Current Research Projects

Note

Research projects are managed in PM Master (each project’s docs/_project.yaml) and shared through GitHub (ChadResearch) and Google Drive. Projects are grouped by stage, from research series in progress to ideas that have not started yet. Last updated: 2026-10-02.

Research Series

AI & Work Change

A three-paper series on how professionals adapt to AI-driven changes in their work, built on the A-PEM (Awareness–Perception–Envisioning–Management) process model.

C1. AI & Professional Adaptation — Conceptual Paper

An Awareness–Perception–Envisioning–Management Process Model: A Conceptual Framework for Professional Adaptation to Artificial Intelligence-Driven Work Transformation

  • Proposes the A-PEM process model of how professionals adapt to AI-driven work transformation.
  • Status: Submitted to New Technology, Work and Employment (2026-09-16), desk-rejected (2026-09-18). Revised for the International Journal of Human Resource Management special issue “Managing the digitally-savvy workforce” (version finished 2026-09-30) and for an Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources special issue (version finished 2026-10-01; submission window November 2026).
  • Owner: 정동열 | With: 이재은, 채충일 (corresponding author)
  • web | github | google drive

C2. AI & Professional Adaptation — Qualitative Study

A Pilot Analysis of Professional Adaptation to AI-Driven Work Transformation: An Empirical Exploration of the A-PEM Model

  • Applies the A-PEM model to focus-group interviews (4 sessions, 18 participants), combining ATLAS.ti coding, network analysis, and structural topic modeling.
  • Status: Analysis complete. Korean Draft v3 is the reference manuscript; a review in May 2026 asked for a major revision, which is in progress. Not yet submitted.
  • Target: JPO, then QROM, JABS — aiming for December 2026
  • Owner: 이재은 | With: 정동열, 남가영, 채충일
  • web | github | google drive

C3. AI & Professional Adaptation — QCA

One Gate to All Outcomes: Human Uniqueness Cognition as a Universal Necessary Condition for Professional AI Adaptation — A Fuzzy-Set QCA Study

  • Fuzzy-set QCA of focus-group data (24 professionals in IT, law, broadcast writing, and education/research) identifying necessary and sufficient conditions for professional adaptation to AI.
  • Status: Analysis complete. Draft v2 (2026-08-31) under revision. Not yet submitted.
  • Target: Information Technology & People, planned for February 2027
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead) | With: 정동열, 이재은
  • web | github | google drive

SME Digital Transformation (K-하이테크 플랫폼)

Papers built on the K-Hightech Platform data on digital-transformation (DT) training in Korean small and medium-sized enterprises. The original platform-data analysis is complete; the papers below follow from it.

P1. How Far Do Training Outcomes Extend? (용량-반응 분리와 측정의 문제)

How Far Do Training Outcomes Extend? Conditional Training Transfer in DT Training for SMEs

  • Examines how far the outcomes of DT training extend in SMEs: prior participation, readiness for the next round, fit with organizational and technical conditions, and subsequent transfer.
  • Status: Manuscript being rewritten after a change of framing on 2026-09-24 (prior participation → next-round readiness → fit with organizational and technical conditions → transfer)
  • Target: Human Resource Development Quarterly
  • With: 정동열 (first author), 채충일 (corresponding author), 나태희
  • web | github | google drive

P2. Firm Size and Tailored Training Strategy (기업규모 역U자와 맞춤형 교육 전략)

  • Tests whether the effect of DT training in SMEs has a non-linear (inverted-U) relationship with firm size.
  • Status: On hold since May 2026; whether to keep it as a stand-alone paper or fold it into the sibling papers is under discussion
  • With: 나태희, 정동열, 채충일
  • web | github | google drive

P3. TOE-Fit

Beyond Linear TOE: How Technology-Environment Congruence Shapes Digital Transformation Training Effectiveness in Korean SMEs

  • Uses response-surface analysis to test how technology–environment congruence shapes the effectiveness of DT training.
  • Status: Analysis complete. Draft v3 under revision after a peer review that asked for a major revision. Not yet submitted.
  • Target: Information Technology & People first, JMTM as an alternative — aiming for February 2027
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead) | With: 정동열, 나태희
  • web | github | google drive

Equifinality and Compensation Effects — Multi-Path Training Strategy (등결과성과 보상효과; QCA·LPA·RSM)

  • Asks whether SMEs reach high DT training outcomes through different combinations of conditions, triangulating QCA, latent profile analysis, and response-surface analysis.
  • Status: Initiation (research question and search strategy set)
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead)
  • web | github | google drive

Determinants of Infrastructure Build-up — Smart-System Prediction Model (인프라 구축의 결정요인)

  • Asks under which combination of DT awareness, training, and firm size SME smart-system infrastructure is highest.
  • Status: Initiation (research question and search strategy set)
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead)
  • web | github | google drive

Source Project: SME Digital Transformation — Platform Data (원분석)

  • Integration of the 2022–2025 K-Hightech Platform data and the original multi-track analysis that feeds the papers above.
  • Status: Analysis complete
  • Owner: 정동열 | With: 채충일
  • web | github | google drive

KIRD — Science & Technology HRD Survey Data

KIRD Data Analysis

  • Analysis of the KIRD survey of science-and-technology talent development activities (2022–2023).
  • Status: Analysis design
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead) | With: 어승수, Jiongcheng Lu
  • web | github | google drive

CEO Power & ESG

  • Status: Initiation
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead)
  • web | github

