• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2021

This paper examines the impact of foreign ownership on stock price volatility in an emerging market, namely, Thailand. The data were obtained from SETSMART, the database of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). After removing financial firms, banks, and insurance companies as well as filtering outliers, the final sample covers 1,755 firm-year observations from 371 nonfinancial firms listed on the SET over the five-year period from 2014 to 2018. The regression model consists of stock price volatility, measured by two methods, as the dependent variable, foreign ownership as the main independent variable, and firm characteristics including firm size, leverage, market-to book ratio, and stock turnover as the control variables. The pooled OLS, fixed effects, and random effects estimations are employed to examine the relationship between foreign ownership and stock price volatility. The results reveal that foreign ownership has a negative and significant impact on stock price volatility. The two-stage least squares (2SLS) are also performed to address potential endogeneity problem. The results still indicate a negative relationship between foreign ownership and stock price volatility. Taken together, the findings of this study suggest that foreign investors help reduce stock price volatility and thus stabilize share price in the Thai stock market.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.121-148
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• 2011

우리 중소기업의 사업규모는 지난 20년간 질적인 면과 양적인 변의 동반성장을 거듭하여 왔다. 최근에는 우리나라 전체 사업체수의 99.9%를 넘어서고 있으며 산업 부가가치총액 측면에서도 50% 수준에 이를 정도로 비약적으로 신장되었다. 중소기업이 국가경제에서 차지하는 비중이 높아짐에 비례하여 해외투자 규모도 역시 동반 성장하고 있다. 특히 세계경제가 개방화되고 블록경제가 심화되는 추세와 더불어 임금상승, 통상마찰 증대 등 대내외 환경변화 속도도 가속화되고 있어 이제 중소기업의 해외 진출은 생존 번영을 위한 핵심적 전략으로까지 부각되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 중소기업의 성공적인 해외진출을 위한 전략적 도구의 하나인 지식이전에 대하여 고찰하였다. 특히 해외 현지기업으로의 성공적인 지식이전에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악함으로써 우리 중소기업 해외진출에 도움을 줄 수 있는 시사점을 도출하였다. 해외 진출 경험이 있는 표본 중소기업에 대한 실증분석 결과 국내기업과 해외 현지기업간의 커뮤니케이션 요인이 성공적인 지식이전에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 결론적으로 해외 진출을 계획하거나 추진 중인 중소기업은 성공적인 해외투자를 위해 경제적 수익성 모델 검토와 커뮤니케이션 모델 검토를 병행할 필요가 있다. 구체적으로는 본사의 조직 문화와 관련 업무 프로세스를 명문화하는 제도적 장치를 보완하고, 협력업체와의 원활한 커뮤니케이션 채널 구축이 필요하다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.357-381
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• 2010

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of consumer's preferences for foreign products and extrinsic cues such as brand, country of origin, and corporate reputation on the consumer's evaluation which includes the construct of perceived quality, and loyalty. In addition, this paper is aimed to provide Korean firms insights in strategic approaches about foreign consumers behavior. A conceptual model is developed and empirically tested against a sample of university students in Korea, who have buying experience of products from multinational firms. 290 samples were used for this analysis. Results of multiple regression analysis using SPSS 18.0 show that consumer's preferences for foreign products, brand awareness, and corporate reputation have a significant effect on the perceived quality of the product from multinational firms. The most important factor to influence the perceived quality was found to be a corporate reputation. But country of origin had not significant effect. Also it is found that both product and product related service quality are positive and statistically significant in explaining the customer's loyalty. Implications for increasing perceived quality and customer's loyalty for Korean products in the global market are discussed.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.41-66
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• 2007

This paper develops a model of the export timing and export performance of venture firms by drawing by resource based view and born-global firm theory. The model aims at explaining the role of internal resources of small new venture firms and environment factors in accelerating the firm's export timing and achieving export growth. Hypothesses were developed around the following factors: management characteristics in terms of CEO's foreign experience and export commitment; organizational characteristics in terms of technological competence and marketing competence, and inter-functional cooperation; and finally environmental factors in terms of domestic and market attractiveness and foreign market attractiveness influence both the export timing and export performance. Structural equation modeling analysis by using 214 small new ventures provides a partial supports for the hypotheses. The result showed that technological competence have an influence on early export timing and that CEO's foreign experience and export commitment, technological competence and foreign market attractiveness are related export performance significantly. It also showed the significant relationship between export timing and export performance.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.345-361
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• 2019

