• 해운물류연구
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.657-675
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• 2018

본 연구는 미국 북서부 주요항만의 그린항만을 창출하기 위한 다양한 정책프로그램들을 검토하고 이를 우리나라 주요항만에 적용하기 방안을 제시하였다. 먼저 퍼지분석과정을 토대로 우리나라 그린항만 조성을 위한 주요 정책 프로그램의 중요도를 비교 분석하였으며 중요도 분석결과 그린 쉽 인센티브 프로그램과 탄소 발자국 프로그램이 가장 중요한 정책으로 분석되었다. 먼저, 인천항에 우선적으로 도입되어야 할 정책 프로그램으로는 AMP 설치 운영, 입항 선박 감속 운항인 것으로 분석되었으며. 부산항의 경우에도 AMP설치 운영, 입항선박 감속 운항, 탄소 발자국, DPF 장착 둥이 우수한 정책으로 분석되었다. 이러한 결과들은 각 항만공사의 정책입안자들에게 실무적으로 적용 할 수 있는 시사점들을 제공해 줄 수 있을 것이다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.253-265
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• 2022

This paper examines South Korea's past developmental experience and its current strategy and policy initiatives to overcome global and domestic challenges and sustain economic growth in the twenty-first century, the digital and global era, to explain how the country became a high-income economy. The findings of this research highlight the following three factors: First, the most significant factor in rapid industrialization was the adoption of an outward-looking strategy, with the help of a highly skilled workforce and the development of high-tech manufacturing and services sectors, which was supported by the government plans. Second, the high R&D intensity helped South Korea become a global leader in information and communication technologies, which has emerged from a top-down innovation system that promotes close collaboration between government, industry, and the academic community. Third, according to the recently released Global Entrepreneurship Index, South Korea tops the region in entrepreneurship environment. Among the list of criteria, South Korea dominates in the ease of starting a business and enforcing contracts. They all play a significant role in encouraging investment, production, communication, and, eventually, economic growth. Finally, this paper suggests forward-looking developments promoting transformation and diversification into high-tech manufacturing and digital and green technologies.

• 환경정책연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.43-73
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• 2014

우리나라의 도시들은 과거 급격한 도시화를 겪으면서 방재, 안전의 개념이 도시개발에 충분히 반영되지 못했을 뿐 아니라, 개발에 따른 불투수층 확대에 따라 강수, 저류, 침투, 증발산 및 유출로 이어지는 자연적인 물순환 체계의 왜곡을 초래했다. 최근 선진국들을 중심으로 그린인프라를 활용하여 도시 물순환 체계를 개선하고 도시의 홍수저감 효과를 높이는 노력들이 강조되고 있다. 그러나 우리나라는 접근성이나 심미성의 측면으로만 그린인프라를 계획하고 있어 그린인프라가 가지는 다양한 효과들을 제대로 활용하고 있지 못하다. 이에 도시 물순환을 개선하고 홍수저감 기능을 효과적으로 활용할 수 있는 그린인프라 계획 프레임워크를 개발하고 이를 시범지역에 적용하고자 한다. 프레임워크의 1단계에서는 해당지역의 여건 및 문제점을 분석하고, 2단계에서는 홍수취약성 분석을 통해 취약성이 높은 지역을 도출하고 이 지역을 중심으로 그린인프라 우선 설치지역을 도출하는 공간계획을 수립한다. 홍수취약성은 빈도 비모형과 GIS를 활용한 정량적 분석방법론을 활용하였다. 3단계에서는 해당 지역의 지리적 여건, 홍수 경험, 재정 등 다양한 지역여건을 고려하여 그린인프라 기법을 선정하는 과정을 포함하고 있다. 개발된 프레임워크를 부산시 연제구와 남구에 적용하여 주요 취약지역을 대상으로 공원, 빗물정원, 투수성 포장 등을 활용한 구체적인 그린인프라 계획을 제안하였다. 그린인프라 계획 프레임워크가 도시계획, 환경계획, 개발계획 등 다양한 도시공간계획과 연계되어 반영된다면 보다 효과적인 그린인프라 활용에 도움이 될 것으로 기대한다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.205-214
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• 2019

This paper aims to discover factors and their influences degree to repurchase organic cosmetic in Vietnam. In addition, this research also discloses the main segments that have high demand re-buying intention based on demographic groups of gender, age, income, educational level, job, type of products, and place of production. Twenty-eight scale was designed based on previous studies and adjusted to match the 5-point Likert scale to conduct measurement. By using survey method to test hypotheses and set up conceptual models to collect 295 Vietnamese consumers who have experience in consuming organic cosmetic by explain the results through Smart PLS software. The findings show that there is positive attitude of customers to the intention of acquiring organic cosmetics, green perceived and customer satisfaction. In addition, customer satisfaction, knowledge of products, safety values, and environmental protection consciousness also play important roles to form a positive attitude of customers for products. Moreover, the consciousness of green living of consumers accounts for a high proportion in creating customer satisfaction for organic products. The results show useful information for current premises to determine the factors that influence the decision to repurchase organic cosmetic product, that provide business strategies.

