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International Diversification Effects on Korean Information Service Firms

  • KIM, Kihyun
    • Fourth Industrial Review
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2021
  • Purpose - International diversification, a critical issue in research and practice, undoubtedly represents a growth strategy with great potential impact on firm performance. Although the literature has widely examined the relationship between international diversification and firm performance in international business and strategic management research, it remains unconfirmed. This study, therefore, aims to clarify the relationship as it relates to information service firms. Research design, data and methodology - To examine the international diversification-performance relationship, this study uses a sample of major Korean service firms spread over four industries spanning a period of five years between 2005 and 2009. In this study. generalized least square was used to analyze the relationship between international diversification and performance of service firms. Result - The result showed the U-shaped curvilinear form between international diversification and performance in service firms. Especially, IT service firms may differ from other service firms that the negative effect of internationality may have weaker than other types of service firm. Conclusion - Based on the empirical results, the U-shape relationship between international diversification and performance is confirmed in Korea service firms. Furthermore, information service firm may reduce the initial internationalization cost by transferring codified and digitized information using information and communication technology, so that gain benefit from early international expansion.

A Study on the Service Operation Activities of the Customer-Oriented for the Customer Satisfaction (고객지향적인 서비스운영활동이 고객만족에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • 김계수
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.76-92
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    • 2001
  • As service firms continue to seek unique sources of sustainable competitive advantage, service quality has been discussed as a potential alternative to traditional skills and sources. The information of customers is generally believed to be a key component in creating corporate responsiveness to customer requests. In order to develop and maintain long-term close relationships with customers(CRM), service firms need to build an effective and ongoing service quality information system(SQIS). Service firms that formally collect customer-related information and internal service quality information were to be more responsive. The purpose of the present study is twofold. 1. How to nicely get the information on the service quality. 2. How to build a SQIS. One of numerous examples from financial service-sector firms is given to show that SQIS can be developed to improve service quality This paper investigates SQIS of a Korean commercial bank as an example. Implications and strategies for building an effective SQIS for financial service-sector firms are discussed, and directions for future research are indicated.

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International Roaming Service Management Methodology Based on Network Management Information (망관리 정보에 기반한 국제로밍 서비스 품질 관리 기법)

  • Kim Ji-Sun;Kim Sung;In Hyung-June
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.73-76
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    • 2006
  • International Roaming is a kind of telecommunication service that enables subscribers use the same mobile number when they go abroad and access other service provider's network. International roaming call is made through three network parts-home (original service provider) network, intermediate network, and local (overseas service provider) network. It is not possible to monitor every section of whole roaming service network because service providers do not provide their network management information to other service providers. The limitation causes harsh problem when a service anomaly arises and operators have to confirm the reason of failure. To solve this problem, we propose a scheme that deduces roaming service status of each overseas service provider using internal network management information. SK telecom implemented a international roaming service management system based on the scheme using performance measurement of signaling points, roaming service nodes, and charging data from existing network management systems.

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An Analysis on the Information Service of the Library and Information Science Curriculum in South Korea (우리나라 문헌정보학과 교과목의 정보서비스 영역에 대한 분석)

  • Nam, Young-Joon
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.343-362
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this research was to derive a expansive curriculum management measure by analyzing the curriculum on the field of library and information service. To fulfill this goal, five major South Korean universities and four major US graduate schools were selected for comparison of the curriculum on information service. In addition, the research analyzed the required examination subjects for the employment of librarians of public library. The comparison was conducted to comprehend the curricular contents of an academic information service; the latter was to identify the curricular contents of information service required by the libraries. the analysis showed that the field of academic information service included the knowledge on the information source of each area(collection development, subject bibliography, etc.) and the knowledge on user analysis(information service, user-study, reading guidance, etc.) Moreover, the employment requirement of the manager-level national examination demanded a comprehensive knowledge on information service theories, subject sources and users. The findings confirmed the need to strengthen the special subject service education in the information service curriculum.

A Study on the Satisfaction Analysis of Information Service for Port Logistics (항만물류 정보서비스의 만족도 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hong-Girl
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.57-71
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    • 2014
  • Information which port provide to users including shipping companies is essential information for their business performance. Thus, information service of several services which port provide to shipping company is also very important port-logistics service. However, despite of this importance, there have been little research related to port-logistics information service. The aim of this study is to analyze the satisfaction of information service for port logistics. To achieve this objective, evaluation criteria consisting of 16 items based on the previous research was established. And satisfaction index that can effectively show the current level of information service for port logistics was developed. The results of analysis showed that satisfaction index of information service provided by Busan port was 61.90. And from the data analysis, it was revealed that current level of information service in whole area was less than 63 points. It was implied that improvement for overall port-logistics information service was needed. Finally, from the follow-up research, it was found that information service provided by Busan port have weakness in the aspects of unification of information and celerity of information.

The Effect of Information Service Quality on Customer Loyalty: A Customer Relationship Management Perspective (정보서비스품질이 고객로열티에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 고객관계관리 관점)

