해양비즈니스 誌의 연구방법 체계에 대한 탐색적 고찰

An Exploratory Study on Structure of Research Articles Focusing on Research Methods in the Journal of Maritime Business

The study explores the articles from the first issue of 2003 to the issues of 2013 of the Journal of Maritime Business that encourages scientific researches on the field of maritime business. The articles were analyzed according to the purposes, methods, and scopes of research, and data collection to identify the research trends. The study shows the finding results as follows. First, for the purposes of research most of articles are exploratory or descriptive research while explanatory research is relatively few. Second, most studies use theories and literature, and analyses on specific contents as the methods of research, and studies dealing with phenomenon, substances, and cases are increasing while statistical analysis of quantitative data is increasingly recently. Third, for data collection most of articles use literature and released statistical data while use of research tools like questionnaires begin to increase for quantitative analysis. Finally, most articles focus on the macro scopes of research like marine policies, marine industry trends, and systems. Therefore, the Journal of Maritime Business needs to encourage authors to explore more different subjects and methods of research to promote academic development of the journal.