• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.109-128
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• 2003

This study is intended to suggest an ideal direction of the information systems policy for the local small business firms. In an effort to accomplish this objective, this paper tried to identify the current states of the information systems and measure the level of the information systems of local small business firms based on the maturity stage and the development level. The study then explored the evidence how the maturity stage and the development level affect the business performance of the local small business firms. The research found out that the organizational factor such as the support of CEO and the financial factor such as IS investment took major roles to improve the business performance. Based on the research findings of this study, the paper suggested the desirable solution of the information system policy to deal with the problems the local small business firms need to overcome.

• 한국산업정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산업정보학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집:21세기 신지식정보의 창출
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• pp.99-113
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• 2001

Small firms think that it is for the best to use information technology to survive and grow in current business environment. Recently, the importance of using information technology to be a high and competitive company in the world has been recognized by small firms facing difficult business situations. To roll with the punches of recent crisis and meet customers'specifications, much attention is being aimed to using information technology. Many studies have shown that using information technology is a key to competitiveness. But small firms have trouble using information technology and building a very excellent and efficient computerization by many factors such as funds, technology, and human resource. So, this study is focusing on where the difficulties of local small firms getting under way of using information technology come from and finding out the relationship of using information technology characteristics, difficulties, and performance.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.163-172
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• 2005

Since the financial turmoil in 1997, both the national and local governments have initiated a variety of policy measures to support small and medium-size firms to strengthen the national and regional economies. It is no doubt that such policies contributed to establish better business environment for them. However, many analytical reports and academic studies in recent years diagnose that the economy conditions for the small and medium-size firms are in crisis because many policy measures are made based on the supply-side approach rather than demand-side consideration. In order for the governments' efforts to be more realistic and effective, it is necessary to see what the policy target groups(that is. the small and medium-size entrepreneurs) want. This study surveyed entrepreneurs in Hwaseung city, Kyonggi-do, which has more than three-thousands of small and medium-size firms. It finds that in spite of locational advantages and a variety of policy supports from the provincial and local governments, they need more financial supports, more effective mass transportation system for commuting workers. less bureaucratic barriers, and so on.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.450-458
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• 2018

본 연구는 대학의 지식자본이 지역의 기업활동에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 그 결과 1단위 대학보유특허 수, 대학의 과학저널 논문 수, 현재 활동기업 수, 지역보유 산업재산권 표준편차의 증가는 신생지식집약기업의 수를 각각 15%, 11%, 54%, 22% 증가시키는 것으로 나타났다. 뿐만 아니라 대학의 지식자본과 지역의 지식자본과의 상호작용을 보여주는 계수도 통계적으로 유의성을 보였다. 한편 지역적 특성을 반영하고 있는 통제 변수 중에서 서울로 부터의 거리를 제외한 지자체의 면적, 인구밀도, 그리고 각 지자체에 살고 있는 20~40대 비중 등은 모두 90% 이상의 통계적 유의성을 보이면서 신생지식집약기업의 창업에 영향을 끼치는 것으로 나타났다. 특히 대학의 지식자본과 지역산업의 지식자본이 동시에 존재함으로서 지식집약기업의 창업에 주는 시너지 효과는 작지만 존재하는 것으로 보이며 두 주체의 소유 지식자본은 지역의 지식집약기업의 창업에는 상호 보완재로서의 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.293-319
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• 2008

중소벤처기업도 대기업인 다국적기업과 마찬가지로 해외진출시에는 비용이 수반된다. 이러한 외국비용을 해외진출시 당면하는 시간부족, 자금부족, 경험부족, 재무위험증가 등 장애요인과 정보획득비용, 네트워크구축비용, 마케팅비용, 유통비용, 모니터링비용 등 해외진출비용요인, 그리고 현지시장 예측과 조사, 현지기업과의 사전적 공조 등 국제화준비활동으로 정의하고, 이들 요인간 관계와 이들 요인이 경영성과에 미치는 영향을 검증하였다. 분석결과 대만과 한국기업 모두 장애요인이 중요하다고 지각할수록 해외진출비용이 크다고 지각하였다(H1). 그러나 가설과는 반대로 해외진출비용을 중요시할수록 국제화준비활동에 더욱 집중하였으며(H4), 경영성과의 향상에도 유의적인 것으로 나타났다(H5). 한국기업은 장애요인이 중요할수록 국제화준비활동에 박차를 가하는 것으로 나타난 반면, 대만기업은 정반대로 장애요인이 중요하면 국제화준비활동에 소극적인 것으로 나타났다(H2). 또한 대만과 한국기업 모두 해외진출장애요인과 국제화준비활동요인 모두 경영성과에는 유의적인 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다(H3, H6).