  • Kim, Hyung-Su;Gim, Seung-Ha;Kim, Young-Gul
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 2008
  • As managing customer relationship gets more important, companies are strengthening information service using multi-channels to their customers as a part of their customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives. It means companies are now accepting such information services not as simple information -delivering tools, but as strategic initiatives for acquiring and maintaining customer loyalty. In this paper, we attempt to validate whether or not such various information services would impact on organizational performance in terms of CRM strategy. More specifically, our research objective is to answer the next three questions: first, how to construct the instruments to measure not information quality but information service quality?; second, which attributes of information service quality can influence corporate image and customer loyalty?; finally, does each information service type have unique characteristics compared with others in terms of influencing corporate image and customer loyalty? With respect to providing answers to those questions, the previous studies had been limited in that those studies failed to consider the variety of types of information service or restricted the quality of information service to information quality. An appropriate research model answering the above questions should consider the fact that most companies are utilizing multi channels for their information services, and include the recent strategic information service such as customer online community. Moreover, since corporate information service could be regarded as a type of products or services delivered to customer, it is necessary to adopt the criteria for assessing customer's perceived value when to measure the quality of information service. Therefore, considering both multi-channels and multi-traits may enable us to tell the detailed causal routes showing which quality attributes of which information service would affect corporate image and customer loyalty. As information service channels, we include not only homepage and DM (direct mail), which are the most frequently applied information service channels, but also online community, which is getting more strategic importance in recent years. With respect to information service quality, we abstract information quality, convenience of information service, and timeliness of information service through a wide range of relevant literature reviews. As our dependant variables, we consider corporate image and customer loyalty that both of them are the critical determinants of organizational performance, and also attempt to grasp the relationship between the two constructs. We conducted a huge online survey at the homepage of one of representative dairy companies in Korea, and gathered 367 valid samples from 407 customers. The reliability and validity of our measurements were tested by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and principal factor analysis respectively, and seven hypotheses were tested through performing correlation test and multiple regression analysis. The results from data analysis demonstrated that timeliness and convenience of homepage have positive effects on both corporate image and customer loyalty. In terms of DM, its' information quality was represented to influence both corporate image and customer loyalty, but we found its' convenience have a positive effect only on corporate image. With respect to online community, we found its timeliness contribute significantly both to corporate image and customer loyalty. Finally, as we expected, corporate image was revealed to provide a great influence to customer loyalty. This paper provides several academic and practical implications. Firstly, we think our research reinforces CRM literatures by developing the instruments for measuring information service quality. The previous relevant studies have mainly depended on the measurements of information quality or service quality which were developed independently. Secondly, the fact that we conducted our research in a real situation may enable academics and practitioners to understand the effects of information services more clearly. Finally, since our study involved three different types of information service which are most frequently applied in recent years, the results from our study might provide operational guidelines to the companies that are delivering their customers information by multi-channel. In other words, since we found that, in terms of customer loyalty, the key areas would be different from each other according to the types of information services, our analysis would help to make decisions such as selecting strengthening points or allocating resources by information service channels.

Web-based Information Systems and Service Quality of IS Department

  • Lee Woongkyu
    • Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.169-181
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    • 2003
  • As growth of the web-based applications, the requirements of the users who have been very familiar to the web-based user interfaces and customer-oriented services on the Internet would become more knowledge-intensive and higher technology involved in a more convenient and polite way of service delivery. Therefore, the service quality of information system department should be considered as a very important factor influencing success of information systems. The objective of this study is to provide the relationship between service quality of IS department and its impacts such as use, user satisfaction and job performance. For this purpose, we provide a research model for it and test it empirically for the users of the corporate portal in one of main telecommunication service providers in Korea. In result, our model with satisfiable validity and reliability shows not only importance of IS departments' service quality but also two-faced characteristics of service quality. That is, while technical competence which means with knowledge and expertise of IS department staffs is more related with user satisfaction on information systems, personal service which means the way and manner of service delivery is more related with use of it.

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Use of Conjoint Analysis to Test Customer Preferences on Database Service Quality for Knowledge Information (컨조인트 분석을 이용한 지식정보 데이터베이스 서비스 품질에 대한 고객 선호도 조사)

  • Park, Hye-Min;Park, Hee-Jun;Baek, Min-Ho;Park, Jong-Woo
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2008
  • This research is to study the core factors for knowledge information database service and very important database service quality factors to improve customer satisfaction. The database service quality has been critical issue rather than just information service in these days, because the qualitative aspect is becoming more important factors rather than quantitative aspect. As database service quality has been influenced by satisfaction of database user, it needs to try to get excellent results by enhancing ability to obtain information. In order to satisfy this condition, it needs to measure database service quality more accurately first. In this study, we apply conjoint analysis to measure how much to give quality condition to achieve customer satisfaction.

A Study on User-centered Information Service Applying Digital Information Service in Special Information Center (디지털정보서비스를 통한 전문정보센터의 이용자중심 정보서비스 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Hee-Yoon
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.54-73
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    • 1998
  • Responding to the growing trend toward information society through digitalization of relating tools, a specialized information center is called for the change in its role. It must create the more value-added service for customers by menas of combination of various digital media with communication network, domestic and foreign. This study analyzes the theoretical framework and concrete examples of digital information services in special information center pursuing user-centered service. To make an efficient execution of user-centered information service, the effort is needed to develop and enlarge digital information services improving the level of service.

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A study on the constructing strategies for the effective service of government information (국가보유정보의 효율적인 서비스 구축 방안에 관한 연구)

  • 이응봉
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.27
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    • pp.211-244
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study is to provide some constructing strategies for the effective service of government informations aiming at enhancing the quality of public services and the competitiveness of government in case of Korea. The major suggestions of this study are as follows: First, the constructing strategies for the effective service of government informations should be implemented in the level of national government reforms. Second, the constructing strategies for the effective service of government informations are to drive at linking the related policies and the use of information communication technologies. Third, the constructing strategies for the effective service of government informations are should be based on the information superhighway project initiated in 1994. Fourth, the constructing strategies for the effective service of government informations are to drive at introducing the concepts of IRM(Information Resources Management) and emphasizing the concepts of information transfer. Fifth, the constructing strategies for the effective service of government informations are to drive at adapting the related new information technologies including Internet by a means to full joint utilization of information. Sixth, the constructing strategies for the effective service of government informations are to drive at the policy of full joint utilization of information linking through the private and public sector. Finally, the constructing strategies for the effective service of government informations are to drive at considering the linkage of other countries and international organizations.

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