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The Effects of Competence and Government Support Service of Micro and Small Business on Performance: Mediating Effects of Self Efficiency  

Song, Jung Hun (School of Venture, Hoseo University)
Ha, Kyu Soo (Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University)
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship / v.17, no.2, 2022 , pp. 129-140 More about this Journal
Abstract
Micro and small enterprises are businesses that absorb the most labor in Korea. The position of micro and small enterprises in the national economy has an important and strategic role because micro and small enterprises are quite dominant in the Korea economy. The purpose of this study is to look at the effect of the CEO' business experience, competency(job competency, money competency, digital competency), government support service(government support satisfaction, education support) on the performance. For this study, data was collected from 220 CEO by using questionnaires. The statistics analysis SPSS 24.0 was used, it is a factor analysis, reliability test and multiple regression analysis for hypothesis verification. The research results are as follows. First, as a result of examining the effect of the CEO competency on the performance, it was found that among the competency factors, money competency and digital competency had a significantly positive (+) effect on the performance. Second, as a result of examining the effect of government support service on the performance, government support satisfaction, education support had a positive (+) effect on the performance. Thirdly, in the relationship between CEO' business experience, competency, government support service and performance, the mediating effect of self efficiency was significant money competency→self efficiency→performance, digital competency→self efficiency→performance.
Keywords
competency; government support service; performance; self efficiency;
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