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Improving the Contractor-subcontractor Relationship Through Partnering on Construction Projects in Zambia

  • Mudzvokorwa, Tafadzwa;Mwiya, Balimu;Mwanaumo, Erastus M.
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2020
  • With the increased dependence on subcontracting in the construction industry, the operational relationship between main contractors and subcontractor plays an imperative role in successful project delivery. Consequently, improving this relationship increases the probability of project success and enhancing project performance. A wide range of research has confirmed that partnering improves the main contractor-subcontractor relationship. Though the positive impact of partnering on project performance is supported by a plethora of evidence, the guiding theory on practical partnering process steps is limited. The study aimed at improving subcontracting in the construction industry through a partnering process relevant to Zambia guided by factors obtained from industry expects. Questionnaire surveys and Semi-structured interview were adopted to investigate the perception of construction industry professionals and academics towards the main contractor-subcontractor relationship along with improvement factors. The findings showed that the relationship between main contractors and subcontractors on most projects in Zambia is unsatisfactory therefore justifying attention. Top factors that can enhance the main contractor-subcontractor relationship were identified. From the factors deduced and guidelines on partnering best practices, a project partnering model was developed.

Internationalization Strategy of the Fisheries - Processing Firms of Korea (우리나라 수산물가공기업의 국제화전략)

  • 하종욱;박영병;어윤양
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.19-51
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    • 1991
  • The objectives of the study are to look into the fisheries processing industry, analyze problems the industry has, and develop strategies for the industry to take care of the problems. The study was performed in two different dimensions : industry level and firm level. Nevertheless, the study focused on the following main problem areas raw material, production, technology development, internationalization, and managerial performance. The secondary data were utilized to analyze problems at the industry level, For analyzing the firm level situation, an empirical study by using a mail survey with a questionnaire was accomplished. The main problems found were as follows : First, difficulty in procuring raw material was the most serious and main problem. It was caused, externally, by the announcement of 200 nautical miles by most of fishery abundant countries and, internally, by drying fishery resources in the nation's coastal areas ; Second, the rate of fishery processing has been continuously increased and the degree of the processing has also been sophisticated, which implies the pattern of demand for the fishery has been changing widely and deeply. The industry, however, seemed to be unable to meet the consumers' satisfaction ; Third, with the importance of technology for ensuring the changing demands in the fishery processing industry, there has been little effort in research and development both at industry level and at the firm level ; Next, the industry has mainly involved in exporting in association with internationalization. Not to mention about foreign direct investment, technology transfer was not active ; Finaliy, most of firms were densely located in a few areas. The managerical performance in terms of main financial ratios still needs to be improved. Thus, strategies, which would take care of the repective problems, were developed. At industry level, the strategies were developed by reasoning mostly based on the findings from the literature survey. A scheme for internationalization of the firms was suggested. This was made by extracting the factors which would differentiate the firms' internationalization stages. In order to achieve this analysis, discriminant approach was employed. Despite the utility of the findings, it was mostly emphasized that harmonious efforts among government, the industry supporting institutions such as banks, and firms are needed for the successful operation of the strategies. Also, a list of areas for further study was provided especially in relation to the validity threatening parts of the study.

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A Study on Priority of Classification System for Agro-healing Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

  • Yoo, Eunha;Park, Yumin;Jeong, Sun Jin;Kim, Jae Soon;Kang, Yong Ku;Jeong, Yeo Jin
    • Journal of People, Plants, and Environment
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.663-672
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    • 2021
  • Background and objective: As the 'Healing Agriculture Research and Development and Promotion Act' came into effect on March 25, 2021, social interest in agro-healing has been increasing exponentially. This study was conducted to analyze the priorities of agro-healing classification system and to provide basic data to inform policy directions and related research for the development and activation of agro-healing. Methods: The survey data collected from 18 experts were analyzed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method in determine the relative weights of the main and sub-criteria for the classification system. There were three main criteria identified: agro-healing input industry, agro-healing service industry, and agro-healing-related/derived industry. There were also 11 sub-criteria. Results: The top three sub-criteria with the highest complex weights include "community service," "social rehabilitation" and "treatment and rehabilitation," all of which correspond to the main criterion "agro-healing service industry". In addition, the complex weights of the sub-criteria corresponding to the main criterion "agro-healing related/derived industry" are as follows: "other agro-healing support service," which ranked 4th, and "training and education institutions for agro-healing experts," which ranked 5th when prioritizing the criteria. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that the main criterion to be considered first in establishing a classification system is "agro-healing service industry". Therefore, it is necessary to continue research on detailed service classifications and systems with verified validity to ensure expertise in human resources, and organization related to social purpose services in agro-healing.

The Present and Prospect of China IT industry

  • Liu, Shin-Il
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.190-197
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    • 2006
  • China has been aware of the urgent need of developing electronic and information industry in order to improve its productivity. Since 1991, IT industry has been one of the main factors to influence China's economic growth. In the results of the efforts to develop its IT industry, China has achieved average 25% yearly growth rate of IT manufacturing industry since 1991. We will take a look at haw the main IT products' performances was, how the role of IT industry was in China economy and in China's trade and how the prospect of China IT industry will be. However, we need to know that, depending an the different areas, the environment of the China's IT industry will be quite different. In China, the east coastal area has the better environment of technology, menpower, infrastructure, and fund for the development of IT industry and the IT industry of this area is very competitive, comparing with the middle and west area.

