• 대한공업교육학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.108-122
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• 2017

이 연구 논문은 인류 문명사에서 금자탑을 이루는 제 1차 산업혁명을 이끌고 성공적으로 이룬 와트에 관하여 그의 교육환경과 배움의 자세를 문헌을 통하여 살펴보고, 산업혁명의 결과물인 '새로운 증기기관'의 연구 개발 과정과 환경 등을 통하여 산업혁명을 이끄는 기본적인 인적 물적 인프라를 알아보는 데에 있다. 이러한 과정에서 얻어지는 정보는, 우리의 현재 학교교육이 지향하고 있는 '창의성 개발'에 관한 지침을 얻을 수 있다고 본다. 또한 아직은 태동기에 있는 '4차 산업혁명'을 대비하는 데에도 온고지신의 차원에서 많은 시사점을 얻을 수 있었다. 이상의 내용을 종합하여 얻은 주요 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 와트의 부모는 아들이 기계장치 등에 흥미를 가지고 있다는 것을 알고 이 분야의 타고난 재능을 살려주기 위하여 적극적으로 협조하였다. 둘째, 와트는 글라스고우 대학의 교수들과 인연을 맺고 자신의 관심분야를 스스로 개척하며, 자기주도 학습으로 지식을 흡수하였다. 이러한 학문에 관한 끊임없는 능동적인 자세는 그를 이 분야의 기술자 및 이론가로서 성장시켰다. 셋째, 18세기에 신분의 벽을 뛰어넘는 새로운 시대를 주도하는 Lunar society의 연구 환경 인프라는 와트에게 과학적 호기심과 자유로운 탐구 정신을 경험하게 한 협회이다. 자신의 과학기술지식을 발표하고, 서로 이에 대한 의견을 자유롭게 교환하며 집단적 사고방식을 바탕으로 문제-해결의 지식을 축적해 가는 시스템이 있다는 것은 현대의 R & D환경을 만들 때에도 유념하여야 할 사항이다. 넷째, 사업가 볼턴과 같이 기술을 이해하고 그 가치를 파악하는 능력이 구비된 '경영의 귀재'가 연구자들을 재정적으로 지원하는 시스템이 필요하다. 동시에 재정문제를 그다지 걱정하지 않고 기술 자체를 즐기고 연구하는 '기술의 달인' 와트와 같은 사람이 있어야 산업혁명은 잘 이루어질 수 있다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.95-116
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• 2009

Increasingly the institutional theory has been an important theoretical view of decision making process and IT adoption in many academic researches. This study used the institutional theory as a lens through which we can understand the factors that enable the effective appropriation of advanced information technology. It posits that mimetic, coercive, and normative pressures existing in an institutionalized environment could influence the participation of top managers or decision makers and the involvement of users toward an effective use of IT in their tasks. Since the introduction of IT, organizational members have been using IT in their daily tasks, creating and recreating rules and resources according to their own methods and needs. That is to say, the adaptation process of the IT and outcomes are different among organizations. The previous studies on a diverse use of IT refer to the appropriation of technology from the social technology view. Users appropriate IT through not only technology itself, but also in terms of how they use it or how they make the social practice in their use of it. In this study, the concepts of institutional pressure, appropriation, participation of decision makers, and involvement of users toward the appropriation are explored in the context of the appropriation of the mobile electronic medical record system (M-EMRS) in particularly a hospital setting. Based on the conceptual definition of institutional pressure, participation and involvement, operational measures are reconstructed. Furthermore, the concept of appropriation is measured in the aspect of three sub-constructs-consensus on appropriation, faithful appropriation, and attitude of use. Grounded in the relevant theories to appropriation of IT, we developed a research framework in which the effects of institutional pressure, participation and involvement on the appropriation of IT are analyzed. Within this theoretical framework, we formulated several hypotheses. We developed a second order institutional pressure and appropriation construct. After establishing its validity and reliability, we tested the hypotheses with empirical data from 101 users in 3 hospitals which had adopted and used the M-EMRS. We examined the mediating effect of the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users on the appropriation and empirically validated their relationships. The results show that the mimetic, coercive, and normative institutional pressure has an effect on the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users in the appropriation of IT while the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users have an effect on the appropriation of IT. The results also suggest that the institutional pressure and the participation of decision makers influence the involvement of users toward an appropriation of IT. Our results emphasize the mediating effect of the institutional pressure on the appropriation of IT. Namely, the higher degree of the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users, the more effective appropriation users will represent. These results provide strong support for institutional-based variables as predictors of appropriation. These findings also indicate that organizations should focus on the role of participation of decision makers and the involvement of users for the purpose of effective appropriation, and these are the practical implications of our study. The theoretical contribution of this study is lies in the integrated model of the effect of institutional pressure on the appropriation of IT. The results are consistent with the institutional theory and support previous studies on adaptive structuration theory.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2022

