• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.163-186
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• 2005

When firms are confronted with IT investment decision-makings, technical or financial factors are widely considered. However, based on sociotechnical systems theory, it is argued that in addition to the traditional factors, social issues must be considered in the IT investment decision-makings. Even though the strategic criteria of social issues within organization are important for IT investment decision-makings, the social or organizational issues are hardly considered in IT implementation and adoption(Ryan and Harrison, 2000). The objective of this study is to empirically verify how the comprehensive consideration of both of technical and organizational issues related with IT investment affects firm performance through its impact on IT technical capability and IT personnel skills. Senior managers of 153 Korean firms were surveyed, and the collected data were analyzed with PLS technique. The results of the PLS path analysis show that the comprehensive consideration of the technical and social issues affected indirectly firm performance through IT technical capability and IT personnel skills. It is found that the comprehensive consideration had a significant impact on IT technical capability and IT personnel skills, and that IT technical capability and IT personnel skills affected firm performance. IT personnel was also found to affect IT technical capability. Finally, this study found that the consideration of social factors had greater impacts on firm performance than that of technical factors.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.81-85
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• 2006

The ultra-high definition TV system nicknamed "Super Hi-Vision" is a television system with 4000-scanning-line video and 22.2 multichannel sound. NHK has been developing it with the aim of creating a broadcasting system conveying a strong sensation of presence. We believe that it is important to design the system by taking into account human factors such as human visual system characteristics. This paper describes the psychological and physiological experiments on the visual effects of "Super Hi-Vision".

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.5-13
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• 2020

Purpose: The objective of this study is to explore and prioritize strategic factors for revitalization of the sports contents distribution industry. Research design, data and methodology: To this end, strategic factors for revitalization of the sports contents distribution industry were explored based on literature review, and 14 experts were consulted to prioritize the factors. Results: Major conclusions deduced are the following: First, the factors were prioritized in order of legal policy factors, contents factors, and technical infrastructure factors. Second, subdomains of legal policy factors were prioritized in order of policy process factors, legislation enactment and revision factors, budget factors, business model factors focusing on sports contents. Third, subdomains of contents factors were prioritized in order of humanware contents factors, sports contents diversification factors, and high-quality sports contents production factors. Fourth, subdomains of technical infrastructure factors were prioritized in order of sports contents service platform factors, technical development and standardization, global distribution channel provision, and distribution metadata standardization. Conclusions: Findings of this study are of significance given that this study stratifies factors of sports contents distribution industry revitalization-about which there have been very few previous studies- analyzed mainly in terms of justifiability and timeliness, and presents preferential business strategies.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.237-253
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• 1994

Technology measurement is related with how to construct indicators of technological change and relative ranking of technological sophistication. Many attempts have been made to understand the measurement of technology. However, technology measurement still remains little understood problem in spite of its importance. This article is concerned with improving the measurement of technology by introducing market factors into the model. It illustrate a simple approach to the measurement of technology. This approach is based on the characteristic-space paradigm of technology. A relative ranking of technological sophistication for a product is measurable as a set of characteristics. The main feature of the proposed approach is the combination of technical factors and market factors. Technical factors are reflected in the definition of technological sophistication. Market factors are embraced in the determination of the relative importance assigned to each technology defining characteristics. Thus, the weight is determined by technical factors and market factors, which differentiates the study from the past based on judgmental technique such as experts' opinion.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.153-171
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• 2006

The objective of this research project is empirically investigating factors influencing EPP system implementation based on the degree of volatility of business environment. The results show that computes with low volatility have successfully implement ERP system compared to companies with high volatility. This research project also identified success factors of each phased chartering phase, executive participation sound assessment of business condition, good understanding of ERP system and carefully constructed case are identified as success factors. During project expenditures, participation of various groups, technical resources, prefect and change management are found to be important for successful construction. Trained users, integration of systems, well-designed process and technical and human resource are found to be success factors during shakedown phase. Managers commitment technical infrastructure, system flexibility, and adequate resource for maintenance and renewing system are identified as success factors of onward and upward phase.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.423-430
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• 2000

