• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.246-260
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• 2023

With the advent of COVID-19, the world economy has undergone enormous losses and unprecedented crises. Moreover, this pandemic has put a significant effect on all business organizations, comprising the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sector. MSMEs have been continuing to develop business strategies and are eager to compete in the market. The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the full focus of MSMEs from 'business growth' to 'business survival' worldwide. E-commerce readiness plays a crucial role in a time of uncertainty and crisis during COVID-19 and affects the durability and sustainability of the business. This study attempts to study the readiness of online business and "E-commerce" adoption of MSMEs and its contribution to economic growth by utilizing both qualitative and quantitative techniques in the case of India. We use content analysis to determine the readiness of online business and Ecommerce in the post COVID-19 period. The result highlights the specific issues of this sector such as the shortage of resources and disruptions in the supply chain & logistical issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative analysis discloses that almost half of the respondents adopt online platforms along with additional challenges to sustain their business during the pandemic. This study utilizes annual time series data for the period from 1973-74 to 2017-18 to understand the long-run relationship between India's GDP and MSMEs units. By utilizing the co-integration technique, this study reveals that there is a long-run relationship between MSME units and the economic growth of this country.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.181-192
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• 1999

Our government has been continuously making an effort to improve safety management and prevent accidents in small-to-medium sized enterprises, but the accidents are still happening. Since there hasn't been a study on the actual state of safety management for the munitions manufacturing industry so far, this paper aims to investigate and analyze the actual state of the munitions manufacturing companies in Kyung-In area and it also shows the countermeasures of improvement.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.285-305
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• 2015

창의성과 기업가정신을 강조하는 창조경제시대에 살고 있는 한국의 중소기업들은 이들 요인을 간과해서는 안 된다. 특히, 급변하고 불확실한 글로벌 시장에 진출하고 생존하고자 하는 기업들에게 창의성과 기업가정신은 무엇보다 중요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 수출중소기업을 대상으로 창의성과 기업가정신, 그리고 이들 변수들이 국제화에 얼마만큼의 영향을 주는지 실증적으로 알아보고자 한다. 그 결과, 창의성의 하위변인 모두가 기업가정신에 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치고 있어 창의성이 기업가정신의 선행변인임을 알 수 있었다. 더불어, 기업가정신 역시 수출중소기업의 국제화 수준에 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미쳤으며, 기업가정신은 창의성(독창성과 유창성)과 국제화 수준 간의 관계를 부분적으로 매개하고 있었다. 이러한 결과는 국제화 수준을 결정하는 기업가정신을 고취시키는데 창의성이 반드시 선행되어야 하며, 기업가정신을 통해서 국제화 수준이 향상된다는 점을 시시하고 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.747-763
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• 2018

Information Technology (IT) plays an increasingly important role for small and medium-sized enterprises. It has become fundamental for these companies to protect information and IT assets in relation to risks and threats that have grown in recent years. This study aims to understand the importance and structure of an information security policy, using a quantitative study that intends to identify the most important and least relevant elements of an information security policy document. The findings of this study reveal that the top three most important elements in the structure of a security policy are the asset management, security risk management and define the scope of the policy. On the other side, the three least relevant elements include the executive summary, contacts and manual inspection. Additionally, the study reveals that the importance given to each element of the security policy is slightly changed according to the sectors of activity. The elements that show the greatest variability are the review process, executive summary and penalties. On the other side, the purpose of the policy and the asset management present a stable importance for all sectors of activity.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.105-117
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• 2020

The "New Korean Wave" (Shin Hallyu) phenomenon, which is represented by the global popularity of BTS and director Bong Joon-ho's film "Parasite," is making the world excited. The influence of the Korean Wave is not only on politics, society, and culture, but it also has considerable economic ripple effects. We applied individual in-depth interviews with seven media and marketing experts in China to assess the changes in the impact of Korean cultural content (i.e., Hallyu content) and examine the possibility of marketing for Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) products using Hallyu content. Considering its massive market potential, China is still an attractive target for Korean companies and is of even greater importance to SMEs, which are highly dependent on exports and lacking marketing budgets as well as a professional workforce. Korean businesses and the economy at large would get a real boost if they could penetrate the Chinese market by utilizing the strength of Hallyu content. Based on the results of the in-depth interviews, the conclusion of our study suggests the direction of advertising strategy on how Korean products can attract the minds of Chinese consumers by utilizing the Shin Hallyu. This research is a practical study that diagnoses the reality of the Korean Wave in China objectively and has excellent practical implications as it proposes methods of how SMEs should use Hallyu for their marketing strategies.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.176-182
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• 2023