본 연구의 목적은 무인 항공기 서비스 영향성과 활성화 방안에 연구하는 것이다. 무인항공기 서비스의 도입에 따른 영향성에 대한 논의를 경제적, 환경적, 사회적 수용 측면과으로 살펴보고, 정책적 측면에서 산업 활성화 방안을 제시하였다. 경제 영향성 측면에서 보면, 향후에 무인항공기를 사용하여 운송 서비스가 증가하면, 도로 기반 운송화물이 줄어들고 도로 혼잡도 감소로 도로 이동속도가 빨라질 수 있다. 이는 토지나 부동산 자산 가치 상승 등에 긍정적인 영향을 줄 수 있으며, 스마트 도시 설계에도 영향을 제공한다. 환경 영향성 측면에서 보면, 무인항공기는 일반적으로 전기를 통하여 움직이므로 기존의 다른 기기인 차량이나 철도 대비 제공하는 방출하는 배기 가스가 적어서 상대적으로 환경 부정적 영향성은 적다. 그러나 이동시 등장하는 소음은 이동경로에 있는 야생 동물 서식 환경에 부정적인 영향을 제공할 수 있다. 사회적 수용성 측면에서 보면, 새로운 서비스 등장으로 쇠퇴하는 영역이 등장함과 동시에 이익을 창출하는 조직이 등장하여 산업 간의 갈등을 유발할 수 있다. 따라서 등장하는 산업에 대한 수용에 대한 사회적 공감대 형성이 반드시 필요하다. 정부는 이런 무인항공기 활용 서비스 특성을 반영한 부정적인 영향성을 최소화 하기 위한 다양한 대응 방안을 마련해야 한다. 무인기반 산업 활성화를 위해 중장기적으로 항공길 확보를 위해 지상에서 차량이 운행될 수 있도록 도로 표지판 등 다양한 시스템이 도입된 것과 마찬가지로 항공길을 구성하는데 우선적으로 도입 및 적용해야 하는 서비스에 대한 개발과 정립이 필요하다. 또한, 국내도 무인항공교통관리를 위한 정보 수집과 운영 방안과 각 지역별로 관제 시스템 확보 방안 등에 대한 설계 및 구현이 이루어져야 한다. 본 연구는 무인항공기 산업 발달로 새로운 영역에 대한 중장기적 연구에 아이디어를 제공 하는데에 기여할 수 있다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.61-95
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• 2007

Small-and-medium sized enterprises(SMEs) represent quite a large proportion of the industry as a whole in terms of the number of enterprises or employees. However researches on information system so far have focused on large companies, probably because SMEs were not so active in introducing information systems as larger enterprises. SMEs are now increasingly bringing in information systems such as ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) and some of the companies already entered the stage of ongoing use. Accordingly, researches should deal with the use of information systems by SME s operating under different conditions from large companies. This study examined factors and mechanism inducing faithful appropriation of information systems, in particular integrative systems such as ERP, in view of individuals` active feedback-seeking behavior. There are three factors expected to affect end users` feedback-seeking behavior for faithful appropriation of information systems. They are management support, peer IT champ support, and IT staff support. The main focus of the study is on how these factors affect feedback-seeking behavior and whether the feedback-seeking behavior plays the role of mediator for realizing faithful appropriation of information systems by end users. To examine the research model and the hypotheses, this study employed an empirical method based on a field survey. The survey used measurements mostly employed and verified by previous researches, while some of the measurements had gone through minor modifications for the purpose of the study. The survey respondents are individual employees of SMEs that have been using ERP for one year or longer. To prevent common method bias, Task-Technology Fit items used as the control variable were made to be answered by different respondents. In total, 127 pairs of valid questionnaires were collected and used for the analysis. The PLS(Partial Least Squares) approach to structural equation modeling(PLS-Graph v.3.0) was used as our data analysis strategy because of its ability to model both formative and reflective latent constructs under small-and medium-size samples. The analysis shows Reliability, Construct Validity and Discriminant Validity are appropriate. The path analysis results are as follows; first, the more there is peer IT champ support, the more the end user is likely to show feedback-seeking behavior(path-coefficient=0.230, t=2.28, p<0.05). In other words, if colleagues proficient in information system use recognize the importance of their help, pass on what they have found to be an effective way of using the system or correct others' misuse, ordinary end users will be able to seek feedback on the faithfulness of their appropriation of information system without hesitation, because they know the convenience of getting help. Second, management support encourages ordinary end users to seek more feedback(path-coefficient=0.271, t=3.06, p<0.01) by affecting the end users' perceived value of feedback(path-coefficient=0.401, t=6.01, p<0.01). Management support is far more influential than other factors that when the management of an SME well understands the benefit of ERP, promotes its faithful appropriation and pays attention to employees' satisfaction with the system, employees will make deliberate efforts for faithful appropriation of the system. However, the third factor, IT staff support was found not to be conducive