• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.449-476
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• 2016

This study examines how an initially perceived product value affects consumer's purchase intention after reading online reviews with various tones. The study proposes that associations among initially perceived overall product value, degree of confirmation resulting from reading the reviews, and final purchase intention differ across review tones such that 1) when the tone is favorable, the effect of an initially perceived product value is stronger than when the tone is critical, and 2) when the tone is extreme, the effect of confirmation is stronger than when the tone is moderate. The survey was conducted with 276 online shopping mall users in Korea, and most of the hypotheses were supported. This study asserts that the effects of online reviews should be considered together with customer's level of expectation formed prior to reading online reviews, which resulted from extensive search and screening processes that the customer went through before reading online reviews.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.66-78
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• 2016

Hygroscopic knitted cotton fabric was found to spontaneously absorb water showing a significantly wide concentration gradient in the absorption direction. A semi-empirical diffusion model was introduced to describe how the wicking behavior compared to the classical capillary model (Washburn's equation), which has been widely used in the textiles industry. The capillary sorption curve and the permeability coefficient, which are key variables for the model equations, were measured using an electronic balance. The concentration profile as a function of the wicking distance and the elapsed time was derived, based on the diffusion model. From the concentration profile, the wicking distance detectable by the human eye or a digital camera with the aid of an image-analysis system, could be described realistically as a function of the time. The classical capillary model could be modified by introducing the tortuous correction factor to match the diffusion model. Wicking models and data-processing techniques in the work could provide useful tools for objectively evaluating the textile's wicking performances.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.178-186
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• 2010

Business models of e-commerce which have been successfully applied in a developed society do not always guarantee success in other environments where the degree of IT availability differs. This is due to the difference of culture, systems and technological basis among the countries. This study aimed to compare e-commerce system acceptance in countries with different environments and to identify the determining factors for the acceptance of e-commerce. The result shows that, in order to make e-commerce easily accepted in countries with different IT environments, factors such as trust, reputation and usefulness should be addressed more sincerely in the business strategy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.364-366
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• 2002

인터넷/웹 비즈니스의 확산과 더불어, 기업간(B2B) 거래 처리에도 혁명적인 변화가 일어나고 있다. 그러나, 이러한 변화의 이면에는 해결해야 할 많은 기술적인 제약이 내포되어 있다. 무엇보다도, 전자적인 기업간 거래처리를 위해서는 컴퓨터 시스템간에 구조화된 정보를 교환할 수 있도록 공통의 언어가 제공되어야 한다. 이런 공동의 민어에 대한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 UN/CEFACT와 OASIS에서는 XML(extensible Markup Language)을 기반으로 한 ebXML(electronic business XML)을 차세대 e-비즈니스의 표준으로 제정하고 공동 개발하기로 함에 따라 전서계 단일 전자상거래시장 구축이 XML기반으로 이루어 질 수 있게 되었다. 이에 본 논문에서는 ebXML 도큐먼트 편집을 위해 XML을 기반으로 한 e-business 문서 생성을 위한 XML 편집기, XML DTD 생성기, XML Schema를 작성하기 위한 Schema 편집기 등의 통합 ebXML문서 편집 시스템을 설계 및 구현 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.369-373
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• 2005

Virtual Communities are many and varied have been around for a number of years now. Cyworld has all the makings of a successful website, with its unique and profitable business model. Our purpose in studying Cyworld is two fold ; we want to know the motivations people have for using the service and why they are willing to pay to use it. This study is based on motivation theory and flow theory to enhance our understanding of Cyworld user's behavior.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.113-128
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• 2001

The international trade industry is on the brink of a radical Internet-driven transformation. TradeCard is a payment and settlement system that is an alternative to letters of crdeit. That is, TradeCard is a business-to-business e-commerce infrastructure that enables buyers and sellers to conduct and settle international trade transactions securely over the Internet. Paperless, payment-guaranteed international trade transactions - which eliminate the traditional letters of credit with electronic certifications - are widely considered the most difficult B2B transactions to conduct. The TradeCard system was initially built to accommodate and process this complex, cross-border payment type at a US$100 service fee for each transaction of up to US$100,000 since November 1999.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.55-69
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• 2001

TradeCard is a B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce infrastructure that enables buyers and sellers to conduct and settle international trade transactions securely over the Internet. and objective of TradeCard is to provide a secure, reliable, cost-effective and user-friendly solution for conducting and settling international trade transactions. This paper analyzes the reviews of TradeCard by Electronic Message and the various problems which come to application of TradeCard, with particular attention to existing international frameworks for payment systems based on Documentary Credit.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.113-129
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• 2004

Nowadays many enterprises build e-procurement systems. An e-procurement is a Web-based procurement process and its functionalities are considered important in the B2B e-commerce. Buyers should select competent suppliers for a successful e-procurement. Therefore, this study proposes a method using the analytic hierarchy process(AHP) for building a Web-based supplier selection system. In detail, the purpose of this study is (1) to review methods previously used when buyers selecting suppliers and to extract important selection criteria： (2) to explain extended AHP method adopted by this study among supplier selection methods： (3) to describe the supplier selection steps using extended AHP ： and (4) to propose a decision support system embedding the methodology described above. The proposed system comprises of three phase： first phase is to evaluate suppliers on enterprise level： second phase to evaluate them on each transaction level： third phase to post-evaluate them.

• THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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• v.54
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• pp.81-98
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• 2012

The Incoterms(R) 2010 rules take account of the continued spread of customs-free zones, the increased use of electronic communications in business transactions, heightened concern about security in the movement of goods and changes in transport practices. And the Guide to Incoterms(R) 2010 is the authoritative companion work to Incoterms(R) 2010, the ICC rules on the use of domestic and international trade terms. The guide responds to business needs for a better understanding of these ICC rules that are used in countless commercial transactions every day. But, contrary to the previous guidebook, there is many errors and mistake in the Guide to Incoterms(R) 2010 which should be amended. The purpose of this paper is to point out the problems and amend the errors and unify the expression in guidebook.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.149-149
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• 1991

The purpose of this study, based on a domestic sample of businesses using EDI systems, is to identify success factors, which affect the implementation of EDI system by Korean business entities. This paper also intends to provide useful guidelines for the establishment and management of EDI systems. This paper, first, develops a conceptual framework based on pervious research to identify factors which affect successful implementation of EDI system. Second, it integrates the constructs from previous research studies into a single survey instrument. Third, it presents the findings regarding the degree to which each factor influences the successful implementation of EDI system. It's revealed in the study that such factors as EDI vendor support, EDI education and training, participation by transactional partners, the size of organization, and the level of decentralization among organizational and environmental characteristics influence successful implementation of EDI systems in Korean business environment.