• 한국태양광발전학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.21-34
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• 2020

Sri Lanka has strongly understood the importance of mitigation of climate change and various measures have been taken. To tackle the climate change, after ratifying Paris Agreement, Sri Lanka has pledged to reduce her greenhouse gas emission in the energy sector by 20% (16% unconditional and 4% conditional) by 2030 based on the BAU scenario. Simultaneously, the government introduced its new energy policy and strategies in 2019 with a vision of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. This paper survey related key government documents, policies, reports, and academic articles to investigate opportunities for the private sector to invest large scale solar power deployment (10 MW or above) and to get support from climate finance under article 6 of the Paris Agreement. It has found, growing concern on the environment, energy security issues and increase import expenses for fossil fuels are the main influencing factors to move renewable sources. Further, government investment and FDI both have gradually decreased in the energy sector. Therefore, an alternative financing mechanism is needed. Although the private sector allowed investing in the energy sector since 1996 with the introduction of IPP (Independent Power Producers), it could not make considerable progress on involving large scale solar utility projects. This has revealed government policy is not aligning with the long term generation plan of the electricity sector. The study has also found, it needs more strategic road map, coordination with different institutions, monitoring system to enhance large scale solar contribution.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.143-155
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• 2018

The article compares economic and environmental performance of Taipei and Almaty from the point of view of "green" economy, which is able to act as a key tool to ensure sustainable development of the region. As the comparison of the parameters of ecological and economic development of the Taipei and Almaty cities shows, they are similar in population size, but demonstrate completely different trends of sustainable development. Economic performance of the Taipei city is achieved with a decrease in the consumption of natural resources and the production of pollution, while the situation in Almaty is the opposite. Almaty maintains a high level of air pollution due to the use of coal in electricity production, as well as increased traffic and density of construction, including the southern part of the city, which is a zone for the transit of mountain air flows. The article discusses the activities jointly conducted by the Government of Taiwan and non-governmental organizations on environmental issues, as well as environmental NGOs, which resulted in significant improvements in the environmental field. Measures to stimulate the development and implementation of environmental innovations applied in the field of sustainable development in the city of Taipei can be adapted for the city of Almaty, where the environmental situation deteriorates year by year.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권10호
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• pp.1025-1034
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• 2020

This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework for Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) that takes into account the effect of GSCM drivers on implementing GSCM practices in Vietnam FDI companies. This study has considered organizational commitment, social network, and government support as GSCM driver factors and proposed a structural model of the relationships between GSCM drivers and GSCM practices in Vietnam FDI companies. The empirical analysis used data from 192 questionnaires which used a comprehensive, valid, and reliable tool (SPSS 26 and SmartPLS 3.0 software) to evaluate rigorous statistical tests including convergence validity, discriminatory validity, reliability, and Average Variance Extracted (AVE) to analyze and verify the gathered data and develop the hypothesis. The result of path analysis shows that GSCM driver factors constitute a structured system with different degrees of influence on GSCM drivers and GSCM practices. Organizational commitment and government support has a positive relationship with both GSCM drivers and GSCM practices, while social network only has a positive relationship on GSCM drivers. As a result, the testing of the relationship between GSCM drivers and GSCM practices has been verified and supported. The findings of this study can help managers and decision-makers to push the implementation of GSCM practices in FDI companies.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.951-959
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• 2021

The study investigated the effect of food safety knowledge, food safety trust and the factors influencing organic food purchase intention in the 'new normal' of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study employed non-contrived and cross-sectional methods. The data was collected in Malaysia using convenience sampling. A total of 330 valid questionnaires were analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and PROCESS for hypothesis testing. The study revealed a significant relationship involving food safety knowledge on personal attitude, perceived social pressure, and perceived autonomy. Moreover, organic food purchase intention was found to be influenced by personal attitude, perceived social pressure, and perceived autonomy. Interestingly, trust in organic food safety moderated the relationship between perceived autonomy and organic food purchase intention. The study proved valuable for stakeholders and organic food producers to understand the 'new normal' COVID-19 market scenario for a sound understanding of the market and the sustainability of the organic food industry. A new research framework is proposed and validated, related to individual purchase decision in global health issues which is limited in current literature. Hence, the study contributed to a better comprehension of green consumerism mainly in the Asian market.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.255-262
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• 2021

The paper examines the influence of ownership type on environmental performance of Chinese listed enterprises. China's environmental problems are attributed to the collusion between enterprises and economy-oriented local governments, which has allowed many companies to skirt environmental regulations. Especially, local state-owned enterprises (SOEs) tend to have worse environmental performance than private firms, under the wing of local governments, with whom they have a closer political connection. According to the report of the Environmental Protection Agency, currently the unacceptably poor environmental performance of local SOEs has severely hampered the realization of green economy in China. After examining the dataset of 15,996 firm-year observations from 2,688 listed firms, this paper found that, in the presence of central government supervision and personnel intervention, listed local SOEs will be forced to improve their environmental performance in accordance with standards set by the central government, which leads to better environmental performance than that of listed private firms (private firms). The result of two-stage regression also supports the conclusion. This shows increased supervision and personnel intervention from the central government can significantly improve the environmental performance of local SOEs. The research in this paper expects to make a contribution to attaining the goal of green economy in China.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1295-1302
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• 2021

The study aims to investigate the antecedents affecting purchase intention in the category of green skincare products. Many studies have used the theory of planned behavior to investigate factors affecting intention to purchase products in general. This paper not only retests the influences of attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control on the intention to buy eco-friendly skincare products but also suggests a new antecedent - environment knowledge of purchase intention. More importantly, this study is the first to propose the moderating effect of country of origin and product knowledge on the relationship between attitude and purchase intention. This study employs a sample of 350 female customers from 18 to 39 years old in Ho Chi Minh City. The research applies the Multiple Linear Regression to analyze the proposed hypotheses in the conceptual framework and results in significant outcomes. The result shows that attitude is the most influential factor then, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and environmental knowledge. Most importantly, the findings of this study suggest that product knowledge is found to moderate the effect of attitude on purchase intention. The finding of moderating effect is a new contribution to the literature and future research can be carried out to validate this result.