to feedback-seeking behavior from end users(path-coefficient=0.174, t=1.83). This is partly attributable to the fundamental reason that there is little support for end users from IT staff in SMEs. Even when IT staff provides support, end users may find it less important than that from coworkers more familiar with the end users' job. Meanwhile, the more end users seek feedback and attempt to find ways of faithful appropriation of information systems, the more likely the users will be able to deploy the system according to the purpose the system was originally meant for(path-coefficient=0.35, t=2.88, p<0.01). Finally, the mediation effect analysis confirmed the mediation effect of feedback-seeking behavior. By confirming the mediation effect of feedback-seeking behavior, this study draws attention to the importance of feedback-seeking behavior that has long been overlooked in research about information system use. This study also explores the factors that promote feedback-seeking behavior which in result could affect end user`s faithful appropriation of information systems. In addition, this study provides insight about which inducements or resources SMEs should offer to promote individual users' feedback-seeking behavior when formal and sufficient support from IT staff or an outside information system provider is hardly expected. As the study results show, under the business environment of SMEs, help from skilled colleagues and the management plays a critical role. Therefore, SMEs should seriously consider how to utilize skilled peer information system users, while the management should pay keen attention to end users and support them to make the most of information systems.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.241-254
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• 2011

Support vector machines(SVM)은 비교적 최근에 등장한 데이터마이닝 기법이지만, 재무, CRM 등의 경영학 분야에서 많이 연구되고 있다. SVM은 인공신경망과 필적할 만큼의 예측 정확도를 보이는 사례가 많았지만, 암상자로 불리는 인공신경망 모형에 비해 구축된 예측모형의 구조를 이해하기 쉽고, 인공신경망에 비해 과도적합의 가능성이 적어서 적은 수의 데이터에서도 적용 가능하다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 하지만, 일반적인 SVM을 이용하려면, 인공신경망과 마찬가지로 여러 가지 설계요소들을 설계자가 선택하여야 하기 때문에 임의성이 높고, 국부 최적해에 수렴할 가능성도 크다. 또한, 많은 수의 데이터가 존재하는 경우에는 데이터를 분석하고 이용하는데 시간이 소요되고, 종종 잡음이 심한 데이터가 포함된 경우에는 기대하는 수준의 예측성과를 얻지 못할 가능성이 있다. 본 연구에서는 일반적인 SVM의 장점을 그대로 유지하면서, 전술한 두 가지 단점을 보완한 새로운 SVM 모형을 제안한다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 모형은 사례선택기법을 일반적인 SVM에 융합한 것으로 대용량의 데이터에서 예측에 불필요한 데이터를 선별적으로 제거하여 예측의 정확도와 속도를 제고할 수 있는 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 잡음이 많고 예측이 어려운 것으로 알려진 재무 데이터를 활용하여 제안 모형의 유용성을 확인하였다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.1-42
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• 2009

In a knowledge-based society, a firm's intellectual capital represents the wealth of ideas and ability to innovate, which are indispensable elements for the future growth. Therefore, the intellectual capital is evidently recognized as the most valuable asset in the organization. Considered as intangible asset, intellectual capital is the basis based on which firms can foster their sustainable competitive advantage. One of the essential components of the intellectual capital is a social capital, indicating the firm's individual members' ability to build a firm's social networks. As such, social capital is a powerful concept necessary for understanding the emergence, growth, and functioning of network linkages. The more social capital a firm is equipped with, the more successfully it can establish new social networks. By providing a shared context for social interactions, social capital facilitates the creation of new linkages in the organizational setting. This concept of "person-environment fit" has long been prevalent in the management literature. The fit is grounded in the interaction theory of behavior. The interaction perspective has a fairly long theoretical tradition, beginning with proposition that behavior is a function of the person and environment. This view asserts that neither personal characteristics nor the situation alone adequately explains the variance in behavioral and attitudinal variables. Instead, the interaction of personal and situational variables accounts for the greatest variance. Accordingly, the person-environment fit is defined as the degree of congruence or match between personal and situational variables in producing significant selected outcomes. In addition, information systems acceptance factors enable organizations to build large electronic communities with huge knowledge resources. For example, the Intranet helps to build knowledge-based communities, which in turn increases employee communication and collaboration. It is vital since