Owing to increasing demand of rare metals present in ICT products, it is necessary to promote the rare metal recycling industry from an environmental viewpoint and to prevent climate change. Despite the fact that information for toxic substances is partly indicated, a legal basis and an international standard indicating usage of rare metals is insufficient. In order to address this issue, a newly created study group of environment and climate change at the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is doing research to develop methodologies for recycling rare metals from ICT products in an eco-friendly way. Under this group, the Republic of Korea has established two international standards related to rare metals present in ICT products. The first is ‘Release of rare metal information for ICT products (ITU-T L.1100)’ and the other is ‘Quantitative and qualitative analysis methods for rare metals (ITU-T L.1101)’. A new proposal for recommending the provision of rare metal information through a label by manufacturers and consumer/recycling businesses has been approved recently and is supposed to be published later in 2016. Moreover, these recommendations are also being extended to IEC, ISO and other standardization organizations and a strategy to reinforce the ability for domestic standardization is being established in accordance with industrial requirements. This will promote efficient recycling of rare metals from ICT products and will help improve the domestic supply of rare metals.

지구 온난화로 인하여 극지역의 얼음이 빠르게 해빙되면서, 북극해에서 운항 하는 선박이 꾸준히 증가함에 따라, 극지해에서의 선박안전 확보와 환경보호에 관한 관심이 국제해사기구 회원국들에게 공유되기 시작하였다. 국제해사기구는 2002년에 강행규정이 아닌 북극 빙해역을 운항하는 선박에 대한 지침을 제정한 바 있다. 2014년 11월 21일 해사안전위원회 제94차 회의에서 극지해에서 운항하는 선 박에 대한 국제코드의 선박 안전 관련 규정인 PartⅠ-A 및 Ⅰ-B1)와 이를 의무 적으로 적용하기 위한 해상인명안전협약의 개정안으로 새로운 부속서 제XIV장 (극지해에서 운항하는 선박의 안전조치)을 채택하였다.2) 또한 2015년 5월 15일 해양환경보호위원회 제68차 회의에서는 국제코드의 환 경보호 규정인 Part Ⅱ-A 및 Ⅱ-B와 이를 강제화 하기 위한 해양오염방지협약 부속서Ⅰ(유류오염방지), Ⅱ(유해액체물질오염방지), Ⅳ(오수오염방지) 및 Ⅴ(폐 기물오염방지)의 개정안을 채택하였다.3) 이 국제코드는 극지해에서 안전한 선 박운항과 극지역 환경보호를 제공하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있으며 해상인명안 전협약과 해양오염방지협약의 개정안의 발효에 따라 2017년 1월 1일 발효된 다.4) 따라서 이 논문은 Polar Code의 제정경과와 주요 채택 내용의 검토를 통하여 그 핵심이 무엇인가를 파악한 다음, 발효에 대비하기 위한 우리나라 정부 및 관련 산업계의 바람직한 대응방안을 제시하는 것을 목적으로 작성된 것이다.

We propose that while EMFs’ international diversification promotes new product performance, technological capability actually mediates the relationship between international diversification and new product performance. We further argue that focusing on more developed markets strengthens the positive effect of EMFs’ international diversification on their technological capability accumulated over the process of internationalization, whereas it weakens the impact of EMFs’ technological capability on their new product performance because EMFs have to compete with local and global firms in the more developed target countries. Analysis on Chinese manufacturers’ international efforts provides support for these hypotheses.

