• 대한간호학회지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.703-719
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• 2021

Purpose: We aimed to identify collaborative disaster governance through the demand and supply analysis of resources recognized by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We used a descriptive study design with an online survey technique for data collection. The survey questions were developed based on focus group interviews with nurses responding to COVID-19 and expert validity testing. A 42-question online survey focusing on disaster governance was sent to nurses working in COVID-19 designated hospitals, public health offices, and schools. A total of 630 nurses participated in the survey. Demand and supply analysis was used to identify the specific components of disaster governance during a pandemic situation and analyze priority areas in disaster governance, as reported by nurses. Results: Demand and supply analysis showed that supplies procurement, cooperation, education, and environment factors clustered in the high demand and supply quadrant while labor condition, advocacy, emotional support, and workload adjustment factors clustered in the high demand but low supply quadrant, indicating a strong need in those areas of disaster governance among nurses. The nurses practicing at the public health offices and schools showed major components of disaster governance plotted in the second quadrant, indicating weak collaborative disaster governance. Conclusion: These findings show that there is an unbalanced distribution among nurses, resulting in major challenges in collaborative disaster governance during COVID-19. In the future and current pandemic, collaborative disaster governance, through improved distribution, will be useful for helping nurses to access more required resources and achieve effective pandemic response.

• 농촌계획
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.11-20
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• 2021

Recently, natural disasters caused by climate change have become more frequent across the world. Our country is also not exceptional, and it is urgent to come up with appropriate measures in the agricultural sector as the size and intensity of drought are becoming severe. Consequently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food has continuously raised the need for efficient water management and governance to overcome the periodic drought. Thus, there is a need for water-saving education and water conservation governance for sustainable and efficient use of agricultural water. Governance is a cooperative mechanism involving various stakeholders, such as central, local, civil society, and businesses, to solve regional or social problems, with different definitions and concepts depending on the field or scope. In this study, we aim to present basis of a governance framework for direct water management participation involving the key agricultural water use stakeholders to imbibe the culture of water savings and conservation practices. Based on this, water-saving governance was established and operated in Gyeongju and Yeoju, in South Korea as a 'water conservation practice', while the water management status of local farmers, the reliability and importance of stakeholders, and the need for governance were investigated. The results indicate that the involvement of various stakeholders in the governance of water management yielded water-saving effects. This study provides the directions of making a framework for water-saving governance establishment and operation. It is expected that sustainable agricultural water use can be achieved in response to climate change if the governance builds and operates with agricultural water use stakeholders based on the continuous government supports.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.33-79
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• 2012

이 논문의 첫 번째 목표는 참여적 전환이라는 최근 STS의 흐름 속에 미묘한 차이를 가지는 여러 입장들이 존재한다는 것을 드러내는 데 있다. 이러한 차이를 이해하는 것은 STS에서 논하는 과학기술 거버넌스와 위험 연구자들이 발전시킨 위험 거버넌스의 여러 모델 사이의 차이와 공통점, 그리고 접점을 모색해 보는 작업을 위해 매우 중요한 선행 작업이 될 수 있다. 이 논문의 두 번째 목표는 그 차이를 이해하기 위해서 2000년대가 아니라 1970년대와 1980년대로 거슬러 올라가서 당시 STS의 서로 다른 방법론들이 만들어지면서 나타났던 이론적인 차이가 2000년대 이후의 참여의 문제에서 상이한 입장의 근거가 되었음을 보이는 것이다. 모든 사상과 이론은 역사성을 가지고 있고, 실타래처럼 엉켜있는 그 역사적 과정을 풀어 헤쳐 보는 것은 지금의 차이의 연원을 이해하고, 궁극적으로 그 차이를 좁힐 수 있는 가능성을 모색하기 위해서 필요한 것이기 때문이다. 이 논문은 STS 참여적 전환의 '역사적 인식론'(historical epistemology)에 대한 것이며, 그 목표는 STS가 공유할 수 있는 미래의 정치적 인식론(political epistemology)을 모색해 보는 것이다.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.281-325
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• 2015

