• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.349-357
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• 2004

Emergy is a measure of the processes required to produce something expressed in units of the same energy form. Emergy based indices can provide insights into the thermodynamic efficiency of the process, the quality of its output, and the interaction between the process and its surrounding environment. However, in an industrial system, the inputs are mostly nonrenewable, renewable energy source is nearly zero, ultimate purpose is pursuit of profits in economic activity. In study, we present two indices based on emergy - EEE(Ecological Economic Efficiency) and ERI(Environmental Responsibility Index). The EEE is taken into account real value of product in market economy. The ERI is shown to be a function of the net yield of the economy, its ‘load’ on the environment and ecological economic efficiency. Manufacturing industry of Korea produced the 30% of total GDP in 2001. We applied these indices to manufacturing industry for environmental management and further sustainable industry. As a results, the highest ERI is 0.34 in recycling industries, the lowest ERI is 0.01 in coke, refined petroleum products which is dominated by ELR. The higher ERI, the more friendly to environment. The suggested indices help us understand relative contributions of various alternatives in company's production and consumption activity, and provide a tool of decision-making for the rearrangement of future industries. Furthermore, they contribute to environmental friendly operation and consumption.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2019

Purpose: Corporate social responsibility is a self-regulating business model that helps a firm be socially accountable to the public. By practicing corporate social responsibility, firms can be conscious of the kind of impact they are having on all aspects of society, including economic, social, and environmental. Corporate social responsibility activities are not directly linked to increasing corporate performance and corporate value, but rather involve spending expenses. Based on these facts, this study verifies whether the effects of corporate social responsibility activities differ depending on the firm's situation. Research design, data and methodology: This study analyzed the effect of market competition on corporate social responsibility activities using logistic regression analysis on listed companies in the KOSPI and KOSDAQ for fiscal years 2014 through 2016. In this study, market competition was measured using the Herfindahl-Herschman Index(HHI). Higher HHI value can be interpreted as a lower degree of market competition. We also measured corporate social responsibility activities using the KEJI Index published by the Korea Economic Justice Institute (KEJI). If a firm-year is included in the top 200 companies of the KEJI Index, it is classified as a good corporate social responsibility activity firm. Results: We find that companies in less competitive market were not included in the KEJI Index. This result indicates that firms in the market with lower market competition perform less corporate social responsibility activities that incur costs. An additional analysis showed that there was a significant negative relationship between the market competition and the corporate social responsibility activity scores published by the KEJI Index. These result adds robustness to the result of the hypothesis that firms that have a monopolistic place in the market practice passive corporate social responsibility activities. Conclusions: The results show that managers of a firm in the lower market competition have a lower incentive to use limited resources for projects that are not directly related to revenue. The results of this study imply that corporate social responsibility activities vary according to the position of the business. Therefore, this study suggests that market investors should consider the degree of competition in the market when they evaluate corporate social responsibility activities.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2016

본 연구는 기업의 국제화와 기업의 사회적 책임(CSR)활동의 연관성을 살펴보고자 하였다. 연구를 위하여 경제정의연구소에 2013년-2014년도에 발표된 200대 기업들을 대상으로 기업들의 CSR활동정도를 파악하기 위하여 경제정의지수(KEJI Index)를 활용하였다. 연구대상 기업은 총 286개 기업이다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 기업의 국제화 정도에 따라 CSR활동의 차이를 살펴본 결과 기업의 국제화 정도에 따라 CSR세부활동별 유의적인 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 대체적으로 국제화 정도가 높을수록 적극적인 CSR활동을 하는 것으로 나타났으며, 특히 환경경영과 소비자보호 활동을 적극적으로 하는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 기업의 국제화에 영향을 주는 요인에 있어서 환경 경영과 소비자보호가 유의한 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 국제화 비중이 높은 기업의 경우, 환경경영과 소비자보호 활동을 중요하게 생각하고 이에 대한 활동을 적극적으로 하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 국제화 시대의 CSR활동의 중요성에 대해 제시하고, 국제화에 영향을 주는 CSR세부활동의 영향력을 규명함으로써, 기업의 지속가능경영을 위한 CSR활동과 전략을 제시하였다.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.35-47
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• 2005

Recently, all organizations are experiencing a newly changed standard for their competitiveness. One of the elements in the standard is the sustainable reputation or responsibility. Thus excellent corporations have reinforced not only economic prosperity but also environmental and social responsibilities, which results in the appearance of sustainable reputation or responsibility management. At this point, this paper have nominated assessment factors which will contribute to the sustainable reputation competitiveness in Incheon International Airport Corporation.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2018

