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A Study on the Co-orientation of Internet Portal News Providers and Users (포털뉴스 제공자와 이용자간 상호지향성 연구)

  • Park, Sung-Hee;Park, Su-Mi
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.30
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    • pp.143-174
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    • 2005
  • This study aims at applying Chaffee & McLeod's co-orientation model to Internet portal news providers and users to find out their mutual understanding toward various features of online news. Included in those features are interactivity, expansion of user role, larger choices(user characteristics), real time update of news, limitless quantity, contextualized contents through hypertext, data base service, and multimedia contents(contents characteristics). To test the level of agreement, accuracy and congruency between the parties, a survey was conducted among 105 portal news providers from 11 online news media, and 105 portal news users between ages 20 and 40. The result indicated that both portal news providers and users showed agreement for user characteristics, but by and large displayed either ignorance or partial congruency toward contents characteristics. Communication between portal news providers and users are thus exported to increase until it reaches the point where the internet's newly born identity as a news medium gets finally stabilized.

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A study on the current status and ways of activating 3PL (제3자물류의 실태분석 및 활성화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • 이충규;김준석
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.65-90
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    • 2002
  • Despite the importance and necessity, the 3PL has not been activated to date. Among many views, customers claim that logistics service provider(LSP) are not prepared or capable of offering satisfactory 3PL services, while LSP emphasize the lack of mutual trust, closed corporate culture of the customer and excessive demand for reducing the costs. With this keeping in mind, it surveyed difference of perception between users and providers of 3PL services in terms of the actual status of using 3PL services, the degree of satisfaction and key factors for selecting 3PL provider through the questionnaire. As shown in this study, 43.3% of the respondents outsourced logistics services. However, Most company outsourced only inland transportation (49.5%) which is a simple and limited scope of 3PL services, but it also indicated that the percentage of users have ranged was less then 10% in outsourcing their whole logistics sector to 3PL provider and employing other logistics functions. Among respondents, a majority of the service provider stated that they offered satisfactory cost-saving to the customers, while users felt that the degree of satisfaction for using 3PL services was evaluated as at an average level and they more highly regarded the strong partnership of their 3PL provider rather than the saving of cost and improvement of customer's services. Moreover, in contrast to the 3PL providers which regard the most important factor for selecting 3PL service provider is the logistics cost quoted, users of 3PL services felt that the quality of services was more significant than the reduction of cost, and this tendency for selecting 3PL providers was shown in more advanced countries. While users of 3PL services indicated that the main reason for not using 3PL services was to avoid disclosing information of their business and it costs much for employing 3PL providers than doing themselves, 3PL providers thought it was due to reluctancy of opening information and resistance from the logistics division engaged in logistics activities concerned. Accordingly, providers and users of 3PL services should trust each other and prepare plan to activate 3PL services under the collaborative relationships as soon as possible.

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Factors Affecting Logistics Capabilities for Logistics Service Providers: A Case Study in Vietnam

  • DANG, Dinh Dao;HA, Dieu Linh;TRAN, Van Bao;NGUYEN, Van Tuan;NGUYEN, Thi Lien Huong;DANG, Thuy Hong;LE, Thi Thai Ha
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.81-89
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    • 2021
  • This study aimed to investigate the factors affecting Logistics capabilities for Logistics Service Providers in Vietnam. Researchers inherited and developed based on previous research to focus on analyzing and evaluating dynamics, measuring Logistics capabilities, and the factors affecting Logistics capabilities for Logistics Service Providers. The logistics capabilities Model is used based on three factors: customer demand management capability, innovation capability, and information management capability. The empirical analysis used data from the survey data of l90 managers of Logistics Service Providers in Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hue, Hanoi with reliable tools (SPSS 26.0 software). The data were analyzed by frequencies, percentages, means, Pearson's Linear Correlation Coefficient, exploratory factor analysis, and multi-linear regression model based on the survey data. The research results identified the following factors affecting Logistics capabilities for Logistics Service Providers: innovation capability has the strongest impact on Logistics capabilities; customer demand management capability has the following strong effects on Logistics capabilities; and finally, information management capability that affects Logistics capabilities. There is also a positive relationship between all factors and Logistics capabilities. Several recommendations are further suggested to enhance to improve Logistics capabilities for Logistics Service Providers in Vietnam.

Consumer Perceptions of Images in Fashion Instagram by Information Providers (Brand vs Consumers) -Focusing on Credibility, Usefulness, Enjoyment- (패션 인스타그램의 정보제공 주체(브랜드 vs 소비자)에 따른 소비자 인식 -신뢰성, 유용성, 유희성을 중심으로-)

  • Yoon, Ayoung;Lee, Eunyoung;Lee, Hyun-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.379-396
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    • 2018
  • This study investigated consumer perceptions of information provided in a fashion Instagram. This study examined the differences between information provided in Instagram by brand vs consumers. A pilot test was conducted to develop stimuli and a brand selection in the main study. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two stimuli manipulated by information providers, and examined the perceived credibility, usefulness, and enjoyment of information as well as brand attachment and purchase intention. We gathered and analyzed a total of 200 data. The findings of the study showed that respondents perceived significantly greater usefulness and purchase intention of images uploaded by consumers compared to the fashion brand. Credibility and enjoyment were significant factors to enhance brand attachment; in addition, usefulness, credibility, and enjoyment were significant factors to increase purchase intention. The findings of the study suggest academic and marketing implications.

