A Comparative Analysis of Informatization Level for Agricultural Corporations and SMEs 


Vol. 40,  No. 5, pp. 892-902, May  2015


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Agri-food ICT(Information and Communications Technologies) convergence has been raised as an important issue for agricultural industry competence. In this situation, this study is to enhance agricultural competitiveness and seek to development plan for agricultural corporation by diagnosing informatization level. For this purpose, this study conducted survey on informatization level of 3,019 agricultural corporations and calculated level score. And result is compared with SMEs(Small and Medium Enterprise) informatization survey, including manufacturing and service industries, conducted by Korea Technology & Information Promotion Agency for SMEs in recent agricultural corporations" growing with automation of agricultural production and improving service to customer satisfaction. Evaluation system is established to calculate informatization level score and AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) method was used by the experts to investigate weighting of assessment area, assessment indicators, assessment items. As a result, agricultural corporation informatization level score was 40.16 points which is lower than the benefitted organization of agri-food IT convergence modeling(43.44 points). By assessment area, the informatization level of promotional environment area was low and investment and training items were analyzed low especially so need to improve urgently. In the analysis result by organization type, agricultural company corporation"s informatization level was higher than the agricultural association corporation and "Processing and distribution" was higher than others by business type. Informatization level of agricultural corporation is 80 percent of 2013 SMEs" level(50.18 points) and 59.4 percent of a large corporation(67.64 points). In particular, big difference is occurred in investment feasibility analysis, informatization investment and education which will be need to improve.

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[IEEE Style]

G. Bock, B. Kim, J. Lee, "A Comparative Analysis of Informatization Level for Agricultural Corporations and SMEs," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 892-902, 2015. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Gene Bock, Bae-bong Kim, and Jae-keun Lee. 2015. A Comparative Analysis of Informatization Level for Agricultural Corporations and SMEs. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 40, 5, (2015), 892-902. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Gene Bock, Bae-bong Kim, Jae-keun Lee, "A Comparative Analysis of Informatization Level for Agricultural Corporations and SMEs," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 892-902, 5. 2015.

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