• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.451-459
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• 2020

This study aims to examine the relationship of the four factors that increase the protection of minority shareholder investment. The factors are non-controlling shareholders, corporate governance, free cash flow, and shareholder wealth. The data for this study is obtained from the 2017 annual reports of 136 Thai public companies listed in the Market of Alternative Investment of Thailand (MAI). The analysis uses a multiple regression model to determine which factors encourage and which inhibit the protection of minority shareholder investment. The study tests four hypotheses. The results rejected H1 because non-controlling shareholders have negatively correlated with minority shareholder investment protection (beta -0.155 and p-value 0.050). The results accepted H2, H3 and H4 as follows. H2: corporate governance has positively correlated with minority shareholder investment protection (beta 0.17 and p-value 0.031). H3: free cash flow has positively correlated with minority shareholder investment protection (beta 0.214 and p-value 0.007). H4: shareholder wealth has positively correlated with minority shareholder investment protection (beta 0.318 and p-value 0.000). The major findings suggest strong minority shareholder investment protection was enhanced by increasing corporate governance, free cash flow and shareholder wealth. The protection of minority shareholder investment needs to reduce non-controlling shareholding pattern.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.287-296
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• 2022

본 연구의 목적은 정부 보조금과 R&D 투자가 중국 환경보호 기업의 이윤 증가에 미치는 영향을 검증하는 것이다. 이를 위한 연구 방법은 161개 중국 환경보호 기업을 대상으로 중국 CSMAR 데이터베이스를 활용하여, 805개의 샘플을 채취한 통계자료를 이용해 실증 분석하였다. 분석 결과는 아래와 같다. 첫째, 정부 보조금은 중국 환경보호 기업의 이윤 증가에 긍정적 영향을 미쳤다. 둘째, 정부 보조금은 중국 환경보호 기업의 R&D 투자에 긍정적 영향을 미쳤다. 셋째, R&D 투자가 중국 환경보호 기업의 이윤 증가에 대한 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 넷째, 정부 보조금을 통한 R&D 투자는 중국 환경보호 기업의 이윤 증가에 미치는 영향에 대하여 부분적인 매개효과를 갖고 있다. 본 연구에서는 연구 결과를 바탕으로 중국 환경보호 기업에 대한 정부 보조금이 확대되고, 기업이 R&D 투자에 치중함으로써, 중국 환경보호 기업의 이윤 증가를 촉진시키는 방안을 제시하였다.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.21-33
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• 2014

본 연구는 최근에 해외직접투자의 결정요인으로써 간주되고 있는 투자대상국의 지적재산권 보호의 영향에 관하여 실증분석 하였다. 2000부터 2008년까지 미국의 다국적기업들을 대상으로 고정효과 모형(FEM)과 시스템 GMM을 사용하여 분석한 결과, 지적재산권 보호의 변화는 미국 다국적기업으로부터의 해외직접투자를 유입에 있어서 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 반면에, 지적재산권 보호의 정도는 유의적인 영향을 제공하지 않았다. 소득수준을 기준으로 고소득국가와 저소득국가로 나누어 실시한 추가 분석결과에서 역시 지적재산권 보호의 변화만이 저소득국가에서의 미국 다국적기업의 투자에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 패널자료의 특성상 오차항의 이분산성(heteroscedasticity)을 고려하여 전체 투자대상국을 상대로 FGLS와 PCSE 분석을 실시한 결과에서도 지적재산권 보호의 변화만이 해외직접투자의 유입에 긍정적인 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있으며, 동일한 방법으로 고소득국가와 저소득국가로 나누어 추가분석을 실시한 결과에서는, 저소득국가에서만 미국 다국적기업의 해외직접투자 유입에 유의적으로 긍정적인 영향을 제공하고 있음을 보여주었다. 이러한 결과는 투자대상국의 지적재산권 보호의 수준보다는 변화가 해외직접투자의 유입에 영향을 제공하는 것으로써, 특히 저소득국가가 미국 다국적 기업의 해외직접투자를 유입하기 위하여 지적재산권 보호의 변화에 대한 중요성을 시사한다.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.526-548
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• 2009

본고는 파키스탄의 외국인직접투자 정책에 영향을 미치는 관련법에 관한 고찰이다. 그동안 세계경제에서 소외되어 왔으나 글로벌 투자와 외국인 직접투자의 증가로 주목받는 파키스탄의 투자제도와 관련법규의 변천과정 등을 살펴보고 이와 관련된 주요법안인 외국인 민간투자(촉진.보호)법, 경제개혁의 보호법, 외화계좌(보호)법 등을 중점적으로 분석하였다. 본고에서는 이러한 법안들이 후속 실행되지 못하고 종종 정책의 변화가 일어나는 과정에 주목하였으며 외국인 직접투자의 주요 정책과 제도의 소개를 통해 현지 진출시 외국기업들이 숙지해야 하는 핵심사항을 법과 정책적 차원에서 고찰하였다.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.127-147
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• 2013

