• 한국가정과교육학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.159-176
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• 2011

본 연구의 목적은 중학교 가정과교사들의 실천적 문제 중심 수업에 대한 인식과 실태, 실천적 문제 중심 수업 실행의 활성화 방안을 알아보는 데 있다. 이러한 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위해 전국에서 중학교에서 가정교과를 가르친 경험이 있는 교사 150명의 설문지 응답과 중학교 가정과교사 6인을 대상으로 한 면담 내용을 분석하였으며, SPSS/Win(Ver 10.1) 프로그램을 이용하여 빈도, 백분율, 평균, 표준편차, ANOVA, T-test, 상관관계를 산출하였다. 첫째, 중학교 가정과교사는 가정교과의 목적에 대해서 대부분이 실천적 문제 해결 능력을 키우는 것으로 응답하였다. 대부분의 가정과교사가 실천적 문제 중심 수업이 필요하다고 인식하고 있으나 실행 정도는 낮았으며 실천적 문제 중심 수업의 필요성 인식과 실행 정도에 상관관계가 없어서 가정과교사의 실천적 문제 중심 수업에 대한 인식과 실행의 부조화가 있음을 알 수 있다. 둘째, 교사의 특성에 따른 실천적 문제 중심 수업의 필요성 인식과 실행 정도를 알아본 결과, 교사의 특성에 따라 실천적 문제 중심 수업의 필요성 인식이 유의하게 차이나지 않았으며, 실천적 문제 중심 수업의 실행 정도의 경우 교사의 교직경력, 발령교과에 따라 다르게 나타났다. 직업 만족도에 대하여 실천적 문제 중심 수업의 필요성 인식과 실행 정도가 정적으로 유의한 상관관계가 있었으며 실천적 수업의 필요성 인식보다 실행 정도와의 상관관계가 더 컸다. 이로서 실천적 문제 중심 수업은 선행연구에서 밝힌 학생을 대상으로 한 효과검증 뿐 아니라 교사의 직업만족에도 관련이 있는 것을 알 수 있다. 셋째, 동료교사와 자료 및 정보공유가 실천적 문제 중심 수업 실행을 촉진하는 요인이며, 수업시수나 시간 부족과 실천적 문제 중심 수업에 대한 이해 부족이 실천적 문제 중심 수업 실행을 저해하는 요인으로 나타났다. 실천적 문제 중심 수업 실행을 활성화하기 위한 방안으로 관련 교수 학습 과정안과 같은 학습 자료의 지원에 대한 요구가 높았으며, 수업시수의 확보, 이 수업의 밑바탕에 깔린 가정교과철학관련 연수, 이 수업을 이해하고 실천할 수 있게 하는 장기간의 교사 연수를 필요로 했다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제30권1_2호
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• pp.117-128
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• 2003

소프트웨어의 사용성은 소프트웨어 제품 평가시, 사용하기 쉬운 정도, 효율성의 정도, 만족도의 정도 등으로 판단되는 소프트웨어의 특성이다. 이러한 사용성은 소프트웨어 제품의 품질을 결정하는 중요한 요소이다. 따라서 소프트웨어 제품들은 그 자체의 사용성에 대해 평가를 받고 개선지침을 추출하여 이를 기반으로 지속적인 개선이 이루어져야 한다. 그러나 제품마다 사용성 요소들의 중요도가 다르고, 같은 요소에 대해서도 사용자들은 서로 다른 환경과 지식으로 인해 엇갈린 평가를 내릴 수 있으므로 사용성 평가는 제품의 적합성을 판단하고 개선방향을 얻기 위해 다양한 요소들을 고려하여 개발되는 것이 중요하다. 그러나 기존의 만족도 평가와 수행도 평가는 문제점의 원인 발견 평가결과를 수정에 반영하기 힘들고, 모든 영역에 적용되도록 만들어진, 획일화된 평가항목과 내용으로는 평가 대상 제품의 특징을 반영하기가 어려웠다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 대상 제품의 평가 항목별로 사용자의 정신모형과 감성을 평가하는 모델을 개발하였다. 설계자들의 개념 모형과 사용자의 정신 모형의 일치여부를 평가하여 그 결과를 바탕으로 개선 지침을 제공할 수 있는 평가방법과 시스템에 대한 만족도를 높이고 보다 효과적으로 작업할 수 있도록 하기 위해 사용시의 감성과 이에 영향을 미치는 시스템의 구성요소들을 분석하여 평가하고 개선 지침을 추출하는 감성요소론 기반으로 하는 평가방법을 합하여 개발한 평가 모델을 제안한다. 그리고 이 평가 모델에 대한 사례연구로 GUI 프레임워크를 사례로 채택해서 평가하고 개선 방향을 추출하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 평가 모델은 제품 사용자의 작업분석을 기반으로 추출된 작업항목에 대한 평가요소를 가지고 평가를 수행함으로서, 제품의 특성을 반영할 뿐만 아니라, 수정되어야 할 항목을 정확히 나타내 줌으로서 효과적인 사용성 평가를 가능하게 할 것이다.

