한국 IT산업 정책 네트워크의 지속성: 자기강화 메커니즘의작용을 중심으로 = Self-Reinforcing Mechanism and Continuity in Policy Network: The Case of the Korean IT Industry

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The complex phenomena in which cooperation and conflict among key players as well as success and failure coexist emerged in the Korean IT industry since the 2000s. This study aims to explain why, despite the increase in conflicts and failure, key players in the IT industry tended to maintain the existing policy network. We argue that the self-reinforcing mechanism of the IT policy network such as learning effects and switching costs exiting from the existing policy network has substantially influenced the key players status-quo oriented tendency. Players within the current policy network turned out to be major beneficiaries of frequent re-organizations of the IT industry. Only firms that stayed in the existing network could successfully enter the next generation of IT businesses, while government agencies -in particular the MIC -could fend off challenges from other ministries that attempted to expand policy jurisdiction over the IT industry.