Overconfidence (자기과신성향)

  • Status: Initiation
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead)
  • web | github

Playful Work Design

  • Status: Initiation
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead)
  • web | github

Standalone

Artificial Intelligence and Critical Thinking in Business Education

Artificial Intelligence and Critical Thinking in Business Education: An International Comparative Mapping

  • Mixed-methods study of how AACSB-accredited business schools integrate AI and critical thinking; the first phase is a content analysis of 62 open syllabi.
  • Status: Phase 1 coding (open and axial) and first-pass analysis complete; human verification pending
  • Target: not set (candidates: IJME, JME, DSJIE)
  • Owner: 박병화 | With: 채충일, Jiongcheng Lu, Eren
  • web | github | google drive

In Testing

Capability Upgrading Without Workforce Development under Severe Informal Competition

  • Status: Accepted with revisions for the 2026 Asian AHRD Conference (Toyo University, Tokyo, November 6–8, 2026)
  • Owner: Tony | With: 채충일
  • web | github | google drive

Sanctioned but Sidelined: Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Employee Resistance to Enterprise AI Systems — An Integrative Bibliometric and Topic-Modeling Review

  • Status: Accepted with revisions for the 2026 Asian AHRD Conference (Toyo University, Tokyo, November 6–8, 2026)
  • Qingtai Xu, Jiongcheng Lu, Zinong Chen, Hangyu Jin, Xintong Wang, Xintong Wu, Chungil (Chad) Chae (corresponding author)
  • web | github | google drive

Institutional Thriving — Conceptual Paper (기관 활성화와 역량성숙)

Conceptualizing Institutional Thriving in Healthcare Contexts: A Multi-Level Framework Through fsQCA-Informed Integrative Literature Review

  • Conceptualizes institutional thriving in healthcare institutions through an integrative review of 228 papers combined with fsQCA and structural topic modeling.
  • Status: Analysis finished April 2026; writing not started
  • Target: Advances in Health Sciences Education (first), Academic Medicine, Human Resource Development Review
  • With: 서보영, 채충일
  • web | github | google drive

REM CoP CloudBro — Relational Event Model of an Online Community

  • Relational Event Model analysis of posting and reply sequences in the CloudBro online community, framed as an extended virtual community of practice.
  • Status: Manuscript draft. A poster based on it was prepared for the 2027 AHRD International Research Conference in the Americas (authors: Chungil Chae, Xiaoxuan Yang, Zhien Yu, Xiao Shen).
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead) | With: David L. Passmore, 이서현, 이제응, Jiongcheng Lu, Eren, 어승수
  • web | github | google drive

Education Vintage and Knowledge Depreciation: Board Technical Competency in the Era of Generative AI

  • Proposes “education vintage” (the graduation year of directors’ technical education) as a moderator of the link between board technical competence and firms’ adoption of generative AI.
  • Status: Systematic review (110 papers) and bibliometric report (114 papers) complete; data collection not started. A poster (research proposal) was prepared for the 2027 AHRD conference (authors: Jiongcheng Lu, Qingtai Xu, Hangyu Jin, Zinong Chen, Chungil Chae).
  • Target: AMJ / SMJ
  • Owner: Tony | With: 채충일
  • web | github | google drive

In Development

Who Learns When Machines Learn?

Who Learns When Machines Learn? Artificial Intelligence and the Jurisdiction of Organizational Learning

  • Review and bibliometric study asking who the learning subject is when AI enters organizational learning.
  • Status: Proposal stage; first internal proposal review in September 2026 (major revision)
  • Owner: Tony | With: 채충일, Jiongcheng Lu
  • web | github

Caregiver-Reported Intimate Partner Violence and Children’s Problematic Internet Use

  • Uses the Korea Welfare Panel Study (KoWePS) child supplementary survey to test whether caregiver-reported intimate partner violence predicts children’s later problematic internet use.
  • Status: Analysis review
  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead)
  • web | github

Initiation Stage

Daejeon Research-Institute Spin-off Firms’ Trade Network (대전지역 연구소기업 거래 네트워크 구성 연구)

Completed

2026 년 AHRD Asia Japan Conference

2027년 AHRD 컨퍼런스 페이퍼

Idea Stage

Projects at the idea stage: a question and early materials, not yet started as a study.

Women Leadership Computational Analysis

AI & Job Change — Wide Literature Review

  • Owner: 채충일 (Lead) | With: David L. Passmore, 이재은, Jiongcheng Lu, Eren
  • web | github | google drive

Effort Heuristic과 AI 사용 은폐 행동

Employee Freedom & Work Meaning

RISE 전환에 따른 지역 평생교육 현황과 과제

한화 컨설팅 프로젝트 재분석

Multi-Career Identity

Non-Gov Owned Panel

Organizational Purpose

Archived

Content Industry Systematic Literature Review (콘텐츠 산업 체계적 문헌고찰 — SLR + 네트워크)

  • Systematic literature review and network analysis of Korean content-industry research.
  • Owner: 채충일
  • web | github | google drive

Tourism Happiness Bibliometrics

  • Bibliometric study of tourism and happiness research.
  • Owner: 권장욱 | With: 채충일
  • web | github | google drive

직업역량연구리비젼 - Inclusive Strategies for Transforming Diversity into Team Learning: A Qualitative Case Study of In-Group and Out-Group Dynamics in Interdisciplinary University Student Project Teams

  • Owner: 채충일