone. The apparatus may be useful to prevent accidents in the construction industry as well as confined space work.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.48-57
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• 2024

Cyberthreats and crimes have become common in society and demand the adoption of robust security measures. Financial cybercrimes, personal information breaches, and spam messages are now prevalent, while companies and nations face an increasing number of cyberthreats and attacks such as distributed denial of service, ransomware, and malware. As the overall socioeconomic landscape undergoes digitalization powered by big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence technologies, the importance of cybersecurity is expected to steadily increase. Developed nations are actively implementing various policies to strengthen cybersecurity and providing government support for research and development activities to bolster their domestic cybersecurity industries. In particular, the South Korean government has designated cybersecurity as one of the 12 nationwide strategic technology sectors. We examine the current landscape of cybersecurity companies and the information and communication technology supply chain, providing insights into the domestic cybersecurity market and suggesting implications for South Korea.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.127-140
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• 2010

The benefit that a consumer derives from the use of a good often depends on the number of other consumers purchasing the same goods or other compatible items. This property, which is known as network externality, is significant in many IT related industries. Over the past few decades, network externalities have been recognized in the context of physical networks such as the telephone and railroad industries. Today, as many products are provided as a form of system that consists of compatible components, the appreciation of network externality is becoming increasingly important. Network externalities have been extensively studied among economists who have been seeking to explain new phenomena resulting from rapid advancements in ICT (Information and Communication Technology). As a result of these efforts, a new body of theories for 'New Economy' has been proposed. The theoretical bottom-line argument of such theories is that technologies subject to network effects exhibit multiple equilibriums and will finally lock into a monopoly with one standard cornering the entire market. They emphasize that such "tippiness" is a typical characteristic in such networked markets, describing that multiple incompatible technologies rarely coexist and that the switch to a single, leading standard occurs suddenly. Moreover, it is argued that this standardization process is path dependent, and the ultimate outcome is unpredictable. With incomplete information about other actors' preferences, there can be excess inertia, as consumers only moderately favor the change, and hence are themselves insufficiently motivated to start the bandwagon rolling, but would get on it once it did start to roll. This startup problem can prevent the adoption of any standard at all, even if it is preferred by everyone. Conversely, excess momentum is another possible outcome, for example, if a sponsoring firm uses low prices during early periods of diffusion. The aim of this paper is to analyze the dynamics of the adoption process in markets exhibiting network effects by focusing on two factors; switching and agent heterogeneity. Switching is an important factor that should be considered in analyzing the adoption process. An agent's switching invokes switching by other adopters, which brings about a positive feedback process that can significantly complicate the adoption process. Agent heterogeneity also plays a important role in shaping the early development of the adoption process, which has a significant impact on the later development of the process. The effects of these two factors are analyzed by developing an agent-based simulation model. ABM is a computer-based simulation methodology that can offer many advantages over traditional analytical approaches. The model is designed such that agents have diverse preferences regarding technology and are allowed to switch their previous choice. The simulation results showed that the adoption processes in a market exhibiting networks effects are significantly affected by the distribution of agents and the occurrence of switching. In particular, it is found that both weak heterogeneity and strong network effects cause agents to start to switch early and this plays a role of expediting the emergence of 'lock-in.' When network effects are strong, agents are easily affected by changes in early market shares. This causes agents to switch earlier and in turn speeds up the market's tipping. The same effect is found in the case of highly homogeneous agents. When agents are highly homogeneous, the market starts to tip toward one technology rapidly, and its choice is not always consistent with the populations' initial inclination. Increased volatility and faster lock-in increase the possibility that the market will reach an unexpected outcome. The primary contribution of this study is the elucidation of the role of parameters characterizing the market in the development of the lock-in process, and identification of conditions where such unexpected outcomes happen.