through active communication and collaborative efforts can employees build common basis for shared understandings that evolve into stronger relationships embedded with trust. To this aim, the electronic communication network allows the formation of social network to be more viable to rapid mobilization and assimilation of knowledge assets in the organizations. The purpose of this study is to investigate: (1) the impact of person-environment fit(person-job fit, person-person fit, person-group fit, person-organization fit) on social capital(network ties, trust, norm, shared language); (2) the impact of information systems acceptance factors(availability, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use) on social capital; (3) the impact of social capital on personal performance(work performance, work satisfaction); and (4) the mediating role of social capital between person-environment fit and personal performance. In general, social capital is defined as the aggregated actual or collective potential resources which lead to the possession of a durable network. The concept of social capital was originally developed by sociologists for their analysis in social context. Recently, it has become an increasingly popular jargon used in the management literature in describing organizational phenomena outside the realm of transaction costs. Since both environmental factors and information systems acceptance factors affect the network of employee's relationships, this study proposes that these two factors have significant influence on the social capital of employees. The person-environment fit basically refers to the alignment between characteristics of people and their environments, thereby resulting in positive outcomes for both individuals and organizations. In addition, the information systems acceptance factors have rather direct influences on the social network of employees. Based on such theoretical framework, namely person-environment fit and social capital theory, we develop our research model and hypotheses. The results of data analysis, based on 458 employee cases are as follow: Firstly, both person-environment fit(person-job fit, person-person fit, person-group fit, person-organization fit) and information systems acceptance factors(availability perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use) significantly influence social capital(network ties, norm, shared language). In addition, person-environment fit is a stronger factor influencing social capital than information systems acceptance factors. Secondly, social capital is a significant factor in both work satisfaction and work performance. Finally, social capital partly plays a mediating role between person-environment fit and personal performance. Our findings suggest that it is vital for firms to understand the importance of environmental factors affecting social capital of employees and accordingly identify the importance of information systems acceptance factors in building formal and informal relationships of employees. Firms also need to reflect their recognition of the importance of social capital's mediating role in boosting personal performance. Some limitations arisen in the course of the research and suggestions for future research directions are also discussed.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.195-221
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• 2009

According to an industry report, a large number of organizations have invested in Organizational Information System(OIS) in the past few years. Several research results indicate that successful investments in OIS lead to productivity enhancement, while failed ones result in undesirable consequences such as financial losses and dissatisfaction among employees. In spite of huge investments, however, many organizations have failed in achieving the hoped-for returns from OIS. Thus, understanding user acceptance, adoption, and usage of new IS(Information Systems) is an important issue for IS practitioners. Indeed, study of the user acceptance of new information system has been one of the most important research topics in the contemporary IS literature. Several theoretical models are tested to examine 'user acceptance' and 'usage behavior' in IS context. While many research models incorporate 'ease of use' or 'usefulness' as important factors in explaining user acceptance, Technology Acceptance Model(TAM) has been one of the most widely applied models in user acceptance and usage behavior. Even in recent IS studies that employ theories of innovation diffusion in the area of IS implementation, a major focus has been on the user's perception of information technologies. In this research, we study 