Korea is, after China, the Asian country with the largest number of concluded investment treaties. One of the protections that Korean investment treaties frequently afford to foreign investors and their investment is the so-called "umbrella clause," which requires the host state of the investment to observe the commitments that it has undertaken toward the foreign investor or its investment. This is a potentially very powerful protection. Umbrella clauses, however, have proven to be amongst the most controversial provisions in investment treaties, giving rise to diverging interpretations by tribunals and commentators that are still not reconciled today.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.91-106
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• 2019

In the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the importance of information protection is increasing day by day with the advent of the 'hyper-connection society', and related government financial investment is also increasing. The source of the government's fiscal investment projects is taxpayers' money. Therefore, the government needs to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of the project by comparing the public benefits created by the financial investment projects with the costs required for it. At present, preliminary feasibility study system which evaluates the feasibility of government financial investment projects in Korea has been implemented since 1994, but most of them have been actively carried out only in some fields such as large SOC projects. In this study, we discuss the feasibility evaluation of public projects for the purpose of information security. we introduce the case study of the personal information protection program of Korean public institutions and propose a cost-effectiveness analysis method that can be applied to the feasibility study of the information protection field. Finally, we presented the feasibility study and criteria applicable in the field of information security.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.57-77
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• 2008

The $21^{st}$ century is a new century of environmental protection. Environmental protection is one of the most important subject matters yet to come. Moreover, as the public pays more attention to environmental problems, enterprises should increase their investment in environmental management. Therefore, determining the investment level for environmental management and allocating the investment to associated environmental management activities has become a major task. The principal and agent theory and sales response functions are used for analysis in this research. The allocation of capital investment in environmental management is found to have significant impact on the aggregate sales response, aggregate profit and investment level. Therefore, in preparing the budget for environmental management, enterprises should focus on investment allocation decisions, determine the investment level and allocation method using integrated means, and apply submarket data in the allocation decision-making process. In other words, in setting the investment level, executive management should take managers' willingness into consideration. In allocating capital investment, managers should identify the optimal allocation method based on submarket characteristics.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제57권
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• pp.61-78
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to clarify the standard of fair and equitable treatment. Although most international investment treaties prescribe fair and equitable treatment that is the obligation to provide fair and equitable treatment to foreign investor, there is no clear definition and specific elements of fair and equitable treatment. Through the arbitral award cases we can find that tribunals have interpreted to include six principles; Due process & Protection from denial of justice, Good faith, Reasonableness & Nondiscrimination, Compliance with contractual obligation, Full protection and security, Transparency & Protection of the investor's legitimate expectations. This study suggest that host countries and investors focus on international trends concerning investment disputes in order to avoid future disputes. So future disputes can be prevented and prepared in advance.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.139-154
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• 2012

This paper provides a theoretical setup for an analysis of strategic relationships inherent to activities of an innovative multinational enterprise (MNE) and a local company in a host country. Additionally, we explore the incentives of the host country's government to provide subsidies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and to protect outcomes of R&D activities conducted by the MNE. We show that the MNE's commercial interests may collide with local companies' over protection of IPRs. Therefore, the extent of knowledge spillovers from the MNE to the local company and the magnitude of incentives to the MNE perform a crucial function in determining the optimal policy mix of IPR protection and FDI subsidies of the host country's government.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.123-156
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• 2004

Settlement of investment disputes is quite different from that of commercial disputes arising from ordinary commercial transactions in view of disputing parties, applicable laws and rules, etc.. Therefore, it is very important to consider the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States(Washington Convention) of 1965. The creation of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes(ICSID), which was established under the Washington Convention, was the belief that an institution specially designed to facilitate the settlement of investment disputes between governments and foreign investors could help to promote increased flows of international investment. Pursuant to the Washington Convention, ICSID provides facilities for the conciliation and arbitration of disputes between member countries and investors who qualify as nationals of other member countries. Recourse to ICSID conciliation and arbitration is entirely voluntary. However, once the parties have consented to arbitration under the Washington Convention, neither can unilaterally withdraw its consent. Moreover, all Contracting States of the Washington Convention are required by the Convention to recognize and enforce ICSID arbitral awards. Provisions on ICSID arbitration are commonly found in investment contracts between governments of member countries and investors from other member countries. Advance consents by governments to submit investment disputes to ICSID arbitration can also be found in many bilateral investment treaties including the Korea-China Agreement on the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investments(1992), the Korea-Japan Agreement for the Liberalization, Promotion and Protection of Investment(2003) and the Korea-Chile FTA, the latter was signed as of February 15, 2003 and is still pending in the National Assembly for its ratification. Arbitration under the auspices of ICSID is similarly one of the main mechanism for the settlement of investment disputes under the bilateral treaties on investment. Therefore, it is a problem of vital importance that Korean parties interested in investment to foreign countries should understand and cope with the settlement mechanism of investment disputes under the Washington Convention and bilateral investment treaties.