• 지식경영연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.59-75
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• 2020

In this paper, we investigate the influence of factors on the firm, industry, and country levels on the new product development performance (NPD) of manufacturing firms in advanced economies. The resource-based view, industrial organization theory and institutional theory have established that firm-, industry- and country-level factors are all relevant for the NPD of firms. However, little is known about the relative importance of factors at the three different levels across countries, as prior studies on firms' NPD have focused on specific countries and levels of analysis. Our analysis of survey data from 1,437 manufacturing firms in nine advanced OECD countries shows that while firm-level factors are generally better predictors of firms' innovativeness than either industry- or country-level factors, the results strongly differ across countries, indicating that the relative importance of antecedents of innovativeness is country-specific rather than universal.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.5-15
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• 2021

Purpose: The study aims to delineate Shariah Governance Framework (SGF) by applying the components of New Institutional Theory (NIT) to provide an understanding of how Islamic banks theoretically influence Shariah Governance (SG) practice, structure, and process. Design/methodology/approach: As it is a conceptual paper, this paper has prepared based on an analytical approach to show how such institutions could provide a more effective system concerning the contents, procedures, and practices for the multiple users in the SG process of Islamic banks. Findings: The paper critically explores the adoption of NIT to develop SGF with its existing practice, structure, and procedure. Utilizing NIT, a proposed theoretical framework has developed for exploring the SG through its major components, i.e., 'isomorphism' and 'legitimacy'. It is stated that NIT can offer a useful framework by which homogenous structures, comprising guidelines, standards, and practices become recognized and authorized as a satisfactory standard corporate exercise. Thus, the proposed theoretical framework would be beneficial in understanding and exploring the SGF. Conclusion: The application of this SGF could help to justify the key dimensions of NIT with its overall formation, function, and practices that might also help to attain legitimacy.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.425-456
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• 2011

Background: Organizations in the pharmaceutical industry are highly dependent on the institutional environment. The introduction of pharmacoeconomics to the decision-making on the price and reimbursement decisions became strong constraints to pharmaceutical companies in Korea. As little is known about the issue on organization-environment interaction in the healthcare field, this study aimed to figure out how pharmaceutical companies adapted to the environmental changes. Methods: A multicase study method was used, selecting eight cases among multi-national pharmaceutical companies in South Korea. In-depth interviews were conducted with the managers of these organizations, and secondary data were reviewed to complement the interviews. Results: Pharmaceutical companies viewed the new policies as a big threat and sought for actions against them. One of the most distinguishing organizational changes was to construct a Market Access department. Other strategies managing the environment such as co-optation, forecasting, and bargaining were also implemented. These changes were consistent with the predictions of Resource Dependency Theory and Institutional Theory. Conclusions: The interactions between pharmaceutical companies and institutional environments in healthcare were first explored. This study presents a new perspective on how organizations change and the motives for the changes. The findings of this case study will form the basis of further empirical studies.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.79-98
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• 2020

The majority of research on institutional theory suggests that the new institutional practices presented by national governments and expert groups is a legitimate demand by society, and that the organization is a passive actor that accepts it. However, individual organizations often perform so-called decoupling acts that run their organizations in their own way instead of following the way the system requires, despite the pressures of a strong institutional environment. In this study, the decoupling behavior of these organizations can be varied by the characteristics of the highest decision maker in the organization based on the upper-echelon theory(UET) even if there is no difference in pressure experienced by individual organizations, and their relationship is empirically analyzed among secondary educational institutions that are relatively strongly regulated by the government. According to the analysis of 192 high schools in Korea, the female principal, the younger the principal, and the higher the educational background, the more likely they are to engage in decoupling behavior that are different from the intent and content of government policies. Therefore, from the results of this study, meaningful theoretical and practical implications can be provided for researchers and managers in the field of knowledge management research.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.93-115
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• 2021

Various policy declarations and institutional experiments involving artificial intelligence are being made in most countries. Depending on how the artificial intelligence policy changes, the role of the government, the scope of the policy, and the policy means used may vary, which can lead to the success or failure of the policy. This study proposed a perspective on AI(Artificial Intelligence) in policy research, investigated the theory of path change, and derived the characteristics of path change in AI policy. Since AI policy is related to a wide range of policy areas and the policy making is at the start points, this study is based on the neo-institutional path theory about the types of institutional changes. As a result of this study, AI policy showed the characteristics of path creation, and in detail presented the conflict relationship between institutional design elements, the scalability of policy areas, policy stratification and policy mix, the top policy characteristics transcending the law, and the experiment for regulatory innovation. Since AI can also be used as a key tool for policy innovation in the future, research on the path and characteristics of AI policy will provide a new direction and approach to government policy or institutional innovation seeking digital transformation.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-29
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• 2014

