• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.81-89
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• 2016

Purpose - Prior researches have empirically focused on the effect of management consulting quality and consultant capability on entrepreneurial firms' performance. This study, however, focused on investigating the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource capability between management consulting and entrepreneurial firms' performance. So, this study investigated the relationship among consulting quality, consultant capability, absorptive capacity, resource capability, and entrepreneurial firms' performance from the resource based view (RBV). Especially, this study focused on the mediating role of absorptive and resource capability in relational structure of entrepreneurial firms' dimensions. Research design, data, and methodology - In this study, research hypotheses and model are established by the prior researches from the fields of strategic management and entrepreneurial behavior. Concretely, H1~H4 are the relationship between consulting (consulting quality, consultant capability) and innovation (absorptive capacity, resource capability); H5 is the relationship between absorptive capacity and resource capability; and H6~H7 are the relationship between innovation (absorptive capacity, resource capability) and management performance. The data was collected 207 copies from entrepreneurial firms in South Korea. These firms were established in January 2014 and maintained by November 2015 in high-tech industry. The questionnaire was consisted of five dimensions; consulting quality, consultant capability, absorptive capacity, resource capability, and management performance. Each dimension measured multi items on a 5-point Likert scale. The hypotheses and research model are analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) with AMOS 22. Results - The results of this study are as follows. 1) Consulting quality significantly influenced on the absorptive capacity of entrepreneurial firms. 2) But, consultant capability did not influence on the absorptive capacity of entrepreneurial firms. 3) Consulting quality and consultant capability significantly influenced on the resource capability of entrepreneurial firms. 4) Absorptive capacity significantly influenced on the resource capability of entrepreneurial firms; 5) Absorptive capacity did not significantly influence on the management performance of entrepreneurial firms. 6) Resource capability, however, significantly influenced on the management performance of entrepreneurial firms. By these results, absorptive capacity of entrepreneurial firms had a mediating role partly among consulting quality, consultant capability, and management capability. The resource capability of entrepreneurial firms had a mediating role among consulting quality, consultant capability, and management capability, perfectly. Conclusions - According to this study, the high level of consulting quality and consultant capability may enforce the resource capability of entrepreneurial firms. It means, practically, that external knowledge is a driver for innovation, and then the innovation effects on the management performance of entrepreneurial firms. So, at the initial stage, the management consulting programs are very important to entrepreneurial firms and should be conceived as an essential element. This study may contribute to the advancement of academic in field of new start business, small business, or venture business based on resources, especially the role of absorptive capacity and resource capability between consulting programs and management performance. However, this study has some limitations. They are the measurement of consulting quality's items, cross-sectional research, and the limitation of concept and industry.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.97-113
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• 2010

Given the large investment and prevalence of knowledge management (KM) in organizations, it has become important to analyze the effects of KM activities on organizational performances. A theoretical framework is proposed to investigate the impact of KM activities on innovation capabilities in the IT service industry. This study considers KM activities as the major determinant that enhances absorptive capacity. KM activities enhance employees'ability to obtain external knowledge, resulting in increasing intellectual capital. Thus, this study proposes that absorptive capacity plays a mediating role between KM activities and innovation capability. Additionally, this study investigates the key antecedents of KM activities that promote employees' knowledge sharing. Based on prior studies on KM, this study posits KM team activities and top manager support as KM activities. The proposed research model was tested by using survey data collected from 556 employees in the IT service industry. PLS (partial least squares) was employed for the analysis of the data. The findings of this study showed that KM activities and absorptive capabilities play a significant role in enhancing service innovation and process innovation in the IT service industry. The results also shed light on the mediating role of absorptive capacity between KM activities and innovation capability. Moreover, both KM team activities and top manager support serve as the salient antecedents of promoting employees' knowledge sharing.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1153-1162
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• 2021

