• 기록학연구
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• 제79호
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• pp.5-32
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• 2024

한국 정부가 UN의 2022년 전자정부 발전 지수에서 UN가입 193개국 중 3위에 랭크됐다. 그동안 꾸준히 상위국으로 평가된 한국은 분명 세계 전자정부의 선도국이라 할 수 있다. 전자정부의 윤활유는 데이터다. 데이터는 그 자체로 정보가 아니고 기록도 아니지만 정보와 기록의 원천이며 지식의 자원이다. 전자적 시스템을 통한 행정 행위가 보편화된 이후 당연히 데이터에 기반한 기록의 생산과 기술이 확대되고 진화하고 있다. 기술은 가치중립적인 듯 보이지만 사실 그 자체로 특정 세계관을 반영하고 있다. 더구나 비물질적 유통을 기반으로 하는 디지털 세계, 온라인 네트워크의 또 다른 아이러니는 반드시 물리적 도구를 통해서만 접속하고 접촉할 수 있다는 점이다. 디지털 정보는 논리적 대상이지만 반드시 어떤 유형이든 그것을 중계할 장치 없이는 디지털 자원을 읽어 내거나 활용할 수 없다. 초연결, 초지능을 무기로 하는 새로운 기술의 디지털 질서는 전통적인 권력 구조에 깊은 영향력을 끼칠 뿐만 아니라 기존의 정보 및 지식 전달 매개체에도 마찬가지의 영향을 미치고 있다. 더구나 데이터에 기반한 생성형 인공지능을 비롯해 새로운 기술과 매개가 단연 화두다. 디지털 기술의 전방위적 성장과 확산이 인간 역능의 증강과 사유의 외주화 상황까지 왔다고 볼 수 있을 것이다. 여기에는 딥 페이크를 비롯한 가짜 이미지, 오토 프로파일링, 사실처럼 생성해 내는 AI 거짓말(hallucination), 기계 학습데이터의 저작권 침해에 이르기까지 다양한 문제점 또한 내포하고 있다. 더구나 급진적 연결 능력은 방대한 데이터의 즉각적 공유를 가능하게 하고 인지 없이 행위를 발생시키는 기술적 무의식에 의존하게 된다. 그런 점에서 지금의 기술 사회의 기계는 단순 보조의 수준을 넘어서고 있으며 기계의 인간 사회 진입은 고도의 기술 발전에 따른 자연적인 변화 양상이라고 하기에는 간단하지 않은 지점이 존재한다. 시간이 지나며 기계에 대한 관점이 변화하게 될 것이기 때문이다. 따라서 중요한 것은 기계를 통한 커뮤니케이션, 행위의 결과로서의 기록이 생산되고 사용되는 방식의 변화가 의미하는 사회문화적 함의에 있다. 아카이브 영역에서도 초지능, 초연결사회를 향한 기술의 변화로 인해 데이터 기반 아카이브 사회는 어떤 문제에 직면하게 될 것인지, 그리고 그 속에서 누가 어떻게 기록과 데이터의 지속적 활동성을 입증하고 매체 변화의 주요 동인이 될 것인가에 대한 연구가 필요한 시점이다. 본 연구는 아카이브가 행위의 결과인 기록뿐만 아니라 데이터를 전략적 자산으로 인식할 필요성에서 시작했다. 이를 통해 전통적 경계를 확장하고 데이터 중심 사회에서 어떻게 재영토화를 이룰 수 있을지를 알아보았다.

• 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.