• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.51-59
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• 2016

Recently the company is getting bigger and has many employees. Therefore, sometimes, the uniform internal marketing devices for whole employees are inappropriate because they are different demographic aspects. To find efficient internal marketing factors, this paper analyzes empirically the determinants of employee's satisfaction to their firm, by group based demographic aspects(male and female : 2 groups, ages : 3 group, employment period : 3 groups), for a insurance claim adjuster company As a result, it is found that the psychological factor has the statically significant determinant in all the 8 groups, with biggest positive coefficient in the 7 groups. Other factors, such as the organizational factor, the individual factor and spatial factor are statically significant determinant depending on the groups differently.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.29-43
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• 2019

This paper empirically analyzed the relationship between the characteristics of venture business founders and management performance, setting the management strategy as a parameter to provide a suggestion for the survival and development of venture companies that play an important role in the national economy and job creation. Previous studies in Korea have analyzed the relationship between the characteristics of business founders, management strategies and management performance in a single dimension. This paper, however, explained the business performance of a company from a multi-dimensional perspective while setting the characteristics of business founders as independent variables and setting the business strategy of the enterprise as a parameter. The first result of the analysis shows that the characteristics of venture business founders have a positive effect on business performance. In particular, among the characteristics of venture business founders, a progressive spirit has had the greatest impact on business performance. On the other hand, the influence of risk sensitivity was very weak. Second, the characteristics of venture business founders were found to have a positive effect on business strategy. In particular, innovation was an important variable that affected the technological innovation differentiation strategy, and a progressive spirit was the most influential factor in the marketing differentiation strategy. Third, management strategies of venture firms were found to have a positive effect on business performance. In particular, the technology innovation differentiation strategy has a greater impact on business performance than the marketing differentiation strategy. Fourth, it was revealed that management strategy partially has a mediated effect on the relationship between the characteristics of venture business founders and management performance. In other words, it was found that the characteristics of the founders have a direct impact on business performance but if it is linked to management strategy it has an indirect effect on business performance. The results of this study show that business performance improves when venture business founders' personal characteristics and the firms' management strategy are combined.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.35-57
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to analyze the moderating effect of venture start-up and general start-up based on what kinds of entrepreneurs' personal characteristics, business capabilities, and start-up motivation factors affecting start-up satisfaction. This study conducted an online survey of companies who received credit guarantee for start-ups from KCGF(Korea Credit Guarantee Fund), and finally collected 320 survey data. And it conducted statistical analyses such as frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, etc. using SPSS 24.0 statistics program. The results of the study were as follows. First, it is tested that creativity, one of entrepreneurs' characteristics, had a positive effect(+) on start-up satisfaction. Second, it is found that the failure burden, one of entrepreneurs' characteristics, had a negative effect(-) on start-up satisfaction. Third, experiences, one of entrepreneurs' characteristics, had not a significant effect on start-up satisfaction. Fourth, it was analyzed that business capabilities such as technology research and development, marketing, networking, and financing had a positive effect(+) on start-up satisfaction. Fifth, it is tested that the economic and self-realization motivation had a positive effect(+) on start-up satisfaction. Sixth, start-up satisfaction had a positive effect(+) on business performances. Last, it was analyzed that venture start-ups had a more positive effect than general start-up in the creativity, technology research and development, and the self-realization of start-up motivation affecting start-up satisfaction. And, it was found that venture start-ups have a less negative effect than general start-up in the failure burden affecting start-up satisfaction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.103-104
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• 2001

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.123-128
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• 2019

최근 스마트 기기의 발전 및 보급 확대에 따라 사용자의 범위는 계속해서 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 모바일 쇼핑 이용자들이 지속적으로 늘고 있고, 광고 또한 인터넷 기반에서 모바일 플랫폼 기반으로 변화하고 있는 추세이다. 모바일 기기의 중요성이 커지고 편의성이 증대되면서 소비자들의 구매방법에도 많은 변화가 일어나고 있는데, 정보를 탐색하고, 구매를 결정하고, 결제하는 행위 등 모바일에서 이루어지는 비중이 늘어나면서 앱을 구성하는 것 또한 중요한 마케팅 전략으로 자리잡고 있다. 본 연구의 목적 역시 사용량이 급증하게 된 모바일 쇼핑에서 SNS활용도의 조절효과를 중심으로 하여 광고 유형과 애플리케이션 특성이 소비자들의 구매의도에 미치는 영향에 대해서 살펴보고 결과를 제시하여 관련 업계에 도움을 주고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 모바일 쇼핑 이용자들의 모바일 쇼핑을 통한 구매의도에 미치는 영향 요인을 파악하기 위한 선행연구와 이론적 배경을 통해 모바일 광고유형, 앱 특성에 관한 고찰과 구매의도와의 인과관계를 살펴보았다. 연구의 목적은 모바일 쇼핑 이용자들의 모바일 쇼핑을 통한 구매의도에 미치는 영향 요인을 파악하고, 변수들 간의 관계를 규명하는데 있다. 구매의도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 광고 유형, 앱 특성으로 구분하고 이들 변수들이 구매의도에 미치는 영향력을 조절하는 변수로 SNS활용도를 도입하였다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.109-131
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• 2007

