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The Quality Circle, SMEs' Performance, and Mediating Role of Organizational Ambidexterity (품질관리관행과 중소기업 성과간의 관계에 대한 연구: 조직내 맥락적 양면성의 매개효과 검증을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Soonok;Rhee, Jaehoon;Zhao, Xiaifei
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.163-176
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    • 2017
  • The fourth industrial revolution and creative economy are in the center of today's economic environments. In this context, venture companies make great efforts in achieving innovative capability for sustainable growth. Especially, in order to create the innovative capability or innovation performance, they are very much interested in obtaining such characteristics of organizational ambidexterity as exploration and exploitation. Thus, this study aims to study the organizational contextual ambidexterity as a key factor to create SMEs' performance and to conduct an empirical research with the data collected from domestic SMEs in order to find the antecedent and consequence of this ambidexterity. In so doing, we selected as an antecedent of contextual ambidexterity quality management practice, which is an innovative method of enterprise innovation and enterprise level, innovation performance (radical and incremental Innovation performance) as a consequence and ran a series of regression analyses. As a result, quality management practices such as quality circle activities have had positive effect on organizational ambidexterity, that is, exploration and exploration, and contextual ambidexterity has affected positively on innovation performance. It is also found that the contextual ambidexterity plays a full mediating role in the relationship between quality management practices and innovation performance. The results of this study suggest that contextual ambidexterity is essential to achieving organizational innovation performance and quality management activities such as quality circle should be preceded in order to stimulate or stimulate contextual ambidexterity.

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A Study of Effect of Collaboration for Supplier's Strategic Benefits in Electronic Partnerships (전자적 파트너십에서 공급자의 전략적 혜택 창출을 위한 협업의 효과에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jin-Wan;Kim, Yu-Il;Hong, Tae-Ho
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.341-367
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    • 2008
  • This study propose a model relating supplier's use of IOIS(Inter-Organizational Information Systems) to strategic benefits through extension of Subramani's research model. In extended model, collaboration serves as a safeguard for relationship-specific intangible asset. Specifically, we evaluate how two patterns of IOIS use by supplier(exploitation and exploration) relate to two specific types of relationship-specific intangible asset(business process specificity and domain knowledge specificity), which in turn are posited to promote collaboration and strategic benefits. To explore the current study, questionnaire survey was conducted on 72 first-tier supplier firms in the manufacturing industry. Based on the survey results, we posits the following : (1) Each pattern of IOIS use directly promotes a specific type of relationship-specific intangible asset. The path of the relationship between IOIS use for exploitation and domain knowledge specificity is positive but not significant. The other paths are positive and significant. (2) Both types of relationship-specific intangible asset have a positive and significant impact on collaboration. (3) Domain knowledge specificity influences on strategic benefits but business process specificity does not have an effect on them. (4) Collaboration affects supplier's strategic benefits. These findings provide a deeper understanding of the mechanism of how the pattern of IOIS use can result in strategic benefits for supplier firms.

Characterization of gas-water flow in tight sandstone based on authentic sandstone micro-model

  • Liu, Yuqiao;Lyu, Qiqi;Luo, Shunshe
    • Geosystem Engineering
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.318-325
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    • 2018
  • Eight tight sandstone reservoir samples from $He_8$ and $Shan_1$ Formations of the Sulige Gas field were selected to perform gas-water micro-displacement experiment based on authentic sandstone micro-model. The gas pressure-relief experiment was proposed for the first time to simulate the pressure change and gas-water percolation characteristics in the process of gas exploitation. The experiment results show that: (1) In the process of gas accumulation, the gas preferentially flows into the well-connected pores and throats with large radius, but rarely flows into the area without pores and throats. (2) Under sufficient gas drive, the water in pores and throats usually exists in the forms of 'thin water film', 'thick water film', and 'water column', but under insufficient gas drive, gas fails to flow into new pathways in time, so that the reservoirs with large pores and throats are high in water cut. (3) Under the same water saturation, the reservoirs with better petrophysical properties has higher gas recovery factor within unit time. Under the same petrophysical conditions, the reservoirs with lower water saturation show higher gas recovery factor within unit time. The higher the permeability, the stronger the liquid carrying capacity of reservoirs.