• 동서간호학연구지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.11-26
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to investigate the present conditions of nursing investment contents, its conversion process, and output in Oriental University Medical Center, Korea to get good qualified Oriental nursing result which is the ultimate purpose of the Oriental nursing management, and to develope a matrix of Oriental nursing management system on the basis of that project. The subjects for nursing investment and output contents were eighteen nursing directors in eleven Oriental University Medical Center and two hundred thirty-nine nurses with three years and over experience in Oriental medical center. The subjects for Oriental nursing organization, human affair management, and control function were nineteen Oriental medical center in Oriental University Medical Center, Korea. Data were collected from November, 2002 to February, 2003 with questionnaire. Data analysis was done by SPSS PC+ 12 program. Frequency, percentage, and minimum/maximum values were used for investment contents, and frequency and percentage were used for conversion process and output contents. 1. The input factors of oriental nursing management system The objective's western hospital career was over five years of one hundred and seventy-five(73.2%) persons. Nursing in-service education was performed in fourteen hospitals(77.8%). Two hundreds(83.7%) were pro to oriental nurse system. Only four hospitals(22.2%) had independent budget in nursing division. Nursing staff allocation to the bed was from 2.8:1 to 9.06:1 respectively, with a big gap of the rate following the hospitals. 2. The conversion factors of oriental nursing system 1) Oriental nursing system Oriental hospital nursing system was organized independently in ten hospitals among eighteen hospitals. The recruitment of nurses which was a vital role of the nursing division of the hospital was mostly(79%) opened. The education to develope nursing personnels was through in-service one in 97.4%. Education for oriental nursing and management was performed in 42.1%(eight hospitals) and that for reserves was done in 36.8%(seven hospitals). Administration for nursing education by nursing division was 68.5%(thirteen hospitals). The post education evaluation was performed by report submission in 36.8%(seven hospitals), by written examination in 26.3%, by questionnaires in 21.1%, and by lecture presentation in 15.8% subsequently. The directorial meeting for the nursing directors was attended by 84.2%(sixteen hospitals), and the meeting type was the medical executive and support division executive meeting in 55.6%(ten hospitals) and the personnel management in 39.6%(seven hospitals). 2) The actual conditions of oriental nursing personnel management The reason of working in oriental hospital was by voluntary in 67.1%(a hundred and sixty persons), by nursing department order in 28.0%(sixty-seven persons), and by others in 5.0%(twelve persons) respectively. The shift form was a three-shifts one in 94.7%(eighteen hospitals), a two-shift one in only one hospital. Duty assignment was functional in 52.6%(ten hospitals), team and functional in 26.3%(five hospitals) and no team alone. Promotion manual was present at 68.4%(thirteen hospitals) and the competency essentials comprised of performance evaluation in 79%, interview, written examination, training result, study result subsequently. No labor union existed in 79%(fifteen hospitals) 3) Oriental nursing preceptor system There were five oriental hospitals(27.7%) administering the preceptor utilization model, which showed lower rate than the twenty-two medical university hospitals in Seoul in which fifteen hospitals (72.7%) were having the system. To the question of necessity of oriental nurse system asked to the objectives of two hundred and thirty-nine with more than three year-experience in oriental hospital, two hundred persons(83.7%) answered positively. 4) The control of oriental nursing The evaluation results from the target hospitals were mostly not opened in 89.4% of oriental hospitals. Thirteen hospitals(68.3%) had evaluation system of direct managers and the next were three hospitals(15.8%) of direct managers and selves. There was one hospital(5.3% each) where fellows and superiors, fellows, and inferiors' evaluation was performed and no hospital where superiors, fellows, inferiors and selves, and superiors, fellows and selves' evaluation was performed. The QI activity of nursing was 42.1%(eight hospitals) for nursing service evaluation, 36.8% for survey of ECSI, 26.3% for survey of ICSI, 15.8% for medical visit rate, 10% for hospital standardization inspection in sequence. 3. The output factors of oriental nursing management system The job satisfaction appeared good in general, indicating very good in thirty-seven persons (15.7%), good in one hundred and fourteen persons (48.3%) and fair in eighty-five persons(36.0%).

