본 연구는 우리나라 국제물류주선업체의 해외 진출 현황과 최근 글로벌 물류시장의 동향을 살펴보고, 급변하는 물류환경 속에서 국제물류주선업체가 글로벌 물류기업으로 성장하고 국제 경쟁력을 확보하기 위한 효과적인 해외시장 진출 전략을 제시해보고자 하였다. 국제물류주선업체의 해외진출 형태를 해외파트너와 해외자회사 형태로 분류하여 분석하였다. 두 유형 보두에서 우리나라 국제물류주선업체들은 주로 극동 및 동남아시아 지역에 집중하여 해외에 진출하고 있으며, 해외파트너쉽에서는 만족도가 매우 높은 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 해외자회사 형태에서는 아직 초기 단계로 다양한 지역에서 해외자회사 수사 그리 많지 않은 실정이며, 본사의 주로 가격 경쟁력 중심으로 사업을 운영하고 있으며, 성과 및 만족도가 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 국제물류주선업체의 해외진출 성공전략으로 물류 서비스 특화, 중소 물류업체 간 협업체제 구축, 적합한 국제물류 전문 인력의 확보 육성 그리고 화주-물류동반 진출 등의 전략을 제시하였다. 본 연구는 우리나라 국제물류주선업체의 해외 진출 실태조사를 통해 해외 진출의 정도와 성과를 객관적으로 측정 및 평가하였다는 데 의의가 있다. 또한 실태조사 결과와 해외진출의 SWOT분석을 통해 실제적인 해외진출 전략방안을 제시함으로써, 우리나라 국제물류주선업의 글로벌 경쟁력 제고에 기여할 것으로 생각된다.
경쟁이 심화되는 글로벌 방산수출환경은 다양한 비정형적 데이터의 체계적인 분석을 통해 수출목표국가에 대한 수출유망분야를 선정한 후 수출방향에 대한 전략적 맞춤화가 필요한 시점이다. 이에 본 연구는 방산수출품목 시장확대를 목적으로 수출목표국가를 독일, 영국, 프랑스로 선정하고 해당국가별 향후 10년간 무기체계 획득계획에 대한 비정형 예측 데이터를 확보하고자 하였다. 이후 텍스트 마이닝 분석 중 TF-IDF 기법을 활용하여 3개국의 데에터에서 자주 등장하는 핵심어를 도출하고자 하였다. 분석결과, 각 국의 주요 획득사업에 대한 핵심어를 도출할 수 있었고 이를 토대로 3국의 공통적 획득계획이 있는 핵심어를 유사한 의미로 분류하여 현 시점의 방산수출에 대한 유망수출품목을 발굴할 수 있었다.
Franchising is one of the fastest growing types of business. It is already popular and well-known in the U.S., and has been growing in many other countries including Korea. Furthermore, many Korean franchising companies have expanded their business overseas actively. According to the data by the Ministry of Industry and Resource, 82 companies out of a sample of 500 franchising companies are already operating in many foreign countries and 48% of them have started their foreign business since 2006. This clearly indicates the fast growing current trend of foreign operation by Korean franchising companies. In spite of the fast growing trend of foreign expansion in the industry, academic research on internationalization of franchising companies is extremely difficult to find. Accordingly, academic research on the issue is necessary and urgent in Korea. Among the various research questions on internationalization of franchising business, this study intends to investigate the difference in organizational factors between the franchising companies doing foreign operation and those doing business only domestically. More specifically, this research has the following purposes. First, considering the lack of theoretical basis of previous studies, resource-based theory and agency theory are employed as the theoretical bases. Second, this study explains the difference in internationalization based on organizational factors such as company size, history and growth rate. Third, the five hypotheses regarding the difference in organizational factors are presented and tested empirically, which is the first attempt in the area of this topic. Finally, the study attempts to clarify the conflicting implications among theories regarding some organizational factos such as growth rate. As the theoretical background, resource-based theory and agency theory are discussed. According to resource-based theory, a firm can grow continuously when it has competence and resource, and also the ability to develop them. The competence and resource can include capital, human resource, management skill, market information, ability to manage risk, etc. Meanwhile, agency theory views the relationship between franchisor and franchisee as an agency relationship. In agency theory, bonding capability and monitoring capability are the two key factors which promote internationalization of franchising companies. Based on the two theories, a conceptual model is designed. The model consists of two groups of variables. One is organizational factors including size, history, growth rate, price bonding and geographic dispersion. The other is whether a franchising company is operating overseas or not. We developed the following five research hypotheses basically describing the relationship between organizational factors and internationalization of franchising companies. H1: The size of franchising companies operating overseas is larger than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H2: The history of franchising companies operating overseas is longer than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H3: The growth rate of franchising companies operating overseas is higher than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H4: The price bonding of franchising companies operating overseas is higher than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H5: The geographic dispersion of franchising companies operating overseas is wider than that of franchising companies operating domestically. Data for the analyses are obtained from 2005 Korea Franchise Survey data co-generated by Ministry of Industry and Resource, GS1 Korea, and Korea Franchise Association. Out of 2,804 population companies, 2,489 companies are excluded for various reasons and 315 companies are selected as the final sample. Prior to hypotheses tests, validity and reliability of the measures of size, history, growth rate and price bonding are examined for further analyses. Geographic dispersion is not validated since it is measured using nominal data. A series of independent sample T-tests is used to find out whether there exists any significant difference between the companies internationalized and those operating only domestically for each organizational factor. Among the five factors, size and geographic dispersion show significant difference, growth rate and price bonding do not reveal any difference and, finally, history factor shows conflicting results in the difference depending on how to measure it.