Proposal of Establishing a New International Space Agency for Mining the Natural Resources in the Moon, Mars and Other Celestial Bodies

  • Kim, Doo-Hwan
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.313-374
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    • 2020
  • The idea of creating a new International Space Agency (ISA) is only my academic and practical opinion. It is necessary for us to establish ISA as an international organization for the efficient and rapid exploitation of natural resources in the moon, Mars and other celestial bodies. The establishment of ISA as a new international regime is based on the Article 11, 5 and Article 18 of the 1979 Moon Agreement. In order to establish as a preliminary procedure, it needs to make a "Draft for the Convention on the Establishment of an International Space Agency" among the space-faring countries. In this paper, I was examined the domestic space legislation in the United States, Luxembourg, European Space Agency, China, Japan, the Republic of Korea as well as space exploration and planning of the moons, Mars, Asteroids, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Titan and Other Celestial Bodies. The creation of an ISA would lead to a strengthening of the cooperation needed essentially by the developed countries towards joint and cooperative undertakings in space and would act as a catalyst for the space exploration and exploitation of the moon, Mars and other celestial bodies. It will be managed effectively and centrally the exploitation and exploitation of space the natural resources, technology, manpower and finances as an independent organization in order to get the benefit of the space developed countries by ISA. It is desirable and necessary for us to establish ISA in order to promote cooperation in space policy, law, science technology and industry among the space developed countries in the near future. The establishment of the ISA will be promoted the international cooperation among the space-faring countries in exploration and exploitations of the natural resources in the moon and other celestial bodies. I would propose the "Draft for the Convention for the Establishment of an International Space Agency." in refering the "Convention for the Establishment of a European Space Agency." This "Draft for the Convention Convention for the Establishment of an ISA" must pass the abovementioned "Draft for the Convention" by two-third majority of Diplomatic Conference in the UNCOPUOS. Finally, a very important point is need that a political drive at the highest level and a solemn statement by heads of state of the space devloped countries including the United Nations for the space exploitation of the medium and long term. It should be noted that this political drive will be necessary not only to set up the organization, but also during a subsequent period. It is desirable and necessary for us to establish the ISA in order to develop the space industry, to strengthen friendly relations and to promote research cooperation among the space-faring countries based on the new ideology and creative ideas. If the heads of the superpowers including the United Nations will be agreed to establish ISA at a summit conference, 1 am sure that it is possible to establish an ISA in the near future.

Q-learning based packet scheduling using Softmax (Softmax를 이용한 Q-learning 기반의 패킷 스케줄링)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Tae-Ho;Lee, Byung-Jun;Kim, Kyung-Tae;Youn, Hee-Yong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2019.01a
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    • pp.37-38
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    • 2019
  • 본 논문에서는 자원제한적인 IoT 환경에서 스케줄링 정확도 향상을 위해 Softmax를 이용한 Q-learning 기반의 패킷 스케줄링 기법을 제안한다. 기존 Q-learning의 Exploitation과 Exploration의 균형을 유지하기 위해 e-greedy 기법이 자주 사용되지만, e-greedy는 Exploration 과정에서 최악의 행동이 선택될 수도 있는 문제가 발생한다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 연구에서는 Softmax를 기반으로 다중 센서 노드 환경에서 데이터 패킷에 대한 Quality of Service (QoS) requirement 정확도를 높이기 위한 연구를 진행한다. 이 때 Temperature 매개변수를 사용하는데, 이는 새로운 정책을 Explore 하기 위한 매개변수이다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안된 Softmax를 이용한 Q-learning 기반의 패킷 스케줄링 기법이 기존의 e-greedy를 이용한 Q-learning 기법에 비해 스케줄링 정확도 측면에서 우수함을 보인다.

