• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.75-88
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• 2022

Purpose - This study investigates the effects of going public on the innovation of KOSDAQ firms. Design/methodology/approach - This study uses firms that go public from 2007 to 2011 in Korea. We compare a firm's innovation performance over five years before and after IPO. Findings - We find that firm's innovation declines after an IPO. After going public, both the quality and the quantity of patents are decreased. However, this decrease is alleviated in high-tech industries or concentrated industries where innovation is expected to be more valuable. When comparing firms with venture capital(VC), which are more likely to window dress, to firms without VC, VC backing has no meaningful impact on changes of innovation. Research implications or Originality - As the KOSDAQ market was established to provide small and medium enterprises(SMEs) with funds for firm's investments and growth, it is necessary to verify whether the capital raised at the IPO encourages innovation. Thus, our study contributes to the literature by examining empirically whether an IPO boosts a firm's innovation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.339-346
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• 2022

Corona-virus(COVID-19), which has affected the world economy and Korea economy widely since 2020 could have an effect on management future perspectives. Thus this paper investigate whether the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on cost stickiness is contingent on operating uncertainty. By using the sample listed in KOSPI and KOSDAQ from 2018 to 2020. I find that COVID-19 increase cost stickiness when sales growth volatility is low. This paper contribute to the literature by providing the empirical evidence which contains that the effect of COVID-19 on cost stickiness varies with operating uncertainty.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.157-188
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• 2002

본 연구는 우리나라 IPO시장에서 나타나고 있는 초과수익률의 원인을 밝히고자 최근 벤처금융의 중심으로 급부상하고 있는 KOSDAQ시장의 공모 IPO를 대상으로 실증분석을 시도하였다. 연구결과 상장일 표본전체 IPO의 초과수익률(AR1)이 9.91%로 나타났으며, 벤처캐피탈투자 IPO는 5.13%, 비투자 IPO는 13.29%로 나타났다. 상한가의 행진이 종료된 날을 기준으로 한 표본전체 IPO의 초과수익률(AR2)은 30.97%, 벤처캐피탈 투자기업 IPO는 24.34%, 비투자기업 IPO는 34.67%로 나타났다. 초과수익률의 원인을 분석하기 위한 8개의 변수 중 IPO의 수요증감 척도인 KOSDAQ 지수는 초과수익률(AR)과는 양(+)의 관계로, 벤처캐피탈리스트들의 능력 및 가치책정의 행태를 엿볼 수 있는 변수인 본질가치와 공모가액의 차이는 음(-)의 관계로, 사업규모나 자본조달의 크기를 엿볼 수 있는 공모금액의 크기는 양(+)의 관계로 1% 유의수준에서 유의한 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 여타 변수들은 통계적으로 유의성을 확보하지는 못하였으나 초과수익률의 원인이론으로 '신호이론'과 '투기적 거품가설'에 의한 설명이 가능하였으며 분석결과를 다음과 같이 정리할 수 있었다. 첫째, IPO 본질가치에 대한 신뢰와 IPO의 발행규모에 대한 신뢰수준이 통계적으로 유의한 결과로 나타났는바 이러한 결과는 기업가치와 벤처 또는 사업의 계속적 수행 등에 대한 신호역할을 수행하고 있다고 할 수 있으며 상장초기 초과수익률은 주로 이러한 신호역할에 의한 수요집중으로 발생된 결과인 것으로 사료되었다. 둘째, 노련한 벤처캐피탈회사로 선정된 KTB의 투자기업들은 상장 후 4주간의 거래에 있어 AR 평균이 음(-)으로 여타 벤처캐피탈이 투자된 기업보다 손실 폭이 더욱 켰음에도 불구하고 상장일 초과수익률 AR2가 매우 높게 나타나 우리나라 IPO시장에 있어 과민반응(fads) 현상이 존재하고 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 셋째, 벤처캐피탈 투자 IPO의 초과수익률이 상대적으로 낮아 벤처캐피탈 투자여부가 IPO의 저가발행 수준을 축소하고 있어 벤처캐피탈리스트의 제 3자 보증역할이 어느 정도는 수행되고 있는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.115
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• pp.26-28
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• 2008