Purpose - This paper examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial reporting quality. Corporate social responsibility is a way for firms to take responsibility for the social and environmental impacts of their business operations. Corporate social responsibility is a broad concept that can take various forms depending on the firm and industry. Through corporate social responsibility programs, firms can benefit society. At the same time, firms improve their reputations by increasing engagement in corporate social responsibility activities. However, corporate social responsibility activities are not directly related to profitability, especially for distribution firms. Research design, data, and methodology - 229 distribution & service firm-years between 2011 and 2016 are used for the main analysis. In Korea, Korean Economic Justice Institute evaluates the ethical performance of Korean firms, and the institute annually discloses the scores of top firms. This study uses the KEJI Index scores to measure firm-level corporate social responsibility activities. Discretionary accruals are used as a proxy for financial reporting quality. Discretionary accruals can be used opportunistically, and thus distort the information in earnings. We extract financial data from the KIS Value database. Results - We find that distribution & service firms' engagement in corporate social responsibilities is positively related to their financial reporting quality. First, there is a negative correlation between implementation of corporate social responsibility activities and discretionary accruals. In addition, we find that the coefficient of CSR is significantly negative, supporting our prediction. The result is significant at the 1% level. Conclusions - We examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility activities of distribution firms and their financial reporting quality while most prior studies examine the engagement in corporate social responsibility activities of manufacturing firms. The results of this study show that distribution & service firms engaging in corporate social responsibility activities are likely to maintain high-quality financial reporting.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.247-268
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• 2017

본 연구는 2011년부터 2014년까지 감사대상기업의 사회적 책임이 감사 효율성에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 감사대상기업의 사회적 책임활동을 측정하는 변수로 경제정의연구소에서 공시하는 KEJI 지수 및 KEJI지수의 개별 항목 각각이 감사보수 및 감사시간에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 본 연구의 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, KEJI지수로 측정한 기업의 CSR활동은 감사보수 및 감사시간과 유의한 관련성이 나타나지 않았다. 한편, KEJI 지수를 구성하는 개별항목을 구분하여 CSR 개별 항목이 감사의 효율성에 미치는 영향에서는 CSR 공정성, CSR 사회공헌도, CSR 환경경영이 감사시간과 감사보수에 유의한 음(-)의 영향, CSR 소비자보호도와 CSR 직원만족도가 감사시간과 감사보수에 유의한 양(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 첫째, CSR 공정성, CSR 사회공헌도와 CSR 환경경영도 항목의 평점이 높은 기업의 재무제표 감사인은 재무제표 투명성의 제고로 인하여 감사위험을 낮게 평가할 수 있으며, 이러한 감사인의 평가는 감사시간의 투입을 낮추는 요인이 될 수 있음을 시사한다. 한편, 기업이 제공하고 있는 소비자 편의, 광고비 지출 및 직원들에 대한 보건, 안전, 교육훈련 등의 지출이 재무제표 왜곡가능성을 높일 수 있는 요인으로 인식할 수 있다. 재무제표 감사인은 CSR 소비자보호와 CSR 직원만족 활동이 높은 기업의 비용지출은 필수적이라기보다는 재량적이라고 판단할 수 있다. 이에 따라 감사인은 재무제표 왜곡위험이 높아짐에 따라 감사위험을 낮추기 위하여 더 많은 감사시간을 투입하고 있음을 시사한다. 또한, 본 연구결과는 KEJI 지수와는 별개로 KEJI 지수를 구성하는 개별항목이 재무제표감사의 효율성에 미치는 영향이 기업의 산업별, 규제별, 재무적특성별로 차별적으로 영향을 미칠 수 있음을 시사한다.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.53-68
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• 2016