The innovation of enterprises allowed firms to promote technological innovation as an important choice to improve sustainable competitiveness. This study aims to investigate the relationship between absorptive capacity and innovation performance of Chinese high-tech enterprises and focuses on the mediating role of innovation culture in high-tech enterprises. Data came from surveying high-tech enterprises in China, and the reliability analysis, factor analysis, and correlation analysis, path analysis (SEM) were analyzed using SPSS23, AMOS. The results show that intellectual capital composed of human capital, structural capital, and relational has a significant impact on acquisition performance; intellectual capital is composed of human capital; structural capital has a significant influence on innovation performance; and absorptive capital has a significant impact on innovation performance. In addition, innovative culture plays a partial mediating role between absorptive capacity and innovation performance. The findings of this study suggest that, to ensure the better absorption and operation of knowledge, high-tech enterprises can accumulate more knowledge, promote the transformation of knowledge into technology, and strengthen the capability of knowledge absorptive capacity, and at the same time, create an innovation culture atmosphere and encourage employees to develop new products to achieve enterprise goals in order to promote the improvement of innovation performance.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.125-136
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• 2021

급격한 기술의 발전 및 환경의 변화와 함께 국경없는 글로벌시대의 치열한 경쟁환경속에서 기업의 생존을 위해 혁신은 필수적이며, 기업내부의 노력뿐만 아니라, 기업 외부로부터의 자원과 지식을 획득하고 이를 내재화하여 자신만의 경쟁우위를 확보하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 기업 내부요인으로 내부 R&D 역량과 조직 지원, 기업 외부요인으로 외부 R&D 역량과 외부지식탐색, 그리고 흡수역량이 성과에 미치는 관계를 살펴보았다. 분석결과, 내부 R&D 역량, 조직지원, 외부지식탐색은 흡수역량에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 혁신 성과는 신제품 성과에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 흡수역량의 매개효과는 검증되지 못하였으며, 이는 흡수역량이 혁신성과 및 신제품성과와의 관련성이 낮거나, 흡수역량과 성과변수 사이에 다른 중요한 요인이 작용한다는 것을 시사한다. 본 연구의 결과는 기업에서 R&D전략의 수립시에 유용한 지침으로 활용 가능할 것으로 보인다.

• 벤처혁신연구
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.115-137
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 디지털 전환시대에 선도적인 관점에서 신기술을 흡수하고 혁신적 변화가 요구되고 있는 IT-BPO 기업을 대상으로 조직 핵심역량과 흡수역량이 시장지향성 및 기술지향성에 미치는 관계를 분석하고, 나아가 경영성과에 미치는 관계를 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위한 연구방법으로 국내 IT-BPO 비즈니스를 수행하고 있는 업체를 대상으로 온라인 전문리서치 업체 및 오프라인 설문조사를 병행하여 291부를 회수하였으며, 분석방법으로는 기술통계와 신뢰도 분석에는 SPSS 23, 타당성, 매개효과를 포함한 연구가설 검증은 AMOS23을 이용하여 분석하였다. 주요 분석결과, 첫째, 혁신역량과 흡수역량 요인이 시장지향성에 미치는 관계에서는 학습역량과 지식네트워크 역량이 시장지향성에 통계적으로 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 혁신역량과 흡수역량 요인이 기술지향성에 미치는 관계에서는 R&D역량, 잠재적 흡수역량 및 실현적 흡수역량이 통계적으로 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 혁신역량과 흡수역량 요인이 경영성과에 미치는 영향 관계에서는 R&D역량만이 통계적으로 유의한 정(+)의 영향 관계를 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 시장지향성과 기술지향성이 경영성과에 미치는 관계에서는 시장지향성과 기술지향성 모두 경영성과에 통계적으로 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과는 IT-BPO 기업이 성장과 가치창출을 높이기 위해 추구하는 시장지향성이나 기술지향성 유형에 따라 효과적인 역량요인을 제시함으로써 전략 목적에 따른 차별적 역량 강화방안에 하나에 시사점을 제시할 것으로 보인다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.135-154
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• 2016

Absorptive capacity has been increasingly thought of as a potential source of innovation. From the knowledge management perspective, absorptive capacity is composed of a set of activities dealing with acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation of external and internal knowledge. This study investigates what relationship the absorptive capacity of individuals who have technical knowledge in the organization has with process innovation and product innovation. Mobile based survey was conducted from the employees working for the largest electronics manufacturer in Korea. The analyzed data was based on 156 responses from 199 participants. The analysis result shows that four phases of absorptive capacity such as acquisition, assimilation, transformation and exploitation have different effects on process innovation and product innovation, respectively. Specifically, transformation is found to be most critical in leading to innovation.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2018

