• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.95-120
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• 2005

Utilization of information and communication technologies is commonly accepted as important to value creation in the knowledge economy. Nevertheless, empirical findings from our business case studies often show that while sophisticated technological tools may be developed, the potentials are not realized. It is evident that technology is subject to adaptive and emergent strategies of use, diverging from the original intention. Within this space of opportunities, we elaborate the importance of constructing strategic concepts as communication tools to support organisational implementation of technologies. We use the concept of organisational implementation as a way of taking the technology into use in order to support changes and value creation in the user organisation. In this paper we present our findings related to how use and experiences are conditioned by the users' expectations. We have conducted a business case study in order to understand and explore how users employ and use a particular wireless technology infrastructure. On behalf of the infrastructure vendor, we have studied three different organisations that use this technology. The overall research goal of our joint research project was to find out what is good use and for whom. We find that users struggle to go beyond the expectations they had when they were conceptualising and telling us about their practice. We have good indications that a narrowed consciousness was also conditioning the users' use of the technology. In this paper we draw the conclusion that technological implementations towards changing work practices and value creation must not be viewed by the company solely as a knowledge acquisition process, but as a process of knowledge creation. Organisational implementation is an ongoing process, a learning process at both the organisational and individual level. Flexible tools and technologies are constituted and shaped in interaction and communication in the workplace. Based on that knowledge, we build up an argument for an organisational implementation framework, including strategic discussions, learning spaces, and concept constructions.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.95-107
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• 2017

Purpose - In the joint development of new products, buyers and suppliers exchange information to solve various problems. Uncertainty and ambiguity are typical examples. Uncertainty refers to the lack of information to solve the problem, and equivocality refers to the case where the information is interpreted in multiple processes in the process of providing the information. These uncertainty and equivocality cause new products to be delayed in their development and adversely affect quality. However, unfortunately, there is a lack of researches on how the uncertainty and equivocality of such concepts control the results of new product joint development. But, smooth communication and effective exchange of information is not emphasized only in the general organization. The importance of the new product joint development projects to achieve the two organizations' common goals becomes even greater. The purposes of this study are to analyse the effect of supplier's strategy on the NPD performance and moderating effect of uncertainty and equivocality. Research design, data, and methodology - In order to make a contribution to the lack of academic researches in Korea, this study collects data through questionnaires based on organizational information processing theory and previous studies, and conducts empirical analysis. Results - As a result, the product modularization strategy and the strategic supply chain relationship positively influenced the new product development performance - return on investment and ease of manufacturing. And the interaction effect of uncertainty and equivocality with supplier's strategy - product modularity strategy and strategic supply chain management relationship - reduces or negates the influence of product modularization strategy on new product development performance. Conclusions - This implies that it is important to control uncertainty and equivocality in order for the supplier strategy to have a positive effect on new product development performance. It also emphasizes the necessity of sharing information appropriately for companies that do not want to share the information as possible due to their fear of loss of competitive advantage in the joint development of new products. Because this kind of negative policy might let uncertainty and equivocality be happen in new product joint development process.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.235-243
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• 2013

이 연구는 지방분권을 위한 정책수단으로 재정분권이 어떠한 방식으로 이해될 수 있으며, 왜 필요한지에 대해 시스템사고의 이론을 바탕으로 지방재정시스템을 구성하는 변수들의 상호작용관계를 분석하였다. 연구를 통해 얻어진 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 지방재정시스템을 구성하는 변수들은 상당한 수준에서상호작용관계가 형성되고 있으며, 5개의 양(+)의 피드백 루프가 중심이 되어 급속한 성장과 급속한 쇠퇴를 거듭한다는 점을 발견할 수 있었다. 둘째, 지방재정분권화의 타당성에 대한 전략 지점이 인과지도 모델링을 통해 발견되었다. 특히, 선순환구조를 악순환의 구조를 변질시키는 변수(국고보조금, 부동산거래과세, 중앙정부차원의 지방재정조정제도, 지방정부채무 등)이 지속적으로 작동함으로써 지방재정시스템을 쇠퇴시키는 것으로 나타났으며, 이를 바탕으로 전략적 정책과제가 도출 될 수 있었다. 이러한 연구는 지방재정분권에 대해 부분에 지식이 아닌 전체적 지식의 관점에서 지방재정시스템을 이해하고 지방재정의 학문적 폭을 높여 줄 것으로 판단된다.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2016

