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A Study on the Influence of Shipping Firms' Knowledge Management on their Service Capabilities

지식경영이 해운선사의 서비스 역량에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

  • 최윤석 (인하대학교 물류전문대학원) ;
  • 이상윤 (인하대학교 아태물류학부/물류전문대학원)
  • Received : 2012.07.30
  • Accepted : 2012.09.26
  • Published : 2012.09.30
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Abstract

In the modern management literature, knowledge has been recognized as a new strategic resource enabling a firm to create its competitiveness. Shipping companies under fierce competitive structure need to pay attentions to the utility of knowledge management. A shipping firm may develop its unique service capability by classifying, sharing, and transferring the data, information and knowledge obtained from both inside and outside its global service network. The current study attempts to analyze influential relationships between liner shipping firms' knowledge management and service capabilities. In order to achieve this goal, this study designed a knowledge chain model measuring shipping companies' knowledge management levels and tested its validity and reliability based on a total of 80 replied questionnaires from national and foreign liners. The empirical result presents that supportive and primary activities composing a knowledge chain could exert significant positive influences on the enforcement of shipping service capabilities. This research shows that the utility of knowledge management is adoptable in the maritime industry, and recommends that shipping firms should recognize strategic importance of knowledge and actively pursue knowledge management at an entire firm level.

현대 경영학에서 지식은 기업의 경쟁력을 창출할 수 있는 새로운 전략적 자원으로서 인식되고 있다. 치열한 경쟁구도 하에 있는 해운기업 지식경영의 효용성에 주목할 필요가 있다. 해운서비스 네트워크 내외부에서 획득되는 자료와 정보, 지식을 효과적으로 분류, 공유, 이전함으로써 기업특유의 역량을 발전시킬 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 정기선사의 지식경영이 해운서비스 역량의 강화에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 해운기업의 지식경영의 수준을 측정하기 위해 지식사슬모형을 설계하였으며 국적 및 외국적 선사로부터 수거한 80부의 설문지를 바탕으로 모형의 타당성과 신뢰성을 검증하였다. 실증분석 결과 지식사슬모형을 구성하는 지원활동과 주요활동이 선사의 해운서비스 역량을 강화하는데 유의적인 효과를 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 지식경영의 효용성이 해운산업분야에서도 적용될 수 있음을 보여주고 있으며 해운기업들이 지식의 전략적 중요성을 인식하고 전사적 차원에서 지식경영을 추구해야함을 권고하고 있다.

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