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This study examines the impact of work environment and individual motivational bases on employees' positive thinking for change and innovation in a public organization. This study defines 'positive thinking' as an employee's optimistic and proactive expectation on his or her organization's problem-solving capability and puts this concept on the top of change and innovation components. Using a total of 671 surveys in Bucheon City, this study explores the hypothesized relationships between the variables mentioned above. The results ironically show that 'positive thinking' is connected to 'securing budget' variable at the work environment level(infrastructure), while being related to 'responding austerity budget' at the individual motivation level. This result supports previous empirical studies' findings in slack and innovation literature that "too much slack is not good, too little is not good, either for innovation."

Information outsourcing had great accomplishments such as application of professional technologies in private sector and improvement of service quality, while it was thought to have resulted in many internal management problems. This research use transaction cost theory to compare and analyze transaction cost and cause of transaction cost in information system outsourcing. Operation and maintenance of e-trade service and customs office were chosen as subject of this research, and transaction cost was analyzed. For e-trade service, complexity of work and complexity of system were main cause of transaction cost, when they established business plans, reviewed program proposals, and adjusted changes. For maintenance and operation in Customs Office, major cause of transaction cost were environmental uncertainty, legal factors, and security when they confirmed the business, wrote an RFP, reviewed RFP, and estimated expected cost. This research has theoretical significance because it analyzed relationship between transaction attribute and transaction cost, and also political significance because it proposed the way to lower transaction cost in information system outsourcing.

In the global era where scientific technology determines the future of a state, government invests more and more on the research and development. For the same reason, it is regarded highly of turning the technologies developed in public research institutes into business opportunities, but so far, performance has fallen short of investment. Therefore, more emphasis is placed on the need for spin-off research enterprise of the public research institute, stock investment for innovative ventures, and the technology holding company which can provide incubation service and it is vigorously pursued to materialize them. This paper reveals the determinants of success for the technology holding companies through the cases of their counterparts operating in different countries and presents effective establishment process and management program.

This article analyzes the changes in Korean social acceptance before-and after-visiting nuclear energy facilities. The survey on the general public visiting on the spot and t-test result in that the interest, image, security, trust, utilization and expansion of nuclear energy after visiting are enhanced, compared with before visiting. Judging from the responses by the groups differentiated according to their levels of knowledge and involvement, aroused group(low knowledge and high involvement) is found to show the highest active acceptance among 4 groups. Next, active group(high knowledge and high involvement) and inactive group(low knowledge and low involvement) reveal higher acceptance than aware group(high knowledge and low involvement). Aware group is found to show the least social acceptance. But the enhanced effect on the social acceptance between before- and after-visiting is analyzed to be the highest in aware group, and then active group and inactive group show the better effects next to aware group. Aroused group is found to be least in amelioration. Implications are discussed in that the effective process is needed to raise the level of social acceptance to aware group and that alternatives besides financial support are considered to aroused group.

Korean agriculture is in several difficult situations including the crisis of agriculture industry and the decreasing of income and the poverty of farmers in the agricultural area. So, Rural Development Administration which has been in charge of developing agriculture and rural area started the new program for the revitalizing agricultural area from a few years ago. At first, this study designs the program logic model about the program for the revitalizing of the agricultural area through literature analysis and interview. Second, this study evaluates the program logic model through the comparative survey method between public officials who are in charge of the program and the direct customer of the program. Third, this study finds out several implications for developing the program which include concrete policy methods and reforming direction and targets of the program ets.

This study sets the case that people who have lived around Green Belt have different ideas on the residential policy recognition according to changing regulation of Green Belt. We have surveyed 2,100 persons who have lived around Green Belt : designated, changed, undesignated area. The result shows that satisfaction of residential condition such as revenue, education facilities, public facilities was the worst for the people who have lived in the designated area. There are also differences of policy recognition among the groups, for example, residential of designated area have feeling of necessity of policy more than residential of undesignated area. Such differences make it difficult to introduce economic measures such as environment tax which can be invested for the Green Belt maintenance. Consequently, citizens who have lived in the designated area feels unfairness, and it induces them to violate the law. Therefore, if government would like to maintain the Green Belt, they should provide concrete ways to increase the residential revenue and construct more public facilities in the designated area.