• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.1-33
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• 2017

In the last decades, technology-oriented small firms, i.e. venture businesses, have been increasingly engaged in R&D collaborations with external parties as strategic means for technological innovation. Despite ample evidence on the benefit of such collaborations for the firms, there has been less attention to examining whether and how the firms' social interactions with cooperating partners and their managerial characteristics contribute to that benefit. Drawing on the theories of social capital and entrepreneurial orientation, this study is to remedy this gap. The theory of social capital, referring to a sum of the value and potential resources embedded in social relationships of collectives, provides an integrated view of social factors among cooperating partners, e.g. strong ties, network stability, trust, reciprocity, shared vision and value. It categorizes these factors into structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital. Entrepreneurial orientation theory captures firms' managerial characteristics as a combination of innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking. This addresses firms' managerial process to utilize and combine internal and external resources for wealth creation and opportunity realization. Against this background, this study investigates what roles social capital among cooperating R&D partners and entrepreneurial orientation of the collaborating firms play for collective performance improvement in R&D collaborations. In terms of the collective performance, this study adopts two indicators: technological competitiveness and business performance. Technological competitiveness refers to the contribution of a technology developed by a cooperative R&D project to competitive advantage of a firm while business performance is defined as the financial and economic outcome of a collaboration. Using a sample of 218 Korean ventures engaging in R&D collaboration with external parties, the author finds the significant effects of social capital (i.e. structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions) and entrepreneurial orientation (i.e. innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking) on both of the technological competitiveness and the business performance. Further, the higher the social capital among R&D partners, the more likely it is to foster the entrepreneurial orientation at firm-level. Most importantly, the entrepreneurial orientation at firm-level is an significant mediator of the relationship between social capital and collective performance. Beyond these novel empirical findings, this study contributes to the literature on R&D collaboration. The findings' implications for management and policy are deeply discussed in the conclusion.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

Porter(2011)'s CSV(Creating Shared Value) is a more strategically advanced perspective of CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility). CSV creates corporates' value by exploiting the firms' own core competence and social value of the stakeholders in the community such firms simultaneously belong to. In this points of view, CSV is more appropriate for the principles of capitalism than CSR. A case study on food producing firms that adopted the concept of CSV to their business management was conducted. Considering the characteristics of food industry, the researchers have investigate many existing cases, especially focused on the CSV activities toward rural area and agriculture. As result of the case analysis, the 'mutual firm-establishing-CSV,' which refers to the new organization established on the point of contact where corporate value and social value meet, was observed. The aspects of establishing a new organization by firms' collaborating with rural area and agriculture is different in accordance with each firm's method of creating shared value. However, the cases have common grounds that the created value is for pursuing both firms' and stakeholders' value. This study is significant, in that the study deducts implications about accompanied growth and win-win management by suggesting the establishment of firms based on CSV.

• Korean small business review
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.1-39
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• 2017

The first generation of the business that had been founded in 1960~1970s faces the situation to consider the succession of the family business developed by devotion of their whole lives in the critical timing to the next generation. In the process of selecting the party of family business succession, it is required to consider a variety of succession types including smooth transfer to the other family member or the employee of the company, selling the company, or hiring external specialist. Foreign countries acknowledge the importance of the succession in the family owned company to perform multiple studies on the influential factors to the succession, distinction, and types of family business succession; and they utilize the results for the related policy development and the support of family owned business succession. However, few studies have been conducted on the succession of the domestic family owned business and majority of them are related to the types of succession. Considering its share and influential power in the domestic economy, it is necessary to develop the guideline and the policies to solve many issues on the succession of the family owned business by systemic studies. Hence, the impact of the main characteristics in the family owned business on the types of its succession was analyzed in this study focusing on five domains of Socioemtional Wealth (SEW) in view of Behavioral Agency Theory by Gomez-Mejia et al. (2007) using the data from 540 family owned small-to-medium sized businesses so as to analyze the issues on their business succession. Upon the empirical analysis results, it was confirmed that they were influenced to the selection of succession type by family succession > internal employee succession > external succession, for the variables of social contribution which were non-financial characteristics, internal employee succession > family succession > external succession for the intellectual properties, and family succession > external succession for the management participation of the family. The distinction of social contribution were influenced the most to the selection of the succession types. Financial factors, business performance, and R&D investment variables were not significantly influenced to their selection of the succession types. In case of simultaneous management, the family succession rate was high and it showed the control effect to strengthen selecting family owned business with R&D investment, social contribution, and company history variables. The behavioral agency theory used in this study was confirmed with high explanation power on the family owned business succession. The family owned business showed the tendency to maintain SEW, and non-financial factors such as accumulated know-how and social contribution based on the long term history were significantly affected to the succession in the small-to-medium sized family owned businesses, unlike general large sized listed companies. The results of this study are expected to be helpful practically for the succession of the family owned business and to suggest the guideline for the development of governmental policy.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.497-511
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of entrepreneurship and personal characteristics on entrepreneurial intention and to analyze what factors influence the entrepreneurial intention through the moderating effects of social networks. So, the survey was conducted on 374 employees in their 30s or older. Descriptive statistics were used to understand the actual state of entrepreneurial intentions, and exploratory factor analysis was conducted to analyze the validity. In addition, a correlation analysis was conducted to identify relationships with variables, finally, a hierarchical regression analysis was performed to identify the effect of moderating social networks in entrepreneurship and personal characteristics. The study found that, firstly, Entrepreneurship was positively correlated with extroversion, achievement desire, self-efficacy, social network, entrepreneurial intention, and negatively correlated with introversion. Second, The extroversion of personal characteristics showed positive correlations with achievement desire, self-efficacy, social network, and entrepreneurial intention and negatively correlated with introversion. Introversion has a negative correlation with achievement desire, self-efficacy, social network, and entrepreneurial intention, and self-efficacy has a positive correlation with social network and entrepreneurship. Third, social networks have been shown to moderate the relationship between personal characteristics and entrepreneurial intention. Reflecting the results from this study, we expect that those preparing for future start-ups will be a meaningful reference to validate their capabilities and start them.

