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A Study on the Impact of Local Entrepreneurship Education on the Entrepreneurial Motivation, Entrepreneurial Competencies, and Entrepreneurial Spirit of Education Participants

  • Won-Hee Lee
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.28 no.11
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    • pp.201-208
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    • 2023
  • This study is an empirical research aimed at examining the impact of practical, field-oriented local entrepreneurship education for college students and prospective entrepreneurs in the Busan area on their entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurial competencies, and entrepreneurial spirit. The study is conducted to enhance the activation of youth entrepreneurship education in the Busan area and to tailor entrepreneurship competency development for prospective local young entrepreneurs. In this study, the factors of entrepreneurial motivation were divided into economic motivation and self-realization motivation, while entrepreneurial competencies were categorized into practical competencies for local entrepreneurship, local brand development competencies, and financial analysis competencies. To conduct the empirical analysis, a survey was administered to 139 participants who took part in entrepreneurship education from March to October 2023. The research findings indicate that local entrepreneurship education significantly influences participants' entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurial competencies, and entrepreneurial spirit. Furthermore, it was observed that entrepreneurial spirit also has a significant impact on entrepreneurial motivation and competencies. These results suggest the practical importance of tailoring entrepreneurship education to the specific characteristics of local prospective entrepreneurs.

Factors Supporting Business and its Distrubution to Business Resilience In New Normal Era

  • HIDAYAT, Muhammad;LATIEF, Fitriani;WIDIAWATI, Andi;ASBARA, Nurkhalik W.;ZAENI, Nurhaeda
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.19 no.11
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    • pp.5-15
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: The current study aims at knowing and testing factors supporting business and how to distribute it for resilience business in new normal era. Factors Supporting business resilience will be seen in terms of entrepreneurial competence, technology utilization and government support for business resilience through entrepreneurial spirit as an intervening variable. Research design, data, and methodology: A constructed questionnaire in direct survey and interview was conducted with 97 respondents in South Sulawesi. Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis, was utilized to analyze and verify all the data. Results: This study indicated entrepreneurial competence and utilization of technology have a positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial spirit, while government support has no significant effect on entrepreneurial spirit. This study also indicated that entrepreneurial spirit has a significant effect on business resilience. Conclusion: To increase business resilience, it is very important to have entrepreneurial skills and mastery on utilization of technology. To anticipate future crises, entrepreneurial competencies must be evenly distributed both for business owners and for all members of the organization. To institutionalize crisis management in business, it is important for SMEs in Indonesia to develop an institutionalized Business Crisis Management.

The Effect of Motivation of Preliminary Entrepreneur on Entrepreneurial Spirit in Service Industry -Focused on Participant of Cyber University- (예비 서비스 창업자의 동기요인이 기업가정신에 미치는 영향 -사이버대학교 수강자를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Kyung-Hoe;Kim, Jin-Young
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.511-537
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    • 2011
  • The start-up program of service company is able to give the positive effect to the job creation and growth but actually the rate of success for start-up program in service industry low and thus the effective support program is required. Recently, it is required that entrepreneurial spirit for success of start-up program in service industry. We examined entrepreneurial spirit between participation motivation in service industry. The results are as follows. As a result of survey for education program participant, it was found that 4 causes of Entrepreneurial Spirit such as innovation thought, market-oriented thought and art-oriented thought, management thought are all significant and especially, the effect of management thought showed somewhat high level in entrepreneurial spirit. Hereafter, this study may help to guide the motivation of preliminary entrepreneurs as food & beverage, restaurant business, retailer, other service industry.

