Smart factories have been found to enhance the productivity of the overall production process, proving to be an appropriate policy as a key strategy for domestic manufacturing innovation. However, to maintain its effectiveness even when the scale and recipients of policy support are expanded,...

This paper studies how environmental regulation shapes the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI), and thereby assesses the pollution haven hypothesis. Conflicting results exist in the case studies examining the most advanced countries, partly due to the deterrent effect of clean technology...

Although temporary trade barriers are perceived as a feasible policy instrument for securing domestic jobs in the presence of increased globalization and economic downturns, no study has assessed whether such temporary barriers have actually saved domestic jobs. To overcome this deficiency, we...

The technology adoptions are often associated with corporate organizations. Using newly merged firm level data on digital transformation and firm organization, we investigate how the adoption of newly available digital technologies (DT for short) is related to organizational conditions. A novel...

Modern manufacturing is under transformation: becoming more data-intensive and more tightly connecting operation to management. This paper investigates the game-changing paradigm, so-called 'smart factory', from an organizational perspective. A factory becomes smarter—or smartized—via the...

This study investigates the management practices of 926 manufacturing plants in South Korea using the quantitative method by Bloom et al. (2019). The original management and organizational practices survey (MOPS) in the U.S. is revised to reflect the Korea-specific environment and merged with...

Korean Abstract: 한국의 경제발전에 있어서 빼놓을 수 없는 중요한 주제 중 하나는 무역을 중심으로 한 대외개방정책이다. 1950년대 소비재의 수입대체화(import substitution), 1960년대 경공업 중심의 수출촉진(export promotion), 1970년대...

Korean Abstract:국내 서비스업의 낮은 생산성이 중요한 문제로 대두되었음에도 불구하고 마땅한 해결책이 제시되지 못하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 외국인직접투자를 통해 국내시장에 진출한 기업이 국내 경쟁 기업들의 성과와...