• 제목/요약/키워드: self-employed enterprises

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1인 창조기업의 경영성과에 대한 실증연구 - 관계적 특성을 중심으로 - (An Empirical Study on the Business Performance of the Self-Employed Creative Companies - Focused on the Relational Characteristics-)

  • 육헌영;서종현
    • 대한안전경영과학회지
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    • 제17권3호
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    • pp.297-306
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this thesis is to contribute in establishing the objectives of government policies through an empirical analysis on the relational characteristics surrounding the self-employed creative enterprises under the current circumstances where the specific empirical studies on the self-employed creative enterprises haven't been performed. According to the result of verification, the social capitals such as reliability, reciprocity and network are necessary due to the characteristics possessed by the self-employed creative enterprises while the reliability between cooperative enterprises is created and the cooperative relationship continues when the enterprises are faithful to their intrinsic activities such as the improvement of productivity rather than the entrepreneur spirit. Such win-win cooperation was eventually shown as having a positive effect on the performance of enterprises.

A Descriptive Study of Occupational Health Services in Self-employed Enterprises (Nanoscale Enterprises), Shiraz, Iran

  • Jahangiri, Mehdi;Rostamabadi, Akbar;Yekzamani, Parvaneh;Abadi, Bahare Mahmood;Behbood, Fariborz;Ahmadi, Seyyedeh Fatemeh;Momeni, Zahra
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제7권4호
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    • pp.317-321
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    • 2016
  • Background: This study was conducted with aim of providing an overview of the current status of occupational health services and identifying the most common harmful agents at workplaces of Iranian self-employed enterprises (Nano-Scale Enterprises). Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed among a random sample including 1,758 employees engaging in self-employed enterprises with 5 and less employees. Results: Coverage of occupational health surveillance was very poor, annual health examinations were been conducted only for 64 (3.64%) of males and 31 (1.76%) of females, and occupational health trainings were not included of the services at all. Personal Protective Equipment were available in 462 (26.3%) of the enterprises. only in 0.4% of the enterprises working processes were been equipped by a local exhaust ventilation system. Difficult postures were the most common (81.5%) adverse working conditions. Conclusion: This study revealed a poor level of the implementation of occupational health services in Iranian self-employed enterprises. Based on the findings, providing basic training on the occupational health, more enforcing in conduction of health examinations and providing PPE, and taking appropriate strategies aimed at eliminating or minimizing work environment harmful agents are the major factor that should be considered to improve the level of occupational health services among the studied enterprises.

Sickness Presenteeism among the Self-employed and Employed in Northwestern Europe-The Importance of Time Demands

  • Nordenmark, Mikael;Hagqvist, Emma;Vinberg, Stig
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.224-228
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    • 2019
  • Background: European policymakers encourage individuals to become self-employed because it is a way to promote innovation and job creation. It can be assumed that health and well-being among the self-employed and managers in small-scale enterprises are particularly crucial in this enterprise group because the smallness of the enterprise makes its members vulnerable. Earlier studies have indicated that the self-employed have a high working pace and work for long and irregular hours, indicating that it can be difficult to stay at home because of sickness. The purpose of this study is to investigate the occurrence of sickness presenteeism among the self-employed in relation to the organizationally employed and to analyze whether any differences can be explained by higher work demands among the self-employed. Methods: The study is based on the fifth European survey on working conditions (2010) and includes the northwestern European countries in the survey. The questions cover a wide range of topics designed to meet the European Union's political needs. The main variables in this study are sickness presenteeism and several indicators of time demands. Results: The results show that the self-employed report a higher level of sickness presenteeism than the employed: 52.4 versus 43.6%. All indicators of time demands are significantly related to the risk for sickness presenteeism, also when controlling for background characteristics. Conclusion: The results confirm that the level of sickness presenteeism is higher among the self-employed and that high time demands are a major explanation to this.

판매 및 서비스업에 종사하는 소상공인의 업무특성 및 건강수준 (Health and Job Characteristics of Sales and Service Workers in Micro-Enterprises)

  • 정혜선;장원기
    • 한국산업보건학회지
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    • 제30권4호
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    • pp.412-422
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: This study was conducted to identify the job characteristics and health status of sales and service workers at micro-enterprises. Methods: Multivariate analyses were conducted using data on respondents to the 5th Korean Working Conditions Survey who were business owners (7,572 persons) or employees (3,317) working in sales or service positions at micro-enterprises. Results: Among those analyzed, business owners were found to experience worse health conditions than employees. Business owners also differed from workers in terms of job characteristics. More than employees, they engaged in tiring or painful postures that negatively affected subjective health condition, experience of muscle pain, and experience of depression or anxiety. While employees' health was negatively affected by dealing with angry customers, the health status of business owners was negatively affected even by dealing with ordinary customers. Conclusions: These results show that the owners of micro-enterprises were in a more vulnerable state of health rather than their employees. In order to address this, it is necessary to correct work posture and reduce the stresses that come from customers.