이 글은 시민참여를 주장하는 STS 연구들이 각기 다른 이론적 관심과 방법론에 의해 상이한 입장을 취하게 되었음을 보인 필자들의 선행연구를 심화하여, 이상이한 입장들이 위험 거버넌스의 두 가지 큰 방법론인 위험분석(또는 위험평가/위험관리의 구분)과 사전주의 원칙에 대한 서로의 해석과 평가에 반영됨을 보일것이다. 이를 통해, 이 글은 STS 영역 밖에서 발전한 위험분석(위험평가/위험관리)이나 사전주의 원칙에 대한 STS의 입장이 단일한 것이 아님을 드러내고, 나아가 STS의 시민참여 거버넌스와 위험 거버넌스 연구 사이의 이론적이고 실천적인 접점을 확인하면서 일부 STS 연구자가 제시한 참여적 거버넌스 모델의 문제를 지적할 것이다.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.99-147
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• 2016

이 논문에서는 과학기술학에서 공중의 과학기술 관여가 논의되어온 방식이 갖는 유용성과 한계를 정당화와 실질적 수용의 측면에서 살펴보고자 한다. 이를 위해 우선 과학기술 전문가의 지식 체계가 포함하는 불확실성과 비전문가의 일반인 지식에 관한 STS의 통찰이 왜 그동안 참여적 거버넌스의 양적, 질적 확산으로 충분히 이어지지 못했는지의 문제를 이론적, 실질적 층위에서 논의하였다. 이어서 어떤 전문성이 참여적 거버넌스의 구성과 지속을 지지할 수 있는 것인가에 대한 답을 찾기 위한 예비적인 시도로서 한 사례-제주도 풍력 발전시설 개발과 제도 정비 과정에서 나타난 비전문가의 활동-에 주목하였다. 논문의 주장은 다음과 같이 요약된다. 첫째, 참여적 거버넌스를 정당화할 수 있는 근거는 시민/비전문가라는 사회 집단이 갖는 어떤 본질적 특성에서 도출할 수 없다. 둘째, 참여의 정당한 조건으로 수용될 수 있는 전문성의 형식과 내용은 사실 진술과 가치 판단의 경계를 재구성하는 수행의 결과로서 사후적으로 부여된다. 셋째, 제주도 풍력자원 공유화 과정에서 복잡한 사회-기술 체제의 실질적 재구성에 기여했던 것은 새롭게 유통될 수 있는 사물-사람의 관계를 만드는 '연계적 전문성'이었다. 넷째, 시민과 전문가의 전문성은 모두 대체가 아닌 보완을 필요로 한다. 궁극적으로 이 논문은 참여적 거버넌스에 대한 STS 논의가 실제로 갈등이 발생하고 결정이 이루어지고 있는 현장에 주목하여, 과거와 현재, 사실과 가치, 과학기술과 사회의 경계를 재구성하는 행위자들의 구체적 수행을 분석하는 작업으로 확장되어야 할 필요성을 강조한다.

• 농촌계획
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.49-59
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• 2022

Recently, Korea aimed to increase water use efficiency by implementing integrated management according to the water management unification policy. Considering the enormous use of water resources in the agricultural sector, it is necessary to efficiently conserve water in terms of demand management by intensifying the stakeholders' involvement and awareness campaigns. The existing agricultural water management system in Korea is based on a top-down approach by which the government agencies directly plan budgets and policies to be enforced on and implemented by farmers, with little to no involvement of farmers in the decision-making process. However, this process has hindered the desired water resources management and the water conservation goal at the field level. Moreover, the limited research on water governance operations focusing on agricultural water creates a knowledge gap, particularly in Korea. Thus, it is necessary to investigate water governance cases with successful implementations in agricultural and rural areas to identify the factors applicable to domestic governance in Korea. In addition, a more systematic governance model should be established by identifying the subjectivity of the stakeholders' involvement in agricultural water governance. Therefore, this study proposed a new bottom-up model for agricultural water governance, which aims to raise the problem of autonomous water governance while promoting stakeholders' voluntary participation in agricultural water management and reflecting farmers' involvement in the decision-making process. Moreover, if agricultural water governance is expanded nationwide by reflecting agricultural and water resource policies in the future, it is believed that positive effects can be achieved in increasing utilization efficiency and securing sustantiality through agricultural water saving.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.853-866
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• 2020

