• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.225-237
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• 2021

The current study aims to classify what determines entrepreneurial leadership among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Saudi Arabian context. It also attempted to recognize the role played by entrepreneurial leadership by supporting SMEs in the nation's sustainable economic growth. The study is based on a primary survey administered among SMEs in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia. Overall, 152 responses were collected. However, after data cleaning, only 107 were found to be fit for final analysis. Structural Equation Modelling using SmartPLS® Software was applied for analysis. The findings emerged from the study immensely concluded that entrepreneurial leadership is an essential instrument for managers/owners of the SMEs sector who aim to improve the efficiency of tasks and contextual performance in Saudi Arabia. The study came across that "ability to absorb uncertainty," "ability to build commitment," "the ability to frame the Challenge," "the ability of path-clearing," and "ability to specify limits," are the five constructs that help frame the entrepreneurial leadership in the Saudi context. The study suggests that leadership trainers, SME policymakers must focus on precisely these skills to inculcate the ability of entrepreneurial leadership among Saudi entrepreneurs, SMEs owners, and managers.

• 웰빙융합연구
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.75-89
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• 2024

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of coaching leadership on ESG management performance through employee innovation behavior in the context of SMEs. Amid the lack of ESG-related research on SMEs, this study is significant in that it empirically verified that coaching leadership can contribute to the improvement of ESG performance of SMEs by inducing innovative behavior of employees. For the study, a survey was conducted on 244 employees of domestic SMEs. As a result of the study, it was found that coaching leadership partially had a positive (+) effect on ESG performance. Specifically, direction suggestion and competency development had a positive effect on the environment, social responsibility, and governance structure of ESG performance, but the relationship with performance evaluation did not have a significant effect. In addition, the direction of coaching leadership and competency development had a positive effect on innovation behavior, but performance evaluation was not significant. Innovative behavior had a significant positive (+) effect on all aspects of ESG performance (environment, social responsibility, and governance), and showed a significant mediating effect in the relationship between coaching leadership and ESG performance. This suggests that innovative behavior plays an important role in mediating the relationship between the sub-factors of coaching leadership and ESG performance. The theoretical significance of this study is to support the innovation behavior of members through coaching leadership in the SME field and to identify a path to increase ESG performance as a result. In addition, most previous studies on the relationship between ESG and innovation behavior have shown that innovation behavior is promoted by the influence of ESG, but this study confirmed that innovation behavior of SME members is an important factor in improving ESG performance. These results provided practical and policy implications for promoting ESG performance by leading the use of coaching leadership and innovation behavior in the SME field.

• 무역학회지
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.231-248
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• 2021

This study aims to examine an effective path that links the use of export promotion programs(EPPs) to the export performance of SMEs. In particular, the study focuses on what role the export innovativeness of SMEs plays between EPPs and export performance. In order to verify the conceptual model, the structural equation modeling is applied, using the data collected from a sample of 152 Korean SME exporters. The study highlights the notion that the relationship between the use of EPPs and export performance is not direct and that higher performance can be achieved through export innovativeness, the ability to reconstruct internal resources and to respond quickly to changes in the export market. The results of the empirical analysis show that EPPs partially mediate the relationship between export market-orientation and export innovativeness, and that such mediated export innovativeness continues to fully mediate the relationship between EPPs and export performance. That is, if SMEs make good use of EPPs that meet their needs, they can be encouraged to re-bundle or strengthen their existing resources and capabilities, which in turn lead to higher export performance. The study thus helps extend understanding of EPPs and export performance literature.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.217-231
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• 2018

우리나라의 중소기업은 국가경제의 근간을 이루고 있으며, 고용창출, 기술혁신, 산업의 다양성 등 여러 측면에서 국민경제 발전에 있어서 실질적인 원동력이 되고 있다. 하지만, 대기업에 비해 낮은 생산성과 수익구조 등으로 인해 어려움을 겪고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 중소기업은 기술혁신을 통해서 혁신역량을 확보하는 것이 더욱더 중요해졌으며, 내부자원의 한계로 인해 경영에 필요한 다양한 정보와 여러 가지 도움들을 외부와의 협력과 다양한 네트워크 활동이 필요하다. 더 나아가서 시장기회를 포착하고 조직 성장을 위한 수단들을 찾기 위한 수단으로 기업가 정신 또한 필요하다. 본 연구는 ICT중소기업의 기업 성과에 영향을 미치는 요인에 있어 기업가정신과 기업의 혁신역량이 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 했으며, 사회적 자본이 기업가 정신과 기업 성과 간의 조절역할을 하는지 살펴보고자 1,200개 기업을 대상으로 실증 분석을 했다. 분석 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 기업가 정신은 기업성과에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인됐으며, 사회적 자본 변수가 기업가 정신과 기업성과 간의 조절효과가 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 둘째, 기업의 혁신역량이 기업성과에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 또한 사회적 자본 변수가 조절효과를 한다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 연구 결과를 통해, 혁신역량이 기업성과에 영향을 미치는데 있어서 사회적 자본이 중요한 역할을 하고 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.923-930
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• 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic weakened the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector. The decline in turnover is one that is felt by the batik industry in East Java, and the decline in turnover in the batik industry is very drastic. This research was conducted to prove the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMEs in the batik industry. One model is proposed to prove the existence of an increase in the performance of the batik industry's SMEs by implementing a customer relationship management strategy, business strategy, and market orientation. The study population was the batik industry entrepreneurs in East Java, Indonesia, using SEM analysis based on Amos, purposive sampling method, and a sample of 180 respondents. The results showed that the model was accepted. The results also show that customer relationship management and business strategy contributed to the performance of SMEs, while market orientation did not contribute to the performance of SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic. To be able to maintain the sustainability of the company, the steps taken by the company are to lay off some of the employees, and during the production period the production stops, and focus on selling goods that have been previously produced.