Relationships Among Owner-Manager Characteristics, E-commerce Adoption and Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia

  • KOE, Wei-Loon;WULANDARI, Ririn
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2023
  • This study examined the relationships among owner-manager characteristics, e-commerce adoption, and performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Although the growth of e-commerce was encouraging in many countries, studies of e-commerce adoption among SMEs in developing countries such as Malaysia are insufficient. Furthermore, studies that investigated individual characteristics and e-commerce adoption are still low in number. This study specifically employed the technology-organization-environmental (TOE) framework to develop its research model. The sample was selected by using a non-probability judgmental sampling technique because the desired population frame was unavailable. A total of 111 owner-managers of SMEs were surveyed using online self-administered questionnaires. Subsequently, the data was analyzed through partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed significant relationships between owner-manager characteristics and e-commerce adoption, as well as between e-commerce adoption and the performance of SMEs. The findings suggested that owner-manager characteristics played an important role in determining e-commerce adoption among SMEs. Moreover, e-commerce adoption was crucial in affecting the performance of SMEs. This paper provided new insights into factors affecting e-commerce adoption and firm performance. It could further benefit the government and SMEs in strategizing e-commerce adoption and development, especially in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) and the post-COVID-19 pandemic.

전문인력지원사업이 사회적기업 지속가능성에 미치는 영향 -기업특성을 매개로- (Effects of professional Manpower support projects on sustainability of social enterprises -Mediaition effect on Enterprise Characteristics-)

  • 박혜림;유연우
    • 디지털융복합연구
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    • 제19권9호
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    • pp.135-144
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    • 2021
  • 코로나 19 사태로 인하여 자영업자 몰락과 일자리 감소 등 사회적, 경제적 양극화 현상이 사회문제화 되고 있는 바, 다양한 사업 분야에서 취약계층에 대한 사회서비스 제공 및 일자리 창출이라는 사회적기업의 역할은 매우 중요하다 할 것이다. 사회적기업은 경제적 가치 창출과 사회적 가치 창출이라는 하이브리드 특성으로 인하여 지속가능성에 어려움을 호소하고 있다. 지속가능성을 위하여 사회적기업의 사업분야와 매칭되는 전문인력 지원이 절실히 요구 되지만 부족한 예산으로 전문인력 지원은 매우 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 전문인력의 전문분야가 사회적기업의 지속가능성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가에 대하여 사회적기업 특성을 매개로 연구한바, 전문인력은 기업의 주사업분야 확장과 지속가능성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 연구 결과에 근거하여 사회적기업 재정지원사업의 실무적 시사점을 제시하였다.

빅 데이터 기반의 상권 서비스 확장을 위한 설문조사시스템 설계 및 구현 (Design and Implementation of a Survey System for Expanding Big Data-Based Commercial District Service)

  • 이원철;강만수;김진호
    • 한국빅데이터학회지
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    • 제5권2호
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    • pp.171-186
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    • 2020
  • 우리나라의 영세 소상공인과 자영업자의 비중이 주요 선진국에 비해 과도하게 높고 빈번한 창업과 폐업이 반복되어 국가 경제에 막대한 피해를 초래하고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 소상공인을 위한 다양한 연구가 진행 중이며, 정부는 소상공인을 위해 빅 데이터를 이용한 상권정보 분석 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 상권정보 분석 서비스 중 서울시에서 운영하는 우리마을가게 상권분석서비스는 소상공인 관련 빅 데이터 분석 서비스를 제공하기 위해 지속적인 서비스 개선을 진행하고 있다. 그러나 다양한 기관에서 제공받은 빅 데이터를 통합하여 서비스를 구축하였기 때문에 데이터 신뢰성의 한계, 데이터 분석의 한계, 서비스 구성의 한계가 존재한다. 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위해 본 논문에서는 빅 데이터 기반의 상권 서비스와 연계 분석이 가능한 위치기반 설문조사시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 설문조사시스템은 설문정보와 상권정보를 연계하여 빅 데이터 상권 분석 서비스를 확장할 수 기반을 마련하였다.

