• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.279-290
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• 2020

Informal networks between individuals are widely seen as important in East Asian business systems. However, while the performance implications of guanxi in China have been extensively studied, much less is known on how informal networks may influence business outcomes in other East Asian countries. We examine informal networks in inter-organizational research collaborations in South Korea by studying the role of pre-existing social ties and relational orientation in new product development (NPD) collaborations and university-industry research (UIR) collaborations. We conduct an interview-based, in-depth case analysis of five NPD collaborations and five UIR collaborations. Pre-existing social ties and relational orientation are prevalent in both types of research collaborations. However, they have different consequences for collaboration outcomes. Pre-existing social ties strongly vary in their types and strength, and negatively affect collaboration outcomes unless they result in the selection of competent and motivated partners. Relational orientation manifests itself in a task-related and social exchange between collaboration partners, which contributes to outcomes such as knowledge acquisition and business performance. Korean collaboration managers should rely only on pre-existing social ties that are well-aligned with task-related requirements when initiating and conducting research collaborations. However, the creation of strong relationships between collaboration team members of partnering organizations should be encouraged.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2008

This study investigates the influences of factors such as type and degree of family leisure among parents with five day work weeks on adolescents' perceived family strengths. Its findings are based on questionnaires collected from 525 male and female parents of middle school students. Factor analysis and MANOVA were employed for data analysis and $Scheff{\acute{e}}$ tests for post-hoc analysis. The main findings were as follows. First, adolescents whose parents work five days a week were at a higher level than other adolescents in terms of finances, family ties, communication, and social ties. Second, there were no significant differences concerning adolescents' family strength by type of family leisure. Third, adolescents with more family leisure activities scored higher than others in the areas of manageable strengths, financial levels, family ties, communication, and family social ties. Fourth, among families following the five day working system, adolescents who had more family leisure activities scored higher than the others in regards to manageable strengths, financial levels, family ties, communication, and family social ties. Additionally, where adolescents thought they had fewer family leisure activities, family-oriented adolescents tended to be engaged in higher physical-activity-oriented and hobby-oriented activities in relation to manageable strengths, financial level, family ties, and communication and hobby-oriented adolescents engaged in higher than average amounts of physical-activity, strengthening family social ties in the process. Fifth, concerning families not adhering to the five day working system, adolescents who had more family leisure activities scored higher than others in terms of manageable strengths, financial levels, family ties, communication, and family social ties. As the above results indicate, family leisure activities appear to be a key factor influencing family strength. Therefore, further support should be extended toward developing new forms of family leisure and additional studies should be devoted to the subject.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.97-109
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• 2014

사용자들이 콘텐츠를 매개로 하여 의견이나 관점, 경험 등을 공유하고, 사용자들 간의 상호작용을 촉진시키는 온라인 서비스를 소셜미디어라고 한다. 본 연구는 소셜미디어 사용자들의 공유 행동과 사용자 간 상호작용을 이해하는데 중요하다고 판단되는 약한 유대관계에 초점을 맞추어 사회 연결망 이론과 불확실성 감소 이론을 기반으로 약한 유대관계의 형성에 영향을 미치는 주요 요인들을 탐색적으로 도출하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 다이어리 조사와 심층 인터뷰 등의 정성적 연구를 실시하였으며, 수집된 데이터를 근거이론 방법론에 따라 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과, 소셜미디어에서는 강한 유대관계 보다 약한 유대관계를 통한 공유와 상호작용이 활발히 이루어지는 것을 발견할 수 있었다. 또한 유사성과 자기개방, 그리고 관련성이 소셜미디어 사용자 간 심리적 거리감을 줄이고 이는 소셜미디어 사용자들이 느끼는 불확실성을 감소시킴으로써 약한 유대관계의 형성을 촉진시키는 것으로 나타났다.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.137-157
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• 2017

사회적 연결은 현재 경쟁적인 사회에서 중요한 역할을 한다고 알려져 왔다. 본 연구의 주요 목적은 팀 혁신성과 성과에 팀 내, 팀 간 사회적 연결의 영향을 파악하는 것이다. 6개 회사의 97개 팀 데이터를 통해, 본 연구는 (i) 어떻게 팀 내, 팀 간 사회적 연결이 팀 혁신성과 팀 성과에 영향을 미치는지, (ii) 어떻게 IT 지원이 두 사회적 연결을 촉진시키는지 보려고 한다. 팀 기반 분석으로, 팀 구성원간(팀 내) 강한 사회적 연결이 팀 혁신성을 증진시킴과 같이 성과에도 영향을 주는 것을 확인하였다. 하지만 팀 간 사회적 연결의 경우, 강한 연결이 팀 혁신성을 통하여 팀 성과에 영향을 주는 것을 밝혔다. 그리고, IT 지원이 이 두 사회적 연결 모두를 상당히 강하게 만들어 주는 것을 보였다.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.41-56
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of economic status on the difficulties of family life focusing on the mediating effects of family communication and family ties. A total of 386 people were surveyed, and data from 352 were used for the actual data analysis. For the analysis, technical statistical analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and a Sobel test were conducted. The results were as follows.: First, the correlation analysis confirmed that there are statistically significant correlations among the economic status of households, family communication, family ties, and the difficulties of family life. Second, the economic status of households directly influences the difficulties of family by mediating family communication and family ties. This study identified that family communication and family ties affect the improvement of difficulties in family life. It suggests that improving economic status, promoting communication among family members, and strengthening family ties can help solve the difficulties of family life.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2019

