• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.277-295
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• 2005

The objective of the study is to verify the discriminatory power of valuation indexes in predicting IT small and medium sized manufacturing firms' going concern or firms' failure. The result of the study is expected to be useful in loan evaluation, investment decision, internal management decision making and business improvement. The results of study is as follows. First, we find that at least six valuation index elements are significant ex-ante variable which are discriminating between firms' going concern and firms' failure in IT small and medium sized manufacturing firms in various analysis' results. Second, these index elements are composed of 2 indexes-the ability of technology R&D, the efficient strategy of market penetration and six index elements explain 46% of the total variance. This explainable power of these indexed is similar to that of the existing 16 index elements. Finally, we find that the most important success factor of IT small and medium sized manufacturing firms are the ability of technology R&D and the efficient strategy of market penetration.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2018

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of non-bank depository institutions (non-bank financial corporations) lending to firms. The paper aims to contribute to the existing literature by providing empirical evidence from firm-level data and unveiling factors related to access to non-bank financial corporations by firms. Research design, data, and methodology - We used the data on borrowing by firms from CRETOP from years 2008 to 2011. Using the manufacturing industry, we examined what firm-level characteristics explained the increase in borrowing from non-bank financial corporations rather than the banks. Results - Analyzing the firm-level data from 2008 to 2011, we found that firms were more likely to borrow from non-bank financial insti­tutions as the size of the firm increases, implying that large firms have more access to non-bank financing than small and medium-sized firms. In addition, it also showed that small and medium-sized firms moved to non-bank financial corporations for loans. Conclusion - Non-bank depository institutions are not a sub­stitute for bank lending to firms. More specifically, they replace bank lending to firms mostly for large firms rather than small and medium-sized firms. Also, collateral and other firm-level characteristics do not matter in accounting for non-bank lending to firms.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.186-218
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• 1995

The necessity of installing well adaptable Information Systems are required day by day in all the fields of business management. This paper provides an Information System development for enhancing competitive power of the small and medium-sized firms in Korea. Recent growing Information Technology leads to constructing invisibly some new adaptable Information Systems in accordance with the business size, level, capacity and requirements. Even though some advanced companies and big enterprises are already operating their own appropriate Information Systems so as to get their remarkable productivity at a moment. The rest of those small firms are still trying to find out some proper systems fitting their own business in very poor situations. The basic requirements of the points of views by mail questionaired and interviewed from 1292 small and medium-sized manufacturing firms reflected on this Information System development. As a result, the study introduces some economically efficient, convinient, flexible and useful applied Information Systems with simple methods.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.546-575
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• 2017

이 연구는 정부의 연구개발(R&D) 지원이 중견기업의 연구개발 투자에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 중견기업 표본과 이에 대응되는 중소기업 표본을 대상으로 하여 패널 데이터를 수집하여 DID(difference-in-differences) 회귀분석 방법을 이용하여 정부 지원의 효과를 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과에 따르면, 정부의 연구개발 지원은 중견 중소기업의 연구개발 순투자를 전반적으로 증가시켰다. 중견기업과 중소기업을 비교해 보면, 정부의 연구개발 지원이 기업 연구개발 투자를 촉진하는 효과는 중소기업에 비해 중견기업에서 더 크게 나타났으며, 중소기업에서는 유의한 영향을 미치지 못하였다. 또한 규모에 따라서 중견기업을 구분해 보면, 상대적으로 규모가 작은 초기 중견기업 표본에서 정부지원이 기업 연구개발 투자를 촉진하는 효과가 더 크고 유의하였다. 기술역량에 따라서 중견기업을 구분해 보면, 상대적으로 기술역량이 우수한 기업 표본에서 정부연구개발사업 참여에 따른 보조금이 기업 연구개발 투자를 촉진하는 효과가 더 강하게 나타난 반면 기술역량이 낮은 기업 표본에서 조세 지원이 기업 연구개발 투자를 촉진하는 효과가 더 강하게 나타났다. 연구의 결과는 중견기업의 혁신을 지속적으로 촉진하기 위한 정부의 연구개발 정책 및 관련 지원 사업이 필요하며, 중견기업의 기업규모, 기술역량, 성장잠재력을 감안하여 정책을 신중하게 수립하고 실행해야 함을 시사한다.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2018

