Namjae Cho

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Professor (Full) at Hanyang University

This research is an empirical study that analyzes the relationship of trust between an incumbent CEO and a successor during succession in a family business. We use the relationship of trust between an incumbent CEO and a successor as a mediating variable. A successor’s conversational ability, home environment, and involvement of family members are...

Selecting the proper acquisition strategy for needed technologies, is one of the key strategic decisions in formulating technology strategy for a company. There are a number of factors were found to be influential in the selection of technology acquisition strategy. This paper deals with selecting technology acquisition strategy as a multiple crite...

The authors develop an intelligent information system in a multilayer electronic supply network. Using the internet for supply chain management (SCM) is a key interest for contemporary managers and researchers. It has been realized that the internet can facilitate SCM by making real time information available and enabling collaboration between trad...

The automation of negotiation among buyer-supplier-supplier triad is an important policy in e-supply network coordination (e-SNC). In addition to the buyer-supplier coordination advantages, a further coordination among suppliers is also highly important in order to maximize the network supply capacity utilization especially when the suppliers are g...

In this chapter, an integrated procurement, production and distribution supply chain model is developed in fuzzy environment and performance vector of the supply chain is determined by solving strategic model and tactical model iteratively. Mixed integer programming model is formulated through fuzzy goal programming approach in strategic level. In...

Reverse logistics network design (RLND) effectiveness has an important impact on the effectiveness of the whole supply network coordination. Considering that, in this study, the RLND problem is investigated and a hybrid genetic algorithms and simulated annealing (HGASA) methodology is proposed. This problem is applied to a preceding study which uti...

The concept of a supply chain is expanding into that of a supply network, which includes a broader base of suppliers and partners connected physically and electronically. Accordingly, the scope and depth of management issues and research focuses have also expanded from the traditional supplier-buyer dyad and a linear sequence of suppliers into a co...

A supply chain is a network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers, through which raw materials are acquired, transformed, produced and delivered to the customer. An effective and efficient way of managing this network is called a supply chain management system. The authors’ purpose here is to design a capable elect...

In recent years, manufacturing companies have entered a new era in which all manufacturing enterprises must compete in a global economy. To stay competitive, companies must use production systems that only produce their goods with high productivity, but also allow rapid response to market changes and customers’ needs. The emerging new paradigm of i...

Contrary to actual logistics networks in which chains are frozen, in the proposed partnership network, a dynamic chain is only built each time an order is requested; nothing is planned ahead of time. An isoarchic control model based on the holonic paradigm is proposed. The control of the partnership network can be seen through a simultaneous analys...

E-business is concerned with the use of the Internet to link companies with their suppliers, customers and other trading partners. As a business concept, it has evolved significantly since its introduction in the 1990’s in parallel with the rapid rate of development of information technology (IT) during this period. Supply chain management (SCM) is...

For companies competing in highly dynamic markets, coordination is considered a fundamental component for achieving a higher level of supply chain efficiency. Information and communication technology (ICT) is essential enabler of supply chain coordination and synchronization. The focus of this chapter is on the analysis of ICT adoption in small thi...

Traditionally, a supply network is a sequence of different and multiple numbers of processes interconnected each other in order to satisfy all capacities and demand requirements imposed by customers with minimum cost to the network. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology could potentially improve supply network management by guarantying m...

This chapter analyzes the coordination and competition issues in a two-stage supply-chain in which a vendor distributes a product to two different retailers who compete on their retail prices in the same market. The demand faced by each retailer not only depends on its own price, but also on the price set by the other retailer. Mathematical models...

As supply chains are growing increasingly complex, from linear arrangements to interconnected, multi-echelon, collaborative networks of companies, there is much more information that needs to be stored and analyzed than there was just a few years ago. Today, there are variety of business initiatives and technologies such as joint planning and execu...

Finding most promising suppliers based on consistency with the overall goals of buyers’ companies is of great importance where different small buyers are dependent on large suppliers. Here, the authors attempt to model and implement an e-supply network considering the buyer-buyer-supplier triadic. This approach facilitates horizontal information ex...

The authors develop an intelligent information system in a multilayer electronic supply network. Using the internet for supply chain management (SCM) is a key interest for contemporary managers and researchers. It has been realized that the internet can facilitate SCM by making real time information available and enabling collaboration between trad...

The quality control of sub-assemble products (SAP) in a distributed manufacturing shop (DMS) becomes crucial and complicated when the production of SAPs involves a variety of production technology. In this case, traditional statistical process control methods are not sufficient to control such manufacturing system. Here, we design an intelligent we...