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.85-103
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• 2012

ISMP는 정보시스템 구축 사업 제안요청서의 요구사항을 명확하게 작성하는 활동이다. 목표시스템 개념을 다소 피상적으로 기술하는 기존 제안요청서 작성 방식과는 달리, 관련 업무 및 정보기술 현황을 체계적으로 파악하고, 이용자 요구사항을 상세 분석하며, 제안요청서에 목표시스템의 기능 및 요건을 구체적으로 정의한다. 이처럼 제안요청서 명확성을 높임으로써 해당 사업의 규모 및 복잡도를 정확하게 산출할 수 있고, 여러 제안업체가 제시한 제안서를 공정하게 평가할 수 있다. 무엇보다 이 분야의 고질적 난제로 제기되는 문제, 즉, 갑과 을 사이의 오해와 갈등, 요구사항의 빈번한 변경, SW 개발자들의 과도한 업무 부담 등을 해결할 수 있다. 널리 보급된다면 장기적으로 SW 개발 생산성 및 IT 서비스 산업의 경쟁력 향상에 기여할 수 있다. 이 연구는 최초로 ISMP를 도입한 2개 시범사업을 대상으로 그 수행 내용, 수행 성과, 문제점 및 성공요인을 분석한 사례 연구이다. 실제 현장의 ISMP 수행 절차를 확인하고, 제안요청서의 요구사항을 어떻게 기술하는지를 살펴보았다. ISMP 제안요청서에 대한 만족도는 기존 제안요청서 방식에 비하여 발주기관과 수주업체에서 모두 높게 나타났다. ISMP에 대한 이해 및 수행 경험 부족으로 인하여 제안요청서 작성의 어려움, 업무 증가 부담 등과 같은 문제점도 발생하였지만, 전반적으로 목표시스템 범위 정립, 현업부서와 개발부서간 정보 공유 및 협력 증진, 발주기관과 수주업체 사이의 의사소통 원활, 요구사항 변경 감소 등 긍정적 효과가 발생하였다. 실무담당자 대상 실행연구(action research) 방식의 심층 인터뷰를 수행한 결과, ISMP 수행 성공요인으로서 ISMP 필요성에 대한 사전공감대 형성, CEO와 CIO의 지원에 의한 ISMP 수행 자원 확보, 요구사항 상세화 수준의 일관성있는 적용 등 3개 요인을 도출하였다. 이 사례연구 결과는 ISMP 도입을 계획하고 있는 발주기관과 IT서비스 업체에게 유용한 현장정보를 제공하며, IT서비스 경쟁력 분야 연구자들에게는 향후 연구방향에 대한 의미 있는 시사점을 제시할 것이다.