디지털 사이니지의 다양한 미디어 크리에이티브의 현황과 양태를 분석하여 수용자와 효율적으로 상호작용할 수 있는 실제적인 방안을 모색하였다. 이를 위해 디지털 사이니지의 다양한 사례들을 미디어 융합 관점에서 파악하는 한편, 디지털 사이니지의 주요 크리에이티브 속성으로서 상호작용성을 근거로 각각의 융합 사례가 시사하는 전략적 의미를 파악하였다. 선행연구와 네이버 검색서비스를 바탕으로, 수집된 자료를 (1)유튜브, SNS, 바이럴 영상 결합, (2)QR코드 등 재현적 기술 결합, (3)브랜드 어플리케이션(앱) 결합, (4)오프라인과 온라인 결합, (5)사이니지와 행동 요소 결합 등의 결합 유형으로 분류하고 대표적인 해당 사례를 선별하여 내용 분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과를 토대로 감성적 바이럴 마케팅, 브랜디드 엔터테인먼트 형태 등에 기반한 미디어 크리에이티브 등 수용자와 효율적인 상호작용을 할 수 있는 전략적 방안을 제언하였다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.82-108
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• 2023

As tension escalates between the US and China, scenarios for maintaining peace in Northeast Asia imply that secondary powers will perceive increasing incentives to reappraise their respective international roles. This analysis proposes that an analysis of France's Cold War role in Europe and the world under President Charles de Gaulle provides insights into conflict management in an increasingly multipolar international political environment. Their respective interests in preventing a so-called new Cold War emerging between the US and China include avoiding its excessive economic costs, if only because China is a massive trade partner. This study engages in theoretical framework-informed process tracing of de Gaulle's role. It explicates the assumptions that functionally underpinned de Gaulle's policy of soft balancing between the US and China. The analysis explores de Gaulle's contribution to the decay of the Cold War. It illuminates de Gaulle's contribution to a regional international environment that made West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik strategy more feasible politically. This study applies these findings in the formulation of strategy recommendations focusing on Japan. Valid inferences regarding the predominant motivations driving American and Chinese international interaction are necessary for this task. To the extent to which the US and China have entered into a conflict spiral, Japan's hedging towards Washington is further incentivized. Tokyo would necessarily need to convince the Chinese that Japan is no longer Washington's unsinkable aircraft carrier off its coast. Tokyo, like de Gaulle's France, would maintain close relations with Washington, but it would need to project to its interlocutors its commitment to its own strategic autonomy. Tokyo's emphasis on closer relations with liberal democratic Indo-Pacific actors would potentially fit well with a commitment to strategic autonomy to defend the global liberal order.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 5th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.359-366
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• 2013

Although many research efforts have been conducted to address the effect of crew members' work skills (e.g., technical and planning skills) on work performance (e.g., work duration and quality) in construction projects, the relationship between skill and performance has generated a great deal of controversy in the field of management (Inkpen and Crossan 1995). This controversy can lead to under- or over-estimations of the overall project schedule, and can make it difficult for project managers to implement appropriate managerial policies for enhancing project performance. To address this issue, the following aspects need to be considered: (a) work performances are determined not only by individual-level work skill but also by the group-level work skill affected by work team members, each member's role, and any working behavior pattern; (b) work planning has significant effects on to what extent work skill enhances performance; and (c) different types of activities in construction require different types of work, skill, and team composition. This research, therefore, develops a system dynamics (SD) model to analyze the effects of both individual-and group-level (i.e., multi-level) skill on performances by utilizing the advantages of SD in capturing a feedback process and state changes, especially in human factors (e.g., attitude, ability, and behavior). The model incorporates: (a) a multi-level skill evolution and relevant behavior development mechanism within a work group; (b) the interaction among work planning, a crew's skill-learning, skill manifestation, and performances; and (c) the different work characteristics of each activity. This model can be utilized to implement appropriate work planning (e.g., work scope and work schedule) and crew management policies (e.g., work team composition and decision of each worker's role) with an awareness of crew's skill and work performance. Understanding the different characteristics of each activity can also support project managers in applying strategic work planning and crew management for a corresponding activity, which may enhance each activity's performance, as well as the overall project performance.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.177-192
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• 2023