Although the internationalization decision making process amongst managers from developed nations has been extensively studied, this phenomenon has been sporadically explored among managers from newly opened and transition economies. Given the risks and commitment inherent in international market entry, a thorough understanding of the decision making process of managers in such dynamic markets becomes crucial in charting the firms’ future direction. Hence, drawing on concepts from cognitive science, this study aims to explore cognitive biases and mental models for international market entry decision making among managers from a transition economy, namely Myanmar. Myanmar is recognized as Asia’s last large economy to become globally linked. Myanmar has long posted a negative trade balance, with the import value nearly double that of exports. The country’s population of 54 million, its abundance of natural resources, and its economic integration in the fastest growing region of the world have attracted firms of global brands such as KFC and VISA, who strive to gain market access. After decades of military rule, Myanmar’s ‘open’ economy is dominated by state-run enterprises in heavy industries, with growing opportunities for the private sector to aid in the growth of the domestic market as well as to exploit foreign market opportunities. Scholars from a diverse range of disciplines have argued that elements of an organization’s international strategic abilities stem from managers’ cognitive processes that balance national, industry, organizational and functional issues (Prahalad & Doz, 1987). This study explores Myanmar decision-makers’ strategic cognition, which describes the information-filtering or sense-making process by which strategic issues are interpreted (Finkelstein, Hambrick & Cannella, 2009). The fact that management and marketing research in Myanmar contexts is virtually nonexistent, understanding the strategic decision making processes of managers in Myanmar is warranted, given the significant business opportunities for and within this country in transition. Strategic cognition describes the how cognitive structures relate to the decision process in terms of strategy formulation and implementation (Narayanan & Zane, 2011). Cognitive structures refer to the manager’s beliefs about the environment, the state of the organization, and the business portfolio. The strategic cognition perspective presumes that managers rely on their belief structures when undertaking a strategic decision task (Hambrick & Mason, 1984). According to Finkelstein et al. (2009), managers’ ability to deal with complex decisions is inhibited by cognitive biases as well as interpretive frames. Such biases, in part, influence which information is attended to and how it is interpreted. ‘Biases’ and ‘frames’ in decision making receive considerable attention in the strategic decision making literature because they often lead to committing decision errors. While there are a number of cognitive biases, our interest lies in framing bias (Kahneman & Tversky, 1984) because the interpretation of economic gains and losses are highly relevant for strategic decision making. Framing bias occurs when modifications in the way a decision problem is presented, focusing either on the potential gains or on the potential losses of alternatives, result in a change in the decision-makers’ initial preference, such as when a decision maker becomes risk-averse when gains are highlighted while becoming more risk-taking when losses are. Two propositions are tested in this study. First, if we assume that framing bias influences strategic decision making under complex and uncertain contexts, we should discover substantive differences in managers’ risk preferences. More specifically, differences should be found when managers are presented with alternative versions of elaborated problem scenarios that are the same in all aspects except for the fact that the alternatives have been systematically manipulated in terms of (1) the potential gains (positive presented version) or (2) the potential losses (negative presented version). Second, prior research reports that strategic cognition is influenced by personal characteristics (e.g. educational background) and values as well as organizational characteristics (e.g. firm size, firm age) (Finkelstein et al., 2009; Hambrick & Mason, 1984). With this in mind, we should observe significant differences in risk preferences between participants of different demographic and trait groups. This study implemented an experimental investigation into the potential framing and priming effects arising from a strategic marketing decision problem of whether to develop a new marketing plan to serve the home market or to commit marketing resources to the export market. The stimuli were adapted from those developed by Hodgkinson et al. (1999), which were crafted to solicit responses to a case scenario that described a convincing strategic investment decision encountered by a firm that provides innovative automotive vehicle fast paint-drying systems. This scenario was deemed appropriate for the Myanmar context given that the participants were familiar with automobiles and auto painting services. The scenario was moderately adapted to suit the Myanmar context, with a fictitious local firm, Yannawa Co., which was faced with domestic intensified competition and up-and-coming advanced technology product substitution. The case scenario was explained with about 260 words that describe Yannawa’s 10-year history, the domestic industry environment and Yannawa’s objective to achieve a profit of $3 million. A photo of a modern fast-drying automotive painting system was included in the stimuli. Participants were instructed to assume the role as one of Yannawa’s board of directors and were asked to choose one option between a ‘less-risky’ alternative (focus on the domestic market) with a higher likelihood of occurrence and a ‘riskier’ alternative (invest in overseas markets) that had two possible outcomes that had different likelihoods of occurrence. Framing effects were manipulated as positively and negatively worded versions. In the negatively framed version, participants had to choose between (A) developing a new marketing plan to serve its home market with a 100% chance this option will lead to profits of US$1 million below management’s targeted level or (B) committing its marketing to the export market overseas, with a 33% chance to reach the targeted level and a 66% chance to earn profits of US$3 million below management’s targeted level. In contrast, in the positively stated version, participants were asked to choose between (A) developing a new marketing plan to serve its home market with a 100% chance to earn profits of US$1 million or (B) committing to the export market with a 33% chance for profits of US$3 million and a 66% chance to make no profits at all. To control for potential priming effects, the presentation order of the alternatives varied, with the ‘less-risky’ higher likelihood of occurrence alternative presented first in the stimuli followed by the ‘riskier’ alternative, and vice versa in the other versions. Altogether, we developed four experimental conditions: positively versus negatively framed decision scenarios, with lower risk versus higher risk in alternate sequence. The research instrument also included items asking participant demographic characteristics. The decision task was also accompanied by a free-elicitation method to capture