최근 기업의 경영전략으로 M&A가 핵심 키워드가 되었다. 대기업은 풍부한 유동성을 바탕으로 신성장 동력산업, 성장엔진, 최첨단 원천기술을 통한 시장의 확대 등 확장전략에 M&A를 적극적으로 검토하고 있으며 외국자본에 의한 적대적 M&A에도 효과적인 방어전략을 구사하는데 관심이 커지고 있다. SK vs 소버린, KT&G vs 칼아이칸의 사례에서 보았듯이 대기업도 적대적 M&A에서 자유롭지않아 적대적 M&A로부터의 방어 전략에도 관심이 커지고 있다. 특히 한미FTA를 통해 미국의 거대자본이 국내에 상륙함으로써 향후 적대적 M&A가 빈번해 질 것이라는 예측도 설득력을 가지고 있다. 또한 코스닥기업을 중심으로 경영권 인수 또는 우회상장을 위한 M&A가 추진되고 있거나 빈번한 대주주변경 사례가 많이 발생하고 있다. 이같은 상황에 정부에서는 제동을 걸어 정상적인 M&A가 아닌 경우에는 엄격한 규정을 적용하여 규제를 강화하고 있다. 반면, 중소벤처기업의 경우에는 성숙단계에 있는 안정적인 기업을 제외하고는 수많은 기업들이 규모와 자금력의 한계로 인해 M&A를 어렵게 여기고 있다. 따라서 지원정책을 통해 중소벤처기업의 M&A모형구축 등 벤처기업의 생존과 성장을 위하여 M&A 활성화를 위한 적극적인 방안이 필요하다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.81-96
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• 2016

As the internet has become widespread and easy to access everywhere, it is common for people to search information via online search engines such as Google and Naver in everyday life. Recent studies have used online search volume of specific keyword as a measure of the internet users' attention in order to predict disease outbreaks such as flu and cancer, an unemployment rate, and an index of a nation's economic condition, and etc. For stock traders, web search is also one of major information resources to obtain data about individual stock items. Therefore, search volume of a stock item can reflect the amount of investors' attention on it. The investor attention has been regarded as a crucial factor influencing on stock price but it has been measured by indirect proxies such as market capitalization, trading volume, advertising expense, and etc. It has been theoretically and empirically proved that an increase of investors' attention on a stock item brings temporary increase of the stock price and the price recovers in the long run. Recent development of internet environment enables to measure the investor attention directly by the internet search volume of individual stock item, which has been used to show the attention-induced price pressure. Previous studies focus mainly on Dow Jones and NASDAQ market in the United States. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the individual investors' attention measured by the internet search volumes and stock price changes of individual stock items in the KOSDAQ market in Korea, where the proportion of the trades by individual investors are about 90% of the total. In addition, we examine the difference between industries in the influence of investors' attention on stock return. The internet search volume of stocks were gathered from "Naver Trend" service weekly between January 2007 and June 2015. The regression model with the error term with AR(1) covariance structure is used to analyze the data since the weekly prices in a stock item are systematically correlated. The market capitalization, trading volume, the increment of trading volume, and the month in which each trade occurs are included in the model as control variables. The fitted model shows that an abnormal increase of search volume of a stock item has a positive influence on the stock return and the amount of the influence varies among the industry. The stock items in IT software, construction, and distribution industries have shown to be more influenced by the abnormally large internet search volume than the average across the industries. On the other hand, the stock items in IT hardware, manufacturing, entertainment, finance, and communication industries are less influenced by the abnormal search volume than the average. In order to verify price pressure caused by investors' attention in KOSDAQ, the stock return of the current week is modelled using the abnormal search volume observed one to four weeks ahead. On average, the abnormally large increment of the search volume increased the stock return of the current week and one week later, and it decreased the stock return in two and three weeks later. There is no significant relationship with the stock return after 4 weeks. This relationship differs among the industries. An abnormal search volume brings particularly severe price reversal on the stocks in the IT software industry, which are often to be targets of irrational investments by individual investors. An abnormal search volume caused less severe price reversal on the stocks in the manufacturing and IT hardware industries than on average across the industries. The price reversal was not observed in the communication, finance, entertainment, and transportation industries, which are known to be influenced largely by macro-economic factors such as oil price and currency exchange rate. The result of this study can be utilized to construct an intelligent trading system based on the big data gathered from web search engines, social network services, and internet communities. Particularly, the difference of price reversal effect between industries may provide useful information to make a portfolio and build an investment strategy.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.23-37
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• 2011

This paper is brought to carry out an empirical study whether evolution process of venture firm's scale is following the Gibrat's law; random evolution process, or Pareto law; self-organizing process. The empirical test, as attaching theoretical explanation, of this research utilize the serial data samples of 92 KOSDAQ listed companies from the year of 2005 through 2008. Summarizing the research results are as followed. First, Gini Coefficients representing the density of venture firm's scale has been constantly reduced since the year of 2005 in terms of number of employee, while these index increased during the same time period from the perspective of sales volume. Second, the evolution process of Korea venture firm's scale is following the Power Law related to Pareto Law. In particular, estimated Pareto coefficient, ${\alpha}$, is shown lower than 1 which is significant result. Third, the probability of joining in the top tier group of firm starting from the early stage growing is forecasted into 6.9%, the result which emphasize the starting scale of venture firm play an important role in long term evolution of venture firm.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.213-222
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• 2018

