• 한국프랜차이즈경영연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2021

Purpose: This study examines the opportunism moderating effect by the startup experience in the relationship between franchisor and franchisees. In the case of a franchise system that has a continuous relational exchange transaction, relationship management is a very important activity because the relationship management between franchisor and franchisees improves the quality of the relationship. Nevertheless, there is insufficient of research on opportunism, which is a negative factor in managing the relationship between franchisor and franchisees in continuous relationship. Research design, data and methodology: This study, we explore the cause of opportunism based on transaction cost theory through prior research and establish a research model based by goal incongruity, uncertainty, information asymmetry, transaction specific assets, the relevance to determinant of opportunism and the startup experienced which is a moderating variable. To verify several hypotheses, the data were collected from 300 out of 1,760 domestic franchisees and analyzed using multiple regression analysis with SPSS program. Results: The findings are as follows. Goal incongruity did not affect opportunism. Opportunism increased as uncertainty increased, and as information asymmetry increased, opportunism increased. An opportunism decreased as transaction specific assets increased. Moreover, the findings show that startup experience only plays a moderating role in the relationship between information asymmetry and opportunism. Therefore, 4 out of 8 hypotheses were supported. Conclusions: The findings show that uncertainty, information asymmetry, and transaction specific assets are the determinants of opportunism. In addition, the results of the analysis of the moderating role of startup experience show that the less entrepreneurial experience, the greater the influence of information asymmetry on opportunism. Our findings mean that maintaining a successful relationship between franchisors and franchisees is possible when franchisors provide knowledge sharing, goal sharing, environmental sharing, and management information sharing to franchisees. In addition, the findings of this study shows that the contract content and management should be changed according to the entrepreneurial experience. In other words, the franchisors must share and integrate the accumulated franchisees' and franchisors' experience with the franchisees to create a synergy that can lead to successful bilateral relationship maintenance, which in turn reduces opportunism.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.59-79
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• 2007

This paper is to identify whether the mechanism of the real market as an off-line market developed from the transaction cost theory from previous research is applied to on-line market, such as usiness to Business e-marketplaces. With three factors(parties, product, environments) selected from previous research, four cases picked up from all B2B e-marketplace sites as of April 2007, in the view of Business to Business Matrix which presented by Kaplan & Sawhney(2000), were studied. They were accompanied by interview with CEO and team manager, and they explained their business and revenue model of the company. From the interview, the relation between three factors and usiness to Business e-marketplace was observed by taking sub-factors into consideration; parties -asset specificity, information asymmetry, product factors - standardization, price stability, and environments factors - competition, market uncertainty. The implications of this study are to analyze the relation of the transaction theory in offline and online. Also, this is the first study that analyzed it. In the future, another research based on this research will be studied.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2016

The proliferation of the Internet and related technologies has led to a new form of distribution channels, namely online retailers. The conventional offline and the new online retailers have different transaction costs perceived by the consumers in the following perspectives: the accessibility to the product information, the traffic cost and the opportunity cost for the time to visit the store, the delivery time and the possibility of 'touch and feel' to test the quality of the product. In particular, the online retailers have lower distribution cost structure in that they do not have physical stores, which results in lower selling price. Thus they continuously offer price competition against offline retailers using the lower selling cost as competitive weapon. Moreover the emergence of the social commerce is likely to intensify the competition between the online and offline retailers. To survive in this fierce competition, the offline retailers are trying to defend their business interests by sticking to offline transaction in anticipation of increased customer loyalty, customer's preference for 'touch and feel' style shopping, and others. Despite of these efforts, customers who touch and feel a product in an offline store but purchase the product through an online retailer are increasing. To protect such customers, recently, some of the offline retailers began to provide the mobile discount service (MDS) which enables the offline customers to purchase a product at a discounted price through the mobile applications. In business competitions, the price discount strategy is usually considered to secure more market share at the cost of lower profit. In this study, however, we analyze the effect of MDS as a weapon for securing more profit. To do this, we set up a game model between the online and offline retailers which incorporates the effect of the MDS. By numerically analyzing the Nash equilibrium of the game, some managerial implications for using the MDS for more profit are discussed.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.214-219
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• 2006