• 동아시아경상학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2023

Purpose - This research paper aims to examine the impact of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and government support programs (GSP) on new product performance in Korean Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). We specifically focus on the interaction between these two factors and their influence on the new product performance of Korean SMEs. Research design, data, and methodology - We collected survey questionnaires from SMEs that are certified with Inno-biz by the Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS 26 and AMOS to create an integrated model. Result - Based on the analysis, our findings indicate that the proactiveness and innovativeness dimensions of EO have a positive effect on new product performance. However, the risk-taking dimension of EO has a negative effect. Additionally, GSP exhibit both positive and negative moderating effects on different dimensions of EO. Conclusion - It is important to recognize that GSP are not a universal solution for all challenges faced by SMEs. Hence, it is crucial for policy-makers to have a clear understanding of SMEs' capabilities and the level of EO dimensions in order to identify types of GSP that could lead to positive outcomes, while minimizing the negative effects of GSP.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.123-150
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• 2015

본 연구는 중소기업의 정부 수출지원 프로그램 활용도, 기업의 마케팅 역량과 기술역량, 재무적, 전략적 성과 간의 관계에 미치는 기업유형(산업재, 소비재)의 조절효과에 대해 살펴보았다. 연구가설을 검증하기 위해 설문조사를 실시하였고 사용가능한 산업재 수출중소기업 246개와 소비재 수출중소기업 137개의 설문지를 수집하였다. 조절회귀분석에 대한 연구결과로는 산업재 중소기업의 정부 수출지원 프로그램 활용도가 기업의 재무적 성과에 미치는 정적인 영향이 소비재 중소기업에 비해 유의하게 높았다. 그러나 두 유형의 중소기업 모두에 대해 정부지원 프로그램 활용도는 전략적 성과에 아무런 영향을 미치지 않았다. 한편 두 기업유형에 대해 마케팅과 기술역량 모두가 재무적, 전략적 성과에 유의한 정의 영향을 미쳤으나, 소비재 중소기업의 마케팅 역량이 재무성과에 미치는 영향이 산업재 기업에 비해 통계적으로 유의하게 높았으며, 산업재 중소기업의 기술역량이 재무성과에 미치는 영향이 소비재 기업에 비해 유의하게 높았다. 본 연구결과를 바탕으로 실무적 제언과 향후 연구에 대해 논의하였다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.70-79
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• 2019

Domestic SMEs play a key role in production and employment, accounting for 98.9% of total enterprises, 74.4% of employment, 50.8% of production, and 49.0% of value added (as of 2016). However, they are faced with difficulties of survival because of continuous decrease in profitability, shortage of funds and manpower, insufficient accumulation of technology, minimum wage increase, and 52-hour workweek. In order for SMEs to continue to develop in such a difficult environment, we must constantly innovate our organization by making full use of our knowledge, information, experience and ability. To do this, CEO (management) leadership is very important to ensure that the best people are focused on the organizational innovation and management performance without moving the company. In this study, we wanted to establish empirically how the newly emerging compassionate rationalism leadership of SMEs business managers affected the innovation activities and management performance of companies. Research has shown that management's compassionate rationalism leadership has a positive and significant causal relationship with the innovation activities and management performance of the enterprise. Therefore, SMEs managers need to learn the bottom eight strategic factors of compassionate rationalism leadership and use them strategically to make efforts to create positive emotions for the organization so that members can be immersed in innovative activities and management performance creation.

• 무역학회지
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.41-62
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• 2016

본 연구는 메가 FTA의 중요성이 증가하고 있는 오늘날의 통상환경 하에서 광주·전남지역 중소기업의 기 체결 FTA 활용성과와 FTA 학습지향성이 한·중·일 FTA 활용의지에 미치는 영향을 실증분석 하고 있다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 기 체결 FTA 활용성과는 한·중·일 FTA 활용의지에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, FTA 학습지향성은 한·중·일 FTA 활용의지에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 향후 체결예정인 한·중·일 FTA의 활용의지에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 요인들을 실증분석하고 있다는 점에서 본 연구의 결과들은 향후 한·중·일 FTA 관련 정책 수립 시 의미 있고 유용한 실무적 시사점을 제시할 수 있을 것이다.

• 무역학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.107-125
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• 2018

본 연구는 수출 중소기업을 대상으로 개방형혁신과 제휴 유형이 수출성과에 영향을 미치는 경로를 분석하였다. 기존 연구에 따라 개방형혁신은 기술흡수형혁신과 기술활용형혁신으로 나누었다. 제휴 유형은 마케팅과 기술 제휴로 나누었다. 수출성과를 포함하여 5개 잠재변인 간에 6개의 가설을 설정하였다. 수출활동을 전개하는 중소기업 202개를 표본으로 실증분석을 시행하였다. 분석결과 기술흡수형혁신은 마케팅 제휴와 기술 제휴에 모두 유의한 영향을 주었다. 반면 기술활용형혁신은 기술 제휴에만 유의한 효과를 보였다. 제휴 유형은 수출성과에 모두 긍정적 영향을 보여주었다. 이로써 한국 중소기업의 수출활동에 개방형 혁신과 유통경로 확보 등에 필요한 마케팅 제휴의 관계를 활성화해야 함을 시사점으로 제시했다.