a mental model of the variables that the participant considered while making the decision. In other words, participants were asked in an open-ended question, “Please write in sequence the variables that you thought about while making your decision.” Unlike the stimuli of Hodgkinson et al. (1999), which provided a list of 18 variables, which participants could rely on to complete the cognitive mapping task, our free-elicitation method was deemed necessary in order to gain better insights to Myanmar managers’ thought processes. Both studies involved Myanmar professionals who were enrolled in a global MBA program being offered at campuses in Yangon and Mandalay where English is used as the medium of instruction. Study 1 comprised a sample of 118 students enrolled in the Marketing Management course, which is the first course taken in the program. The sample comprises 35 (29.7%) males and 83 (70.3%) females, with a majority (72%) within the age range of 22 to 31 years, and 62 (52.5%) with a Science education, 26 (22%) in Economics/Business and 21 (17.8%) in Arts/Language. A count of 46 (39.0%) occupy top/senior management positions, 36 (30.5%) are business owners, and the remaining 36 (30.5%) hold entry-level organization positions. Each participant was assigned randomly one of the four stimuli versions. The task was administered in class and participants were given 30 minutes to provide their responses. Study 2 replicated and extended these findings on a sample of 81 final semester MBA students in the same program. The sample composition of Study 2 is similar to that of Study 1. Data were analyzed using nonparametric approaches to test the significance of joint frequency distribution of cases. The statistical analyses indicate that the distribution of risk preferences are consistent in both Study 1 (i.e. participants new to the MBA program) and Study 2 (i.e. more experienced MBA students) (χ2 = 0.64, p = 0.27), which is similar to the findings of Bateman and Zeithaml (1989). Also, the risk preferences are consistent in both Yangon and Mandalay subgroups (χ2 = 0.00, p = 0.57). Thus, the data collected from both studies were pooled for further analyses. As for the control of priming effects, we find a significant difference in risk preferences (χ2 = 5.32, p = 0.04, 113 vs. 86), with a larger proportion of the second listed marketing alternative (i.e. more recent) being selected, irrespective of whether that alternative is higher-risk or lower-risk. With respect to a test of our first proposition of a framing effect, we found no support (χ2 = 0.32, p = 0.35) of a systematic association between framing and decision choice. The distribution of decisions shows that irrespective of whether the alternative was positively framed or negatively framed, a larger proportion of the participants chose to higher-risk alternative to focus on exporting. As for testing our second broad proposition that there would be significant risk preference differences between demographic groups in the sample, we found no support for sex (χ2 = 0.58, p = 0.27), age (χ2 = 0.29, p = 0.96), education background (χ2 = 2.40, p = 0.30), and no support for occupation (χ2 = 7.33, p = 0.11). The qualitative responses obtained from the free-elicitation section of the instrument, were analyzed by categorizing responses as either concrete, i.e. a greater focus on specific details (e.g. mention of numbers, such as ‘a 100% chance’, ‘a 33% chance’ and ‘$1 million below’, ‘profits of US$3 million’) or abstract, i.e. focus on the bigger picture (e.g. such as ‘more competition’, ‘threat of new products’). Based on this approach, we find that 138 (69.3%) of the participants began their mental model with an abstraction and 105 (52.8%) of those participants relied on a mental model that was entirely abstract, absent of specific details. In contrast, 33 (16.6) of the participants constructed mental models that were completely concrete, while the remaining 61 (30.7%) of the participants developed mental models comprising both abstract and concrete information inputs. Interestingly, a statistical test of an association between these three different mental models and risk preference show no significant association (χ2 = 2.80, p = 0.25). This exploratory study contributes to the management and international marketing literature by providing initial evidence and insights of the strategic cognition of Myanmar managers. The fact that there were no framing effects nor any differences in the risk preferences between different demographic groups suggest that participants in our study may be relying on a common heuristic (i.e. rule of thumb) that guides them towards the option to seek foreign market opportunities. The marketing doctrine concept introduced by Challagalla, Murtha and Jaworski (2014), is indicative of the influence of institution-wide principles that guide all decision-makers throughout the institution. In the case of Myanmar, national trade policies emphasizing export initiatives and increased export promotion activities may be regarded as fundamental drives for economic growth. As such, managers may be adopting this national principle to simplify their decision task and therefore prefer to pursue foreign market opportunities. Relatedly, it is worth noting that among the participants that opted to focus on the home market, nearly half were employed by a non-government organization (NGO) operating in Myanmar. This reiterates earlier findings of the influence of organizational characteristics on the strategic cognition of managers (Finkelstein et al., 2009; Hambrick & Mason, 1984). From our sample, we found that managers working for a NGO may be accustomed to adhering to their own organizational principles, which emphasize the needs of the domestic market. From a practical perspective, caution should be taken when decision managers rely largely on a heuristic approach to decision making. Although recent studies report that heuristics can be a valuable approach in the wake of overwhelming data and information (e.g. Patterson et al., 2012 ), others show that accurate mental models bring about better decision rules (e.g. Gary & Wood, 2011). To ensure that the decisions made by managers align both their personal preferences and the logic of rational choice, a deliberate model designed to compare the underlying costs and benefits of the decisions must be carefully developed in such a way to prevent decision makers from minor distractions. To date, our study is the first to gain insights on the ‘black box’ of decision making among a sample of managers from Myanmar. Despite the valuable insights provided from our exploratory study, it is not without limitations. Although our sample comprises businesspeople from two major cities in Myanmar and represents businesspeople from a diverse range of industries and demographic characteristics, the generalizability of our findings is still limited. In addition, we only designed and implemented one hypothetical business scenario in our study due to the complex nature of the decision task. Using one hypothetical case may further limit the generalizability. Moreover, our results revealing the absence of framing effects but the presence of priming effects seem inconsistent with prior studies that have reported that such effects alter individual perceptions. Based on our preliminary findings, future studies are called upon to verify, confirm, and extend this current study to other contexts in Myanmar and other emerging and transition economies.