Purpose - For small and medium sized firms, CEO characteristics are main factor influencing firms' prosperity as well as performance. So it is quite natural that many people are interested in factors of CEO that matters. In this research, CEO characteristics in terms of capabilities and skill or special knowledge necessary to run the business are invested for manufacturing firms. Precedent studies reveal that CEO characteristics such as psychological factors including desire to succeed, tendency to take risks, personal factors including age, year of running business, and task related factors including managing capability, communication skills, network influence firm performance for manufacturing firms. However, these studies simply verify whether or not those factors affect firm's managing performance. This study, however, goes further to investigate how is the affecting process from CEO's capabilities and organization characteristics to firm's core competence, and from core competence to advantages, and from advantages to managing performance. Research design, data, and methodology - We make a questionnaire and surveyed manufacturing firm CEO's in Gyeonggi-do area. General characteristics analysis, factor analysis, regression analysis, and control effect analysis was conducted. SPSS 2.0 Win, version was used. Results - The CEO characteristics including basic capability, task capability, leadership, and organization characteristics affect core competence at the statistically significant level. And, core competence affect both price advantage and differentiation advantage at the significant level. Some unique finding is that while differentiation advantage affects both financial achievement and non-financial achievement, price advantage does not affect both financial and non-financial achievement. And firm characteristics mainly measured by CEO characteristics of skills has control effects on the trace from core competence to price advantage. Conclusions - For small and medium sized firms CEO characteristics is the most important factor influencing firm's prosperity. For manufacturing firms, whether CEO has the skill or special knowledge to run the firm is critical factor. The study results show that CEO's for manufacturing firms put importance on price and price advantage which seems to be familiar to them. However, the price advantage does not influential to financial and non-financial achievement. This result suggests that small and medium sized manufacturing firms' CEO's should make effort to improve other aspects of advantages to be more competitive.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.149-172
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• 2009

Service industries nowadays have become the subject of a scientific research. However, unlike research on manufacturing, there has not yet been a broader presentation of important aspects theoretically and methodologically. The importance of service sector in both national and global economies has grown significantly. An active participation of service industries in the internationalization process, notably by licensing and FDI, has occurred over time. But a few sub-sectors still dominate on this process, for example, financial institutions such as banks, securities, and insurance as well as producer services in advertising and accounting. On the other hand, personal services that are owned by small- and medium- sized firm have limited capabilities in their transnational transfer. This paper attempts to examine various factors influencing decisions for these small- and medium- sized Korean beauty firms in entering to the foreign markets. Determining factors for these firms in the engagement of internationalization depends largely on competitive advantages in both domestic and host countries, and they may be different from those in the sub-sectors mentioned above. Based on previous researches, i identified three categories of independent variables(characteristics of firms, managers, and competition) that can influence decisions to enter to the foreign markets. Seven hypotheses have been tested by using a sample of beauty firms in Daegu city and Kyungbuk province. The results show that the intention of these firms to enter to the foreign markets is significantly influenced by the factors of the innovative character of CEO's, the competitiveness of firms, and size of firms.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.19-36
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• 1996