With about 80% of the global economy expected to shift to the global market by 2030, exports of reverse direct purchase products, in which foreign consumers purchase products from online shopping malls in Korea, are growing 55% annually. As of 2021, sales of reverse direct purchases in South Korea increased 50.6% from the previous year, surpassing 40 million. In order for domestic SMEs(Small and medium sized enterprises) to enter overseas markets, it is important to come up with export strategies based on various market analysis information, but for domestic small and medium-sized sellers, entry barriers are high, such as lack of information on overseas markets and difficulty in selecting local preferred products and determining competitive sales prices. This study develops an AI-based product recommendation and sales price estimation model to collect and analyze global shopping malls and product trends to provide marketing information that presents promising and appropriate product sales prices to small and medium-sized sellers who have difficulty collecting global market information. The product recommendation model is based on the LTR (Learning To Rank) methodology. As a result of comparing performance with nDCG, the Pair-wise-based XGBoost-LambdaMART Model was measured to be excellent. The sales price estimation model uses a regression algorithm. According to the R-Squared value, the Light Gradient Boosting Machine performs best in this model.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.95-109
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• 2010

The objectives of this study are to identify the survival function (hazard function) of small and medium enterprises by using technology rating data for the companies guaranteed by Korea Technology Finance Corporation (KOTEC), and to figure out the factors that affects their survival. To serve the purposes, this study uses Kaplan-Meier Analysis as a non-parametric method and Cox proportional hazards model as a semi-parametric one. The 17,396 guaranteed companies that assessed from July 1st in 2005 to December 31st in 2009 are selected as samples (16,504 censored data and 829 accident data). The survival time is computed with random censoring (Type III) from July in 2005 as a starting point. The results of the analysis show that Kaplan-Meier Analysis and Cox proportional hazards model are able to readily estimate survival and hazard function and to perform comparative study among group variables such as industry and technology rating level. In particular, Cox proportional hazards model is recognized that it is useful to understand which technology rating items are meaningful to company's survival and how much they affect it. It is considered that these results will provide valuable knowledge for practitioners to find and manage the significant items for survival of the guaranteed companies through future technology rating.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.11-20
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• 2022

본 연구에 목적은 중소기업 고용주의 윤리적 리더십이 직무만족에 미치는 영향을 파악하고, 이들의 관계에서 조직공정성의 매개효과를 파악하기 위함이다. 연구는 서울, 경기도 북부권역의 중소기업 직원 508명을 대상으로 온라인 설문을 실시하고 분석을 진행했다. 연구결과 첫째, 중소기업 고용주의 윤리적 리더십이 높을수록 직무만족이 높게 나타났다. 둘째, 중소기업 고용주의 윤리적 리더십이 높을수록 조직공정성이 높게 나타났다. 셋째, 중소기업 고용주의 윤리적 리더십이 직무만족에 미치는 영향에서 조직공정성의 부분매개효과를 확인했다. 따라서 중소기업 직원들의 직무만족과 조직공정성 증진을 위한 중소기업 고용주의 윤리적 리더십 역량강화 방안이 필요하다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.255-264
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• 2020

The fourth industrial revolution has attracted much academic attention in these past few years. However, research on systematic and extensive factors affecting adoption of Industry 4.0 by SMEs in developing countries, especially in Vietnam, has been unavailable. This study aims to explore the impact of factors that influence the actual adoption of Industry 4.0 by SMEs in Ho Chi Minh City. Mixed-method research was utilized in this study including in-depth interviews of 12 participants and quantitative research of 396 respondents who are representative of SMEs by both online and via paper surveys. The SPSS and SmartPLS 3 software were employed to help analyze the collected data. The results indicate that perceived development of the human resource, perceived on-time, perceived saving cost, perceived improve product quality, perceived saving time, perceived ease-of-use, business resources, and conditions of the business environment, perceived usefulness, perceived enhanced customer relationship, and adoption intention, all have a positive significant effect on actual adoption of Industry 4.0. The results seem to suggest that managerial efforts aimed at increasing the factors' perceptions of adoption of Industry 4.0 and personal relevance of the technology will contribute to implementation success, where success is defined as effectual usage of the Industry 4.0.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.133-150
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• 2017

국내외 시장 환경의 변화가 심화되고 제품의 수명주기가 짧아지는 시대적인 변화를 감안할 때, 차별적인 기술혁신역량을 확보하는 것은 기업의 생존을 결정짓는 매우 중요한 요인이 된다. 본 연구에서는 중소기업의기술혁신의 성과를 단기적측면의 기술혁신성과와 장기적측면의 기술혁신 양면성으로 구분하여, 이러한 성과에 영향을 미치는 동적역량의 매개효과를 연구하고자 한다. 실증분석을 위해 국내 전기, 전자, IT, 바이오 등 연구개발을 수반하는 업종의 중소기업 219개를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였고, 동적역량이 기술혁신성과와 탐험적 혁신과 활용적 혁신을 포함하는 기술혁신 양면성의 매개효과 검증을 위해 병렬다중매개분석을 수행하였다. 본 연구를 통해 국내 중소기업의 다차원적 특성이 동적역량 결정과정에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 확인하고, 성공적인 기술혁신을 위한 기업의 동적역량 관리 방안에 대한 시사점을 제시함으로써 동적역량에 대한 이해를 높이고 국내 중소기업 경영자들의 실무에 도움을 주고자 한다.