The growing pace of market globalization has enabled firms to find it increasingly attractive to exploit growth opportunities abroad. To this end, predicting firms’ success and growth in foreign markets has become an important issue to international business researchers and managers. The international business literature suggests that different internal firm and foreign market specific environment factors drive internationalization of firms including firms’ structure, strategy, orientations, capabilities and nature of foreign market competition. Researchers interested in the field of international entrepreneurship have also given attention to firms’ international entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) as a potential driver of firms’ internationalization behavior, with few recent studies reporting investigations into the relationship between IEO and internationalization scope. The entrepreneurship literature suggests that variations in entrepreneurial behaviors may lead to exploitation of “new entry” (Oviatt & McDougall, 2005; Cavusgil & Knight, 2015). Within the international entrepreneurship discipline, international new entry is construed to entail identification and exploitation of new product-market opportunities abroad, or a pursuit of internationalization scope (Dai et al., 2014). Internationalization scope is defined as the process of seeking new market opportunities across multiple foreign markets, and is operationalized variously with indicators that tap the percentage of overseas revenue to total revenue, and the number of foreign countries and geographic regions from which a firm receives its sales. Thus, internationalization scope is viewed to be inherent and essential to the exhibition of an IEO, and may be driven by firms’ entrepreneurial proclivity. While a few studies have looked at how IEO impacts percentage of revenue firms obtain from foreign markets (Dai et al., 2014), little studies have studied how and when IEO drives regional expansion. This is notwithstanding the fact that traditional internationalization theory points to regional expansion as an antecedent to global expansion. Indeed, international business scholars have argued that a combination of increasing informal exporting activities, rising liberalization of regional economies, colonial bias, regional economic blocs and the emergence of middle class in many regional markets has created opportunities for firms to internationalize within neighboring geographical regions. Additionally, it has been argued that the benefits and costs of regional protection can motivate firms to pursue regionalization strategy as an antecedent or an alternative to globalization strategy. In drawing insights from earlier works, therefore, the present study focuses on the regional expansion of exporting firms in a Sub-Sahara African economy – Ghana, and examines how international entrepreneurial-oriented behaviors drive the firms’ intra-Africa expansion. African markets are noted for their diversity in national laws, cultures, geography, and infrastructural development. Particularly relevant to internationalizing African firms is the diversity and imperfection of marketing channels across African markets. An important implication for African firms, therefore, is how they can leverage their comparative advantage of handling diversity and imperfection of marketing channels in their home African market to successfully compete in overseas host markets with similar conditions. Accordingly, we further empirically examine how a firm’s ability to manage heterogeneous and imperfect marketing channels moderates the effect of IEO behaviors on regional expansion. We posit that the extent to which firms develop managerial and organizational capabilities to successfully compete in conditions of high market channel diversity and imperfection is a major contingency factor that can help explain when entrepreneurial behaviors influence regional expansion. By empirically examining these questions, this study brings new insights to IEO research by showing that IEO behaviors are differentially related to regionalization strategy depending on firms’ capability to manage heterogeneous and imperfect regional marketing channels. Specifically, findings from our study of small and medium sized firms in Ghana doing business in regional African markets show that regional expansion increases when levels of product innovation intensity, competitive aggressiveness and autonomous behavior are high and when regional channel management capability increases in magnitude. Additionally, the study provides evidence to show that increases in risking-taking behavior decrease regional expansion when regional channel management capability is high. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that although product innovation novelty and proactiveness are directly related to regional expansion their effects are cancelled out when levels of regional channel management capability are high.

