From the aspect of Archives Science, a manner of the company manages its archives is a very important subject to study. But, since it is hard to access to those archives that generated and being kept by the company and the company does not desire to o...
From the aspect of Archives Science, a manner of the company manages its archives is a very important subject to study. But, since it is hard to access to those archives that generated and being kept by the company and the company does not desire to open it to the public, approaching to a compiled corporate history by the company is one possible mean of access to those archives.
Enterprises in Korea started in full scale by the enforcement of "Economic Development Policy"from the government in 1960. In other word, the history of Korean enterprise has close relationship with the history of economic development. The general public has interest in history of those corporations and its founder, on the other hand, corporation introduces the history of their own by the corporate history.
This research focused in the point that numerous recorded materials are needed to compile a corporate history and organized to be used efficiently in preparation of manuscript and being kept even after the completion of the corporate history compilation. Therefore, the study will observe the present condition that how the company manages its archives during the process of corporate history compilation by interviewing composer regarding arrangement and utilization of data pre and post the corporate history compilation. Thereafter, the study tried to raise the issue through a present condition and seek an advanced systematical business archives management solution for a corporate history compilation.
From this research, we could find the fact of a corporation manages archives before the corporate history compilation and arrange them by specific policy for a corporate history compilation. Documents are being kept in a storage room and all documents from establishment are being reviewed to write out a manuscript of the corporate history. Other than that, photograph, commodity and artificial were arranged separately from documents. For utilization of archives, the author used documents and periodic, the composer used periodic and the editor used photographs and artificial the most. And, upon completion of the corporate history compilation, gathered and arranged archives are safeguarded in a separate place. On the other hand, composers were experiencing a difficulty of collecting and classifying data and were not aware of 'Archive Science'. But the most important fact is they realized that retention of archives management skill makes on going archives management possible.
Finally, the issue with archives management of corporation is the issue of skill, policy, space and professional. Although, it takes a quite some time to these solutions to be assembled in corporate archives management field.
Therefore, systematically manage archives by organizing a task force team to assume full charge of archives management. And it is necessary to make archives accessible to Archive Science or related academic circles to inform a corporate history and philosophy to the general public. In addition, not only publishing a corporate history book, but also building a company museum to open recorded articles to the public in various ways and seek possibility of converting it into Archives.