• 무역학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.91-116
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• 2016

본 연구는 정보통신기술을 기반으로 한 국가 단위의 연구에서 최근 데이터인 정보통신연합과 세계경제포럼의 기술변수를 사용하여 이러한 변수들이 인간의 문화가치관에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 사실 매우 흥미로운 결과를 보이고 있다고 할 수 있다. 우선 개인주의 문화차원의 경우에 정보통신기술이 B값 0.603, 유의수준 ^***p<0.001로 매우 유의미한 결과를 보이고 있다. 이것은 정보통신기술의 발전이 특히 인터넷과 매스미디어의 발전은 공적인 업무나 예약 송금업무 등을 직접 방문하지 않고도 마우스 클릭 한번으로 처리가 가능한 시대적 배경이 개인주의 수준을 높이는 결과를 만들었다고 해석할 수 있을 것이다. 권력거리의 경우에 선행연구에서 개인주의 수준과 권력거리와의 관계는 부(-)의 유의미한 결과가 있다는 것을 이미 증명하였다. 본 연구에서도 이와 같은 결과를 보여주고 있다. 또한 장기지향성의 경우에는 동양적 가치라고 할 수 있다. 처음에는 산업혁명을 통한 기술의 발전이 서구 중심적이었다면 이후 한국, 중국, 싱가포르, 대만 홍콩의 눈부신 발전은 서양적 사고에서 미처 예상하지 못했던 일대 중대한 사건이다. 이러한 국가들은 유교적 문화권에 있는 국가들이다. 또한 높은 기술수준을 보유하고 있다. 따라서 정보통신기술의 발전은 유교적 가치인 장기지향성문화에 정(+)의 유의미한 결과를 보인다고 할 수 있다.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.35-52
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• 2023

최근 코로나19, 환경오염 등으로 비대면 환경이 전개되면서 온라인 디지털 헬스케어의 중요성이 커지고 있으며 관련하여 건강관리, 원격진료, 디지털 치료제 등의 벤처창업 및 활동도 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구는 디지털 헬스케어 스마트워치 수용성에 미치는 영향을 확장된 통합기술수용모형(UTAUT2)과 행동추론모형(BRT)의 통합적 접근으로 진행하였다. 첨단 ICT와 의료가 융합된 디지털 헬스케어에 적합한 요인 발굴은 혁신기술 수용연구에 가장 진보적으로 평가받는 확장된 통합기술수용모형을 활용하여 효용기대, 사회영향, 사용편의, 가격장벽, 대안부족, 이용장벽 등의 주요 요인을 도출하였고, 소비자의 가치-이유-태도-행동의도를 일괄 검증 할 수 있으면서 수용이유뿐만 아니라 비수용이유-소비자 스마트워치 디지털 헬스케어 인식의 긍정적 측면뿐만 아니라 부정적 측면까지-분석 할 수 있는 행동추론모형을 활용하여 인과관계 영향과 크기를 검증하였다. 연구를 위해 전국에 있는 10대에서 60대에 이르는 일반인을 대상으로 약 410여건의 설문 응답을 취합하여 이를 바탕으로 데이터에 대한 신뢰성 및 타당성 검정을 거쳐 구조방정식을 이용하여 가설을 검증하였다. 연구 분석에는 SPSS 23, AMOS 23 등을 활용하였다. 연구 결과, 개인혁신성은 수용이유(효용가치, 사회영향, 사용편의), 태도, 비수용이유(가격장벽, 대안부족, 이용장벽)에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 혁신된 ICT의 주요 가치의 사용자 수용의도에의 영항을 확인한 선행연구 연구결과와 동일하다. 그리고 수용이유는 태도에 유의미한 영향을 미치나 비수용이유의 영향은 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 소비자들이 ICT 신제품·신규서비스에는 관심이 크지만 이의 구입은 보다 신중하게 선택적으로 한다고 보여 진다. 본 연구는 학술적으로는 기존의 소비자 범용 혁신기술 수용성 분석을 새롭고 향후 중요분야인 스마트워치 디지털 헬스케어 분야의 소비자 가치 수용성 분석으로 발전시켰으며 확장된 통합기술수용모형과 행동추론모형의 장점을 살려 통합적으로 실행한 점 등이 있겠으며, 산업적으로는 기존 소비자의 수용성 이유 분석 중심에서 소비자 수용·비수용 이유 통합 검증으로 스마트워치를 구매하는 이유뿐만 아니라 구매하지 않는 이유까지 분석하여 제품·서비스 기획, 개발, 마케팅에 기여 할 수 있게 했다는 점 등이 있겠다. 본 연구가 향후 우리 생활에 중요한 역할을 할 디지털 헬스케어 분야의 연구 증대에 기여 할 수 있기 바라며 또한 본 연구와 같은 통합적 접근 모형과 소비자 수용·비수용 이유 통합 분석 등을 통하여 혁신과 향후 관련 연구들이 좀 더 소비자 가치에 적합한 심도 있는 요인 발굴과 검증으로 발전하기를 기대한다.