The purposes of this research were: 1) to investigate the effect of participatory management on financial information asymmetry, 2) to investigate the effect of corporate governance on financial information asymmetry, 3) to examine the influences of benefits incentives on financial information asymmetry, and 4) to test the mediating effects of benefits incentive that influences the relationship between participatory management, corporate governance, and financial information asymmetry. The research sample consisted of 388 Thai-listed firms. Data were collected through a survey questionnaire. Descriptive analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis, and Structural Equation Modeling were used for the data analysis. The results revealed: 1) participatory management and participation in evaluation had a negative influence on financial information asymmetry. 2) Corporate governance and the rights of shareholders had a negative influence on financial information asymmetry. 3) Benefits incentive was negatively associated with financial information asymmetry. 4) The model's influences of participatory management, corporate governance on the reduction of financial information asymmetry through benefits incentive as mediator fit the empirical data (Chi-square = 104.459, df = 84, p = 0.065, GFI = 0.967, RMSEA = 0.025). The variables in the model explained 78.00% and 4.70 % of the variance of benefits incentive and financial information asymmetry, respectively.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.851-861
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• 2021

The main objective of this study is to examine the government ownership effect on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR). Government ownership is assumed to affect the CSR either directly or indirectly. That is by moderating the association between corporate governance and CSR. Publicly listed companies on the UAE capital markets (Abu Dhabi and Dubai) from 2010-2013 constituted the study sample. Panel data regression analyses and random effect model is used to examine the effects of board size, board independence, and audit committee characteristics on CSR. Government ownership is used as a moderator variable. The result showed that the existence of government ownership has a moderator effect on the association between corporate governance mechanisms and the CSR. Precisely, the research revealed that the audit committee characteristics become more effective in improving the firm's CSR when the government owns shares in the organization. The main contribution of this study is to examine how firm ownership structure influences good corporate governance and CSR in the UAE. The study contributes to the CSR literature by merging between the existence of governmental ownership and the power to enforce the implementation of corporate governance in an emerging country.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.191-201
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• 2021

The objective of this research is to investigate how the board of directors' characteristics influence sustainability disclosures with the mediating effect of corporate governance. The independent variables are the characteristics of the board of directors, which consist of the presence of women on the boards, presence of directors aged over 50 years old, education level, education field, board tenure, and compensation. The dependent variable is sustainability disclosures, which is measured by the GRI standard disclosure, whereas the mediator variable is the CG score. Research samples are 460 companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). Path Analysis is used to examine the correlation between the board of directors' characteristics, CG score, and GRI standard disclosure. The research findings show that senior boards, the education field, and compensation motivation have an effect on sustainability disclosures, whereas corporate governance is a mediator of the effect of the education field of boards on sustainability disclosures. This finding should help shareholders to choose individuals with suitable characteristics to serve on the board of directors, and, as a result, shareholders should anticipate a profitable result to be generated, while the business of the company is conducted in a sustainable way.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.1-31
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• 2015

지난 30여 년간 서구 민주주의 사회를 중심으로 시민참여형 과학기술 거버넌스에 대한 논의와 실험이 다양하게 이루어졌다. 이에 대한 당위성에는 사회적 공감대가 형성되었지만 이를 통해 궁극적으로 얻고자 하는 목표와 방법론은 다양했다. 본 논문에서는 겉으로 주창되는 규범적, 실제적 이유와는 달리 은밀히 내재된 도구적 관점의 시민참여 논리가 갖는 정책적 함의를 고찰한다. 사례로 영국의 시민참여형 과학기술 거버넌스 담론의 형성과정과 실험을 분석한다. 1990년대 후반부터 제도권의 다양한 정책관련 기관들이 주장한 시민참여형 과학기술 거버넌스의 필요 논리에 이용된 쟁점 및 실제로 시행된 두 공론화 과정(유전자 변형 작물의 상업화 관련 GM Dialogue와 방사성 폐기물 처리 방법 관련 CoRWM의 프로그램)에 드러난 도구적 관점을 분석한다. 이를 통해, 시민참여형 과학기술 거버넌스로의 전환 시도에는 겉으로 주창된 민주주의적 의사결정과 창의적 문제해결의 목표 외에, 이해관계자들이 자신의 이해 실현을 위해 도구로서 이용하려는 은밀한 시도들이 있었음을 보여준다.