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Impact of Entrepreneurial Business Start-up Motivation, Entrepreneurial Spirit, and Entrepreneurial Competence Characteristics on Start-up Companies' Sustainability: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of the Start-up Companies' Business Performance  

Hyuk, Kang Han (The Graduate School of G. B. Entrepreneurship, Yonsei University)
Park, Woojin (College of Government & Business, Yonsei University)
Yun, Bae byung (College of Government & Business, Yonsei University)
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship / v.14, no.3, 2019 , pp. 59-71 More about this Journal
Abstract
The domestic unemployment rate is now seriously increasing due to the impact of the international trend of incurring high costs using only a small number of manpower in a situation where the business has been being reduced in size. The nation is taking start-up promotion policies as a way to overcome the problem, but with the advent of excessive entrepreneurs and their concentration on specific areas, their survival is in an unclear situation. Thus, this study was intended to provide a useful direction for successful start-ups by identifying the impact of entrepreneurial motivation and entrepreneurship, internal characteristics of entrepreneurs, and of competency characteristics, external characteristics of them, on sustainability through business performance. Thus, the purpose of this study was to provide a useful direction for successful start-ups by identifying the impact of entrepreneurial motivation and entrepreneurship, internal characteristics of entrepreneurs, competency, and external characteristics, on sustainability through business performance. The result of verifying the hypothesis has showed that entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurship, and competency characteristics had a positive effect on business performance, and on the other hand, the business performance had a positive effect on sustainability. In addition, in terms of the impact of entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurship, and competency characteristics on sustainability, all of them had mediating effects on business performance. It is obvious that studies on the factors affecting business performance and corporate sustainability up to now have been carried out by only collecting the independent variables of this study individually or two of them. so it is judged that if the study, which has verified the practical direction in general through the verification of entrepreneurs's internal and external characteristics from various angles, is performed more comprehensively along with the addition of background characteristics of entrepreneurs, such as characteristics of start-up preparation, etc., in the future, more in-depth results will be able to be obtained.
Keywords
Entrepreneurial motivation; Entrepreneurship; Competency characteristic; Business performance; Sustainability;
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