In recent years, Chinese firms have explosively increased outward foreign direct investment (oFDI). While state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are still dominant in Chinese oFDI, privately-owned enterprises (POEs) are also accelerating their internationalization. These two types of Chinese firms differ in their behavior regarding oFDI. The objective of this paper is to analyze the differences in the choice of oFDI locations between Chinese SOEs and POEs by considering host country factors. By integrating the literature on Chinese firms' oFDI and on FDI locations, we developed six hypotheses concerning how host country factors affect their choice of location. We tested our hypotheses by conducting multiple regression analysis with recent secondary data on 413 Chinese MNEs in 88 countries between 2005 and 2016. The results of the test show that in selecting oFDI locations, Chinese SOEs invest relatively more in countries with richer natural resources, more abundant strategic assets, less production efficiency, higher political risk, and lower institutional quality compared with Chinese POEs. It is our hope that the empirical results of this paper will contribute to research on Chinese oFDI.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.61-78
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• 2018

해외직접투자에서 자회사 운영방식은 크게 수평적 자회사와 수직적 자회사로 구분할 수 있다. 이와 같은 자회사의 운영방식은 진출국의 제도에 따라 차이를 보인다. 본 연구는 제도이론관점에서 국내 전기전자 및 자동차산업의 해외직접투자 기업을 대상으로 진출국 공식적, 비공식적 제도가 해외 자회사 운영 방식선택에 미치는 영향을 실증 분석하였다. 실증분석결과, 진출국 정치적 위험정도가 낮을수록, 문화적 차이가 클수록 수직적 자회사를 선택하는 것으로 나타났다. 반면에 진출국 부패지수가 낮을수록, 경제자유도가 높을수록 수평적 자회사를 선택하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2010

Recently, foreign labor standards accreditation system has been emerged as more firms outsource manufacturing works to global vendors focused manufacturing. This paper discuss and compare three major private labor accreditation systems and evaluate what kind of problems may emerge if they become the major global standards for labor practices. This paper concludes that private labor standards accreditation system needs more transparency in the process and should improve accountability by including other stakeholders in the process.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2019

Purpose - Economic globalization provides firms with a new channel to gain benefits from foreign countries. Therefore, using the real MNEs, this paper set China's firms as an example to explore the relationship between multinationality and performance. Research design, data, and methodology - Panel data from 2008 to 2017 was used and 390 multinational firms listed in China's A-share market was selected. Additionally, related econometric methods were employed to analyze the relationship between multinationality and performance in this study. The return on assets was treated as a dependent variable, and the sales of a firm, the firm age, the debt asset ratio of a firm, the ratio of foreign sales to total sales and the enterprise properties were treated as independent variables. All of these factors were used to conduct an empirical analysis. Results - The empirical findings in this study revealed that there is a linear relationship between multinationality and performance, as well as that non state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs) have a greater effect on the relationship between multinationality and performance than that of the state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Conclusions - On the basis of evidences this paper provided, China's government should take measures in the future to help China's firms when they fulfil international economic activities.

• World Technopolis Review
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.21-42
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• 2019

The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors influencing global expansion/scalability of Kenyan Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Factor analysis and multiple/multivariate regression analysis to determine the functional relationship between independent variables (factors) and the dependent variable was used. The independent variables were: innovation & technology, fitness/appropriateness of management, global marketing strategy; and support environment and the dependent variable, global expansion/scalability. Data was collected from a survey of randomly selected firms of 205, drawn from a population of 440 firms from Kenya Manufacturers Directory, with 175 firms responding. The key findings from the research in relation to Kenyan SMEs were that: there is a functional relationship between global market strategy and global expansion; there is a functional relationship between innovation and technology orientation and global expansion, there is no significant functional relationship between supportive environment of firms and their global expansion; and there is no significant functional relationship between fitness/appropriateness of management and global expansion/scalability. The implications for practice is that the ranking of the factors in order of priority supports focusing concern on the orientation of business strategy toward global market strategy, market research geared at obtaining foreign market intelligence, innovation and technology, product adaptation, service orientation, collaborative ventures, and long-range vision as key factors in making Kenyan firms successful in the international market. The implication for policy and practice is that there is need for collaboration between industry and government in pursuing policies for global expansion/scalability and among SMEs and large enterprises particularly in areas of rapid technological change.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.119-130
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• 2020

This work investigates how domestic or foreign ERP affects the relationship between risks associated ERP implementation and intention to adopt risk-mitigating options. We propose three risks such as ERP vendor risk, economic risk, and security risk should affect positively the intention to adopt the risk-mitigating options. To validate the impact of risks and to examine the difference between domestic and foreign ERP, we collected data from IT managers in small and medium sized logistics companies in South Korea using survey questionnaires. We validate the difference between domestic ERP and foreign ERP using multiple regression analyses. We find that IT managers using domestic ERP are willing to adopt risk-mitigating options for economic and security risk. In contrast, we find that IT managers using foreign ERP are willing to adopt risk-mitigating options for ERP-vendor risk. This work may provide IT managers in logistics industry a practical guideline of choosing either domestic or foreign ERP based on their risk preferences.