Exploring the New Paradigm of Korean Management in the Era of New Millenium Environment

2001-12Korean firms are confronted with new challenges and crises resulting from the hyperturbulent and chaotic environments, especially 3C, 4T, diversity, the rise of ecommerce. They must search for new management paradigms for surviving and overcoming these cataclysmic threats. In line with this, this paper has been written to provide a contextual introduction to the topic with four main categories: (1) investigating the past dominant paradigm of Korean management; (2) searching the emergent paradigms; (3) exploring several criteria to evaluate existent paradigms; and (4) exploring the new paradigm of Korean management in the era of new millenium environment. Seven criteria to evaluate the existent several paradigms are (1) complexity and variety, (2) heterarchy, (3) holographic, (4) indeterminate, (5) mutual causality, (6) morphogenesis, (7) perspectival. And the old paradigm was the quantity-oriented paradigm, but the knowledge management paradigm will be the new millenium paradigm of Korean management. To establish the knowledge management paradigm, (1) to search the evaluative criteria of knowledge or intellectual capital, (2) to form the knowledge sharing culture, (3) and to enhance the knowledge creating ability, are needed