The purpose of this study were to a) clarify the current practice of internal marketing by contracted food service management companies, b) analyze the effectiveness of current internal marketing practices. The survey was conducted between October 12 and November 2, 2002 with the 10 contracted food service management companies; 6 large, and 4 small & medium sized companies. No significant difference was existed with the categories of internal marketing. However significant differences were existed with the service education, sanitary education, periodic interviews, rewards for best employees, incentive payments, paid -leave allowances, job function allowances, and position classes including unit manager, dietician and cook of MBO. The actual administration of internal marketing strategies showed that, the significant differences were existed with education, paid-leave, and employee welfare systems among position classes. Also the significant differences were existed with all categories of internal marketing between large and small & medium sized companies. In general, small & medium sized companies score of the internal marketing performance was lower than that of large sized companies. Therefore, the segmented internal marketing strategies depending on the analysis not only demand for employees but also the size of company, were required to be an effectively and efficiently managed contracted food management companies.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.119-133
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• 2024

As a result of significant investments by the government in promoting public technology commercialization and fostering a venture startup ecosystem, there have been quantitative achievements, such as the registration of over 1,600 Innopolis Start-ups since 2006, generating a total revenue of 1.1 trillion won as of 2021. However, these achievements have been overshadowed by critical qualitative challenges, including a continuous decline in average revenue per Innopolis Start-up. This led to a focus on whether managers' technological and market orientations affect business performance. This study aims to provide insights into improving the qualitative growth of Innopolis Start-ups by analyzing the effects of technological and market orientations on business performance, as well as the moderating effects of adjusting marketing and research and development (R&D) costs on this relationship. Through prior research and empirical analysis, this study derives three main findings. First, technological excellence and innovation significantly influence the business performance of Innopolis Start-ups, while technological intensity does not. Second, customer orientation and competitive orientation significantly impact business performance, whereas entry barriers as a single factor do not. Third, adjusting marketing and R&D costs, as controlled variables obtained through general situations, has no direct impact on other variables. However, it interacts with entry barriers, influencing financial business performance, with R&D costs exhibiting a negative buffering effect and marketing costs showing a positive enhancing effect. This study confirms that both technological and market orientations directly influence the business performance of Innopolis Start-ups, thus being crucial factors affecting their growth. Moreover, it establishes that investments in marketing and R&D play significant roles in alleviating initial entry barriers and enhancing financial performance. Consequently, it underscores the importance of reinforcing technological and market orientations tailored to the characteristics of Innopolis Start-ups. Additionally, it proposes five theoretical contributions: strengthening institutional support systems for technology commercialization and innovation, improving qualitative evaluation criteria during the selection process of Innopolis Start-ups, conducting comprehensive analyses of technological and market aspects during startup selection, enhancing support for marketing education and consulting for smooth market entry, and supporting expenditure strategies and milestone setting tailored to the industrial characteristics of individual Innopolis Start-ups.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.24-24
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• 1998