To provide a fundamental understanding on the inherent relationship between IT capabilities and sustainable firm heterogeneity, we investigate the dual roles that institutional pressures play, namely, as antecedents of IT capabilities and as moderator of the relationship between IT capabilities and IT innovation success, where IT innovation success plays a mediating role between IT capabilities and firm performance. The structural model was tested, and the results of the PLS analysis provided general support for the proposed hypotheses. IT capabilities had an indirect effect mediated by IT innovation success on firm performance. With IT activities assumed to be embedded in the institutional context, the dual roles of institutional pressures are verified. This study contributes to the literature on IT capabilities by considering both the determining role of institutional pressures on IT capabilities and the institutional context of the chain that connects IT capabilities to firm performance. The results suggest that a firm not only manages various institutional pressures to foster its IT capabilities but also adapts to different contexts with a certain level of institutional pressures to facilitate its IT capabilities and outperform its competitors, which could be sustained through IT innovation success.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.117-138
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• 2017

While prior work has noted the importance of knowledge creation in gaining competitive advantages, much less is understood about why firms do not actually use what they create. Building upon institutional approaches to organization studies, we offer a new framework to explain the gap between knowledge creation and utilization. We test our framework in an empirical context of sustainable innovation and environmental technologies where ideas of environmental sustainability have recently gained public popularity and shaped how interested audiences make evaluative assessments of firms. In such a context, firms are apt to perceive the social attention toward sustainability to be a normative pressure, which causes them to create new knowledge and develop technologies consistent with the pressure. Using data from the government-initiated certification system for green technologies, our study finds that firms do not always fully implement new environmental technologies they develop in response to the certification program, the situation we refer to as knowledge decoupling. We also examine a set of conditions under which knowledge decoupling becomes more or less amplified. Taken together, our findings show how a firm's knowledge creation and utilization is shaped by its external institutional environment as well as internal learning processes.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.129-143
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• 1999

A great number of companies are currently examining the opportunities made available through the internet. This research aims to identify the factors that influence the adoption of the internet market. The innovation-IT-diffusion theory provide the theoretical foundation for this study. Seven factors were found to influence the adoption level of the internet market. They are top management support, cost efficiency, inclination toward new technology, absorptive capacity, institutional support, competitors move and customer pressure. Nonparametric test was used to test hypotheses. The results shows that top management support is the most important factor, and institutional support is not related to the adoption of the internet market.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.562-574
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• 2003

이 연구는 아주 최근에 새롭게 제기된 세계도시지역론을 고찰하고 이에 기초하여 한국의 지역발전 정책을 위한 함의를 제안하고 있다. 세계의 주요한 거대도시지역으로. 이루어진 정치ㆍ경제적 조직체 또는 다중심적 구조를 지닌 새로운 규모의 도시조직으로 정의되는 세계도시지역은 세계경제의 역동적인 성장뿐만 아니라 지역발전도 동시에 유발함으로써 세계화시대에서 대안적인 신지역주기 발전모델로 평가된다. 한국에서 세계도시지역모델의 정책적 적용은 특히, 비수도권의 거대도시지역의 세계적 경쟁력 강화와 수도권과 비수도권 간의 극심한 지역격차를 완화하기 위해서 필요시 된다. 그러나 부산, 대구, 광주, 대전 등의 비수도권의 광역시가 세계도시지역으로 발전하기 위해서는 시ㆍ도 통합과 지방분권과 같은 제도개혁이 선행되지 않으면 안 된다.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제66권2호
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• pp.5-29
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• 2014

본 연구는 사회학적 신제도주의 관점에서 노인장기요양서비스를 제공하는 조직들이 평가제도를 어떻게 채택하고 집행하는지를 동형화와 분리현상으로 해석하였다. 이를 위해 장기요양서비스를 제공하고 있는 7개 기관을 대상으로 심층인터뷰를 한 자료를 질적 내용분석 하였다. 분석결과, 평가제도가 장기 요양기관의 공식적인 구조에 있어서는 동형화를 이끄는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 장기요양기관 평가제도가 의도한 공급기관 간 경쟁을 통한 효율성을 촉진하는 방식으로 채택되기보다, 정부자원에 의존하기 위해 강압적으로 평가제도를 채택하는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 평가제도가 정부규제에 의해 장기요양서비스를 표준화하는 양상으로 집행되고 있음을 확인시켜주었다. 또한, 동형화에 수반되는 조직의 공식구조와 실제 활동의 분리현상도 부분적으로 관찰되었다. 무엇보다 분리현상은 정부역할로서 조직의 이중구조에서 발생할 수 있는 비효율성의 문제를 개선할 수 있는 평가체계의 운용이 요구되며, 특히 돌봄 서비스의 고유성을 반영한 평가지표에 대한 개선이 시급함을 보여준다.