We argue that a novel dark personality trait—the focal firm’s desire for control—may drive key decisions pertaining to how to monitor strategic alliances, which in turn can deter performance outcomes. Our conceptual model was tested based on a survey of 197 international strategic alliances. Results demonstrate that the firm’s use of process monitoring to oversee the counterpart drives its performance outcomes only if there is a low level of information exchange between alliance partners; as such, information exchange norms substitute for process monitoring. Whereas, the focal firm’s use of outcome monitoring enhances its performance outcomes only if it is reinforced by a high level of information exchange; that is, these two monitoring mechanisms complement each other in alliances.

According to the environmental management literature, firms can realize significant cost advantage relative to competitors and improve their competitive position by implementing certain "Environmental Management Practices"(EMPs) (Hart, 1995; Shrivastava, 1995b; Christmann, 2000). Although EMPs is importance and prevailing presence, little attention has been paid to understand the drivers and outcomes of EMPs in the context of international buyer-supplier relationships. This study attempts to increase the understanding of how isomorphism pressures and organizational cultures influence the EMPs, which in turn enhance supplier’s competitive advantage in the context of international buyer-supplier relationships.

International Joint Venture (IJV) is one of the most popular market entry mode in emerging markets. The instability and stability of IJV have also been receiving ongoing attention in the literature (e.g. Deitz et al. 2010; Kogut 1989; Rhoades & Lush 1997; Sim & Ali 2000). IJV instability and stability are often treated as opposite to one another in the literature, and assumed the factors that account for instability has an inverse impacts on stability. However, conceptually and empirically they are not exactly two contrasting phenomena. This study adopts the perspectives of Superficial Friendship theory (Yan 2010) to differentiate the determinants of IJV instability and stability and empirically compares their determinants. The results indicate that the factors that account for instability do not have inverse impacts on stability. The empirical results not only contribute to an understanding of the different drivers of IJV instability and stability but also have important implications for international business managers in both parents and IJVs with regard to keeping an IJV profitable and successful.

The paper addresses the phenomenon of the opportunism that arises from a parent (principal) toward an IJV (agent) and its antecedents. This study integrates Agency Theory and Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) to discover its determinants from the perspectives of principal opportunism. Using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) techniques and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) based on a sample of 185 Chinese-foreign IJVs in China, which are useful to reals the overall story of the principal opportunism. This study finds an IJV depends on parents’ support in both knowledge- and property-based resources has more chances to subject to principal opportunism. The result also indicates that psychic distance has a negative impact on principal opportunism. fsQCA, however, provides further solutions that the specific combinations of these predictors or their negation predicts principle opportunism.