• 지역연구
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.123-147
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• 1990

This paper examines the changing geography of producer service industries in the 1980s. The foci of this study are to analyze the regional distribution of each producer services, and to reveal the spatial linkage of producer services. Further this paper asserts the potential role of producer services for reducing the potential endogenous development in the periphery. During the 1981-86 period, producer service industries grew more rapidly than other service sectors and manufacturing sector. The main reason of the raid growth of producer services is attributable to an increase in demand for intermediate services from manufacturing firms. In order to compete an increasingly complex business environment, firms have expanded the amount of effort devoted to activities such as planning, coordination and control, and consequently have increased their use of producer services. The most distinctive feature of the location of producer services is spatial concentration into Seoul and surrounding region. Especially the degree of the concentration o business services into the Capital Region has been accelerating during the 1990s. The pattern of employment growth and regional distribution of producer services show a clear core / periphery disparity. Much of the regional inequality in producer services is largely due to variation in demand associated with the pattern of corporation headquarters with the pattern of corporation headquarters and branch plants location with large manufacturing firms. The analysis of spatial division of labor reflects that producer services are related to the location of headquarters in manufacturing industry. Headquarters in manufacturing firms and business service firms tend to cluster each other. Most of the headquarters spatially separated from branch offices are clustered heavily in Seoul. Especially headquarters of business services and insurance services are overwhelmingly concentrated into Seoul. The firms whose headquarters are located in Seoul have a linkage pattern on a nationwide scale. It is viewed have little potential for generating local multiplier effects and regional development. In the light of the result of this study, producer services are not likely to disperse soon to peripheral regions. Consequently the absence of policies directed at enhancing producer sevice in the periphery, concentration tendency would continue to reinforce the core's dominance at the expense of peripheral regions. From a regional perspective, the quality of a region's producer service sector is a key determinant of economic growth, since manu industrial location decisions are influenced by the differential availability of producer services among regions. Poor performance of producer services in peripheral regions seemed to be linked to the region's manufacturing base. Low-wage, standardized branch plants are not likely to induce the growth in knowledge intensive services associated with high-technology corporate headquarters. Producer services may help to create and attract new business including manufacturing firms, and also to enhance the productivity and competitiveness of local firms. Therefore the provision of service producing activities would be lead not only to generate and retain endogenous development but also to attract external firms, especially small and medium sized firms which have a lower propensity of internalized services. Hence, it may be more efficient to create and expanse new locally owned producer services rather than to attract branch plants of mult-locational firms in order to make indigenous economic development.

• 지역연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.63-86
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• 1995

One of the innovative and most promising approaches to new high-tech business formation from university is technology business incubators, which attempts to enhance small high-tech start-up firms' chances of survival. To date, there is few comprehensive effort to do a comparative study of technology business incubatiors between European Countries and U.S. to evaluate the impacts of them on regional development. With these consideration in mind this research anlayzed key findings of 6 case studies of university related Technology Business Incubators in the U.K., Germany, and U.S. to explore relationship of university to regional development. These included Cambridge Science Park(CSP) '||'&'||' West of Scotland Science Park in the U.K., Dortmund Technologiezentrum '||'&'||' Berlin Technologiezentrum, and Rensselaer Technology Development Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S. The primary objective of this study was to advance our understanding of the impact and utility of technology business incubators and to get some policy implications for the future development in this area in Korea. Among the major question examined hear was "how do they contribute the overall economy of the communities in which they are located\ulcorner". The results of the case study about this question were very positive. The technology business incubators contributed to foster new high-tech small business formation from university, to facilitate the cooperation between university and industry and Incubator tenants created jobs and income, pay taxes, and in doing so, had a multiplier effects on the local economy. The same was true of incubator graduates. With this consideration in mind the university related business regioned development policy in korean local communities.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.492-506
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 중국 대련시(大連市)에 투자한 한국기업의 기업네트워크 특성을 분석하기 위해, 크게 원자재 및 부품조달과 제품판매, 그리고 이들 기업간의 협력관계를 사회문화와 제도적 특성에 초점을 두고 고찰하였다. 대련투자 한국기업들은 원자재 및 부품, 반제품 공급기업과의 관계에 있어서는 비국지적 네트워크가, 제품판매 즉 고객네트워크에서는 국지적 네트워크가 상대적으로 강하게 나타났다. 기업규모면에서는 대기업은 비국지적 네트워크가, 중소기업은 국지적 네트워크가 상대적으로 강한 특성을 보이고 있었다. 기업간 네트워크를 통한 협력은 공급기업과는 공동마케팅, 장비공동이용, 기술지원과 정보교환이 중심이고, 고객기업과는 공동마케팅과 인력훈련에 있어서 협력이 중심이었다. 특히 협력관계를 맺고 있는 고객기업의 대부분은 현지의 중국기업으로, 지역적으로 대련시(大連市) 지역을 포함한 중국의 북경, 상해, 광주, 천진 등 중국 전역에 걸쳐 광범한 고객네트워크를 구축하고 있다. 지역별 협력관계를 보면, 대련시(大連市) 지역의 기업과는 주로 공동제품개발, 금융과 인력훈련이, 대련시(大連市) 이 외 기업과는 마케팅 협력, 기술지원 및 정보교환과 R&D가 중심이 되고 있다.