'voluntariness' as an important factor in IS acceptance by users. Voluntariness is defined as "the degree to which the use of the innovation is perceived as being voluntary, or of free will" When examining the diffusion of accepting OIS, a thoughtful consideration should be given to 'perceived voluntariness.' Current article has following research questions: 1) What models are appropriate to explain the success of OIS? and 2) How does the 'voluntariness' affect the success of OIS? In order to answer these questions, a research model is proposed to describe the detailed nature of association among three independent variables (IT usage level, task interdependency, and organizational support), a mediating variable (IS usage), a dependent variable (perceived performance), and a moderating variable(perceived voluntariness). The central claim of this article is that organizations hardly realize expected returns from OIS investments unless perceived voluntariness is effectively managed after operating OIS. As an example of OIS in this study we have selected the Intranet of Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). ROKAF has implemented the Intranet in an attempt to improve communication and coordination within the organization. To test our research model and hypotheses, survey questionnaires were first sent out to 400 Intranet users. With the assistance of ROKAF, Intranet users were initially identified among its members, and subjects were randomly drawn from the pool. 377 survey responses were finally returned. The unit of measurement and analysis in this research is a personal level. Path analysis based on structural equation modeling was used to test research hypotheses. Construct validity represents accordance between the theoretical base concept of constructs and its measurement items. Tests for the reliability and discriminant validity are accepted, thus verifying our survey instrument. In this research, we have proposed a conceptual framework to highlight the importance of perceived voluntariness after organization deploys OIS. The results of our analysis present several key finding. First, all three independent variables (IT usage level, task interdependency, and organizational support) have significant effects on IS usage, which will eventually improve performance. Thus, IS usage plays a mediating role between antecedent variables (IT usage level. task interdependency, and organizational support) and performance improvement. Second, the effect of the task dependency was the highest for IS usage among the three antecedent variables. This is highly plausible since one of the Intranet's major capabilities is to facilitate communication among members within an organization. Accordingly, we conclude that the higher the task dependency, the higher Intranet usage. The effect of user's IT usage level was the second, while the effect of the organizational support was the third. Finally, the perceived voluntariness plays a pivotal role in enhancing perceived performance in personal level after launching the Intranet. Relationships among investigated variables were significantly different between groups with a high level and a low level of voluntariness. The impact of the Intranet usage on the performance was greater in the higher level voluntariness group than in the lower one. For the lower level voluntariness group, the user's IT usage had the highest effect on the Intranet usage among the three antecedent variables. In short, our study suggests that the higher the perceived voluntariness is the more IS usage will be. Perceived voluntariness was found to have a moderating effect on the relationships among user IT usage level, task interdependency, IS usage, and perceived performance, supporting all the hypotheses on the moderating effect. Most of all, user IT usage level has the strongest influence on IS usage, indicating that users with superior IT usage are more likely to enjoy a high level of perceived performance.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.49-81
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• 2007