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A Study on the Influence of Elementary School Student's Leadership on Entrepreneur Spirit: Focused on the Moderating Effects of Career Recognition (초등학생의 리더십이 창업가정신에 미치는 영향: 진로인식의 조절효과를 중심으로)

  • Woo, Young Hee;Lee, Bo Young
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.261-268
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    • 2015
  • This study is aimed at clarifying the influence of an elementary school student's leadership on the Entrepreneurial spirit, and whether the career awareness really gives a regulatory effect on the Entrepreneurial spirit. This study organized the students above 4th grade in an elementary school located in Seoul as research subject; then this study analyzed the collected 420 questionnaires in August, 2015, using SPSS 21.0 Statistical Program. This study used frequency analysis, descriptive statistic analysis and cross analysis as a statistic analysis method. The research issues include 1)Does the leadership of an elementary school student have a significant influence on the Entrepreneurial spirit? 2) Is it possible for career awareness to play a regulatory role in the relationship between an elementary school student's leadership and the Entrepreneurial spirit? The research results of this study are as follows: First, it was found that an elementary school student's leadership has a significant influence on the Entrepreneurial spirit. Second, about whether independent variable factors cause a difference in career awareness as regulating variable in the relationship, in which independent variable factors have an influence on the Entrepreneurial spirit, only a part shows a significant effect as a regulating variable. This study hopes that this research results could provide data to meet the educational alternative to the necessity of leadership education required by the present period, and provide the basis of the use for educational policy for elementary school students with this research results as the center.

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Japanese University Spin-off & Collaboration between Industry & University (일본의 대학 발 벤처와 산학제휴 촉진시책)

  • Lee, Duk Hoon
    • International Area Studies Review
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.287-308
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this research is to find out whether Japanese characteristics are resulted from the role of industrial policy or entrepreneurial spirit, which induced by the emergence and growth of Japanese universities' spin-off. In other words, this paper shows the importance of not only the policy factor in the gestation and growth of Japanese universities' spin-off, but also the entrepreneurial spirit in the combination between spin-off and growth.

The Effect of Entrepreneurial Education on Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Intention: Focusing on University Students who took Entrepreneurship-related Courses

  • Kim, Moon Jun;Kim, Su Hee
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.117-130
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    • 2021
  • This purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship intention, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship intention. For this purpose, the following empirical analysis was conducted on the research hypothesis set in the research model for 223 university students who took the course on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship. First, as a result of examining the effect of the hypothesis 1 between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention, a positive effect was shown. Hypothesis 1 was accepted. Second, hypothesis 2, entrepreneurship education showed a positive (+) influence on entrepreneurship. Therefore, hypothesis 2 was accepted. Third, as a result of testing the hypotheses on the relationship between the three hypotheses on and entrepreneurial intention, statistically significant analysis was performed. Therefore, hypothesis 3 was accepted. In other words, the results of this study showed that entrepreneurship education acted as a positive factor on the entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial spirit, like the results of previous studies. Therefore, as entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship act as major factors to improve entrepreneurial intentions, the importance of upgrading systematic and substantial entrepreneurship education and education on substantial entrepreneurship was emphasized.

Improving Small Business Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurial Intensity and Innovation

  • SUMIATI, Sumiati
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.10
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    • pp.211-218
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    • 2020
  • The Small and Medium Enterprise is currently getting more attention from the Indonesian government as the contribution of this sector to the regional and national income has increased. Though the government is providing a lot of attention as well as facilities to the small businesses in the manufacturing sector, they face intense competition. Thus, the small enterprises need to ensure that they achieve good business performance. This research aims to investigate the role of entrepreneurial intensity and innovation in improving the performance of small businesses in Indonesia. For this purpose, one hundred and eighty-six small business owners participated in the survey. The data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling. The hypothesis results show that entrepreneurial intensity and innovation have a proven role in business performance of small enterprises. Entrepreneurial intensity in particular, significantly impacts innovation and exploration. And innovation is crucial for business performance. The results imply that to increase business performance, the owner and the manager also need to raise their entrepreneurial spirit, as it can enhance their willingness to explore and use their business experience to do more innovation activities. The more innovation is done by the company; the business performance is more likely to improve.