조직 내 리더십 효과성은 팔로워들의 태도 및 행동에 달려있다는 인식이 확산되면서 최근 들어 팔로워 십에 대한 학계와 실무계의 관심이 높아지고 있다. 그러나 많은 연구자들이 팔로워십 연구의 중요성에 대해 인식하고 있음에도 불구하고, 비교적 새로운 개념인 팔로워십은 개념정의와 측정도구 면에서 아직 성숙기에 도달하지 못한 상황이기 때문에 정작 이에 대한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 팔로워십 연구의 활성화를 목적으로 하는 리뷰논문으로서, 팔로워십이 리더십 문헌에 적극 적으로 등장하기 시작한 1988년부터 2015년까지 해외 학술지에 게재된 기존 문헌의 연구경향을 분석하였 다. 총 920편의 문헌을 리뷰하여 88편의 팔로워십 연구를 추려내고 이를 여섯 가지 기준으로 분석한 결과 는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 총 88편의 팔로워십 문헌을 논문유형 별로 볼 때, 개념연구는 41편(46%), 실증연구는 35편(40%), 리뷰연구는 12편(14%)이었다. 이 결과를 통해서 아직 역사가 길지 않은 팔로워십 문헌에서는 개념연구나 리뷰연구에 비해서 상대적으로 실증연구가 적게 이루어졌다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, 기존 팔로워십 문헌을 관점 별로 구분해 볼 때, 팔로워 중심 관점이 40편(45%)이었고 리더 중심 관점이 48편(55%)이었 다. 이 결과를 통해서 기존의 팔로워십 연구 중 절반 이상이 리더 중심의 관점으로 이루어졌음을 알 수 있었다. 셋째, 특히 35편의 실증연구를 주제별로 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 리더십에 대한 팔로워 영향 력: 12편(34%); 팔로워십 선행요인: 11편(31%); 팔로워십 유형: 7편(20%); 팔로워십 구성개념: 4편(11%); 암묵적 팔로워십 이론: 1편(3%). 이 결과를 통해서 팔로워십의 결과변수와 선행변수에 대한 연구가 비슷 한 비중으로 이루어졌음을 파악할 수 있었다. 넷째, 실증연구를 목적 별로 구분하면 이론구축은 31편 (88%), 이론검증은 3편(9%), 이론응용은 1편(3%)이었다. 이 결과를 통해서 아직 성숙기에 도달하지 못한 팔로워십 연구는 이론의 검증이나 응용보다는 이론구축에 무게중심이 쏠려있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었 다. 다섯째, 실증연구를 데이터 수집 방법 별로 구분해 볼 때, 설문조사는 23편(65%), 실험은 9편(26%), 인터뷰는 2편(6%), 사례연구는 1편(3%)이었다. 이 결과를 통해서 설문조사가 가장 많다는 점과 비율적인 면에서 볼 때 실험의 비중(26%) 또한 적지 않다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 마지막으로, 실증연구의 분석방법 별로 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다(중복허용). 회귀분석: 17편(49%); 기술통계: 11편(31%); 확인적 요인분 석: 8편(23%); 상관관계: 8편(23%); 멀티레벨: 4편(11%); 부트스트래핑: 3편(9%); 분산분석: 3편(9%); 카 이스퀘어-검정: 3편(9%); T-검정: 2편(6%); 구조방정식: 1편(3%); 기타 6편(17%). 이 결과를 통해서 전통 적인 회귀분석이 가장 많았지만 멀티레벨과 부트스트레핑 및 구조방정식 방법론을 활용한 연구도 일부 이루어졌음을 파악할 수 있었다. 현실적으로 모든 조직구성원들이 리더가 될 수는 없지만 성공적인 팔로워는 될 수 있을 것이다. 결론적 으로, 효과적인 조직성과 달성을 위해서 리더의 중요성 못지않게 팔로워의 중요성도 강조되어야 할 것이 다. 본 리뷰 논문이 팔로워십 연구의 활성화에 기여할 수 있기를 기대한다.

The purpose of this study was to review materials that could provide basic data about sports brassieres. In this study, 486 sports brassieres were collected online from 31 brands between November 2015 and February 2016. First, the comparison of compression and encapsulation in sports brassieres identified many different styles. The characteristics of compression brassieres included a cut cup, the front center height of a full cup, round neckline, short front hem, all in one shoulder strap with a patterned racerback design, all in one closure, no wire, and separation cup styles. The characteristics of encapsulation brassieres included a V-shape neckline, mixed round shoulder strap design, back closure, and all in one cup. Second, the comparison of domestic and international sports brassieres sorted the items differently. The characteristics of domestic products included compression brassieres, non-cut cup, the front center height of a full cup, round neckline, short front hem, an all in one shoulder strap with a patterned round design, all in one closure, no wire, and a separation cup. The characteristics of international products included a cut up, racerback shoulder strap design, and an all in one cup. Third, the analysis of domestic and international sports brassieres sizes found that six options were available for domestic compression sports brassieres and nine sizes were available for international products. Domestic encapsulation sports brassieres offered five under bust sizes and five cup sizes. International products offered eight under bust sizes and sixteen cup sizes.

