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This comes during a particularly bumpy transition in Seoul from an outgoing administration to a new one. President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s five-year term starts on May 10.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB268337
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Young-Myon Lee and Michael Byungnam Lee
While the origin of Korean Industrial Relations goes back 150 years when the country opened its seaports to foreign countries, it didn’t emerge as a field of study until 1950s…
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While the origin of Korean Industrial Relations goes back 150 years when the country opened its seaports to foreign countries, it didn’t emerge as a field of study until 1950s when academics began to write books and papers on the Korean labor movement, labor laws, and labor economics. In this paper, we sketch this history and describe important events and people that contributed to the development of industrial relations in Korea. Korean industrial relations in the early 20th century were significantly distorted by the 35-year-Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). After regaining its independence, the U.S. backed, growth-oriented, military-based, authoritarian Korean government followed suit and consistently suppressed organized labor until 1987. Finally, the 1987 Great Labor Offensive allowed the labor movement to flourish in a democratized society. Three groups were especially influential in the field of industrial relations in the early 1960s: labor activists, religious leaders, and university faculty. Since then, numerous scholars have published books and papers on Korean industrial relations, whose perspectives, goals, and processes are still being debated and argued. The Korean Industrial Relations Association (KIRA) was formed on March 25, 1990 and many other academic and practitioner associations have also come into being since then. The future of industrial relations as a field of study in Korea does not seem bright, however. Issues regarding organized labor are losing attention because of a steadily shrinking unionization rate, changing societal attitude toward labor unions, and the enactment of new and improved laws and regulations regarding employment relationships more broadly. Thus, we suggest that emerging issues such as contingent workers, works councils and tripartite partnership, conflict management, and human rights will be addressed by the field of industrial relations in Korea only if this field breaks with its traditional focus on union and union–management relations.
Author considered the contradiction of Capitalism and its Solution, systemized the concept to newly define Ethics Management and social Responsibility whose various terminologies…
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Author considered the contradiction of Capitalism and its Solution, systemized the concept to newly define Ethics Management and social Responsibility whose various terminologies are used in Domestic and foreign country and compared, analyzed and considered global guideline, standard organization and global Evaluation Model of internationally‐performed Ethics Management on the basis of the concept of new Ethics Management.
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Teresina Torre and Daria Sarti
This chapter aims to build a systematization of the current theoretical and empirical academic contributions on smart working (SW) in the organization studies domain and to…
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This chapter aims to build a systematization of the current theoretical and empirical academic contributions on smart working (SW) in the organization studies domain and to examine which are the main paths that researchers are concerning themselves with, with specific attention being paid to the new meaning that the work itself has acquired in the model proposed by SW. Particular consideration is devoted to an analysis of the characteristics of the present debate on this construct and the meaning of SW, identifying two different – and contrasting – approaches: one considers it as a totally new concept; the other is notable for its continuity with previous arrangements such as telework. Further, some relevant concepts, strictly related to that of SW in working environments are considered. In the last part of the chapter, some key points for further research are proposed to create stimuli for discussion in the community of organization studies and HRM scholars and among practitioners, given from the perspective of deepening the change in progress, the relevance for which there is general consensus.
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The outlook for South Korea's new administration.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB220918
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Jin Seok Bae and Sunkyoung Park
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the paradoxical pattern in which South Korean presidents enjoy imperial power early in their term, but became fragile and impotent as…
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the paradoxical pattern in which South Korean presidents enjoy imperial power early in their term, but became fragile and impotent as their term comes to an end.
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Based on the previous literature on Korean presidentialism, this paper introduces and critically compares several competing theories on the Korean presidency and its defects.
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This paper finds that for Korean presidents, imperial governance and fragility represent two sides of the same coin, like a Janus face. These two seemingly competing descriptions of the Korean presidency are not actually contradictory.
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This paper investigates how Korean presidents are imperial with regard to constitutional design as well as political behavior, and presents a logic of transformation from an imperial president to a fragile one, focusing on party politics and election cycles.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of leader humility on team reflexivity. This study also investigates the mediating role of relation-oriented shared leadership…
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of leader humility on team reflexivity. This study also investigates the mediating role of relation-oriented shared leadership and the moderating role of leader trust.
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This study collected data from the information technology (IT) service provider of a large telecommunications company in South Korea. A total of 311 employees (individual response rate of 31.2%) in 59 teams (team response rate of 83.01%) were included in the final analysis. Several hierarchical regression analyses and PROCESS macro were used.
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The results indicate that leaders’ humble behaviour is positively associated with team reflexivity and facilitates relation-oriented shared leadership among team members, particularly when they have a higher level of affect-based trust in leaders.
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This study may help researchers and practitioners better understand the conditions influencing the impact of leader humility on team members’ behaviour.
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The main value of this study is to add to the knowledge on team reflexivity by identifying leader humility as a critical factor affecting team reflexivity. Furthermore, this study provides a deeper understanding of why leader humility influences team reflexivity.
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Prospects for East Asia to end-2021.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262430
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Jong‐Chul Oh, Sung‐Joon Yoon and Byung‐il Park
The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of e‐shopping malls by using Kano's two‐dimensional quality model; also to determine the salient quality attributes…
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of e‐shopping malls by using Kano's two‐dimensional quality model; also to determine the salient quality attributes, including those attributes that increase customer satisfaction and technological characteristics that are essential for the use of e‐shopping malls, to provide important strategic implications.
Design/methodology/approach
In this regard, the paper is divided into Study 1 and Study 2. Study 1 uses Kano's two‐dimensional quality model to determine the characteristics of e‐shopping malls, whereas Study 2 analyzes the relationship among e‐shopping malls' characteristics, customer satisfaction, flow experience, and trust.
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According to the results of Study 1, communication quality and marketing activity reflected one‐dimensional quality attributes. In addition, brand recognition was an attractive quality attribute, whereas interface quality, system security, and information quality were must‐be quality attributes. According to the results of Study 2, communication‐related attributes of e‐shopping malls did not have significant effects on customer satisfaction, whereas other attributes such as brand recognition, marketing activity, interface quality, system security, and information quality directly influenced customer satisfaction.
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The results also have important implications for researchers. First, the quality dimensions of e‐shopping malls can be identified through an empirical analysis based on Kano's model. This indicates that the quality attributes of e‐shopping malls can be better examined by using a two‐dimensional quality model than by using a one‐dimensional quality model. Second, the authors not only extracted the quality dimensions based on Kano's model but also examined customer satisfaction, flow experience and trust to verify their relationships, providing a better understanding of the effective quality management of e‐shopping malls.
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Previous studies considering various types of e‐shopping malls have focused on the design and functions of e‐shopping mall web sites; the elements that vitalize e‐commerce and the key factors influencing the success of e‐commerce; and the factors influencing customer satisfaction and purchase intentions. Most of the literature on e‐shopping malls have typically approached this topic by using a one‐dimensional method relying on whether the physical/technological attributes of e‐shopping malls are fulfilled. This paper expands the horizon by incorporating a systematic approach to web service qualities using Kano model, which is a multi‐dimensional model.
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