With speed-up of existing railway, a greater attention is paid to the riding safety and the comfort of the passengers. They are combined to some technical factors related to track such as alignment, derailment coefficient, and track bearing capacity, A quantitative analysis method for those technical factors is presented in this study. Calculating the allowable transit speed, the technical reviews of speed-up of Janghang-Line(Chunan∼Janghang) are conducted. And the alternatives for improving train speed in existing railway are proposed.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.356-365
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to verify the influences of sport enjoyment factors on recreation specialization of water sports participants. The study conducted a research survey through purposive sampling method after selecting 4 water sports center in Busan. 260 questionnaires distributed and 246 were selected as final valid sample by removing 14 questionnaires that have insufficient answers. Then data were analyzed through exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS Window ver. 20.0. The results were as followings. First, the enjoyment factors have a positive effect on recreation specialization. Second, escaping from daily routine and improving technical skill dimensions of enjoyment factors have an influence on centrality of life. Third, improving technical skill dimension of enjoyment factors have a positive effect on past experience. Lastly, flow and improving technical skill dimensions of enjoyment factors have an influence on economic investment.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.25-43
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• 2001

The evolution of EDI has opened the flexible and efficient way for business to conduct a greater portion of the routine buyer-seller business activities online. This study focuses on the role of factors that change the innovation characteristics for implementation success of EDI. Three factors promotional efforts, proactive implementation strategy, and provision of technical expertise are proposed to affect EDI implementation success, as these factors directly influence three general and most important attributes of innovation relative advantage, compatibility, and complexity respectively. Hypotheses indicate that promotional efforts, proactive implementation strategy, and provision of technical expertise directly affect EDI implementation success that is represented by three variables volume, depth, and diversity. A structural equation modeling approach(LISREL) is used to analyze data from EDI adopters. The results show that proactive implementation strategy and provision of technical expertise positively affect implementation success of EDI. Given the significant impact of the wide spread use of the EDI system, this study offers quite useful insights on the factors facilitating innovation characteristics under which EDI can be successfully diffused in organizations.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.365-378
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• 2012

In this study, strength reduction factors are investigated for SDOF systems with period range of 0.1-3.0 s with elastoplastic behavior considering soil structure interaction for 64 different earthquake motions recorded on different site conditions such as rock, stiff soil, soft soil and very soft soil. Soil structure interacting systems are modeled and analyzed with effective period, effective damping and effective ductility values differing from fixed-base case. For inelastic time history analyses, Newmark method for step by step time integration was adapted in an in-house computer program. Results are compared with those calculated for fixed-base case. A new equation is proposed for strength reduction factor of interacting system as a function of structural period of system (T), ductility ratio (${\mu}$) and period lengthening ratio (T/T). It is concluded that soil structure interaction reduces the strength reduction factors for soft soils, therefore, using the fixed-base strength reduction factors for interacting systems lead to non-conservative design forces.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.165-171
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• 2016

This study analyzes the relative importance of the introducing factors for the critical success factors in the implementation stage of the lifecycle of ERP system using Delphi technique and Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP). In the 1st layer of the hierarchy, technical factor is evaluated as the most important factor among organizational, technical, and supplier factors. In the 2nd layer, choosing a proper ERP package is evaluated as the most important factor within 15 factors followed by process-oriented approach, technical suitability, minimized customization, integration and association of system with trading parter, association with legacy systems, and support and involvement of top management. As a result of this analysis enterprise should choose an ERP package that is suitable to its business environment, and make the best use of(take full advantage of) best practice that ERP package provides to optimize the existing business procedure or process(to approach the existing business procedure or process). This study also shows the range of customization of the features provided by the ERP package should be minimized.