• Korean System Dynamics Review
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.57-79
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• 2016

This study aims to examine the dynamics of the variables related to the program management of Community Child Centers in Daegu metropolitan area and further search for the measures to activate its development based on the Systems Thinking. For these purposes, the study deals with the followings. Firstly, it overviews the legal bases of the Community Child Centers and its present condition and further reviews the relevant studies. Secondly, it summarizes its methodologies. Thirdly, based on the results of the questionnaire and interviews, it draws the major variables to understand its program management and analyzes its causal feedback structure and dynamics. Lastly, it concludes with the measures to activate its program management. This study is expected to make a useful resource to dynamically understand the program management issue of the Community Child Centers in Korea.

• Archives of design research
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.87-100
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• 2000

This thesis concentrates on modern design with understanding the ooncept of design thinking. Functionalism and exactness in design result from the project that modern design attempted to change everyday life with mechanical design language. There is thought to be convenient and profitable, to link a function and a need, to make something with building-up process, and to give judgement something by dualism in the other side. That thoughts were produced by not only transition of production system from by hand to by machine but also atmosphere of society that enables one to know himself as a member of modern age.

• Korean System Dynamics Review
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.5-28
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• 2000

After the unanticipated financial crisis of Korea in 1997, lots of debates have been held on how to manage the crisis. However, few studies attempt to analyze policy makers' map that shaped and guided various measures for overcoming the crisis. This paper explores cognitive maps and systems thinking of the President of Korea who successfully managed the financial crisis. Futhermore, his cognitive map is compared to that of Prime Minister of Malaysia who overcome financial crisis successfully but in different ways. In this paper the causal map analysis of policy makers is proposed as a promising approach for in-depth investigation of systems thinking of policy makers.

• Korean System Dynamics Review
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.5-23
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• 2012

This paper studies dynamic relationship between cash market, forward market, and options market, from the perspective of systems thinking. It is shown that an exogenous shock to forward market can yield almost the same impact to the cash market, given a practically reasonable condition, but not vice versa. As far as options market is concerned, it matters what kind of options we deal with, who are long the option, and whether the option market maker performs dynamic hedging or not. In some cases, it is possible for the spot price to become unstable and diverge rather violently due to a strong negative feedback between the markets.

• Korean System Dynamics Review
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.55-68
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• 2003

1960년대 이후 서양에서 발전된 시스템 사고는 동양 사고와는 상이한 사고 체계로 받아들여져 왔다. 피드백 시스템에 초점을 두는 시스템 사고는 오히려 전통적인 동양 사고와 유사하다는 점을 본 논문을 통하여 밝히고자 하였다. 특히 본 논문에서는 노자의 도덕경에서 자신의 행위가 자신에게로 되돌아온다는 순환적 사구 즉 피드백 사고를 발견할 수 있다는 점을 지적하였다. 아울러 동양의 전통적 관점이라고 할 수 있는 음양오행이론 역시 피드백 사고로 해석될 수 있다는 점을 밝히고자 하였다. 본 논문은 이러한 사상적 유사성이야말로 시스템 사고를 동양 사회에 도입할 수 있는 유연한 토대를 제공한다는 점을 지적하였다. 동양사고와 시스템 사고의 유사성이야말로 시스템 사고를 동양 사회에 적용하고 확산시키는데 있어서 지렛대의 역할을 수행할 것이다.

• Korean System Dynamics Review
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.5-23
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• 2005

This paper investigates a dynamic mechanism underlying the process of knowledge creation and evolution with a focus on the SECI model(standing for Socialization, Externalization, Combination, Internalization) as proposed by Nonaka and Takeuchi(1991) and broadly accepted especially among the practitioners in knowledge management field. The SECI model provides with intuitive logic and clear delineation of knowledge types between the tacit and the explicit, and embodies an interaction dynamic. However explanations of the propelling forces for the knowledge transfer over the four quadrants of the model is yet to be made. And the transmission mechanisms are not prescribed though the model mentions knowledge is created and evolved in a spiral process. This paper, therefore attempts first to extend and elaborate it into a dynamic SECI model by identifying those propelling factors and their relationships(linkages) based on the systems thinking.

• Korean System Dynamics Review
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.55-69
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze nursing students' proficiency with ST(Systems Thinking) approach concerning asthma patient nursing process. For this study, 20 nursing students created causality cognitive maps which were consisted of the contents of 'asthma nursing care'. The word association and causality cognitive map were used to estimate ability of the ST. As a result, the students failed to understand the nursing process with the ST approach, or alternatively they applied low level ST approach and had a lower understanding of it. The findings of this study suggest that the development of a ST-based nursing educational program in order for nursing students to improve their ST ability as well as knowledge integration for multidisciplinary practice.

• Korean System Dynamics Review
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.145-173
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• 2016

This study aims to develop strategic diagnosis framework of performance by identifying and analysing the dynamics of the technology commercialization ecosystem in innovative region. To achieve the purpose of this study, the systems thinking approach is used. The systems thinking approach connects feedback structure and behavior more explicitly to diagnosis vicious feedback loop in the regional technology commercialization ecosystem. In terms of an ecological point of view, it will be possible to explore dominant feedback structure and find leverages to overcome the limitations of regional technology commercialization performance. The diagnosis of reenforcing and balancing feedback structure is based on the statistical analysis of the survey data which has been collected in a cluster random sampling method, targeting on the 200 firm located in the Pangyo and Daeduk region. The results from this research showed that the regional technology commercialization ecosystem was immature and faced limit to the growth. An important finding of this study was that regional technology commercialization ecosystem need to activation of startups and reinforcement of virtuous feedback structures of technology commercialization market systems.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.79-85
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• 2009

Labor productivity issues within the construction industry are receiving increasing attention. With the improvement in the standard of living, domestic laborers are avoiding 3D(Difficult, Dirty, and Dangerous) jobs by degrees. Because of this situation, the problem of insufficient labor is exacerbating in several basic industries. In particular, insufficient labor is a serious problem in the construction sector, where the workers are ageing and labor costs are increasing. In this study, we adopt a systematic approach to identify factors that influence labor productivity and analyze the causality between the factors and their ripple effects with the aim that the results of the study will help improve labor productivity and ensure its effective management. The established labor productivity model using systems thinking will get a footing in the greatest strategy in the construction industry.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.51-59
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• 2009

Lean construction researchers and practitioners have established a new paradigm for managing construction projects. This paradigm stems from insights gained by viewing project delivery as one kind of production and, inspired by the success of the Toyota Production System, leveraging Toyota's 'lean thinking' in the context of such one-of production. Premises of lean construction are that (1) production systems are riddled with variation, (2) variation can be good or bad, but most of it is bad, (3) most of this variation-good or bad-is self-inflicted; consequently 'lean' passionately promotes good- and relentlessly eradicates bad variation. This paper surveys a few of many lean construction means to manage variation. Lean thinking encompasses a lot more than thinking about variation, but that is the lens used here through which construction project management is viewed. Pairing these premises with lean variation-management tools may help readers broaden the insights they can gain from reading the lean construction literature.