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Accepted: 28 July 2016The aim of this study is to empirically examine the impact of supply chain dynamic capabilities on operational performance, and the mediating effect of technological innovation between dynamic capabilities and operational performance. This study is based on empirical data collected from a survey of 206 small-and medium-size firms in Korea. Structural equation modeling is used to test the research questions. The results show that supply chain dynamic capabilities positively influence technological innovation and operational performance of an enterprise. Additionally, structural equation analyses reveal that technological innovation plays a role as a partial mediator of the relationship between supply chain dynamic capabilities and operational performance. In a dynamic and ever-changing environment, the enforcement of dynamic capabilities in a sustainable supply chain is important for the innovation of technology and the improvement of operational performance. Further investigation is required to understand the differences by industries, characteristics of enterprises, and positions in a supply chain.Keywords supply chain management, dynamic capabilities, supply chain dynamic capabilities, technological innovation, operational performance. IntroductionDue to the acceleration of the global economy, the rapid progress of information technology, and the various expectations of customers, today's business environment is rapidly changing and competition among enterprises has intensified. In the past the technology transfer from one industry to another did not occur or was a slow process. Due to the rapid growth of technological innovation and globalization, a technology developed for one industry is quickly transferred to another. This creates a great ripple effect throughout the industry. This ever-changing business environment prevents enterprises from sustaining their competitive positions as well as from allowing for the time necessary to diagnose changes in the business environment, discover opportunities and risks, and to deal with them in a timely manner.Therefore, the dynamic capabilities theory has been implemented in business environments where dynamic capability is required in order for an organization to remain sustainable. Dynamic capability refers to the capability of an organization to integrate and reorganize its internal and external resources [1][2][3][4]. By implementing the dynamic capabilities theory, an organization is given the opportunity to create enterprise values such as management innovation, sus- Management and Production Engineering Reviewtainable competitive advantage, and operational performance through dynamic capability. The dynamic capabilities theory is based on the resource-based view [5, 6] and the core competency theory [7,8]. According to the resource-based view, organizational performance is created from the capability and differences in resources an organization holds, which are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and nonsubstitutable [6]. The...

Serious medication errors continue to exist in hospitals, even though there is technology that could potentially eliminate them such as bar code medication administration. Little is known about the degree to which the culture of patient safety is associated with behavioral intention to use bar code medication administration. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model, this study evaluated the relationships among patient safety culture and perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, and behavioral intention to use bar code medication administration technology among nurses in hospitals. Cross-sectional surveys with a convenience sample of 163 nurses using bar code medication administration were conducted. Feedback and communication about errors had a positive impact in predicting perceived usefulness (β=.26, P<.01) and perceived ease of use (β=.22, P<.05). In a multiple regression model predicting for behavioral intention, age had a negative impact (β=-.17, P<.05); however, teamwork within hospital units (β=.20, P<.05) and perceived usefulness (β=.35, P<.01) both had a positive impact on behavioral intention. The overall bar code medication administration behavioral intention model explained 24% (P<.001) of the variance. Identified factors influencing bar code medication administration behavioral intention can help inform hospitals to develop tailored interventions for RNs to reduce medication administration errors and increase patient safety by using this technology.

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To create wide and deep knowledge flows by providing implicit and explicit knowledge services, organizations have constructed knowledge management systems (KMS). As employees are major knowledge resources in an organization, it is essential to use their collaborative intelligence in KMS, but there has been little research on how the heterogeneous networks of people interact to produce intelligent outcomes. This research suggests a new KM framework that leverages collaborative intelligence techniques, such as collaborative search, collaborative filtering, and social network analysis, as well as conventional knowledge management techniques including smart sensor technology. Finally, this paper reports our experience in a real world KMS development case that applied the framework and suggests challenges of knowledge management learned from this research.