국내 소프트웨어산업은 산업특성상 우리 나라에 적합한 산업이며 국내시장 규모도 급증하고 있으나 선진국에 비해 낙후되어 있는 형편이다. 따라서 최근 각광 받고 있는 소프트웨어 창업기업들을 대상으로 실사 및 설문지 조사를 통해 소프트웨어산업에 있어서의 성공요인들을 알아보고 이를 바탕으로 국내 소프트웨어산업의 국제경쟁력 제고를 위한 방안을 모색하는 것이 무엇보다도 필요한 시점이다. 이러한 본 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위해 조사대상 기업체를 기존 연구들처럼 소프트웨어산업에 종사하고 있는 기업들을 임의적으로 추출하여 자료를 수집하는 대신 성장 가능성이 있다고 판단되어 선정된 유‘망 중소정보통신 소프트웨어 기업’들과 현재까지 선정되지 못한 기업의 두 그룹으로 나누어 자료를 수집하였다. 수집된 자료를 바탕으로 두 그룹간의 창업배경 및 성장과정별로 비교분석을 통해 차이점을 밝히고자 하였으며 창업이후 성공적 운영에 필수적인 우위요인에 관해서도 살펴보았다. 이러한 비교분석결과에 근거하여 국내 소프트웨어산업의 성공요인 및 국제경쟁력 제고를 위한 방향을 제시하고자 하였다. 선정기업과 비선정기업간의 비교를 통한 성공요인 분석결과를 요약하여 살펴보면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 창업자의 일반적 특성과 창업배경 및 창업동기를 볼 때, 창업배경 또한 연구개발직 경험을 바탕으로 창업한 경우가 가장 많았으며, 주된 창업동기는 기술력에 바탕을 둔 사업화/동업화였다. 둘째, 창업자의 경영의지를 보면 창업 이전 준비 및 계획에 철저했으며, 각종 지원제도를 적극적으로 활용했을 뿐만 아니라 비혜택 제도도 적극적 활용(예; 공고생 현장실습제도 활용정도, 기술지도 및 연수사업 활용정도 등)하였으며, 특히 창업자가 미래에 대한 확신과 긍정적 사고, 및 성공에 대한 의지가 높았다. 셋째, 기술력을 보면 자체연구소 보유비율이 월등히 높으면, 보유기술도 국내에서 가장 먼저 개발하는 단계였거나 독자적인 기술보유가 많았고, 기술력 유지를 위한 신기술 연구개발투자의 강화, 신제품개발 및 품질향상을 지속화, 및 이를 뒷받침하기 위한 전문기술인력의 확보에 주력하였다. 끝으로 마케팅 능력면에서도 개발된 신제품에 대해 자체상표를 부착하는 비율(84.6% 대 64.5%)이 높고 다양한 판매경로를 통해 제품을 판매하였으며, 기업 및 제품이미지 제고를 위한 고객에 대한 서비스도 강화하고 있었다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.59-76
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• 2019

Most technology-based entrepreneurship(TBE) go through an process of decline or disappear without overcoming the valley of death(VoD). The purpose of this study is to identify the growth dimension of TBE and to test the influence of firms activities on firms growth over time. This study identified the two-dimensional growth dimension divided by size and profit through exploratory factor analysis(EFA) of a number of growth indicators. Then, we defined the discrete state of growth firm in four states, divided by size and profit, and five states, including the closure of business. Multi-nomial logit model is used to predict the effect of TBE activities on a discrete state of growth firm(size×profit, closure of business) based on multiple independent variables. The independent variables are based on five representative firms activities: employment, marketing, R&D, financial activities, and general management activities. The growth stage of TBE over time has been categorized into three stages: early stage, middle stage, and late stage of business, taking into account the main periods during which the survival rate of startups sharply decreases. The analytical data of this study was based on the secondary data of the start-up supporting companies of government and public institutions. The subjects of analysis were TBE within 10 years. As a result of the empirical analysis, the employment and marketing activities of TBE show that early and mid-term activities had an effect on the state of firms growth. However, if there is a difference, employment activities have both positive and negative effects, while marketing activities have only a positive effect on size and profit growth. And besides, R&D activities, financial activities, and general management activities throughout the entire process of firms growth were found to be firms activities that have both positive and negative effects on firms growth. In addition, the age of the founder, the firms' industry, and the geographic location of the firms, which are general characteristics of the company, were found to have a distinctive effect on the growth status of the firms according to the growth stage.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.137-150
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• 2015

This study investigated the influence of Entrepreneurship, Start-up Competency on Entrepreneurial Satisfaction and the moderating effect of Flow experience. The goal of this investigation is to empirically prove that despite the benefits of educational and financial support, mentoring and consulting which selected applicants received as a part of supporting business for start-up companies provided by national and local government and public organizations, there is a gap between individual entrepreneurs' satisfaction after actual foundation of the company. For the purpose of this investigation, data was collected through a survey with 320 entrepreneurs who were beneficiaries of government's supporting business for start-up companies and have founded their companies less than 5 years ago. For entrepreneurship variables, three factors of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking were reviewed, and also reviewed the three variables network capability, market orientation and marketing capacity as Start-up competency. The collected data was used to perform a multiple regression analysis, and the moderating effect of flow experience was analysed using moderated regression analysis. The result of analysis shows that innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking of entrepreneurship positively affected the entrepreneurial satisfaction, and network capability, market orientation and marketing capability also positively affected the entrepreneurial satisfaction. As a result of analysing the moderating effect of flow experience, it appeared that there is a positive moderating effect between entrepreneurship, start-up competency, and the entrepreneurial satisfaction. This result concludes that evaluation items of entrepreneurship and start-up competency as applicant selecting criteria in supporting business for start-up companies, are valid. It is also concluded that start-up supports such as education, funds and consulting are also important, but it is necessary to make changes such as construction of start-up ecosystem and reinforcement of networking support, so that entrepreneurs can have the flow experience themselves in the process after founding a company.