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A Study on Main Problems of Electronic Commerce in China

  • Park, Eun Ok;Shin, Gun Hoon
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.56
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    • pp.77-100
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    • 2012
  • China draws lots of attention from many multinational corporations all over the world as one of the biggest market in the world. Due to the huge territory and explosive population, it is considered that China has endless potentiality. Moreover, since China joined the WTO, China opens its market, developing the policies for opening of its market. Based on the enormous purchasing power, China gets another attention in industry of electronic commerce. With the development and expansion of information technologies, China's electronic commerce has rapidly developed. Since the market of electronic commerce in China is in the developing stage, there is still a big market for electronic commerce and also Chinese government has made much effort in order to develop the industry of electronic commerce. However, in spite of these circumstances, the Chinese electronic commerce industry is far behind the developed countries. There could be many reasons for slow development in industry of electronic commerce and the main purpose of this paper is to discuss these reasons. First of all, the current status of electronic commerce industry in China will be analysed, and then, main problems of electronic commerce industry will be discussed in order to find out the reasons why the industry of electronic commerce cannot develop as much as it is anticipated. It is expected that this paper can contribute to understanding electronic commerce industry in China, and it will be helpful for companies which have a plan to extend their businesses in China.

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The study of basic quality analysis for an effective fire suppression of the main temple properties in Korea (우리나라 중요목조문화재의 효과적 화재진압을 고려한 기본특성분석에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Eun-Ji;Shin, Ho-Jun;Lee, Ji-Hyang;Kim, Jung-Ho;Back, Min-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.471-478
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    • 2008
  • This study grasps the type and site area of properties, the size of properties, the distance between the wooden properties and fire station, the direction of a fire engine in the wooden properties, the member of self-protection, and the present condition of fire fighting. And the 121 main temples properties in Korea is researched for an effective fire suppression.

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A Study on Industrial Development Direction at Transitional Periods of Industrial Structure in Chungcheongbuk-do Region (산업구조 전환기 충북지역 산업의 발전방향)

  • 한주성
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.293-306
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    • 2003
  • This paper aims to clarify the change in industrial structure and industry itself, and makes suggestions for the industrial development direction at transitional periods in the Chungcheongbuk-do(province) region. Because profits of regional gross production in Chungcheongbuk-do region flow out of the region, basic industries must be brought up. For this phenomenon, main manufacturing must be developed for the industrial power of the next generation of high added values that combined with digital industry; the petrochemistry, semiconductor industry as major type of industry, and automobile industry as minor type of industry. Also for supporting industry, education service, health and welfare, research and development services that are knowledge-based service industries in Chungcheongbuk-do region, must be formated the network among corporations and constructed regional innovation system linked with educational institutions, precision chemistry industry and biology technology as major type of industry, and precision machinery and tools industry as minor type of industry.

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A Study on the Performance Evaluation of Application Transaction in the Main Memory DBMS (메모리 상주 DBMS에서의 응용 트랜잭션 성능평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hee Wan;Rhee, Hae Kyung
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2009
  • Recently, the Main Memory DBMS is gradually being expanded by the appearance of a large capacity of a Main Memory System, the increase in business area where it requires a real time process, and the rise of the users' required level. The Main Memory DBMS, which is able to go through a large capacity data process of the disk-based DBMS and guarantees a high efficiency, has domestically developed and has been put to a practical use. This paper presents an examination of the applied technologies and the limits of Altibase system, which is Main Memory DBMS. Moreover, it evaluated and performed a comparative analysis on the performance level of the Main Memory DBMS and the disk-based DBMS based on the same application. After five trials of the experiment based on the operating application, it was confirmed that the performance level of the Main Memory DBMS is enhanced and is higher by 4.13 to 7.89 times than the disk-based DBMS.

Airframe Durability Certification for Export Basic Trainer (수출형 기본 훈련기에 대한 기체구조물 내구성 입증)

  • Park, Taegyu;Park, Jeongkyu;Moon, Changoh
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2015
  • Export basic trainer was designed to add armed configuration required by customer. Design configuration of main wing was changed to satisfy changed internal load caused by armed configuration. It was verified that design changed main wing airframe of export basic trainer satisfy the requirement through the structural detail analysis, structural ground test and flight test. This paper presents the durability test procensure and test result for the main wing of export basic trainer.

A Study on Satisfaction and Recharter Intention According to the Main Menu of Franchises in the Food Service Industry (외식 프랜차이즈 가맹점의 주 메뉴에 따른 만족도 및 재계약 의도에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Sung-Ho
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.20-32
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    • 2007
  • This study investigates the satisfaction with the supply-supplying system and the kitchen operation for the main menu in the food service industry, expecially in the franchisor-franchisee relation. In order to accomplish this purpose of the study, it examines the research on the franchise food industry in terms of research methods and surveys experimental research actually. The total 600 copies of survey had been gathered and 278 copies were used to get the purpose of this study. The SPSS 12.0 version was used to analyze the data. The finding suggests that pork is the very essential material of the supply-supplying system on all kitchen operation of cooking quality, management system, physical supplying system, prime cost and the food hygiene. Comparing results of mean statistic, pork shows much higher mean point than that of chicken on the kitchen operation efficiency. Also, the franchisees will give more satisfaction with main menu using pork than the menu using chicken on the recharter intention.

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