An Identity Authentication Sharing Architecture for Global Internet Environment (글로벌 인터넷 환경을 위한 신원 인증 공유 구조)

  • Park, Seungchul
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.259-270
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    • 2013
  • Identity authentication sharing technologies which allow many service providers to share the result of identity authentication of an identity provider receive high attention as alternatives for current problematic identity authentications in the next-generation Internet environment, since they can provide crucial advantages including high usability, cost effectiveness of service providers, and privacy protection. However, in order for the identity authentication sharing technologies to be widely deployed in global Internet scale, the interoperability problem among different identity authentication sharing protocols and the trustworthiness issue among the participating identity providers, service providers, and users should be resolved in advance. This paper firstly analyzes current status of the protocol interoperability issue and existing trust frameworks for identity authentication sharing. And then, based on the result of analysis, this paper proposes a next generation identity authentication sharing architecture for global Internet.

The Impact of Factors of Relationship Marketing in Skin Care Salons Upon the Quality and Outcomes of Relationship (피부미용실의 관계마케팅요인이 관계 질과 성과에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, You-Mi;Rhee, Nan-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.58 no.9
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    • pp.151-165
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to establish theoretical basis for relationship marketing exercised in the esthetic industry and to empirically analyze causal relationship among factors of esthetic relationship marketing, together with quality and the performance of the relationship. With empirical research, this study finds out that such relationship marketing factor as customer orientation, employee' expertise, physical property have an impact on the relationship quality between customers and esthetic salons' service providers. Customer satisfaction and trust increase the relationship between service providers and customers, and this also increases repurchase intention of the customer towards the service providers. These are significant findings in that they illustrate the importance of employee' expertise and customer orientation, and physical property in determining satisfaction and trust. The result of this study shows that service providers can enhance customer satisfaction and trust by utilizing relationship marketing more effectively, and can preserve the current customer basis.

Global Manager - A Service Broker In An Integrated Cloud Computing, Edge Computing & IoT Environment

  • Selvaraj, Kailash;Mukherjee, Saswati
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.1913-1934
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    • 2022
  • The emergence of technologies like Big data analytics, Industrial Internet of Things, Internet of Things, and applicability of these technologies in various domains leads to increased demand in the underlying execution environment. The demand may be for compute, storage, and network resources. These demands cannot be effectively catered by the conventional cloud environment, which requires an integrated environment. The task of finding an appropriate service provider is tedious for a service consumer as the number of service providers drastically increases and the services provided are heterogeneous in the specification. A service broker is essential to find the service provider for varying service consumer requests. Also, the service broker should be smart enough to make the service providers best fit for consumer requests, ensuring that both service consumer and provider are mutually beneficial. A service broker in an integrated environment named Global Manager is proposed in the paper, which can find an appropriate service provider for every varying service consumer request. The proposed Global Manager is capable of identification of parameters for service negotiation with the service providers thereby making the providers the best fit to the maximum possible extent for every consumer request. The paper describes the architecture of the proposed Global Manager, workflow through the proposed algorithms followed by the pilot implementation with sample datasets retrieved from literature and synthetic data. The experimental results are presented with a few of the future work to be carried out to make the Manager more sustainable and serviceable.

Optimal Pricing Strategies for Open Source Support Providers

  • Kim, Byung Cho
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-19
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    • 2013
  • The market for commercial open source software (OSS) has been rapidly growing with the proliferation of OSS. One way to commercialize OSS is the support model, which has been adopted by leading OSS firms such as Red Hat and JBoss. Despite the growing interest in OSS commercialization, little research has provided OSS support providers with a pricing guideline. In this paper, we examine the optimal pricing strategies for OSS support providers. Our benchmark is a monopoly case in which we investigate a startup software vendor's incentive to choose the OSS support regime over the proprietary one. Then we extend the model to a duopoly case in which OSS under the support regime competes against proprietary software. We characterize the conditions under which the OSS support model is viable under competition. We believe that our results offer insights to the OSS vendors who consider commercializing their OSS with a support model.

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Selection Criteria of Manufacturers toward Third-Party Logistics Services with Reference to China SuZhou Industrial Park (중국 제조업체의 제3자 물류 선택요인과 성과에 관한 연구 : 중국 소주 공업원구를 중심으로)

  • Koh, Yong-Ki;Jin, Yu-Pyeong;Shin, Jeong-Yong
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.75-100
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    • 2009
  • With the change of various business environments, needs for the third party logistics(3PL) service are strategically considered for securing core competitiveness of manufacturers in China. Thus, manufacturers not only have worked with 3PL service providers for cutting costs of logistics, but also they are willing to have Win-Win relationship with the 3PL service provider. In this paper, comparing situation and characteristics of both China and developed-countries, especially in the particularity of manufacturing companies in China. The most important thing is that 3PL service providers must be able to manage supply chain of manufacturers with logistic planning abilities and to operate logistics services with logistic infrastructures and IT systems. In the view of long-term development, incubating logistics specialists is also the influencing fact that makes 3PL service providers more competitive with high quality logistics service and infrastructures.

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Evaluation of 3PL Service Quality Using the AHP -An Application to Korean 3PL Service Providers-

  • So, Soon-Hoo;Cheong, Ki-Ju;Kim, Jae-Jon;Cho, Geon;Ryu, Il
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.293-296
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    • 2005
  • This study applies the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to evaluate service quality of Third-Party Logistics (3PL) service providers. For this, we first conceptualize five dimensions of 3PL service quality (i.e. tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy). We then apply the AHP method to determining the relative weights of five service quality dimensions and eventually selecting the best 3PL service provider. To implement this idea in practice, we conduct an empirical study on four companies providing 3PL services in Korea.

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