Oligopoly differs from perfect competition and monopoly in that a firm must consider rival firms' behavior to determine its own best policy. This interrelationship among firms is the issue examined in this paper. In the oligopoly market, the complete information market means that each producer has full information about itself, the market, and its rivals. That is, each producer knows the market demand function, its own cost function and the cost functions of rivals. On the other hand, the incomplete information market means that in general each producer lacks full information about the market or its rivals. Here, we assume that each firm doesn't know the cost functions and the strategic biddings of its rivals. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze firm' strategic behaviors and equilibrium in an electricity market with incomplete information. In the case study, the complete information market and the incomplete market are compared at the Nash Equilibrium from the viewpoints of market price, transaction quantities, consumer benefits, and Social Welfare.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.81-102
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 치열한 경쟁에 처해있는 인터넷 쇼핑몰(Internet Shopping Mall:ISM) 산업에서 생존을 위하여 필수적인 차별화 구현을 통한 수익성 향상 방안을 탐색한다. ISM 관리의 실질적 차별화를 가능하게 하는 실행 수준에서의 관리 요소를 분석하는 본 연구는 이제까지 주로 개념적이고 기업 수준에서 수행된 B2C 차별화 전략 연구와 ISM 고객만족에 영향을 주는 선행요건을 파악하는 실증적 연구를 효과적으로 결합하여 다음과 같이 진행 되었다. 첫째, 고객의 구매 의사결정 프로세스의 각 단계 별 거래비용 이론 관점에서 고객가치를 정의하였다. 둘째, 포괄적 문헌연구를 통하여 ISM 고객만족에 영향을 주는 요소들을 파악하고 이들 중 관리요소의 차별화가 가능하며 차별화를 통하여 고객 가치에 영향을 줄 수 있는 15개의 관리요소를 도출하고 연구모델과 가설을 수립하였다. 마지막으로 실증분석을 통하여 구조적 모델을 검증하고 차별화에 대한 시사점을 제시하였다. 본 연구는 ISM 차별화에 대한 실증적 연구로는 초기단계에 속하는 연구로 본 연구의 결과는 ISM 차별화를 위한 향후 연구와 실무적 응용에 유용한 시사점을 제시한다.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.177-197
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• 2016

현대 기업에서의 정보기술 아웃소싱(Information Technology Outsourcing: ITO)은 비즈니스 프로세스 및 정보기술의 고도화와 함께 수행영역과 적용기술 등의 다양한 측면에서 진화를 거듭하고 있다. 특히, ITO 프로젝트의 수행과정에서 고객과 공급업체들 간의 관계구조는 과거 단일 공급업체가 주도하는 단순한 형태를 벗어나 기술적 전문성과 관리기법을 겸비한 복수의 공급업체가 참여하는 형태(Multi-vendor Outsourcing: MVO)의 비중이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고객과 공급업체간 관계구조가 ITO 수행 시 수반되는 거래비용의 구조와 크기를 변화시킴으로써, 결과적으로 ITO 성과에 영향을 미치게 된다는 전제를 바탕으로, 다음과 같은 질문에 답하고자 한다. 고객과 복수의 공급업체들 간에 맺어지는 관계구조의 형태가 특정 유형의 ITO 성과에 영향을 미치는가? 본 연구는 거래비용 이론(Transaction Cost Theory)을 기반으로, 고객과 공급업체들 간에 맺어지는 관계구조의 유형을 두 가지로 나누어 제시하였다. 아울러, ITO 수행과정에서의 거래비용을 살펴봄으로써 각각의 관계유형에 상대적으로 부합하는 ITO 성과유형을 제시하는 내용을 가설화하였다. 제시된 가설에 관한 검증은 ITO를 수행하는 국내 246개 기업으로부터 수집된 자료를 바탕으로 진행되었다. 분석결과를 통해, 특정 관계 구조 유형은 그에 부합하는 형태의 ITO 성과에 더 많은 영향을 미치고 있는 것을 확인 하였다. 본 연구는 ITO 프로젝트의 수행 과정에서 IT 실무자들이 아웃소싱 공급업체들과의 관계구조를 설정하고 운용하는 데 있어 주요한 참조자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2004