• 마케팅과학연구
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.61-118
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• 2008

본 연구는 국내외 프랜차이즈의 해외진출에 대한 연구들을 바탕으로 국제프랜차이징연구의 전체적인 연구체계를 세워보고, 연구체계를 형성하고 있는 연구요인들을 확인하여 각 연구요소별로 이루어지는 연구주제와 내용을 살펴보고, 앞으로의 연구주제들을 제안하고자 한다. 주요한 연구요소들은 국제프랜차이징의 동기 및 환경 요소과 진출의사결정, 국제프랜차이징의 진입양식 및 발전전략, 국제프랜차이징의 운영전략 및 국제프랜차이징의 성과이다. 이외에도 국제프랜차이징 연구에 적용할 수 있는 대리인이론, 자원기반이론, 거래비용이론, 조직학습이론 및 해외진출이론들을 설명하였다. 또한 국제프랜차이징연구에서 보다 중점적으로 개발해야 할 질적, 양적 방법론을 소개하였으며, 마지막으로 국내연구의 동향을 정리하여 추후의 연구방향을 종합적으로 정리하였다.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.27-42
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• 2020

인터넷이라는 가상 공간을 활용함으로써 물리적 공간의 제약을 갖는 오프라인 쇼핑의 한계를 넘어선 온라인 쇼핑은 다양한 기호를 가진 소비자를 만족시킬 수 있는 수많은 상품을 진열할 수 있게 되었다. 그러나, 이는 역설적으로 소비자가 구매의사결정 과정에서 너무 많은 대안을 비교 평가해야 하는 어려움을 겪게 함으로써 오히려 상품 선택을 방해하는 원인이 되기도 한다. 이런 부작용을 해소하기 위한 노력으로서, 연관 상품 추천은 수많은 상품을 다루는 온라인 상거래에서 소비자의 구매의사결정 과정 중 정보탐색 및 대안평가에 소요되는 시간과 노력을 줄여주고 이탈을 방지하며 판매자의 매출 증대에 기여할 수 있다. 연관 상품 추천에 사용되는 연관 규칙 마이닝 기법은 통계적 방법을 통해 주문과 같은 거래 데이터로부터 서로 연관성 높은 상품을 효과적으로 발견할 수 있다. 하지만, 이 기법은 거래 건수를 기반으로 하므로, 잠재적으로 판매 가능성이 높을지라도 충분한 거래 건수가 확보되지 못한 상품은 추천 목록에서 누락될 수 있다. 이렇게 추천 시 제외된 상품은 소비자에게 구매될 수 있는 충분한 기회를 확보하지 못할 수 있으며, 또 다시 다른 상품에 비해 상대적으로 낮은 추천 기회를 얻는 악순환을 겪을 수도 있다. 본 연구는 구매의사결정이 결국 상품이 지닌 속성에 대한 사용자의 평가를 기반으로 한다는 점에 착안하여, 추천 시 상품의 속성을 반영하면 소비자가 특정 상품을 선택할 확률을 좀더 정확하게 예측할 수 있다는 점을 추천 시스템에 반영하기 위한 목적으로 수행되었다. 즉, 어떤 상품 페이지를 방문한 소비자는 그 상품이 지닌 속성들에 어느 정도 관심을 보인 것이며 추천 시스템은 이런 속성들을 기반으로 연관성을 지닌 상품을 더 정교하게 찾을 수 있다는 것이다. 상품의 주요 속성의 하나로서, 카테고리는 두 상품 간에 아직 드러나지 않은 잠재적인 연관성을 찾기에 적합한 대상이 될 수 있다고 판단하였다. 본 연구는 연관 상품 추천에 상품 간의 연관성뿐만 아니라 카테고리 간의 연관성을 추가로 반영함으로써 추천의 정확도를 높일 수 있는 예측모형을 개발하였고, 온라인 쇼핑몰로부터 수집된 주문 데이터를 활용하여 이루어진 실험은 기존 모형에 비해 추천 성능이 개선됨을 보였다. 실무적인 관점에서 볼 때, 본 연구는 소비자의 구매 만족도를 향상시키고 판매자의 매출을 증가시키는 데에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 마케팅과학연구