A prerequisite for a lasting ceasefire is the emergence of a prevailing view in Moscow and Kyiv that the fighting has reached a hurting stalemate. In sum, they both lose more through continuing warfare than by a ceasefire. This study applies social identity dynamics of nationalism to this escalatory conflict. It generates findings that imply that China as a third-party great power intervening mediator can potentially play a pivotal role. Shifting the respective prevailing views in Moscow and Kyiv of their interaction from a zero-sum foundation requires proffering powerful economic and political third-party incentives. Effective inducement would facilitate national defense, development and prestige for Moscow as well as Kyiv. China arguably has the underutilized potential power capabilities necessary to alter the respective prevailing views of strategic relationships among the great powers within Moscow, Brussels and Washington. A prerequisite for success in striving effectively towards this strategic goal is cooperation with the Beijing despite skepticism from Washington. This study utilizes a process tracing methodological approach. It highlights that the foundations of the Russo-Ukraine war lie in the institutionalization within Euro-Atlantic integration of the Cold War assumption that the USSR was an imperialist revisionist actor. Russia is the USSR's successor state. Moscow's prevailing view is that Russian national self-determination was unjustly circumscribed in the multinational Soviet totalitarian Communist system. The Euro-Atlantic community is perceived as a neocolonial imperial threat by allying with post-1991 Ukrainian nationalism at Russia's expense. The study finds that acknowledging Eurasian regional multipolarity is necessary, if not sufficient, to coopt Beijing into a global political stabilization strategy. It functionally aims to promote international balancing to lessen potentials for horizontal as well as vertical escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.

• 한국유통학회지:유통연구
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.91-116
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 대형 머천다이저의 위협이라는 적대적 환경에 대응하는 중소 소매점의 경쟁전략, 전략집단, 마케팅역량 그리고 소매성과의 상호관계를 실증적으로 분석하고자 하였다. 본 논문에서는 위의 연구목적을 달성하기 위하여 전국에 있는 325개의 중소 소매점을 대상으로 자료를 수집하였다. 중소 소매점들이 추구하는 경쟁전략은 가격우위, 머천다이즈 차별화, 서비스차별화 등의 세 가지 경쟁전략으로 뚜렷하게 구분되었고, 군집분석을 통하여 분류된 전략군집은 속수무책 유형, 서비스차별화 유형, 가격우위 유형, 그리고 머천다이즈 차별화 유형으로 나타났다. 분석결과 가격우위군집과 머천다이즈 차별화군집 심지어 속수무책군집도 환경의 적대성을 낮게 지각하는 중소 소매점들이 높게 지각하는 점포들보다 유의하게 높은 소매성과를 달성하였다. 반면에 전략군집과 적대성의 상호작용에 따른 조절효과는 유의하게 소매성과에 영향을 미치지 못하였다. 또한 마케팅역량에서는 머천다이즈 차별화 군집, 가격우위 군집, 서비스차별화 군집, 속수무책 군집 순서로 마케팅역량을 높게 획득하였다. 마지막으로 중소 소매점들의 매출액 성장률 등의 점포성과는 머천다이즈 차별화 군집이 가장 높게 나타났으나 가격우위 군집과 서비스차별화 군집의 소매성과는 유의한 차이가 없었다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2024

