Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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A Study on the Effects of Absorptive Capacity in SMEs on Product Competitiveness: Considering the Moderating Effect of CEO's Entrepreneurship

중소기업의 흡수역량이 제품경쟁력에 미치는 영향 및 중소기업 CEO 기업가정신의 조절효과에 관한 연구

  • Sohn, In Bae (Dept. of Information Management, Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University) ;
  • Huh, Chul Moo (Dept. of Information Management, Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University)
  • 손인배 (호서대학교 벤처대학원 정보경영학과) ;
  • 허철무 (호서대학교 벤처대학원 정보경영학과)
  • Received : 2017.07.07
  • Accepted : 2017.08.25
  • Published : 2017.08.31
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Abstract

Although small and medium-size enterprises are facing the significant trends in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Open Innovation which are increasingly in need, the subjects of absorptive capacity and entrepreneurship has not been studied sufficiently in order to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs' products and cope with the current trend. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of absorptive capacity of SMEs on product competitiveness and the moderating role of CEO's entrepreneurship between the absorptive capacity and the product competitiveness. The data were collected from 313 employees of 22 SMEs in the Seoul metropolitan area, Kyunggi-do and Chung-cheong province, and analyzed using hierarchical regression analysis. As a result of the hypothesis test, both the absorptive capacity of SMEs and CEO's entrepreneurship had a positive effect on the product competitiveness. In addition, also found out the innovativeness and the proactivness out of the three entrepreneurship had the moderate roles between the potential absorptive capacity out of the absorptive capacity and the product competitiveness. On the other hand, the risk-taking out of the three entrepreneurship had the moderate roles between the realized absorptive capacity out of the two absorptive capacity and the product competitiveness. These results suggest that open innovation and technological entrepreneurship are needed to help SMEs learn external resources and information to create performance. After discussing this conclusions and implications of the study, the direction for future study was presented.

우리나라의 중소기업들이 4차 산업혁명과 개방형혁신 등의 중요한 트렌드에 직면하고 있음에도 불구하고, 이러한 트렌드에 대응하고 제품경쟁력을 높이기 위한 흡수역량과 기업가정신과의 관계와 같은 분야의 연구가 미흡한 상황이다. 본 연구는 중소기업의 흡수역량이 제품경쟁력에 미치는 영향과 이에 대한 조절변수로서 기업가정신의 역할을 실증하는 것이 목적이다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 수도권 및 충청권 소재의 22개 중소기업의 조직구성원 313명을 대상으로 자료를 수집하였으며, 위계적 회귀분석방법을 사용하여 분석을 수행하였다. 가설검증 결과, 첫째, 중소기업의 흡수역량과 제품경쟁력은 정(+)의 영향관계가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 중소기업CEO의 기업가정신과 제품경쟁력 또한 정(+)의 영향관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 함께 조절효과와 관련, 독립변수인 흡수역량 중 잠재적 흡수 역량이 종속변수인 제품경쟁력에 미치는 영향에 있어 조절변수인 기업가정신 중 혁신성과 진취성에 의해 조절되는 것으로 나타났으며, 독립변수인 흡수역량 중 실현된 흡수 역량은 조절변수인 기업가정신 중 위험감수성에 의해 조절되는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 분석결과는 중소기업에게 외부자원 및 정보를 학습하여 성과를 만들어내는 데 기여하는 개방형 혁신과 기술적 측면의 기업가정신이 필요함을 시사하고 있다. 이상의 연구 결론 및 시사점을 논의한 후, 후속연구를 위한 연구의 방향을 제시하였다.

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