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.32-43
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• 2009

信任在心理学, 经济学, 社会学中已被广泛研究, 其重要性不仅在市场营销中被强调, 在一般商业原则中也被强调. 供应商和买家之间的关系与过去不同, 过去的关系需要相当大的私人网络优势, 并可能涉及不道德的商业行为. 而在以工业营销成功的为核心的二十一世纪激烈的全球竞争中, 供应商和买家之间的关系是伙伴关系. 在相互合作的高级别信任的基础上, 通过交换的关系, 这会给买家和供应商带来长期的利益, 竞争力增强和交易成本的降低以及其他福利. 尽管现有的研究有信任的重要性, 但是在购买与供应关系中却忽视了信任的作用, 也没有系统地分析信任对关系的影响. 因此, 深入研究, 确定买家和商业服务供应商之间信任和关系绩效之间的联系是绝对需要的. 本研究中的商业服务, 包括那些支持制造业, 正作为下一代经济增长的引擎而吸引着人们的注意. 韩国政府已选择其作为制造业发展的战略领域. 由于商业服务开放市场的需求日趋激烈, 商业服务业的竞争力应该比以往得到更多的提倡. 本研究的目的是探索相互信任对买家和供应商之间的关系绩效的影响. 具体来说, 本研究在商业服务交易中提出了一个关于信任-关系绩效的理论模型, 并实证检验根据模型而提出的假设. 这项研究表明, 研究结果有战略意义. 本研究通过多种方法收集经验数据. 这些方法包括通过电话, 邮件和面试. 作为样本的公司是在韩国供应和购买商业服务的以知识为本的公司. 本研究收集的是二进的基础数据. 每个样本公司对包括购买公司及其相应的供应公司. 并跟踪调查每个公司对的相互信任. 本研究为商业服务的买卖双方提出了信任-关系绩效的模型. 该模型由信任和它的前因和后果. 买家的信任分为对供应公司的信任和对销售人员的信任. 根据Doney 和Cannon (1997)的研究我们在个人水平和组织水平上观察信任. 通常情况下, 买方是信任的受体, 但这项研究我们建议以供应商为观察受体. 因此, 它独特的关注了双边角度的知觉风险. 换言之, 供应商和买家一样, 是信任的主体, 因为交易通常是双边的. 从这个角度来看, 供应商对买家信任和买方对供货商的信赖一样重要. 供应商的信任从某种程度上受它信任的买方公司和买家的影响. 这种使用个人水平和组织水平的信任分类是根据Doney 和Cannon (1997)的研究. 信任影响供应商的选择, 这是一项双向放的工作. 供应商们积极参与供应商选择过程中, 和买家密切的一起工作. 此外, 该过程从某种程度上受每一方信任的合作伙伴的影响. 挑选过程包括一些步骤: 识别, 信息检索, 供应商选择和绩效评价. 作为这一进程的结果, 买家和供应商都进行绩效评估, 并就这些结果为基础, 采取有形或无形的纠正行动. 本研究中使用的关于信任的测量问项是根据Mayer, Davis 和 Schoorman (1995) 以及Mayer和Davis (1999)的研究发展起来的. 根据他们的建议, 有关信任的三个方面的研究包括有能力, 善和完整. 根据商业服务这个背景我们调整了原来的问题. 例如, 如 "他/她的专业能力" 已被改为 "当我们讨论我们的产品时销售人员表现出专业能力. "这项研究使用的测量问项不同于在以往的研究中使用的问项（Rotter 1967; Sullivan和Peterson 1982; Dwyer和Oh 1987. 本研究中有关信任的前因后果的测量问项是根据Doney和Cannon (1997)的研究为基础制定的. 根据商业服务这个背景我们调整了原来的问题. 特别是, 问题被设计为对买家和供应商以解决下列因素: 信誉 (诚信, 客户服务, 良好意愿), 市场地位 (公司规模, 市场份额, 在行业中的地位), 愿意定制（产品, 过程, 交付), 信息共享(专有信息, 个人信息), 愿意保持良好关系, 认为专业, 权威授权, 买方与卖方的相似性, 以及接触频率. 作为信任相应的变量, 我们对关系绩效进行了测试. 关系绩效分为有形的影响, 无形影响, 和副作用. 