최근의 한국사회는 다문화사회로 급격하게 변화해 가고 있다. 세계화의 영향, 국제결혼의 증가, 외국인 근로자의 유입 등으로 인한 국내 체류 외국인이 2012년 말 144만 명을 넘어서고 있다. 이에 따라 국가차원에서의 체계적인 다문화정책 구축의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 연구는 국가간 다문화정책을 분석하여 한국사회의 체계적인 다문화정책 수립의 방향을 모색하고자 하는데 목적이 있다. 한국의 다문화정책은 초기 지원과 결혼 이민자에게만 초점이 맞추어져서 최근 다문화가족으로 분류되고 있는 북한이탈주민, 유 학생, 난민 등 다문화가족 내에서 발생하는 역동적이고 다양한 욕구를 포괄적으로 해결하지 못하는 한계점을 보여주고 있다. 본 연구는 국가간 다문화정책비교를 위해 북미(캐 나다, 미국), 유럽(독일, 영국, 프랑스), 호주, 아시아(일본, 한국)의 다문화정책을 비교하였으며 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 북미국가인 캐나다는 다문화모델을 지향하고 있으며 다문화주의가 가장 잘 실현되고 있는 국가이다. 미국은 문화적 다원주의의 태도를 갖고 다문화수용 방향으로 나아가고 있다. 유럽국가인 독일은 차별배체모델에서 사회통 합정책으로 방향을 바꾸어 가고 있으며 영국은 문화적 다양성과 기회의 평등과 보장으 로 정책을 선회하여 다원주의를 통한 평화로운 공존을 주장하고 있다. 프랑스는 동화주의모델을 추구하지만 사회문화적 차이를 제거하고자 노력하고 있다. 호주는 문화적 다양성을 존중하고 사회적 형평성을 제시하면서 중앙정부, 지방정부, 각종 지역사회단체가 각각의 역할을 수행하면서 통합적인 정책을 실현해 나가고 있다. 아시아국가인 일본은 다문화공생의 개념아래 중앙정부차원이 아닌 풀뿌리 시민운동단체에 의한 프로그램이 추진되고 있다. 한국은 중앙정부 주도의 하향식 정책과 서비스의 중복이 주를 이루고 있다. 향후 한국의 다문화정책은 중앙정부, 지방자치단체, 민간단체가 협력하여 사회통합을 이룰 수 있는 체계적이고 효율적인 다문화정책이 재정립되어야 한다.

「수용자 처우에 관한 유엔최저기준규칙」은 각국 행형시설의 관리, 수용자 처우 등 행형운영과 관련된 업무에 있어 가장 기본적인 지침으로 인식되고 있으며, 1955년 채택된 이후 수용자의 구금에 대한 최저기준으로서 각국의 행형과 관련한 입법 정책수립, 실무에 대한 지침으로서 그 가치와 영향력을 행사해 왔다. 우리나라는 2007년 「행형법」을 전부 개정하였으며, 현재 시행되고 있는 「형의 집행 및 수용자의 처우에 관한 법률」의 배경에는 수용자의 인권에 배려한 수용생활을 영위하도록 함으로써 건전한 사회복귀와 권리보호를 도모한다고 하는 유엔최저기준규칙의 원칙과도 깊게 관련되어 있다. 유엔최저기준규칙은 2012년부터 2015년까지 4회에 걸쳐 정부간 전문가 회합을 개최하여 개정에 대한 논의가 행해졌으며 유엔 범죄예방 및 형사사법위원회는 2015년 5월 18일부터 22일까지 오스트리아 비엔나에서 개최된 제24차 회의에서 동 규칙에 대하여 합의를 하고, 같은 해 12월 17일 유엔총회에서 정식으로 채택되어 오랜 개정의 숙원사업을 달성하였다. 개정된 유엔최저기준규칙은 형사사법의 인간화와 인권보호에 대한 유엔의 지속적인 노력에 입각하여 1955년 이후 수용자 처우에 관련된 국제법의 점진적인 발전을 반영하는 한편, 수용자 처우와 관련된 유엔의 각종 규칙과 소년사법과 여성 등 특수한 상황의 수용자에 대한 유엔의 각종 성과에 입각하고, 유럽ㆍ미주ㆍ아프리카 등 수용자 처우에 관한 각 지역의 원칙과 기준을 반영하였다. 또한 수용자의 안전과 보안, 인도적 환경을 유지하면서 최근 교정학 분야의 진보를 반영하였다. 여기에서는 국제적 수준의 형사정책의 필요성과 더불어, 수용자의 처우를 둘러싼 이론과 실천, 특히 지금까지 세계 각국의 수용자 처우의 이론과 실무에 커다란 영향을 미친 유엔을 중심으로 한 일련의 관련 규칙에 대하여 고찰하였다.