Research in the IS (Information Systems) outsourcing has focused on the importance of legal contracts and partnerships between vendors and clients. Without detailed legal contracts, there is no guarantee that an outsourcing vendor would not indulge in self-serving behavior. In addition, partnerships can supplement legal contracts in managing the relationship between clients and vendors legal contracts by itself cannot deal with all the complexity and ambiguity involved with IS outsourcing relationships. In this paper, we introduce a psychological contract (between client and vendor) as an important variable for IS outsourcing success. A psychological contract refers to individual's mental beliefs about his or her mutual obligations in a contractual relationship (Rousseau, 1995). A psychological contract emerges when one party believes that a promise of future returns has been made, a contribution has been given, and thus, an obligation has been created to provide future benefits (Rousseau, 1989). An employmentpsychological contract, which is a widespread concept in psychology, refers to employer and employee expectations of the employment relationship, i.e. mutual obligations, values, expectations and aspirations that operate over and above the formal contract of employment (Smithson and Lewis, 2003). Similar to the psychological contract between an employer and employee, IS outsourcing involves a contract and a set of mutual obligations between client and vendor (Ho et al., 2003). Given the lack of prior research on psychological contracts in the IS outsourcing context, we extend such studies and give insights through investigating the role of psychological contracts between client and vendor. Psychological contract theory offers highly relevant and sound theoretical lens for studying IS outsourcing management because of its six distinctive principles: (1) it focuses on mutual (rather than one-sided) obligations between contractual parties, (2) it's more comprehensive than the concept of legal contract, (3) it's an individual-level construct, (4) it changes over time, (5) it affects organizational behaviors, and (6) it's susceptible to organizational factors (Koh et al., 2004; Rousseau, 1996; Coyle-Shapiro, 2000). The aim of this paper is to put the concept, psychological contract commitment (PCC), under the spotlight, by finding out its mediating effects between legal contracts/partnerships and IS outsourcing success. Our interest is in the psychological contract commitment (PCC) or commitment to psychological contracts, which is the extent to which a partner consistently and deeply concerns with what the counter-party believes as obligations during the IS project. The basic premise for the hypothesized relationship between PCC and success is that for outsourcing success, client and vendor should continually commit to mutual obligations in which both parties believe, rather than to only explicit obligations. The psychological contract commitment playsa pivotal role in evaluating a counter-party because it reflects what one party really expects from the other. If one party consistently shows high commitment to psychological contracts, the other party would evaluate it positively. This will increase positive reciprocation efforts of the other party, thus leading to successful outsourcing outcomes (McNeeley and Meglino, 1994). We have used matched sample data for this research. We have collected three responses from each set of a client and a vendor firm: a project manager of the client firm, a project member from the vendor firm with whom the project manager cooperated, and an end-user of the client company who actually used the outsourced information systems. Special caution was given to the data collection process to avoid any bias in responses. We first sent three types of questionnaires (A, Band C) to each project manager of the client firm, asking him/her to answer the first type of questionnaires (A).

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.45-62
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• 2011

The notion of information systems (IS) continuance has recently emerged as one of the most important research issues in the field of IS. A great deal of research has been conducted thus far on the basis of theories adapted from various disciplines including consumer behaviors and social psychology, in addition to theories regarding information technology (IT) acceptance. This previous body of knowledge provides a robust research framework that can already account for the determination of IS continuance; however, this research points to other, thus-far-unelucidated determinant factors such as habit, which were not included in traditional IT acceptance frameworks, and also re-emphasizes the importance of emotion-related constructs such as satisfaction in addition to conscious intention with rational beliefs such as usefulness. Experiences should also be considered one of the most important factors determining the characteristics of information system (IS) continuance and the features distinct from those determining IS acceptance, because more experienced users may have more opportunities for IS use, which would allow them more frequent use than would be available to less experienced or non-experienced users. Interestingly, experience has