有形的影响包括财务业绩;无形的影响, 包括关系的改善, 网络开发, 以及内部员工的满意度;副作用包括既不是有形影响也不是无形影响的影响. 我们联系了350对公司, 105对公司答复了我们. 由于不完整我们删除了5对公司, 105对公司被用于数据分析. 用于数据分析的回应率为30%(三百五十零分之一百零五), 高于工业营销的平均回复比率. 至于回复的公司的特点, 大多数的公司运作的商业服务既为买方(85.4%)也为供应商(81.8%). 大部分买家是做消费品贸易(76%), 而供应商的大部分(70%)是做工业品贸易. 这可能意味着买家的过程是购入材料, 部件和组件从而生产消费品成品. 正如他们对他们与合作伙伴关系的长度的报告表示, 供应商比买家有更长的商业关系. 假设1测试买方-供应方特点对信任的影响. 销售人员的专业度(t=2.070, p<0.05)和权威授权(t=2.328, p<0.05)积极影响买方对供应方的信任. 另一方面, 权威授权(t=2.192, p<0.05)积极影响供应方对买方的信任. 对买方和供应方来说, 权威授权的程度对保持对彼此的信任有关键作用. 假设2测试买卖双方关系特点对信任的影响. 买家倾向于信任供应方, 因为供应方总是尽全力联系买方(t=2.212, p<0.05)这种倾向性在供应方方面也表现得很强(t=2.591, p<0.01). 另一方面, 供应商对买方的信任是由于供应商感知买家与自己的相似性(t=2.702, p<0.01). 这一发现证实了Crosby, Evans, 和Cowles(1990)的研究结果. 他们的结果表明供应方和买方通过商务或私务的定期会议来建立彼此的联系. 假设3测试信任对感知风险的影响. 结果表明无论对买方还是供应方, 信任越低, 感知风险就越大(买方: t =-6.621, p<0.01; 供应方: t=-2.437, p<0.05). 有趣的是, 这一趋势已被证明对买方更强. 这种较高水平的感知风险的一个可能的解释是在商业服务交易中买方通常比供应方感知到更大的风险. 为此, 有必要对供应商对买方实施减少风险的战略. 假设4测试信任对信息搜集. 根据结果, 对供应方和买方, 与预期相反, 信任取决于他们合作伙伴的名誉(买方t=2.929, p<0.01; 供应方t=2.711, p<0.05). 这一发现表明, 具有良好信誉的供应商往往是可信的. 以往的经验并没有显示出任何与买家或供应商信任的重要关系. 假设5测试信任对供应方/买方选择的影响. 与买方不同, 当供应方认为以往与买方的交易重要时, 供应方倾向信任买方(t=2.913 p<0.01). 但是, 本研究并没有现实资源忠诚和买方对供应方的信任之间有显著关系. 假设6测试的是信任对关系绩效的影响. 对买方和供应方, 当财务表现被报告提高时, 他们比较信任他们的合作伙伴(买方: t=2.301, p<0.05;供应方: t=3.692, p<0.01). 有趣的是, 这种趋势在供应方比较明显. 类似的, 当竞争力被报告提高时, 买卖双方比较信任他们的合作伙伴(买方t=3.563, p<0.01 ; 供应方t=3.042, p<0.01). 对供应方来说, 当对买方信任时效率和生产力会提高(t=2.673, p<0.01). 其他绩效指标与信任没有显著关系. 这项研究结果有一定的战略意义. 首先和最重要的是, 以信任为基础的交易对供应商和买家而言都是有益的. 根据研究证实, 通过努力建立和保持相互信任可以使财务表现提高. 同样, 可以通过同样的努力提高竞争力. 第二, 以信任为基础的交易能够减少购买情况中的感知风险. 这对供应商和买家都有启示. 人们普遍认为, 在一个高度参与的采购情况中买家感知到更高的风险. 为了减少风险, 以往的研究已建议供应商制定降低风险的策略. 而本研究的特点是从双边角度关注知觉风险. 换言之, 供应商也容易存在风险, 特别是当他们提供的服务, 需要非常先进的技术, 操作和维护. 因此, 购买者和供应商必须一起密切合作解决问题. 因此, 相互信任在问题解决过程中起着关键作用. 第三, 在这项研究中发现, 销售人员有更多的授权, 他或她越被信任. 这一发现从战术角度看是非常重要的. 建立信任是一个长期的任务, 然而, 当互信尚未开发, 供应商能够通过授权销售人员做出某些决定来克服遇到的问题, 这一结论也适用于供应商.

