• Korea Trade Review
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.203-229
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• 2016

Korean general trading companies had started their business to benchmark and to adopt the successful new business models of the Japanese ones. Nevertheless, the strategic gaps between Korean and Japanese GTCs, Sogo-Shosha, still exist, including financial profitability and managerial competencies. In this regard, it is academically and practically required to find out the differences between Korean and Japanese GTCs. This study overviews the previous researches and the business cases to understand the features of GTCs and to get recent and meaningful factors which are related with the rebirth of Sogo-Shosha. Thereafter, in-depth interviews with industry experts and scholars and subsequent investigations were also conducted to suggest meaningful implications for both academicians and practitioners with the found factors. This study suggests four fundamental differences between the Korean and Japanese GTCs: ① the origin and growth path, ② business ownership, governance strategies and contracts management, ③ availabilities of investment portfolio and risk management, ④ business operation system and organizational culture. This study suggests meaningful implications for Korean GTCs to apply the experiences and lessons learned from Japanese Sogo-Shosha into their own business.

• Defense and Technology
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• no.6 s.172
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• pp.21-21
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• 1993

수출입국의 첨병인 종합상사가 탄생한지 금년 6월로 꼭 18년이 된다 1975년 국내에선 처음으로 종합상사로 지정받은 삼성물산이 지난18년동안 해외시장에서의 성공과 실패사례를 묶어 <종합상사 1호의 영광과 그늘>이라는 3권의 책을 발간했다 70년대부터 현재에 이르기까지 해외시장개척에서 얻어진 교훈중 방산수출과 관련한 대표적 성공사례 2가지를 발췌, 소개한다

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.45-72
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• 2012

This work uses data associated with business activity and outcome on the five main SOGO-SHOSYA and considers meaning of its outcome and logistics function in energy business field in recent 10 years. The contents of this work embody three chapters, which are an investigation on advanced research, an analysis of SOGO-SHOSYA business outcome, logistics function in its energy business field, Research method are used by statistical analysis and organizational structure analysis as well as case study. We will search for the reason that the energy business has worked well lately. There are actively securing interests of energy exploitation and longer-term investment to affiliated companies, building supply chain system with internal and external businesses. Especially, we will account for the logistics role of SOGO-SHOSYA that has newly understood the international logistics function in energy business field. SOGO-SHOSYA has coordinated organizationally from upstream to downstream in energy business, is showing its abilities in midstream related features that involve investor, organizer and analyst. SOGO-SHOSYA's building up logistics function will help supply chain in energy business for rising the competitiveness of price and quality, and support cost-reducing in activities of supply chain.

• The monthly packaging world
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• s.22
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• pp.101-101
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• 1995

• Korea Petroleum Association Journal
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• no.5 s.3
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• pp.6-7
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• 1981

이봉환 동자부장관은 지난 5월 8일 정유사대표, 종합무역상사 대표, 그리고 원유도입과 관련이 있는 민간상사표등 약 30명과 회의를 갖고, 앞으로 질서있는 원유도입교섭의 기틀을 마련하기 위한 정부의 원유도입교섭지침을 설명하고, 민간상사의 협조를 요청했다. 이 자료는 이 날 박장관이 밝힌 설명문의 요지이다. <편집자주>

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.1115-1125
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• 2010

This study is to examine how POS(perceived organization support) would affect trust in her/his superior and organization, organization commitment and customer orientation. The effect of demographic variables differences on independent and dependent variables was examined. Data for this study was collected by questionnaire from a sample of 277 employees of 9 hospitals in Korea. The findings show that POS is significantly influence trust in her/his superior and organization, organization commitment, and customer orientation. Variables like gender and type of employment have a significant difference. However there is no difference in the type of occupation.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.261-280
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• 2001

From the IMF(International Monetary fund) crisis, the management conditions of the trading company which run business in world market, has rapidly changed. In particular, the trading conglomerate's competitive power have declined. This study, addressing such changes, intend to analyze what factors are that have generated this changes in trading conglomerate's environment. The study specifically takes it into account that the differences between Korea trading company and Japan's. This research was confirmed by data and field survey in two country. The results of research are summarized as follow. The Korean trading company are inferior to the Japanese trading company in total volume(Korea: 24.1, Japan 100), the benefit volume(Korea: 8.7, Japan 100), the stability of turnover(Korea: 36.6, Japan 100), the network power in foreign country(Korea: 19.2, Japan 100), the power of e-business(Korea: 17.0, Japan 100). But the debt ratio of Korea company is significantly lower than that of Japan's(Korea: 160.4%, Japan 940.5%). In conclusion, providing that the Korean trading company want to be a world-class champion in trading field, they have to introduce the new management strategies which means the high-profit base trading, the long term investment and the internet business.

• 베이커리
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• no.10 s.351
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• pp.124-125
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• 1997

• 베이커리
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• no.9 s.326
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• pp.138-139
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• 1995

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.161-169
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• 2004

In this study, a similarity rule is thoroughly discussed for tunnelling model tests which can simulate actual ground conditions. Based on this prior consideration, theoretical works are performed to simulate a real ground condition into a gravitational field with a similarity. A process is arranged to determine a lining condition in laboratory tests for a sandy ground tunnel.