최근 농촌 인구의 감소 및 고령화현상, 도농소득격차의 심화로 농촌의 부정적 상황이 지속되고 있으며 농업부가가치 및 농가 소득이 정체되는 것을 타파하기 위해 농업 6차 산업에 대한 연구가 필요하게 되었다. 농업 6차산업의 기대효과는 농업의 고부가가치화, 농가소득 증대, 농촌경 제 활성화를 위한 6차 산업화와 농촌산업화 전략이다. 이를 위해 체계적 인 방안을 모색하여 농산물 생산뿐만 아니라 가공, 제조, 체험, 관광, 숙박, 농가레스토랑, 판매 등 모든 분야가 융 ․ 복합적으로 발전할 수 있는 연구를 지속적으로 진행해야 한다. 특히, 오늘날과 같이 고객의 요구가 다양해지고 시장이 세분화 되고 있는 상황에서 농산물도 품질, 기능, 가격 등의 차별화만으로는 더 이상 경쟁력을 확보할 수 없고, 다른 상품과 달리 소비자가 쉽게 구매결정을 하는 저관여 제품이므로, 더욱 더 포장 디자인의 역할이 중요하다고 볼 수 있다. 상품판매를 위한 포장디자인은 농산물 소비량 증대와 농촌경제를 성장시키는 중요한 역할을 하고 있으며 이에 대한 전략 방안이 필요하다. 현재 농산물 포장디자인은 거의 유 사한 형태와 디자인으로 판매되고 있으며 이는 글로벌 경쟁 제품과 비교 했을때 경쟁력이 약하다고 할 수 있다. 국내 농산물 포장디자인과 해외 사례를 비교 분석함으로써 농촌산업의 활성화를 위한 농산물 포장디자 인의 전략을 제안하고자 한다.

This study is to find out the acceptance intention of international logistics platform which meet the needs of each other of shipper and international logistics company in the online. As you may know, the many korean traditional international logistics companies which have to compete with global logistics companies focused on economics of scale, have been in a big trouble. In this circumstances, though they should get used to the change to survive, they do not know what they try to overcome. So, I hope that this study would be helpful to them

The two Japanese security laws which came into force on March 29, 2016, have faced severe domestic and international criticism. They are seen as representing a dramatic policy change in violation of due process and international norms, and representing a threat to international peace and security. This paper finds that while the direct implications of the “war” legislation are neither threatening nor without precedent, what the legislative process says about the nature of governance under Abe is deeply troubling. The disdain shown by the Abe administration to due process and constitutional procedures is what threatens domestic and international governance stability.

There are approximately 116 straits used for international navigation around the world. Some of them are important international maritime chokepoints, namely the Dover Strait, Hormuz Strait, Straits of Malacca and Singapore and the Russian straits across the Northeast Arctic Passage. Due to the high number of navigational traffic going through these straits, vessel-source pollution is endemic in these waters. This article examines the applicable international legal framework on protection of the marine environment of straits used for international navigation such as Part XII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and other related legal measures like International Maritime Organization conventions on protection of the marine environment. This article concludes by stating that the present framework is not sufficient in properly balancing two vital interests in the maritime world – protection of the marine environment vis-à-vis shipping.

The ad hoc international criminal tribunals addressing the mass atrocities involving such extraordinary crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes have developed a delicate and intricate judicial scheme of ‘delayed disclosure.’ Against the backdrop of the unique gravity of egregious atrocities, ‘delayed disclosure’ aims at respecting the fundamental interests of both the accused and the witnesses, which has turned out to be an exceptionally challenging judicial exercise. Striking a balance between the rights of the accused to have adequate time to prepare his defence on the one hand, the protection of identifying information of witnesses who may be subject to serious danger or threat requires highly disciplined judicial vigilance on the other. For the purpose of elucidating the demanding challenges involving the practice of ‘delayed disclosure,’ this paper explores the relevant rules and case law of the ICTY and the ICTR.

Until the late nineteenth century, the history of international law was remarkably Eurocentric. In the early twentieth century, however, a number of Chinese intellectuals examined and demonstrated existence of international law through the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period in China. They used international law as a symbol of civilisation to express a gesture of resistance toward the Western imperial oppression and cultural invasion. In this way, Chinese intellectuals hoped to maintain, publicise, or even resurrect China’s rich cultural tradition in a global order governed by the West. Their endeavour represented an important variable in the European imperialist expansion process and constituted political interaction with western ideas to create a truly universal discourse. Unfortunately, most of their efforts have almost been forgotten. What the readers could perceive from these faded writings are not only academic assertions, but also the final splendour of an aged empire.