• Korean small business review
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.107-128
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• 2019

The Employment Permit System (EPS), a system of bringing in low-skilled foreign workers, has been implemented since 2004 to relieve labor shortages in SMEs. Despite the increasing number of foreign workers under this system, due to lack of research we have very limited managerial understanding. Moreover, previous studies focused on economic or legal perspectives, which calls for a different perspective of business and management. In this study, we examined how to foster organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) of low-skilled immigrant workers at the workplace by integrating two analytical frames-social support from management studies and cultural adjustment from immigrant literature. We tested our model using a sample of 661 immigrant workers from 11 countries working in Korea. Our results indicated that, social support perception triggered not only a direct effect on organizational citizenship behaviors of immigrant workers but also indirect effects via the level of cultural adaptation. Our findings indicated that two views are all meaningful in explaining OCB of immigrants, and provided practical implications to SMEs using EPS.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.05b
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• pp.884-887
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• 2011

금연에 대한 사회적 움직임에 따라, 정부의 금연운동에 힘입어 기업에서도 직원들에 대한 금연정책 실시의 움직임이 활발해지고 있다. 기업들은 이제 금연이 더 이상 개인의 건강문제가 아닌 업무효율성으로 이어지는 기업의 경쟁력으로 인식되면서 금연정책에 참여하는 기업들이 늘어나는 추세이다. 즉, 직원 건강이 기업 매출과 이미지 제고에 영향을 끼친다고 판단되어 직원들의 금연을 독려하기 위해 사내에 정기적으로 금연 클리닉 및 금연교육을 실시하거나, 니코틴 패치나 금연 껌을 무료로 지급하거나, 금연에 성공하면 인센티브를 지급하는 등 기업들이 금연 문화 만들기에 나서고 있다. 본 논문은 2010년 금연의 행태를 파악하고 직원들을 위하여 금연프로그램(충주보건소)이 도입한 충북 S 전자의 사례를 중심으로 임직원의 행동과 조직에 어떠한 효과성이 있었는지에 대하여 직원들에게 설문을 조사하여 개념적 모형을 제시하고 통계분석을 통해 실증적 연구를 실시하였다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.411-414
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• 2012

최근 흡연자 본인 스스로에 대한 질병뿐만 아니라 가족들 또는 비흡연자에게 피해가 가는 것 또한 문제로 제기되고 있다. 이러한 사회적 현상으로 금연을 원하는 사업장의 근로자들이 증가하고 있는 추세에 있으며, 금연제도는 기업의 의도대로 흡연 직원의 건강은 물론 비흡연 직원들의 건강과 더 나아가 개선된 사내 분위기와 환경을 제공할 수 있다. 이로 인해 직원들의 업무효율증대등의 경영성과나 조직몰입과 같은 조직성과를 기대할 수 있다. 또한 대외적으로는 소비자들에게 우리 기업이 친환경기업, 깨끗한 기업, 글로벌 선두 기업 등의 긍정적인 이미지의 기업으로 인식될 수 있다. 본 연구는 사업주 주도의 금연프로그램을 성공적으로 운영하고 있는 금연프로그램의 사례를 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.99-106
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• 2021

This study examined whether relationship marketing activities affected relationship satisfaction and ultimately relationship continuity intention for 180 online store users. As a result of hypothesis test through path analysis, it was found that financial activities and structural activities such as delivery services in shopping malls had a positive effect on relationship satisfaction. In particular, it was found that the influence of structural activities was greater. This suggests that fast delivery or easy-to-search traffic is more meaningful to relationship satisfaction than economic benefits. At the significance level p<0.05, it was found that social activities did not have a significant effect on relationship satisfaction. Because it is not easy to develop social bonds between salespeople and customers at online stores, but the direction is considered positive. Therefore, if online stores can form social bonds with customers, this will have a positive effect on relationship satisfaction, but it is expected that this will become a factor that can differentiate them from competitors.

• 주류산업
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• v.26 no.2 s.88
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• pp.17-22
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• 2006

기업과 소비자는 결코 따로 일 수 없다는 경영이념 아래 하나 된 초록빛 세상을 위하여 기업의 사회적 책임을 실천하며, 언제나 최고의 품질, 최상의 제품을 만들기 위하여 노력하는 대선주조(주)를 찾아가 보았다

• Cement
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• s.206
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• pp.22-23
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• 2015

성신양회는 1967년 회사 설립 이래 고품질 시멘트를 생산 공급함으로써 대한민국 경제의 든든한 주춧돌이 되어왔다. 이 회사는 특히 기본과 원칙에 입각하여 기업윤리를 준수하고 사회적 책임을 적극 실천함으로써 아름다운 기업문화를 창조해나가고 있다. 여기서는 성신양회 사보에 실린 봉사활동 체험기를 재구성해 그들의 가슴 따뜻하고 소중한 이야기를 담아보았다.