dual features that may contradictorily influence IS use. On one hand, attitudes predicated on direct experience have been shown to predict behavior better than attitudes from indirect experience or without experience; as more information is available, direct experience may render IS use a more salient behavior, and may also make IS use more accessible via memory. Therefore, experience may serve to intensify the relationship between IS use and conscious intention with evaluations, On the other hand, experience may culminate in the formation of habits: greater experience may also imply more frequent performance of the behavior, which may lead to the formation of habits, Hence, like experience, users' activation of an IS may be more dependent on habit-that is, unconscious automatic use without deliberation regarding the IS-and less dependent on conscious intentions, Furthermore, experiences can provide basic information necessary for satisfaction with the use of a specific IS, thus spurring the formation of both conscious intentions and unconscious habits, Whereas IT adoption Is a one-time decision, IS continuance may be a series of users' decisions and evaluations based on satisfaction with IS use. Moreover. habits also cannot be formed without satisfaction, even when a behavior is carried out repeatedly. Thus, experiences also play a critical role in satisfaction, as satisfaction is the consequence of direct experiences of actual behaviors. In particular, emotional experiences such as enjoyment can become as influential on IS use as are utilitarian experiences such as usefulness; this is especially true in light of the modern increase in membership-based hedonic systems - including online games, web-based social network services (SNS), blogs, and portals-all of which attempt to provide users with self-fulfilling value. Therefore, in order to understand more clearly the role of experiences in IS continuance, analysis must be conducted under a research framework that includes intentions, habits, and satisfaction, as experience may not only have duration-based moderating effects on the relationship between both intention and habit and the activation of IS use, but may also have content-based positive effects on satisfaction. This is consistent with the basic assumptions regarding the determining factors in IS continuance as suggested by Oritz de Guinea and Markus: consciousness, emotion, and habit. The principal objective of this study was to explore and assess the effects of experiences in IS continuance, with special consideration given to conscious intentions and unconscious habits, as well as satisfaction. IN service of this goal, along with a review of the relevant literature regarding the effects of experiences and habit on continuous IS use, this study suggested a research model that represents the roles of experience: its moderating role in the relationships of IS continuance with both conscious intention and unconscious habit, and its antecedent role in the development of satisfaction. For the validation of this research model. Korean university student users of 'Cyworld', one of the most influential social network services in South Korea, were surveyed, and the data were analyzed via partial least square (PLS) analysis to assess the implications of this study. In result most hypotheses in our research model were statistically supported with the exception of one. Although one hypothesis was not supported, the study's findings provide us with some important implications. First the role of experience in IS continuance differs from its role in IS acceptance. Second, the use of IS was explained by the dynamic balance between habit and intention. Third, the importance of satisfaction was confirmed from the perspective of IS continuance with experience.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.85-97
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• 2010

지식의 생성과 활용의 원천으로서 인터넷 커뮤니티를 '지식 커뮤니티'로 정의할 때 지식 커뮤니티는 '검색엔진', '공개공동체', '전문공동체', '활동공동체'의 4대 유형으로 구분되며 개별 지식 커뮤니티는 시간이나 환경의 변화에 따라 각 유형을 넘나들며 변화하고 있다. 변화하는 지식 커뮤니티를 기업경영에 적절하게 활용하기 위해서는 각 지식 커뮤니티 유형별 활용전략이 절실함에도 불구하고, 지식 커뮤니티 유형별 효과 분석과 활용전략에 대한 연구는 많지 않다. 이에 본 연구에서는 지식 커뮤니티 유형별 분류에서 제안한 4대 지식 커뮤니티 유형에 대해 지식 생성 및 활용에 영향을 미치는 요인을 실증분석을 통해 도출함으로써 지식 커뮤니티의 변화를 설명하고 그 활용방안을 제시하고자 한다. 첫째, 관련 선행연구를 통해 지식 커뮤니티 유형별로 지식의 생성과 활용에 영향을 미치는 요인을 적합성, 신뢰성, 체계성, 충실성, 유사성, 피드백, 이해도로 파악하였다. 둘째, 유형별 대표사이트에 30개의 실제 질문을 질의하여 전문가의 평가를 통해 각 요인을 평가했다. 마지막으로 Stepwise 회귀분석을 이용해 각 유형별로 지식 커뮤니티의 지식 생성과 활용에 영향을 미치는 주요 요인을 도출했다. 회귀분석 결과 검색엔진 유형의 지식 커뮤니티는 신뢰성과, 공개 공동체 유형은 적합성과, 전문공동체 유형은 신뢰성 및 유사성과, 활동공동체 유형은 충실성 및 유사성과 높은 상관관계가 있었다. 본 연구에서 제시한 지식 커뮤니티 유형별 영향요인에 대한 실증분석 결과는 지식 커뮤니티의 변화를 설명하고 그 활용방안을 제시하는데 유용할 것으로 기대된다.