Determinants of the Small and Medium Enterprises Progress: A Case Study of SME Entrepreneurs in Manado, Indonesia

  • PRAMONO, Rudy;SONDAKH, L.W.;BERNARTO, Innocentius;JULIANA, Juliana;PURWANTO, Agus
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.881-889
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to descriptively reveal the demographic and business profile and personal-entrepreneurial characteristics in Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi, and secondly to associate these profiles and characters to their business progress. A sample size of 21 respondents was drawn - selected from those who warmly welcomed the interviewers for an open-ended structured questionnaire. SPSS 24 has been employed to descriptively reveal the sample distribution according to demographic factors and business entities and to determine the dominant factors affecting the progress of the business by testing the hypothesis on the association of variables under study using specified statistical analytical tools, such as regression analysis, especially stepwise regression formula, between specified dependent variables and independent variables and /or between all variables. The stepwise regression analysis has enabled the researcher to determine which variables are the most important reflecting the personal characteristics theorized as "locus of control": self-efficacy, needs for achievement, personal traits, and barriers to business progress The analysis reveals that the progress of business does have an association and is dependent on the source of capital and education, needs for achievement and locus of control.

사회적기업 제품의 지각된 가치가 기억, 태도, 그리고 충성도에 미치는 영향 (Effect of Perceived Value on Memories, Attitudes, and Loyalty: Social Enterprise Products)

  • 박상금;이용기;유동근
    • 유통과학연구
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    • 제13권12호
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    • pp.73-84
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    • 2015
  • Purpose - Various social issues have arisen since the beginning of the 21st century therefore, enterprises that disregarded social issues have become unsustainable, and social enterprises have appeared to address these issues. A social enterprise is a social mission-focused organization that uses a market-based strategy and has a vulnerable business structure. To be self-sustainable, a social enterprise should make consumers aware of the value that it provides and secure its profitability through consumer consumption. From this perspective, this study investigates the relationship between perceived value (utilitarian and hedonic) and loyalty, and examines how memory and attitudes play mediating roles between perceived value and loyalty. For these purposes, the author developed a structural model consisting of several variables. In this model, perceived value, which was utilitarian and hedonic, was proposed to affect the memory and attitudes toward social enterprise products, thus increasing loyalty. Therefore, memory and attitudes were proposed as core mediating variables between perceived value and loyalty. Research design, data, and methodology - To analyze the proposed model, data were collected from 582 respondents and analyzed using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0. To test unidimensionality and the nomological validity of the measures of each construct, we employed a scale refinement procedure. The results of the reliability test with Cronbach's α and confirmatory factor analysis warranted the unidimensionality of the measures for each construct. In addition, the nomological validity of the measures was warranted from the results of the correlation analysis. The result of the overall model analysis demonstrated a good fit (χ2=529.881, df=144, χ2/df=3.680, p-value=0.000, GFI=0.905, NFI=0.948, CFI=0.961, RMR=0.036, RMSEA=0.068). Results - The findings are summarized as follows. First, the hedonic and utilitarian value of social enterprise products had positive effects on memory and attitudes. Second, the hedonic value of social enterprise products more strongly affects memory and attitudes than utilitarian value. Third, memory and attitudes had positive effects on loyalty. Lastly, memory had a stronger effect on loyalty than attitudes. Conclusions - The purchase rate of social enterprises' products increases only if the products are included in the "information search" and "alternative evaluation" processes in consumers' purchase decision-making processes. Therefore, a social enterprise must actively promote the fact that it pursues a social value, and shares both the hedonic and utilitarian values of its products. Accordingly, because hedonic value has a more significant impact on a company and attitudes, a social enterprise should develop hedonic values for product consumption, thereby leading consumers who care about value consumption to purchase its products. Moreover, a social enterprise must maintain good memories and attitudes for consumers because memory does not change over time, although attitude does. The limitations of this study and suggestions for future research are as follows. This study viewed "consumer loyalty" as the success factor of social enterprises, thereby considers an "increase in sales" as the success factor. Therefore, in future studies, diverse factors, including social contribution and word-of-mouth intention, should be regarded. In addition, future studies need to thoroughly review and make assurances about the relationship between memory and attitude.

Analysis of Business Performance of Local SMEs Based on Various Alternative Information and Corporate SCORE Index

  • HWANG, Sun Hee;KIM, Hee Jae;KWAK, Dong Chul
    • 융합경영연구
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.21-36
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the enterprise's score index calculated from atypical data and corrected data. Research design, data, and methodology: In this study, news articles which are non-financial information but qualitative data were collected from 2,432 SMEs that has been extracted "square proportional stratification" out of 18,910 enterprises with fixed data and compared/analyzed each enterprise's score index through text mining analysis methodology. Result: The analysis showed that qualitative data can be quantitatively evaluated by region, industry and period by collecting news from SMEs, and that there are concerns that it could be an element of alternative credit evaluation. Conclusion: News data cannot be collected even if one of the small businesses is self-employed or small businesses has little or no news coverage. Data normalization or standardization should be considered to overcome the difference in scores due to the amount of reference. Furthermore, since keyword sentiment analysis may have different results depending on the researcher's point of view, it is also necessary to consider deep learning sentiment analysis, which is conducted by sentence.