An Exploratory Case Study of a Successful Online Start-up Fashion Shopping Store: Focusing on the Entrepreneurial Process of a Soho Shopping Mall (온라인 패션쇼핑몰의 성공적 창업에 대한 탐색적 사례연구: 소호쇼핑몰의 기업가적 과정을 중심으로)

  • Son, Mi Young
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.91-106
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    • 2022
  • This study targets four Soho fashion shopping malls that are operating successfully in the online fashion market. This study analyzed the entrepreneurship process by dividing it into three stages. The results of the case study are as follows. In the case of Company S, the founder, who had little work experience, started an e-commerce business with a sense of fashion and entrepreneurship. It is a contemporary, casual brand with competitive prices, design power, and diverse product assortment, and the business performance was achieved through data management and analysis and the diversification of distribution channels. In the case of Company B, the founder, who had little work experience, started a manufacturing and e-commerce business by leveraging their SNS network capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit. It is a contemporary fashion brand with product competitiveness of specific items and start-up characteristics, and performance was achieved through the establishment of brand identity and market expansion. Third, Company M and Company C are examples of Soho fashion shopping malls where the founders with more extensive work experience at the time of founding their respective start-ups focused on brand recognition as their core competitiveness. In the case of Company M, the apparel brand was launched with a wealth of experience and design spirit. It is a fashion designer brand that stands out for its sensibility, and the owner has achieved performance through various entrepreneurial activities that broaden the corporate horizon. Company C is a manufacturing and e-commerce brand that was started with design capabilities and an entrepreneurial spirit. It is a luxury fashion brand that focuses on emotional expression, and the outcomes, such as brand recognition and sales, were achieved through active customer management. The results of this study can be used as basic data in education for and research of Soho shopping malls and the prospective founders.

The Effect of University Students' Startup Environment and Entrepreneurship Factors on Entrepreneurial Intention (대학생의 창업환경, 기업가정신 요인이 창업의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kuk-Gwen Lee;Jae Ho Kim
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.189-197
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of university students' entrepreneurial environment and entrepreneurial spirit on their entrepreneurial intentions. The results of the study are as follows. As for the correlation among entrepreneurial environmental factors affecting entrepreneurial intentions of college students, it was confirmed that educational environment, legal system and government support, and social values had static correlation coefficient values. It was predicted that the six detailed hypotheses would be valid and would have an impact, but unexpected results were also derived. First, the hypothesis that the entrepreneurial environment of college students will affect entrepreneurial intention was partially accepted. Employment environment and education environment were dismissed, legal system and government support. It was confirmed that social values had a positive (+) effect on entrepreneurial intention. Second, the hypothesis that entrepreneurship of college students will affect entrepreneurship intention was also partially accepted. Risk sensitivity was rejected, and innovation and initiative were confirmed to have a positive (+) effect.

An Exploratory Study on the Effect of Start-up Orientation in Business Performance

  • ROH, Seung-Ju;YOUN, Myoung-Kil
    • The Journal of Economics, Marketing and Management
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.13-28
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    • 2019
  • Purpose - The purpose of this study is to analyze the start-up factors in start-up tourism companies and to analyze how these factors influence business performance. This study will be conducted for the further exploratory study with in-depth research with literature reviews, interviews and surveys. Research design, data, and Methodology - The activation of entrepreneurship is very important factor as for not only the development of entrepreneurship which is the characteristic of the innovative and risks-taking for the success of the enterprise, but also the sustainable growth and creation of performance of the entrepreneur. In other words, if it is the entrepreneurial spirit affects entrepreneurship, it is entrepreneurial orientation that continuously affects entrepreneurs. In order to achieve the above purposes, this study conducted literature research and empirical studies. Result & Conclusions - The sub-factors for independent entrepreneurial variables' orientation are classified as creativity, technological, enterprising, and innovation, and subordinate variables were set of management performance. The sub-factors of the control variable government support policy are classified as financial support, consulting support, and marketing support. For the purpose of empirical analysis, this paper collects data on companies selected for tourism venture business competition and CEOs of SMEs tourism for less than 7 years.