A Study on the Antecedents and Consequences of Smart Plant Construction
Wonjong Kim, Hyun-chul Jang, Battumur Gerelmaa, Gantumur Khongorzul · Journal of Human-centric Science and Technology Innovation · 2021
This study focuses on the success factor for Smart Plant construction.In this line, the exogenous variables that would affect expectations for competitiveness were hired from the related studies, including organizational factors, technical factors, and environmental factors.Moreover, the organizational factors have been divided into two sub-dimensions, i.e., the leadership of top management and competency development of organizational members, and the technical factors also have been divided into two sub-dimensions, i.e., technology relevance, safety, and risk-taking.The environmental factors consist of government support and influence of business partners.For the empirical analysis, a survey has been conducted.To examine the research model, survey data from employees of the related field were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling techniques.The results of this study indicate that 1)Competency development of organizational members, technology relevance, and government support has a significant influence on the expectations for competitiveness enhancement, 2)Leadership of top management, Safety and risk-taking, and influence of business partners have not a significant influence on the expectations for competitiveness enhancement, 3)Expectations for competitiveness enhancement has shown a significant impact on Smart Plants construction, which proves that expectations for effectiveness can effectively enhance Smart Plant construction.This result is in the same context as previous studies.