Functional relationship between supplier and buyer in an open market place leads to investigate the role of both quantifiable and non-quantifiable parameters in coordination mechanism with the aim of achieving higher performance in supply chain activities. Here, we develop a supply chain model and a new agent to analyze and simulate the players’ be...

The automation of negotiation among buyers and suppliers has provided cutting-edge knowledge on scientific approaches to the management of supply networks. Concentrating on information flow and cooperation among echelons, studies have designed coordination mechanisms for a two-echelon supply chain: buyers and suppliers. However, quantitative invest...

The theory of network coordination presents an effective approach to improve the business processes within supply networks. The automation of the negotiation process among buyers and suppliers has become an important policy in the transactional networks. This leads to assessing the roles of both quantifiable and non-quantifiable parameters in coord...

In a distributed manufacturing shop (DMS), factories of various levels of manufacturing capabilities are equipped with diverse types of machines and tools and are scattered around many geographically different locations. Because of such geographical diversity, the quality control of sub-assemble products (SAP) is of great importance to ensure a hig...

This research focus on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of technology spin-offs as they are expected to reduce the gap between their technology and the market. Entrepreneurial orientation is an organizational activity or process that redistributes or combines resources in an innovative way and takes risk to create new values. It helps improve the l...

Functional relationship between supplier and buyer in an open market place leads to investigate the role of both quantifiable and non-quantifiable parameters in coordination mechanism with the aim of achieving higher performance in supply chain activities. Here, we develop a supply chain model and a new agent to analyze and simulate the players’...

In asymmetric interpersonal relationships between a manager and the employee, the media selection behavior under formal or informal context is likely influenced by the upward influence strategy of an employee. According to increasing the usage of online communication media such as electronic mail, internet bulletin board, and chat software and so f...

Internet technology enables companies to capture new customers, track their performances and online behavior, and customize communications, products, services, and prices. Analyses of customers and customer interactions for electronic customer relationship management (e-CRM) can be performed by way of using data mining (DM), optimization methods, o...

Electronic marketplace (EM) has been considered as an alternative coordination mechanism to coordinate supply chain activities between suppliers and buyers. In business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce contexts, new functional relationships have been created between suppliers and buyers in an attempt to reduce lead times and stock outs and to...

Internet technology enables companies to capture new customers, track their performances and online behavior, and customize communications, products, services, and price. The analysis of customers and customer interactions for electronic customer relationship management (e-CRM) can be performed by data-mining (DM), optimization methods, or combined...

Advanced manufacturing systems need to be developed for an enterprise to survive in the increasingly competitive global market. Statistical e-based quality control approach combines statistical quality analyses and reporting capabilities with web technology to deliver process optimization solutions. In this paper we develop a mathematical structure...

Link analysis is the most important application of web structure mining and serves as a source of new knowledge in web information retrieval. Designing an effective link structure for customer interfaces is critical for the success of cybermalls. The user interface of a cybermall should provide friendly and pleasant shopping environments.A smart li...

In this paper, an attempt has been made to look at the strategic options available for an incumbent firm in an information technology intensive industry. The traditional Stackleberg Leader Follower model fails to hold in this industry since costs decline substantially over time, and the incumbent firm cannot maintain a dominant position in the indu...

Customers in an Internet shopping environment actually play dual roles. One is the role as a customer in a shopping place, and the other is the role as a user of information technology. In both cases, the level of satisfaction is of great concern. In this vein, a way of measuring the satisfaction level that takes both roles into account is needed....

It is proposed that using management support systems (MSS) will improve knowledge by providing managers with more information and analytic tools that they can use to learn more about the nature of their environment, the effectiveness of various strategies, and the relationship between actions and outcomes. Techniques ranging from qualitative analys...

Frequently, lots of organizations have experienced the value discrepancy between the expected value and the realized value from IS (information systems) investments. Being positive or negative the difference is, however, the existence of discrepancy itself is an evidence of less-than-sound management and measurement of IS projects. Analyzing the fa...

The theory of network coordination has become a focus of interest as a novel approach to improve the business processes effectively across a span supply network. The automation of negotiation among buyers and suppliers has become an important policy in the transactional network. Studies have focused on the design of coordination mechanisms for a tw...

In some situations, MADM matrix is not distinguished completely at the first stage of decision making, because of the complexity of environment. These complexities lead to incomplete cognition and non-optimal decision making. In such "semi-structured" environment, due to its high degree of complexity, the whole environment is not identifiable for D...

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