본 연구는 주변 농촌지역인 전남지역에서 제조업의 존립기반과 입지적 특성을 고찰하였다. 먼저 제조업 입지에 관한 이론적 논외를 검토하여 주변지역에서의 입지특성을 파악하고, 전남지역의 공간적 선행성을 분석한 후 중소기업과 독점적 대기업으로 구분하여 각각 입지적 존립 특성을 확인하였다. 전남지역은 1차산업의 비중이 놀은 농수산업지역이다. 식민지 시기에는 농업에 대한 수탈이 심하여 지역자본이 축적되지 못한 곳이며, 공업화 시대에는 수도권 및 미 일 중심의 지리적 축에서 벗어나 개발이 정체되었던 곳이다. 따라서 영세한 토착성 기업이 제조업의 주류를 이루고 있으며, 자본집약적인 소수 대기업이 독점적 산업공간을 형성하고 있다. 영세한 토착기업은 농수산물과 지역시장에 기반하여 존립하고 있다. 농수산물 식품가공업과 건축자재의 비금속업이 대부분을 점하고 있지만 점차 단순한 조립 및 화학업종이 증가하여 업종구조가 다양하게 발전하고 있다. 이러한 현상은 광주시 주변지역으로부터 내륙농촌지역과 해안지역으로 점차 확대되고 있다. 철강, 화학 등 소재생산 중심의 독점적 대기업의 입지는 지역제조업의 발전을 추동하지 못하고, 지역산업과는 폐쇄적으로 독점적 산업공간을 이루고 있으며, 에너지, 용수, 용지의 다수요 제조업으로서 자연환경에 영향을 미치고 있다. 따라서 향후 전남지역은 포드주의적 대량생산 분공장이 제조업 성장을 주도하면서 주변지역의 특성이 재생산 발전될 것으로 전망된다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.173-176
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• 2004

Understanding the fact that more spending for R&D is merely a necessity, not a factor of success, managing technological development efforts effectively and efficiently for higher R&D productivity and sustainable growth has become an important issue for contemporary firms. Based on a survey on small- and medium-sized manufacturing firms, this paper explores the relationships of leadership positions, technological contents and acquisition methods of korean firms. This paper has identified several findings from Korean manufacturing firms: (1) five different patterns are identified in the technology strategy of medium-sized companies; (2) a significantly positive relationship exists between a firm's leadership position and the aggressiveness in technological contents of their acquisition methods; (3) a significantly positive relationship of some technology acquisition methods to the firms' leadership position exists,

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2023

Purpose - This study investigates whether the inventory levels of Korean manufacturing firms increased or decreased from 2000 to 2019. We also explore the relationship between inventory levels and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach - We use panel data on KOSPI-listed firms in the manufacturing industry. We measure days in inventory as a proxy for inventory levels, and firm performance is measured by return on assets, return on sales, and EBITDA ratio. The panel data regression method is employed in our analysis. Findings - We find that days in inventory of Korean manufacturing firms significantly increased from 2000 to 2019, especially for raw materials and finished goods inventory. In addition, while days in inventory of large- and medium-sized firms were less than those of small-sized firms, the change in days in inventory of large- and medium-sized firms was positively significant over time. Moreover, the increase in days in inventory was more prevalent among industries related to foods, clothes, chemicals, and transportation. Finally, we show that the days in inventory are negatively related to firm performance. Research implications or Originality - While the Korean manufacturing industry has enormously grown over the last 20 years and managing inventory is critical in the manufacturing industry, our findings counter-intuitively show that the days in inventory of the Korean manufacturing industry had been gradually increased. We speculate that the increase in days in inventory is due to the Korean manufacturing firms' heavy reliance on global supply chains.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.61-75
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of quality management system requirements, a management innovation technique, on business performance to secure the competitiveness of SMEs in an environment of increasing uncertainty in the global economy and intensifying competition. To this end, a survey was conducted on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating a quality management system, and statistical analysis was performed through validity and reliability analysis, regression analysis, and group analysis using IBM SPSS 26.0. As a result of the study, it was found that planning, operation, support, and improvement, which are the core requirements of a quality management system, have a positive effect on business performance. In addition, through group analysis, it was found that the effect of quality management system requirements on business performance varies according to the level of the company. This means that the importance of quality management requirements required for strategy establishment varies according to the quality management introduction level of small and medium-sized manufacturers, and it can be used for small and medium-sized manufacturers to set strategic directions.