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Security and Hacking on Wireless Networking for Small and Medium Business: Survey (중소기업형 무선 네트워크의 해킹과 보안)

  • Shin, Pan-Seop;Kim, Jeong-Min
    • Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2014
  • Wireless network is convenient as compared to the wire, and it is also easy. Therefore, SMEs in the country is the trend that many SMEs prefer the radio using a lot of radio as an extension of the wired network modification felt the burden of fixed installations. Wireless networks are vulnerable to security together than a wired network, since it passes the packet through the broadcasting. Therefore, analyzing the vulnerability of wireless networks, and proposes countermeasures about wireless network security in small and medium-sized businesses.

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Customized ERP System: An Alternative Solution for Small and Medium Business Firms

  • Kim, Gyu-C.;Kim, Sang-W.
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.287-298
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    • 2010
  • As business needs are accelerating exponentially due to globalization and other market forces, companies regardless of its size need data which can operate flexibly and rapidly across disappearing physical and organizational borders. To meet the growing Enterprise Resource Planning [ERP] needs for small and medium sized firms, large ERP vendors have introduced new and inexpensive products to these markets. They can customize to businesses of all sizes as long as they have the need for the services and the budget to support the system. Based on the observations in this research, most ERP vendors, regardless of their size, are now focusing more on improving the implementation curve and reporting capabilities through compartmentalizing business applications along industry verticals. Also ERP systems are becoming more open thereby consultants and subject matter experts now have the opportunity to create modules based upon verticals to form a best-of-breed ERP implementation. of enterprises.

The Satisfaction of the Students, Teachers, and Smaller businesses who participate in the 「Apprenticeship」 (「도제학교」에 참여하는 학생, 교사, 중소기업의 만족도)

  • Kim, Su won;Kim, Moon Seup;Kim, Jin Sook
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.177-183
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the satisfaction of students, teachers, and smaller businesses who participate in the apprenticeship. To get answers, it analyzed students and teachers in 4 technical high schools in Daegu city and 4 technical high schools in small and midium sized city in Gyeongsangbuk-do province, and analyzed field teachers and people in charge in the smaller businesses which entered into the program. This study results are as follows. First, It is shown that participation in apprenticeship school is helpful for emplyment and that apprenticeship system is helpful for student's career choice because the respondents who are willing to make aggressive invitation to juniors are high. Second, Satisfaction with teachers was company discovery to be difficult, but the need for the system was relatively positively evaluated. Third, when it comes to the satisfaction of the smaller businesses, The participating companies's matter of primary concern is continuous business growth and they have will to participate in the apprenticeship program depending on the demand for manpower.

A Study on Improvement Direction for Construction Environment of Small Houses -Focused on Expert Group- (소형주택의 건설 프로세스 개선방향에 관한 연구 -전문가 집단을 중심으로-)

  • Ha, Jun-Geun;Yoo, Seok-Hyung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.388-400
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    • 2018
  • Small houses are continuously supplied after the alleviated housing act enacted in 2009. This study aimed to conduct a survey among an expert group associated with small house construction, propose problems by discovering difficulties and vulnerable points small and medium-sized construction companies experience while launching construction works as well as factors that impede the safety and housing environment of small houses. Furthermore, it ultimately intends to propose improvements. First, low-priced order is a major cause of unreasonable contract. Most companies were found to have low-priced orders in order to manage order performance. Low bidding and low-priced order are implemented to maintain construction businesses, ultimately threatening the safety environment of buildings. In addition, it is assumed that moderate bid periods and construction periods should be guaranteed. Second, work standardization for small and medium-sized companies is needed due to numerous cases that failed to meet order process. Additionally, regular instruction is required as many employees are not fully aware of relevant contents. Third, the most urgent policy direction turned out avoidance of low-priced bidding and removing insolvent enterprises from the market. Small and medium-sized construction companies that primarily build small houses undergo poor work condition. Therefore, the safety environment of small houses should be enhanced through work standardization and avoiding low-priced order.