• 호스피스학술지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.58-74
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• 2002

This paper constitutes a descriptive investigation and used a structured questionnaire to investigate nurses' and doctors' recognition of cancer patients. The subjects were extracted from the medical personnel working at the internal medicine, the surgery ward, the obstetrics and gynecology department, the pediatrics department, the cancer ward, and the emergency room of five general hospitals located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The research lasted from August, 2001 to September 2001. Total 137 nurses and 65 doctors were included and made out the questionnaires directly distributed by the investigator. The study tool was also developed by the investigator and consisted of such items as the demographic and social characteristics, the medical personnel's recognition degree of cancer and cancer patients, their recognition of the management of cancer patients, and their participation in a hospice. The results were analyzed using the SPSS Window program in terms of technological statistics, ranks, t-test, and ANOVA. The reliability was represented in Cronbach' α=.75. The nurses' and doctors' recognition degree of cancer and cancer patients had an overall average of 3.86 at the 5 point-scale. The items that received an average of 4.0 or more included 'Medical personnel should explain about the cancer cure plans to the cancer patient and his or her family', 'A patient whose case has been diagnosed as a terminal cancer should be notified of it, 'If I were a cancer patient, I would want to get informed of it,' and 'Cancer shall be conquered whenever it is'. In the meantime, the items that received an average of 3.0 or less was 'My relationship with the cancer patient's family has gotten worse since I announced his or her impending death.' And according to the general characteristics and the difference test, the recognition degree of cancer and cancer patient was high among the subgroups of nurses, females, married persons, who were in their 30s, who had a family member that was a cancer patient, and who received a hospice education. The biggest number of the nurses and doctors saw 'a gradual approach over several days'(68.8%) as a method to tell a cancer patient about his or her cancer diagnosis or impending death. Those who usually tell tragic news were the physician in charge(62.8%), the family members or relatives(32.1%) and the clergymen(3.8%) in the order. The greatest number of them recommended a cancer patient's home as the place where he or she should face death because they thought 'it would stabilize his or her mentality'(91.9%) while a number of them recommended the hospital because they 'should give the psychological satisfaction to the patient'(40%) or 'should try their best until the last moment of the patient's death'(30%). A majority of the medical personnel regarded 'smoking or drinking' and 'diet' as the causes of cancer. The biggest symptom of a cancer patient was 'pain' and the pain management of a cancer patient was mostly impeded by the 'excessive fear of drug addiction, tolerance to drugs and side effects of drugs' by medical personnel, the patient, and his or her family. The most frequently adopted treatment plan of a terminal cancer patient was 'to do whatever the patient or his or her family wants' to resort to a hospice' and 'to continue active treatment efforts' in the order. The biggest reasons why a terminal cancer patient went to see a doctor were 'pain alleviation' 'control of symptoms other than pain(intravenous supply)' and 'incapability of the patient's family' in the order. Terminal cancer patients placed their major concern in 'spiritual(religious) matter' 'emotional matters' their family' 'existence' and 'physical matters' in the order. 113(58.5%) of the whole medical personnel answered they 'would recommend' an alternative treatment to a terminal cancer patient mostly because they assumed it would 'stabilize the patient's mentality.' Meanwhile, 80(41.5%) of them chose 'not to recommend it mostly due to the unverified effects and high cost of it(78.7%). A majority of them, I. e. 190(94.1%) subjects said they 'would recommend' a hospice to a terminal cancer patient mostly because they thought it would help the patient to 'mentally prepare'(66.6%) Only 17.3% of them, however, had received a hospice education, most of which was done through the hospital duty education(41.4%) and volunteer training(34.5%). The follows are results of this study: 1. The nurses and the doctors turned out to be still passive and experience confusion in dealing with a cancer patient despite their great sense of responsibility for him or her. 2.Nurses and Doctors realize the need of a hospice, but an extremely small number of them participate in a hospice education or performance. Thus, a whole recognition of a hospice should be changed, for which purpose a hospice education for nurses and doctors should be provided. 3.Terminal cancer patients preferred their home to a hospital as the place to face their impending death because they felt it would bring 'mental stability.' And most of nurses and doctors think it would be unnecessary for them to be hospitalized just for control of their symptoms. Accordingly a terminal cancer patient can be cared at home, and a home hospice care needs to be activated.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.139-166
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• 2010

