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This research investigated antecedents of LMX on team productivity, particularly on team commitment and effort for team innovation. With 225 participants from 38 teams, it was found that (1) member extraversion influences LMX at the beginning and at the final term while job autonomy influences LMX at the final term only. (2) LMX influences team commitment and effort for team innovation. In addition, LMX gets evolved with time. (3) At the teams without difference of leader and member' perception on LMX, autonomy enhances LMX while member extraversion has effect at teams with difference. Some implications of these results are discussed.

Increased global sourcing and reorganization in high value-added-centered industries make parts and material industry, which forms 46% of total production and 40% of total exports in manufacturing sector, more important. In a sense that parts and material industry is vulnerable in spite of its consequence, a lot of policy support was given. Parts and material industry, however, has never been researched empirically in firm level, therefore in this research we would like to analyze the competitiveness of parts and material firms compared with manufacturing sector, and to inquire into their current R&D position. Consequently, we suggest how to make value-added products more efficiently through R&D.

The purpose of this research is to verify the relationship between the changes of the operating cycle and the changes of the stock price in the firm. If the reduction of the operating cycle means a positive result of successful business reengineering of an enterprise whereas the increase in the operating cycle has an immense impact on stagnant sales and inefficient inventory management, a negative correlation is expected to exist between the operating cycle and the stock price. Following is a summary of this research ; First, the changes in operating cycle or the ratio of cash cycle and the stock price has a negative correlation. This finding is evident within industries of electronics, transportation equipment and machineries, but not so obvious in other industries. Secondly, the following findings are established for the operating cycle, cash generation capability, and the stock price : • As the capability of cash generation increases, the stock price increases. •As the operation cycle extends, the stock price and the capability of cash generation decreases. Third, a negative correlation is found in the relationship among the raw material, work-in-progress, finished goods and account receivable collection and is maintained between the stock price and each respective factor. And finally, when the operating cycle is extended a negative correlation is found between the stock price and the operating cycle whereas when it is shortened such negative correlation is not found. This indicates only a negative impact on the operating cycle is relevant to the stock price.

This study examines the effect of performance appraisal systems in companies with merit pay systems. Particularly, the two aspects of performance appraisal systems are examined in relation to the degree of improvement in perceived overall productivity, organizational commitment, satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with job, and motivation for skill development compared with them before the introduction of merit pay systems. Those two aspects of performance appraisal systems include whether the companies use management by objective (MBO) methods for performance appraisals, and whether the companies provide formal rater training. In addition, the effect of employee participation in MBO is examined in case of the companies with a merit pay systems as well as MBO methods. A total of 74 companies responded to the questionnaires. According to correlation and regression analyses using the total sample, MBO and rater training are shown to be related to the degree of improvement in outcome variables. It is also shown that employee participation in MBO relates to the degree of improvement in outcome variables according to analyses using 48 samples with MBO. The importance of appropriate performance appraisal system is further discussed in the companies with merit pay systems.

Quality Management System(ISO 9000:2000), which was established by International Organization for Standardization, has been adopted not only by industries but also by many public institutions. There has been a variety of evaluation on the effects of the Quality Management System for the industrial enterprises, and yet no significant research has been conducted about the effect of the system for the public institutions such as local government. This study has analyzed the effect and problems of the system, based on the survey conducted to the nine local government in Gyeonggi Province. Quality Administration System, which refers to the ISO 9000:2000 of the local government in this study, has proven its visible effect on providing with administrative services. The evaluation of the system, however, was not consistent among those local government that have adopted the system. Based on the result of the survey, this study has proposed four suggestions for effective operation of the system. They are as follows: first, a more specifically categorized group of customer; second, a system operation that qualifies for ISO 9001 ; third, a clear and specific goal for individual administrative service, and fourth, a method to get rid of the obstacle in the system operation.

This paper presents the long-run trends in regional agglomeration and localization in Korean manufacturing. Regional agglomeration in Korea rose until the mid-1970's and has fallen substantially since then, while mass migration of rural residents to Seoul and its vicinity has continued. Localization also rose until the early 1980's and has fallen continuously. The trends of localization in Korea is comparable with that in the U.S manufacturing reported by Kim(1995). Analysis of regional agglomeration and localization shows that there does not exit any remarkable market failure or positive external economy which may justify government intervention in location of industries.

Due to the rapid growth of China, Far-east Asia is one of the most actively changing economic regions. To actively respond on this trend, many global companies are searching for the regional headquarter for this region. Since these inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) is the key not only for the boost of the economic growth, but for the increased competitiveness for the host country, Korean government has been promoted these inbound FDI. Korea took paradigm of the selective concentration on the special region of "Economic Free Zone" such as Inchon, Pusan and Kwangyang with highly inducive incentives. The study analyzes the effectiveness of these incentives and suggests the paradigm shift on the incentives. Based on the theoretical as well as the comparative analysis on the benchmarking of the advanced countries in FDI, it concludes the importance on the systematic productivity for the incentives in terms of structural, functional and procedural innovation on the incentive system.

This study review to advance productivity and to embody escrow service model of logistic information basis through a alliance of EC relative parties in focus on On-line logistic. Logistic escrow services are provided by a licensed and regulated escrow Bank, EC shopping mall and logistic company. Logistic escrow reduces the potential risk of fraud by acting as a trusted third party that collects, holds and disburses funds according to Buyer, Seller and Logistic Company instructions under Electronic Commerce. This article studies to advance productivity for escrow model as logistic information basis of EC, As reason following : The First, EC shopping Mall and customer protect from logistic escrow service model. The Second, Logistic information escrow service speed from EC seller to buyer in goods transportation. The Third, Logistic information escrow model provide to safety of goods delivery. The Fourth, The Shopping Mall customers are offered treatment of returned goods and repayment of goods the money. In accordance to, Shopping mall, customer and logistic company advance to the productivity and the efficiency.

Recently, an enterprise's survival strategy is a difficult task, because the competition of a business is more complex ever. The research aims to demonstrate the dynamic structural change in a conceptual point of SCM positioning & strategy. But it has many problems since it is difficult and wide to define. Therefore, the Manager don't aware a total executable implementation even though the enterprise knows necessity of SCM. This paper focuses on a proposal of alternatives with reasonable positioning like most of enterprises willing to overcome such as carelessness and unready strategy of investment, additionally, the thesis should effort to find an element through an analysis of cases, a statistical method of effective SCM, and actual survey to propose an alternative between Positioning & Strategy in Enterprise SCM.