본 논문에서는 NCS 기반의 장애인 직무 매칭 시스템을 제안하고 설계한다. 이 시스템은 장애인이 시스템에 접속하여 기본정보(인적정보, 장애 관련 정보)를 입력하고, 직무수행과 관련된 간단한 테스트를 통하여 자신의 장애 유형과 정도에 적합한 NCS 직무 관련 정보를 제공한다. NCS 기반의 다양한 직무와 연계하기 위해서는 각 장애 유형에 따른 장애 정도를 함께 고려되어야 한다. 하지만 대다수 평가도구는 특정 장애 유형을 대상으로 하거나 대상 장애인의 직업능력을 인지 수준이나 일부 신체기능만을 제한적으로 파악하고 있기 때문에 NCS 기반의 장애인직무 매칭 시스템에 적용하기 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 개별 직무의 수행에 필요한 인지 수준이나 신체기능의 활용 정도는 ICF coresets for VR을 활용하고, 개별 직무의 수행에 필요한 직업기초능력 수준은 NCS의 직업 기초능력 평가도구를 활용함으로써 장애 유형별 장애 정도에 따른 NCS 기반의 직무를 매칭하도록 한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 NCS 기반의 장애인직무 매칭 시스템의 경우, 장애인 당사자의 시스템 활용을 기반으로 하기 때문에 시각 정보에 취약한 시각장애인이나 문해력이 낮은 지적·자폐성 장애인에게는 시스템 활용에 다소 어려움이 존재할 수 있다. 이러한 시스템 접근성을 보완한다면 장애인들에게 자신의 직무 능력에 적합한 NCS 기반의 직무를 추천할 수 있을 것이다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.71-81
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• 2016

Purpose - Because creativity, which is an intangible resource embedded within the company, can offer a competitive advantage, most companies have an interest in promoting creativity among their employees and division(e.g., marketing organization). Creativity renders a sustainable competitive advantage to a firm because it is a strategic resource that is valuable, flexible, rare, and imperfectly imitable or substitutable. Although most companies broadly recognize the importance of creativity, the methods for developing creativity remain elusive. Therefore, the present study investigates how to structure incentives to motivate employees to be more creative and how to develop tools to facilitate creativity. In detail, the present study aimed to examine the relationship between the regulatory focus of marketing organizations(e.g., promotion focus vs prevention focus) and creativity of marketing organizations. In addition, the present study set out to examine the moderating role of interaction of financial reward and creative training in addition to investigating the direct relationship between creativity and regulatory focus in New Product Development(NPD) context. Research design, data, and methodology - The data used to test the hypotheses are drawn from a survey of full time NPD project members(including project manager, designer, engineer, and marketer). The present study utilized data obtained mainly from a database compiled by the Korea Investors Service-Financial Analysis System which provides comprehensive corporate and financial information on firms listed on the Korea Stock Exchange. A study population comprising 1,000 South Korean firms was obtained from this database. We selected 864 firms from the database, and the firms have experiences of new product development project. We collected a total of 162 responses, for a 18.8% response rate. After we excluded 14 questionnaire because of incomplete responses, a total of 148 questionnaire remained(final response rate: 17.1%). Working with a sample of 148 responses in South Korea, hierarchical moderated regression is employed to test research hypotheses(

The relationship between promotion focus and creativity of marketing organization,

The relationship between prevention focus and creativity of marketing organization,

The moderating effect of joint influences(interaction between financial rewards and creativity training) on the relationship between promotion focus creativity of marketing organization,

The moderating effect of joint influences(interaction between financial rewards and creativity training) on the relationship between prevention focus creativity of marketing organization). SPSS 18.0 and AMOS software were used in the data analysis. Results - The empirical study confirmed that promotion focus of marketing organization is positively related to creativity of marketing organization. Also, prevention focus of marketing organization is positively affected to creativity of marketing organization. In addition, the interaction between financial rewards and creativity training moderated the relationship between regularity focus(e.g.), promotion focus vs prevention focus) and creativity of marketing organization. These results suggest that managers can improve the performances of their creative efforts by providing the use of financial rewards and creativity training in combination. Conclusion - Based on results of this study that examine the effects of regulatory focused creative efforts on creativity of marketing organization, promotion focus is helpful with marketing organizations to enhance their service innovation and performance. Prevention focused organization should allow monetary rewards and creativity training to increase their creativity for innovation of new products.