An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the Introduction of Korean equivalents of International Financial Reporting Standards (K-IFRSs) (한국채택국제회계기준(K-IFRS) 도입이 건설업체에 미치는 영향에 대한 실증분석)

  • Jang, Sewoong
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.104-111
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    • 2014
  • Due to the structure of advanced installment sales of houses which is a construction industrial structure unique to Korea and the Project Financing (PF) project structure that includes construction companies' debt guarantee agreements, the changes in accounting methods resulting from the introduction of K-IFRSs are expected to act in a direction to deteriorate construction businesses' financial statements. Therefore, K-IFRSs are an important issue that can seriously affect the entire domestic construction industry and construction businesses are conceiving strategies to respond to the introduction of K-IFRSs. From this viewpoint, this study was intended to empirically analyze the effect of the introduction of K-IFRSs on construction businesses utilizing financial data applied with the K-IFRSs recently announced. In the analysis, the EDFs were calculated by business using the existing accounting standards GAAP and using K-IFRSs and the results were compared with each other. The results of the analysis indicated that most construction businesses were adversely affected by the introduction of K-IFRSs. It is also considered that businesses with relatively good financial statements under the existing accounting standards GAAP would be affected more by the introduction of K-IFRSs than other businesses. In addition, the introduction of K-IFRSs is expected to have larger effects on large construction businesses that have been providing debt guarantees for PF projects than on small or medium sized construction businesses.

CEO's Discovery Competency for New Business Opportunity, Competitive Strategy, and Firm's Performance (경영자의 신사업기회 발견능력과 경쟁전략이 기업성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Seung Ho;Kim, Dae Geun
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.121-130
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    • 2016
  • Amidst a competitive environment, success and innovation of a company hinge on establishment of competitive strategies through CEO's capabilities for discovering new businesses. In other words, several alternatives that are being considered as new businesses and the ensuing selection that a top management makes lead to a company's success and innovation. Examples of this are numerous among global corporations as well as Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This research has analyzed the role of a CEO to be a condition for success in the growth and innovation of a company. Starting from the topic of entrepreneurship, the research on the role of a CEO has been actively conducted in context with the latest innovations. A prime example involves research related to the innovativeness of a CEO. In this regard, this research was an empirical analysis on the impact that a CEO's ability to discover new business opportunities and competitive strategies has on the performance of a firm. This analysis was conducted based on nationwide data of 286 large conglomerates and smaller-sized companies alike. Based on the analysis, "experimenting" and "association", among abilities of discovery, have been found to strengthen competitive strategies. Also in the context of abilities needed for discovery, differentiation strategy has a greater effect on a firm's performance than the cost leadership strategy. Furthermore, the mediating effect of competitive strategies was prominently displayed in experimenting and corporate performance.

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Effect of Employer's Justice in Digital Content Company on Their Turn-Over Intention, Through Organizational Commitment (디지털 콘텐츠 제작 기업 조직원의 조직공정성이 조직몰입을 통해 이직의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Jang, SunYean;Hwang, Changyu
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.225-239
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    • 2019
  • Together with the emergence of Information and Communications Technology(ICT) and 4th Industrial Revolution, digital content is arising as a front-runner in the knowledge society. 21 century opened up an era of digital and cultural content, which is the industry to generating added values from future industries. This study aims to empirically examine the casual relation between three factors from Organizational Justice Theory Distributive, Procedural, Interactional Justices, and turnover intention through Organizational Immersion. A sample group for the analysis was employees at small/medium-sized digital content businesses with less than 60 workers. 200 questionnaires were distributed to the group for a week from July 22 to 28, 2019. 154 responses were collected and analyzed in this study, after eliminating 4 poor responses. The result of the study on Organizational Justice at digital content businesses showed that, first, Distributive Justice of the employees showed a positive influence on Organizational Immersion. Second, the employees' Procedural Justice showed a positive influence on Organizational Immersion. Third, the employee' Interactional Justice showed a positive influence on Organizational Immersion. Fourth, the employees' Organizational Immersion showed a positive influence on their turnover intention.