• 지역연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.79-99
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• 1993

This paper identifies the mechanisms governing the industrial location changes in Korea by focusing upon the emergence of the country's large conglomerate business organizations (chaebols). As the country has distinctive industrial organization, production systems, and government-business relations, this study tries to develop an ideal conceptual framework for the analysis of industrial location changes in Korea. It perceives the Korean economy as a system within which 'space-organizing', lage business organizations interact over time with government, smaller firms and multinational corporations at different geographical scales. The usefulness of the model is assessed using a case study of Korea's most representative chaebol, the Samsung Group. This study identifies chaebols as the dominant institutions in Korean society. Their growth and business strategies have been influenced by the Korean Government through its power to allocate capital resources. Regional dynamics of industry and labor, therfore, have been strongly influenced by changes in the location, industrial structure, and production system of chaebols. With econmic power concentrated within a few giant business groups and their major areas of operation restricted, unbalanced regional development has resulted. Dissatisfaction from residents in less-developed areas has pressured the Government to advise chaebols to disperse their production facilities. Most small and medium-sized firms are closely linked to large corporations through subcontracting. By forming hierarchical subcontracting. By forming hierarchical subcontracting systems, chaebols have indirectly exploited scattered, part-time, home-based, female and lower-paid laborers organized by subcontractors. Further, chaebols have expanded their business arena to encompass overseas locations in a bid to overcome the problem of a small domestic market, trade regulations and increased market, trade regulations and increased labor costs. Through their international business networks Korea's local and regional economies are integrated into the world economy. Indeed, the identification of the changing relationships of chaebols with both the Korean Government and smaller firms is the key to explaining the nations's spatial dyanmics of industry and labor.

• Journal of East Asia Management
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.29-49
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• 2020

In an intensively competitive global market, small-and medium-sized firms are puzzled about how to develop sustainable competitive advantages against global rivalries, thus leading satisfactory economic performance. However, despite the roles and contributions of such small-and medium-sized firms in the local community and national economies in Japan, little guidance has been offered to the practical issues related to their strategic behaviors toward global management. To fill this notable knowledge gap, this study aims to investigate the conditions in which how Japanese small-and medium-sized could dominates global market, which is one of key challenges in the literature of small business and entrepreneurship. To obtain better insights to this research area, this study undertakes an in-depth interview survey with I.S.T (Industrial Summit Technology) Corporation that shows off the highest global market share (40 per cent) with seamless polyimide tube product widely used in office automation equipment (e.g., copiers and printers). This method of survey is designed to deeply understand historical considerations about how I.S.T Corporation could dominate in the global market of such seamless polyimide tube product. Based on findings drawn from an interview, this study identifies five major factors enabling I.S.T Corporation to be a competitive global hidden company: vision sharing through founder's entrepreneurship, core competence, strategic network, risk management, and employee engagement. Specifically, to become a global hidden champion, sharing the vision motivating employees to partake in shaping company's future will be the first step on the road to global success through founder's entrepreneurship. However, in order to achieve such a vision, the importance of company's core competence cannot be overemphasized, which differentiates your customer solution with those of competitors. As such, a group of experts will be naturally formed and demonstrates your expertise in the global market, thereby building sustainable competitiveness. On the other hand, to maintain sustainable competitiveness, it is necessary to make up for the weaknesses small-and medium-sized firms suffer from competitive resources while strengthening their own strengths through strategic networks with external organizations. Here, every company has to understand the critical role of risk management, which is essential in this process of being global company so as not to lose your own strengths. Last but not least, do not forget the significant effects of employee engagement in firm performance. To enhance employees' engagement, a company has to create an ideal organization culture which fits into company's history and personality. In doing so, such organization culture can allow the vision and strategy to be implemented into detailed business tactics while facilitating employees to challenge the status quo by experimenting with creative ideas.