The supply chain management (SCM) systems have emerged as strong managerial tools for manufacturing firms in enhancing competitive strength. Despite of large investments in the SCM systems, many companies are not fully realizing the promised benefits from the systems. A review of literature on adoption, implementation and success factor of IOS (inter-organization systems), EDI (electronic data interchange) systems, shows that this issue has been examined from multiple theoretic perspectives. And many researchers have attempted to identify the factors which influence the success of system implementation. However, the existing studies have two drawbacks in revealing the determinants of systems implementation success. First, previous researches raise questions as to the appropriateness of research subjects selected. Most SCM systems are operating in the form of private industrial networks, where the participants of the systems consist of two distinct groups: focus companies and vendors. The focus companies are the primary actors in developing and operating the systems, while vendors are passive participants which are connected to the system in order to supply raw materials and parts to the focus companies. Under the circumstance, there are three ways in selecting the research subjects; focus companies only, vendors only, or two parties grouped together. It is hard to find researches that use the focus companies exclusively as the subjects probably due to the insufficient sample size for statistic analysis. Most researches have been conducted using the data collected from both groups. We argue that the SCM success factors cannot be correctly indentified in this case. The focus companies and the vendors are in different positions in many areas regarding the system implementation: firm size, managerial resources, bargaining power, organizational maturity, and etc. There are no obvious reasons to believe that the success factors of the two groups are identical. Grouping the two groups also raises questions on measuring the system success. The benefits from utilizing the systems may not be commonly distributed to the two groups. One group's benefits might be realized at the expenses of the other group considering the situation where vendors participating in SCM systems are under continuous pressures from the focus companies with respect to prices, quality, and delivery time. Therefore, by combining the system outcomes of both groups we cannot measure the system benefits obtained by each group correctly. Second, the measures of system success adopted in the previous researches have shortcoming in measuring the SCM success. User satisfaction, system utilization, and user attitudes toward the systems are most commonly used success measures in the existing studies. These measures have been developed as proxy variables in the studies of decision support systems (DSS) where the contribution of the systems to the organization performance is very difficult to measure. Unlike the DSS, the SCM systems have more specific goals, such as cost saving, inventory reduction, quality improvement, rapid time, and higher customer service. We maintain that more specific measures can be developed instead of proxy variables in order to measure the system benefits correctly. The purpose of this study is to find the determinants of SCM systems success in the perspective of vendor companies. In developing the research model, we have focused on selecting the success factors appropriate for the vendors through reviewing past researches and on developing more accurate success measures. The variables can be classified into following: technological, organizational, and environmental factors on the basis of TOE (Technology-Organization-Environment) framework. The model consists of three independent variables (competition intensity, top management support, and information system maturity), one mediating variable (collaboration), one moderating variable (government support), and a dependent variable (system success). The systems success measures have been developed to reflect the operational benefits of the SCM systems; improvement in planning and analysis capabilities, faster throughput, cost reduction, task integration, and improved product and customer service. The model has been validated using the survey data collected from 122 vendors participating in the SCM systems in Korea. To test for mediation, one should estimate the hierarchical regression analysis on the collaboration. And moderating effect analysis should estimate the moderated multiple regression, examines the effect of the government support. The result shows that information system maturity and top management support are the most important determinants of SCM system success. Supply chain technologies that standardize data formats and enhance information sharing may be adopted by supply chain leader organization because of the influence of focal company in the private industrial networks in order to streamline transactions and improve inter-organization communication. Specially, the need to develop and sustain an information system maturity will provide the focus and purpose to successfully overcome information system obstacles and resistance to innovation diffusion within the supply chain network organization. The support of top management will help focus efforts toward the realization of inter-organizational benefits and lend credibility to functional managers responsible for its implementation. The active involvement, vision, and direction of high level executives provide the impetus needed to sustain the implementation of SCM. The quality of collaboration relationships also is positively related to outcome variable. Collaboration variable is found to have a mediation effect between on influencing factors and implementation success. Higher levels of inter-organizational collaboration behaviors such as shared planning and flexibility in coordinating activities were found to be strongly linked to the vendors trust in the supply chain network. Government support moderates the effect of the IS maturity, competitive intensity, top management support on collaboration and implementation success of SCM. In general, the vendor companies face substantially greater risks in SCM implementation than the larger companies do because of severe constraints on financial and human resources and limited education on SCM systems. Besides resources, Vendors generally lack computer experience and do not have sufficient internal SCM expertise. For these reasons, government supports may establish requirements for firms doing business with the government or provide incentives to adopt, implementation SCM or practices. Government support provides significant improvements in implementation success of SCM when IS maturity, competitive intensity, top management support and collaboration are low. The environmental characteristic of competition intensity has no direct effect on vendor perspective of SCM system success. But, vendors facing above average competition intensity will have a greater need for changing technology. This suggests that companies trying to implement SCM systems should set up compatible supply chain networks and a high-quality collaboration relationship for implementation and performance.