The Determinants of e-Trade Utilization and Its Impact on Exporter Performance in Korean SMEs

  • KIM, Byoung-Goo
    • East Asian Journal of Business Economics (EAJBE)
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.41-55
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    • 2020
  • Purpose - This paper tries to analyze the factors affecting the utilization of electronic trade of small and medium enterprises and examine how these factors affect the performance of small and medium enterprises. In addition, the leading factors affecting the level of e-trade utilization of small businesses were analyzed by dividing them into external environmental factors affecting the external business and internal resources of the companies themselves Research design, data, and methodology - With a sample of 223 small and medium-sized export firms from South Korea, this study investigates the antecedents of the utilization level of e-Trade such as information exchange, innovation orientation, absorptive capacity and trust by hierarchical regression analysis. Results - The results show that innovation orientation was shown to have a positive effect on e-trade utilization and absorptive capacity has a positive effect on e-trade utilization. Also, information exchange with stakeholders has a positive impact on e-trade utilization. Conclusions - Internal and external factors of companies have a positive effect on the utilization of e-trade. It also showed that the increased utilization of electronic trade had a positive effect on trade performance. Thus, the findings provide policy-makers with implications of the importance of activating e-trade, and furthermore, significant implications for exporter performance.

A study on the efficient supporting methods for small and medium businesses of mobile sector (모바일 분야 중소기업에 대한 효율적 지원 방안 연구)

  • Ahn, Jong-Chang;Lee, Dong-Han;Jung, Gag-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.192-201
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    • 2018
  • This study intends to find efficient support methods for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) especially in the increasingly important mobile sector. We investigated regarding perceptions of mobile sector-specific support programs and their current state of usage, and perceptions of the new mobile market and the present conditions of each stage of production based on analysis of a survey that included 204 respondents in each SMB to achieve this goal. Concretely, detections through this research were the reasons for non-selection of support businesses, the future prospective mobile business area, the company's own first-preference item and the reason for the preference, plus new mobile areas of willingness to apply the company's own product and its own first-preference item, and the reason for the preference. In addition, we found out covering costs and revenue size of the maximum-revenue product for each stage (from the first to the fourth stage), the kind of a product's execution method connected to the product (e.g. self-production, outsourcing to another company to produce a product), and the execution method for pre-products. We can suggest a policy regarding efficient support alternatives for SMBs related to the mobile sector thanks to these findings.

Causal Links from Innovative Activities to Financial Performance in Korean Manufacturing Firms: Mediating Effects of Innovative and Operational Performance (한국 제조업에서 혁신활동과 재무적 성과 간의 인과경로: 혁신성과 및 운영성과의 매개효과를 중심으로)

  • Kim, KonShik
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.146-173
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    • 2014
  • Extant studies have explained that firm's innovations including technological product and process innovations contribute to its competitive advantage and growth, thereby supporting competitiveness and growth of industry. These studies, however, have focused mainly on the role and effect of technological change that is primarily measured by the patent numbers and R&D intensity. Aside from these traditional streams, there has been growing interest on the impact by various dimensions of innovation including non-technological innovations. Apart from the discussions on the dimensions and scope of innovation, stages or processes of innovation also have been studied. Extant studies on innovation process model, however, has limited its interests in the structure of the transformation of knowledge. This study have established a comprehensive model embracing operational and financial performance to investigate the causal paths between innovation and firm performance. Using multi-level generalized linear model with path analysis, this study have found results as follows: First, the processes from innovative activities to innovation output and outcomes including operational and financial performance at firm level were verified. Secondly, the influence of innovation decreases gradually as the distance away from the direct outputs of the innovation increase in the direction of financial outcomes. Third, the effect of innovation on the sales growth rate is higher for small businesses than for medium-sized businesses. The effect of innovation on the profit rate, however, is significant only for medium-sized businesses. For large businesses, innovation has no positive significant impact on any financial performance at all. Fourth, Fourth, the appropriability of innovation has positive impacts on innovative performance, patent applications, and operational performance.