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the possibility of sustainable development of online advertisements conducted by fashion companies. Factors composed of sustainable development indexes of online advertisement that had been developed in previous studies were identified, and then the relevance between purchase intention and advertisement experience was evaluated. An online survey of 573 persons in the 20 to 40 age range who own mobile phone and have experienced online advertisements of a fashion brand or a fashion company was conducted. The data collected from the survey and the results are as follows. First, the validity and reliability from confirmatory factor analysis of six factors (namely, personal information protection, web use infringement, advertisement expression harmfulness, advertisement expression objectivity, emotional responsibility, and environment-friendly) and 21 questions was confirmed. Second, it confirmed that consumers gave low points to the evaluation of sustainable development indexes of online advertisement of fashion companies. In particular, that consumers gave low points with regard to both environmental friendliness and web use infringement. Third, it was identified that personal indexes such as personal information protection, web use infringement, and indexes relating to advertisement expressions do not directly influence the consumer's purchase intention. However, social indexes like emotional responsibility and environmental friendliness do have an influence on the consumer's positive action intention.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.251-265
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• 2021

It seems a common sense that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a key driver to attain business sustainability. Nevertheless, there has been little research on the performance of socially responsible activities, including economic and environmental responsibility activities in internationally diversified firms. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of CSR activities on management performance. For this evaluation, an empirical analysis was conducted with a total of 2,520 cases, selected from companies listed on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index market for six years from 2013 to 2018. As proxies for management performance, financial date such as a total asset net profit ratio and a total asset-operating ratio were used. A multivariate regression analysis was conducted to test hypotheses. The results of this analysis indicated that firms in the CSR outstanding group are significantly higher than other groups in management performances. In addition, CSR activities of internationally diversified firms positively influence their total asset net profit ratio and total asset-operating ratio. The results suggested that CSR activities of these firms can play a significant role in enhancing management performances amid the economic status of Korea, where a degree of export dependency is high.

• Architectural research
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to research and development of 'Korea B(Benefit)-impact Model' for Sustainable Development. A concept evaluation model is 'B(Benefit)-impact model' in U.S.A. We use the results of surveys that examined the importance of social value issues to stakeholders in Korea to implement the benefit-impact model in Korea. In particular, in this paper, we use the KSI(Korean Sustainability Index) survey data conducted by the Korea Standards Association to evaluate the social value of the construction industry for representative stakeholders in the construction industry. The social value pool and the activity indicator pool used for the survey are created based on relevant International Standards; ISO 26000, ISO 14001, ISO 37001. As a result, Korea B-impact model for construction industry included the following five core social value issues; Strengthen transparency of corporate management, Ensure fair employment and employment relations, Efforts to prevent corruption, Conduct fair competition, Efforts to prevent environmental pollution. In addition, the US B-impact model has three limitations. First, it is unclear whether the key indicators have been derived while considering all issues of social value. Second, US B-impact model indicators are developed by the social responsibility experts, so it is necessary to review by stakeholders in each industry. Finally, it would be more effective for companies to use the B-impact model index as a more detailed activity indicator. When developing a Korea B-impact model, the following methods are used to supplement it. First, we reviewed all social value issues using international standards. Secondly, we used the KSI(Korean Sustainability index) survey results to derive the importance of the social value issue of construction industry in Korea. Finally, we have clearly matched the activity indicators by social value core issues based on the GRI Standard so that companies can actually use the Korea B-impact model for the construction sector. The detailed development stages and results of this study are as follows;.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.273-284
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• 1989

The aim of this investigation was to delineate concepts contributing to the Exercise of Self-Care Agency (E.S.C.A.) Scale developed by Kearney & Fleischer (1979) and to test its construct validity and its predictors. The results are summarized as follows ; 1. By means of principal factor analysis and maximal likelihood factor analysis upon data generated from 280 undergraduate students, the factors of Concern about Health Knowledge, self-Concept, Information - Seeking Behavior, Decision -making and Responsibility, Self-esteem, and Passivity emerged. The total percent of variance explained by the 6 factors was 75.1% 2. To assess factor independence and instrument homogeneity, correlations among the 6 factors were computed. The correlations ranged from .24 to .46 indicating that the factors and the items were not too similar or redundant. 3. Test-retest reliability of the total scale is r＝.70. Cronbach's $\alpha$ coefficient for internal consistency of the total scale is .86 and that of the factors ranged from .750 to .661 (only factor 6 .497). 4. In additional analysis of the Exercise of Self-Care Agency Scale in relationship to Multiple Health Locus of Control, Family Environmental Scale, and Cornell Medical Index using stepwise multiple regression, the Internal Health Locus of Control Score predicted 21.8%(F＝53.34, p＝.0001), Family Environmental Score 8.3%(F＝22.59, P＝.0001), Modified Cornell Medical Index Score 5.4%(F＝15.74, P＝.0001) of the score of the E.S.C.A.