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The Impact of Founder Competency on Startup's Business Performance: The Moderating Effect of Founder Academic Major Characteristics

창업자 역량이 창업기업의 경영성과에 미치는 영향: 창업자 전공 특성의 조절효과

  • 김봉근 (기술보증기금) ;
  • 김영준 (고려대학교 기술경영전문대학원)
  • Received : 2024.04.19
  • Accepted : 2024.06.07
  • Published : 2024.07.31
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Abstract

This study empirically analyzed the relationship between founder competency and business performance based on the premise that founder competency is the main internal resource of a company from a resource-based view, using a sample of 2,196 startups less than five years old collected and evaluated by the Korea Technology Finance Corporation during the 2016 technology evaluation. The results showed that the technological, managerial, and financial competence of founders had a positive effect on the business performance of startups, and the characteristics of founders' academic major had a moderating effect on the relationship between founder competency and business performance. Based on these findings, this study contributes to the theoretical discussion that technological, managerial, and financial competencies of founders are factors that improve business performance, and provides practical and policy implications for effective entrepreneurship education by suggesting that entrepreneurship education should be transformed and strengthened, including cross-training of founders majoring in science and engineering to foster managerial and financial competencies.

본 연구는 기술보증기금이 2016년 기술평가 시 수집․평가한 창업 후 5년 미만의 창업기업 2,196개 기업을 대상으로 자원기반관점을 바탕으로 창업자 역량이 주요한 기업의 내부 자원이라는 전제하에 경영성과, 창업자 전공 특성과의 관계를 실증 분석하였다. 분석 결과 첫째, 창업자 역량 기술적, 관리적, 재무적 역량은 창업기업의 경영성과에 모두 정(+)의 영향을 미치고 있었다. 또한, 창업자의 이공계 전공 특성은 창업자 역량과 경영성과 사이에서 조절 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구 결과를 토대로 창업자의 기술적, 관리적, 재무적 역량이 경영성과를 향상시키는 요인이라는 이론적 논의에 기여하고, 이공계 전공 창업자에게 관리 및 재무역량 함양 차원의 교차 교육 등 창업 교육이 전환, 강화되어야 할 것이라는 점을 제시하여 실효성 있는 창업 교육의 실무적, 정책적 시사점을 제공하였다.

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