This study investigates how adolescents' smartphone attachment, social anxiety, and offline and smartphone network sizes are related to their friendship in regards to maintaining either a strong or weak bond. Based on an online survey involving 402 adolescent smartphone users in South Korea, this study found that smartphone attachment was positively related to a strong ties friendship maintenance and negatively related to weak ties friendships. Similarly, social anxiety was found to be negatively associated with friendship maintenance for both strong and weak - tie relationships. More importantly, this study revealed that the types and size of social networks moderated the relationships among adolescents with smartphone attachment, social anxiety, and friendship maintenance through smartphones.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.39-62
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• 2022

Purpose - Along with the growing awareness of environmental sustainability, international green entrepreneurship is expected to realize international sustainable development (ISD) by introducing ecological innovation results, using fewer resources consumption, and reducing negative environmental impacts. Building upon contingency theory and social network theory, this paper attempts to explore the role of home country-based networks (technology ties and business ties) as contingent factors that might impact the effectiveness of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in promoting ISD among green ventures. Design/methodology - Original data were collected from 127 green ventures in China based on the random sampling technique. These green ventures mainly focus on the lower use of energy or materials, lower CO2 emissions, and higher ecological benefits located in the Fujian province, which highlights green economic growth and economic cooperation with international markets. Moderated hierarchical linear regression analysis was conducted to test our hypotheses concerning the main relationship between EO (innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking) and ISD as well as the moderating effects of home country-based networks (technology ties and business ties) on the main relationship. Findings - Empirical results indicate that: first, both innovativeness and proactiveness positively affect ISD; second, both technology ties and business ties at home might significantly strengthen the positive relationship between innovativeness (or proactiveness) and ISD. However, this study did not find significant moderating effects of technology ties or business ties at home on the relationship between risk-taking and ISD. Originality/value - Since previous literature often gives more focus on the host country context of social networks, this study shifts to a home country-based network context. Therefore, our research might enrich the international green entrepreneurship literature by empirically investigating the contingent value of home country-based networks in the relationship between EO and ISD in the context of an emerging economy such as China.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.75-95
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• 2012

This study focuses on examining the determinants of smartphone-based social network services(SNS) use. That is, the study explores the key factors affecting the use of smartphone-based SNS. People who have been using online-based SNS such as Cyworld and Facebook for years are now using mobile-based SNS such as KakaoStory. Under the situation. the study attempts to draw key determinants of smartphone-based SNS use from the studies of TAM, hedonic information systems, and social perspectives. To test the hypotheses, we conducted partial least squares (PLS) analysis using a total of 233 data collected on the users of smartphone-based SNS including KakaoTalk and KakaoStory. The key findings are as follows : first, it is verified that both ease of use and usefulness, two main factors in TAM, had positive effects on smartphone-based SNS use. Second, for enjoyment and escapism considered as the two main factors of hedonic IS characteristics, only the effect of enjoyment on SNS use was significant. Finally, social ties as a factor of social characteristics had the most significant effect on smartphone-based SNS use. The result implies that smartphone-based SNS can be one of the major means of maintaining existing social ties.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.257-281
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 구성원 간의 상호 교류가 중심인 온라인 커뮤니티를 대상으로 사회적 익명성이 커뮤니티의 품질에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보고, 이 관계에 유의한 영향을 미치는 요인들을 규명해 보고자 한다. 구체적으로 자기표현욕구, 자기통제, 유대성의 개념을 알아보고 커뮤니티의 품질을 정보의 질, 토론의 질로 구분하여 이들이 사회적 익명성과 관계에 어떠한 역할을 하는지 분석하였다. 설문을 통한 실증적 분석 결과, 사회적 익명성은 토론의 질에 직접적 영향을 미치는 반면 정보의 질에는 직접적인 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 자기 표현 욕구, 유대성, 자기통제는 사회적 익명성과 토론의 질 관계에서 긍정적인 매개 역할을 하고 있음을 알 수 있고, 사회적 익명성과 정보의 질간의 관계에서도 자기표현욕구와 유대성이 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과는 커뮤니티 품질을 개선할 수 있는 요인들을 확인함으로써 온라인 커뮤니티의 방향성과 지침에 대한 참고자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.97-109
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• 2017

Purpose - This study aimed to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial temperament (ET) such as innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness in entrepreneur's lifetime before start-up and the effect of social capital (SC) such as network ties and trustworthiness on entrepreneurial intention. Research design, data, and methodology - We examined the components of ET (innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness) and components of SC (network ties and trustworthiness) through existing prior research and investigated the factors that affected entrepreneurial intention. The first hypothesis of this study was that entrepreneurial temperament will have a significant impact on network ties of social capital, and the second hypothesis assumed that entrepreneurial temperament will have a significant effect on the trustworthiness of social capital. Finally, the second hypothesis assumed that social capital will have a significant impact on entrepreneurial intentions. We collected 175 data using questionnaires for people who have not yet started a start-up. And we used the Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) to evaluate the collected data and to test the research model by the two step research procedure. Results - As a result, the innovativeness and proactiveness of ET have a significant effect on network ties and trustworthiness of SC, but the effect of risk-taking on risk-taking of SC is not significant. On the other hand, network ties and network ties of SC was revealed a significant effect on the EI. Conclusions - The implications of this article could be observed as mentioned in this paper. First, we found that entrepreneurial innovativeness and proactiveness are helpful in constructing SCs, but not risk-taking. These results demonstrated that ET of entrepreneurs is important factor in the formation of social capital. Second, the SC that an entrepreneur built before the start-up has a meaning for EI. In conclusion, ET was affected partially to EI mediated SC. It is academic in that ET and SC are independent from each other and have a mediating role between ET and EI, unlike those directly affecting EI. Although some important implications were found in this study, this study had some limitations and we hope that future research will be complemented.