Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

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An Empirical Study of Entrepreneurial Attitude on Business Process Outsourcing

중소벤처기업가의 BPO태도에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2016.07.15
  • Accepted : 2016.08.10
  • Published : 2016.08.31
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Abstract

Outsourcing enables firms to use external resources in efficient and effective manner by adopting the best practice of industry. It also helps firms improve their business process which may result in seizing or creating new business opportunity. Collaborating with outstanding BPO(business process outsourcing) providers offer a great deal of advantage that could access to new knowledge, technology, intellectual and material resources that firms do not own. This study was designed to provide in-dept understanding of key elements that may affect the attitude towards BPO of entrepreneurs using 99 samples comprised SME & Venture business owners. Specifically, this study aims to test and analyse the relationship between attitude towards BPO and 4 independent variables including cost reduction, core competence, specialized resources and quality improvement. The analysis results show that core competence, specialized resources and quality improvements have all positive relationships with the attitude towards BPO. However, exceptionally cost reduction is not associated positively with the attitude towards BPO which was against our expectation. Theoretical discussion and practical implication on the analysis results are provided.

아웃소싱은 기업으로 하여금 기존 산업이 가지고 있는 최고의 기법을 이용할 수 있도록 해 줌으로써 자원의 효율적 이용뿐만 아니라 효과적 이용을 가능하게 하며 비즈니스 프로세스를 개선시켜 줌으로써 신규 시장의 진입 및 새로운 사업기회 창출도 가능하게 해준다는 장점이 있다. 또한 뛰어난 능력을 가진 BPO공급자들과의 협력은 기업이 보유하고 있지 못한 신기술, 역량, 지적 자원 및 물적 자원의 획득을 가능하게 해 준다는 점에서 큰 관심을 받아오고 있다. 본 실증연구는 BPO이용을 위한 의사결정과 관련하여 기업경영자들의 BPO에 대한 태도에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 살펴보기 위하여 설계되었다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 선행연구를 통해 BPO 관련 주요변수로 나타난 비용절감, 핵심역량, 특화자원, 품질향상 등 네 가지 선행변수가 중소벤처기업가의 BPO에 대한 태도에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, BPO이용에 따른 비용절감과 기업가의 BPO에 대한 태도 사이에는 통계적 유의성이 없는 것으로 나타나 비용절감은 BPO이용에 영향을 미치지 않는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 표준화 베타값에 따른 검증결과 BPO태도에 대한 비용절감의 영향력 또한 매우 미미한 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, BPO이용에 따른 핵심역량 확보는 기업가의 BPO에 대한 태도에 긍정적 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인하였다. 셋째, BPO이용에 따른 특화된 자원의 확보는 기업가의 BPO에 대한 태도와 정(+)의 관계에 있는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, BPO이용에 따른 품질향상은 기업가의 BPO에 대한 태도에 유의한 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 마지막으로 분석결과에 대한 논의 및 이론적, 실무적 시사점을 제시해 두었다.

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