This paper addresses the bidding strategies of generating firms in a competitive market where the firms are provided with payment for generating reactive power. Reactive support for voltage control is an integral and critical part of power system operations. Since reactive support is unbundled in a competitive market under open access transmission, it is treated as one of ancillary services. The operation costs and opportunity costs for reactive support are compensated by payment to the firms, hence their bidding strategies will be affected. The opportunity costs are evaluated from the foregone profits of a generator in making sales in real power market by providing reactive support instead of real power. Game theory approach is used to analysis the transaction strategies of real power by the bimatrix method in this paper. Through computing the Nash equilibrium in a sample system, an incentive of a generator for improving the reactive generating capacity is found to be effective and the variations of the profits are analyzed as the demand power factor changes.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.315-327
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• 2008

According to the Bank Profitabilities Statistics of OECD members, Our domestic banks applying commissions for both exchange and selling/buying foreign currencies are evaluated as much higher than those of other countries banks. The theory indicates an analysis results and comparison in between banks over the world. Our domestic bank assert that, in general, the aggregated banking commission income is lower than those of other countries by comparing in the field of non-interests profits. Viewing by another analysis in details, some commission rate applying to domestic services are far below than cost basis, but other commission rate applying to foreign currency transaction services is abnormally higher. Such unfair rate should be lowered to the similar level to other banks in the world and also the actual cost should be reasonably reevaluated in the reasonable manner. One more thing, The writer suggest that domestic banks should spend efforts to increase their income by improving and diversifying with the various type of new commissions applied to domestic market, such as multi-functional financial services, expanding ATM services, electronic settling technique etc under today's rapidly changing and opening world financial market.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.17-33
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• 2003

The explosive growth of the internet-based transactions requires not only a secure payment system but also an appropriate trust measuring methodology and secure transaction protocols to guarantee the minimal risk for the transacting entities involved in specific transactions. Especially, in internet auction systems where either buyers or sellers or both can be more than one in one transaction, providing those systems that make sure no one transacting entity takes a major risk becomes critical. In this paper, an improved trust measuring method using a relationship-based internet community for an auction system is proposed. The proposed system incorporates fuzzy set and calculation concepts to help build trust matrices and models, which is used to measure the level of risk involved in a specific auction trade concerned. Also, to optimize the auction trade process in terms of cost and time, the proposed system recommends a differentiated trade protocol according to the risk level involved in each auction trade. To test the appropriateness of the proposed trusted auction system, a prototype system has been developed under a Windows-NT environment.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2010

Plural governance system in which firms use vertical integration and market governance simultaneously are widely used across various marketing context. Typical examples of plural governance include franchise systems, in which firms own and operate some unit themselves while licensing the operation of some of their units to franchisees. Despite many scholars have attempted to explore the structure of plural governance over decades, there are few insights into its determinants. In this study, we examine the relationship between the proportion of outlets franchised and several franchisor's characteristics based on the perspectives of transaction cost analysis, resource scarcy theory and agency theory. Using franchisor data in Korean Franchise Disclosure Document over the 2006-2009 period, we test the effect of franchisor size, system growth rate, franchise fee, initial investment, and risk sharing on the proportion of outlets franchised. Except for the effect of system growth rate, the results of a series of multiple regression analysis supported the negative effects of franchisor size, franchise fee, initial investment and risk sharing on the proportion of outlets franchised.