In this research, we tried to suggest the guidelines to stakeholder of ICT startup for picking up the excellent startups and nurturing them. We designed the research model focused on the good startup team's knowledge based interaction mechanism. A research model and hypotheses were developed from literature review and empirically validated. The research model consisted relationship among the knowledge sharing (knowledge donation and knowledge collection), absorptive capacity (member's ability and member's motivation), team creativity, and innovation capability. Data were collected from ICT Service Startups, and a partial least squares (PLS) analysis was made on 175 data points. The analysis results showed that absorptive capacity has significant effect on team creativity and innovation capability directly. And also it has indirect effect on the dependent variable through team creativity. On the contrary, knowledge sharing does not have statistically significant effect on team creativity and innovation capability; only have an effect on absorptive capacity. Based on the results, we proposed several team management skills for ICT startup leaders and members, and the guidelines to stakeholder such as government and private investors. Also there are some ideas for startup nurturing polices for government officers. Theoretical contributions are discussed at the end with limitations and further studies.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.101-129
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• 2013

기술혁신은 대기업뿐만 아니라 중소기업에게도 매우 중요한 도전과제 중 하나이다. 본 연구는 중소기업 상황에서 기술협력과 기술혁신 성과 간의 관계에 흡수역량이 어떤 역할을 하는 지를 실증하는데 초점을 둔다. 이 목적을 달성하기 위해 한국의 제조업 중 종업원 수 300명 미만의 중소기업을 대상으로 266개 표본을 통해 계층적 회귀분석을 수행한 결과, 기술협력 방식을 다양하게 활용할수록 기술혁신 성과가 통계적으로 의미 있게 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 흡수역량의 구성개념 중 지식실현역량에 기초한 역량이 중소기업 상황에서 기술협력 원천과 기술협력 방식이 기술혁신 성과에 미치는 영향을 더 강화시키는 것으로 검증되었다. 이러한 분석결과를 토대로 중소기업이 과도한 기술협력 원천을 활용하는 것은 기술혁신 성과를 향상시키는데 오히려 도움을 주지 못하기 때문에, 기존 지식과 결합시켜 새로운 지식을 창출할 수 있는 역량을 구축하는데 집중적인 관리 노력이 필요하다는 시사점을 도출하였다.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.62-86
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• 2017

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) system is one of the major institutions for incentivizing innovation. However, a strong IPR regime does not necessarily encourage innovation every time. This is because a variety of factors come into play in configuring the ways the IPR system interacts with the dynamics of innovation. In the present study, we examine whether different degrees of absorptive capacity at the industry level bring about heterogeneous effects of a strong IPR regime on the innovation capability of innovators across different industries in developing country. Using the case of the 1986 IPR reform in Korea, which permitted patenting pharmaceutical products and copyrighting computer programs, we analyze the quality of patents produced by Korean applicants between 1982 and 1991. Our analysis finds no evidence that the IPR reform improved the innovation capability of innovators in the two aforementioned sectors, but rather affected their patenting behavior differently.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.107-118
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• 2024

본 연구는 디지털 기업가정신과 디지털 혁신에 영향을 미치는 요인과 기술흡수역량의 조절효과를 검증하는 것이 목적이다. 연구목적을 달성하기 위해 디지털 기업가정신에 영향을 미치는 요인을 기술 특성(디지털 기술역량), 조직 특성(디지털 학습역량, 재무 준비성), 제도적 압력(강제적 압력, 모방적 압력, 규범적 압력)으로 설정하였다. 그리고 디지털 기업가정신과 디지털 혁신에 영향 관계에서 기술흡수역량의 조절효과를 검증하고자 한다. 디지털 기업가정신, 디지털 혁신, 제도적 압력, 기술흡수역량에 대한 이론적 배경을 바탕으로 연구모형과 연구가설을 설정하였다. 국내 104개 기업을 대상으로 Smart PLS 4.0을 이용하여 실증분석을 하였다. 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 디지털 기술역량, 디지털 학습역량, 재무 준비성, 제도적 압력은 디지털 기업가정신에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 디지털 기업가정신은 디지털 혁신에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로, 디지털 기업가정신이 디지털 혁신에 영향을 미치는데 있어서 기술흡수역량이 조절효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 4차 산업혁명과 디지털 전환 시대에 디지털 기업가 정신의 필요성을 강조하였고, 디지털 기업가정신을 통해 디지털 혁신을 달성하고자 하는 기업들에게 전략적 시사점을 제공할 것이다.