This study attempts to empirically investigate the excess returns of growth stocks in the Korean stock market comparing with those of value stocks. Recently, a few of IT and bio-pharmaceutical stocks with high growth potentials have accomplished dramatically high returns in the Korean stock market. Whereas, important prior studies in this line have observed negative excess returns from investment of growth stocks on average. And a few studies have reported that the distribution of excess returns from growth stocks is not normal but positively skewed. Empirical results of the present study are consistent with those of prior studies. Interestingly, the present study observed serial inverse correlation between excess returns of growth stocks and value stocks. Also, regardless of growth or value stocks, the stocks with higher PEG(=PER/ROE) showed higher excess returns.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.9-16
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• 2023

This study analyzed the effect of manager's ability on compensation policy (compensation level and performance-reward sensitivity). To this end, the final 14,150 company-year data were used for KOSPI and KOSDAQ listed companies excluding the financial industry from 2012 to 2019. As a result of the empirical analysis, the higher the manager's ability, the higher the next reward level (the manager's ability hypothesis), but the performance-reward sensitivity decreased. This confirms the manager ability hypothesis through a positive (+) relationship between manager ability and compensation, and means that high compensation for manager ability may be additional compensation for manager ability other than performance, rather than due to performance. This study differs from previous studies and has contributions in that it examines the more complex effects of managerial ability and compensation system.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.89-105
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• 2024

The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of ESG activities on brand value by linking the effectiveness of ESG activities to marketing, the most core part of a company. This study conducted an empirical analysis targeting companies listed on KOSPI and KOSDAQ from 2016 to 2022. Looking at the empirical analysis results of this study, first, in the individual analysis of ESG activities, it was confirmed that E (Environment) and G (Governance) have a significant positive influence on brand value. Second, in the environmental field, stakeholder response had a significant positive relationship with brand value, and in the governance field, the board of directors had a significant positive relationship with brand value. Through this study, we can provide logical evidence proving that ESG activities are important activities that must be carried out in advance to increase brand value. Among ESG activities, it was found that stakeholder response activities in the environmental field and board-related matters in the governance field play an important role in increasing brand value. It is also expected that it will serve as a catalyst for research on the importance of ESG activities in the marketing field.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.165-170
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• 2019

본 논문은 매출액대비연구개발비비중과 배당성향이라는 두 지표를 사용하여 IPO 전후 기업 경영의 변화를 관측하고, 이 같은 변화가 장기적인 기업 발전을 위한 창업자의 지배권 보장이라는 차등의결권 주식 발행의 필요성을 입증하는지 검토한다. 매출액대비연구개발비와 배당성향은 각각 장기적인 목적과 단기적 목적의 현금흐름 사용의 대표적 지표로서, 두 지표는 현금흐름의 처분에 대한 주주의 압력을 간접적으로 측정하는 지표이다. 두 지표가 IPO를 전후하여 크게 차이를 보이며, 또 그 차이가 단기적 이익보다 장기적 성과를 중시하는 방향으로 나타난다면 장기적 기업 가치 제고를 위해 차등의결권의 유용성을 방증할 수 있으나, 반대의 경우에는 차등의결권 도입의 실증적 근거가 미약하다고 할 수 있다. 본 논문의 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 2000년부터 2016년까지 유가증권시장과 코스닥시장, 코넥스시장에 상장한 기업 중 IPO 전후 3년 간, 즉 t-3년 ~ t+3년에 각각 연구개발비비중과 배당성향을 공시하고 있는 278개 기업과 37개 기업을 조사한 결과, 매출액대비연구개발비 비중이 IPO 이후 반드시 감소하였다고 판단할 수 없었다. 둘째, 배당성향은 일관되게 IPO 이전 수준이 IPO 이후 수준보다 높았다. 이 같은 결과는 기업의 장기적 발전을 위하여 창업자의 지배권을 보장하기 위해 차등의결권이 필요하다는 주장의 실증적 근거가 명확하지 않음을 의미한다. 단기적 시각의 주주에 대항하여 현금흐름과 지배권이 분리된 주식을 발행할 필요가 있다는 주장보다는 차등의결권이 지배주주의 경영권 영속화의 수단으로 활용될 수 있다는 비판이 보다 설득력이 있을 수 있다.