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Physical, mechanical and hydraulic properties of Inada granite and Shirahama sandstone in Japan

  • Zhang Ming;Takeda Mikio
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.206-213
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    • 2003
  • Laboratory testing of representative rock specimens is of fundamental necessity for the successful design and/or assessment of facilities associated with many kinds of underground exploitation, including the geological disposal of radioactive nuclear waste. As a fundamental and systematic study, a series of measurements of the physical, mechanical and hydraulic properties of Inada granite and Shirahama sandstone, two rock types that are widely available in Japan, have been performed. This paper presents the results of a study of the effective porosity, density, compressive and shear wave velocity, unconfined compressive strength and permeability of the two rocks. The anisotropy and the effects of confining pressure on the permeability of the rocks, as well as the relationships among the physical, mechanical and hydraulic properties, are also investigated and discussed.

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Hybrid Fireworks Algorithm with Dynamic Coefficients and Improved Differential Evolution

  • Li, Lixian;Lee, Jaewan
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 2021
  • Fireworks Algorithm (FWA) is a new heuristic swarm intelligent algorithm inspired by the natural phenomenon of the fireworks explosion. Though it is an effective algorithm for solving optimization problems, FWA has a slow convergence rate and less information sharing between individuals. In this paper, we improve the FWA. Firstly, explosion operator and explosion amplitude are analyzed in detail. The coefficient of explosion amplitude and explosion operator change dynamically with iteration to balance the exploitation and exploration. The convergence performance of FWA is improved. Secondly, differential evolution and commensal learning (CDE) significantly increase the information sharing between individuals, and the diversity of fireworks is enhanced. Comprehensive experiment and comparison with CDE, FWA, and VACUFWA for the 13 benchmark functions show that the improved algorithm was highly competitive.

A Relationship between International Entrepreneurship and Internationalization Performance (국제기업가정신과 국제화 성과와의 관계)

  • Choi, Yu-Ri;Bang, Ho-Yeol
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.321-336
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this research is to identify the global capability of international entrepreneurship, categorize internationalization opportunities into different types, and propose international entrepreneurship and the fit of opportunities. To do so, this study reviewed seven prominent business journals between 1996 and 2015 reflected the international business activities of entrepreneur and identified 6 attributes of international entrepreneurship. Second, this study analyzed researches using internationalization motivation as a keyword, categorized the researches into 4 types of internationalization opportunity according to the exploration and exploitation of resources. Third, this study developed conceptual models based on them to identify international entrepreneurship and fit of opportunities and gave a hypothesis on the relationship between international entrepreneurship, internationalization opportunity, and internationalization performance. By clarifying which capability of an international entrepreneur is needed in an internationalization opportunity, this study is expected to provide theoretical and practical implications to the internationalization performance of firms.

Fast Optimization by Queen-bee Evolution and Derivative Evaluation in Genetic Algorithms

  • Jung, Sung-Hoon
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.310-315
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes a fast optimization method by combining queen-bee evolution and derivative evaluation in genetic algorithms. These two operations make it possible for genetic algorithms to focus on highly fitted individuals and rapidly evolved individuals, respectively. Even though the two operations can also increase the probability that genetic algorithms fall into premature convergence phenomenon, that can be controlled by strong mutation rates. That is, the two operations and the strong mutation strengthen exploitation and exploration of the genetic algorithms, respectively. As a result, the genetic algorithm employing queen-bee evolution and derivative evaluation finds optimum solutions more quickly than those employing one of them. This was proved by experiments with one pattern matching problem and two function optimization problems.

Observer-Teacher-Learner-Based Optimization: An enhanced meta-heuristic for structural sizing design

  • Shahrouzi, Mohsen;Aghabaglou, Mahdi;Rafiee, Fataneh
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.62 no.5
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    • pp.537-550
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    • 2017
  • Structural sizing is a rewarding task due to its non-convex constrained nature in the design space. In order to provide both global exploration and proper search refinement, a hybrid method is developed here based on outstanding features of Evolutionary Computing and Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization. The new method introduces an observer phase for memory exploitation in addition to vector-sum movements in the original teacher and learner phases. Proper integer coding is suited and applied for structural size optimization together with a fly-to-boundary technique and an elitism strategy. Performance of the proposed method is further evaluated treating a number of truss examples compared with teaching-learning-based optimization. The results show enhanced capability of the method in efficient and stable convergence toward the optimum and effective capturing of high quality solutions in discrete structural sizing problems.