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

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A Study on the Effects of Adoption and Application of Platform Strategy for Social Ventures in Early Stage of Start-up: A Case Study of JUMP!

소셜벤처 창업초기에 플랫폼 전략의 도입과 영향에 관한 연구: 점프!의 사례를 중심으로

  • Received : 2017.07.10
  • Accepted : 2017.08.28
  • Published : 2017.08.31
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Abstract

For a social venture in early stage, it is very difficult to set up a strategy as it has to pursue two contradictory goals; economic value and social value. The platform strategy can be good alternative solution for social ventures as it seeks building-up connections with other businesses to co-create value despite of limited resources. A Korean social venture, JUMP! which adopted platform strategy in the early stage, and successfully applied 4 key factors of platform strategy; core competency, value creation ability, efficiency and network effect, has been able to develop sustainable growth for itself and induce innovation and growth among the participants within the platform. This study was intended to research effect of adoption and successful application of platform strategy for social ventures in the early stage of start-up and draw conclusion through case study that platform strategy works for sustainable growth of social ventures.

소셜벤처는 기존의 일반적인 벤처기업과 달리 기술, 경영 혁신 등의 방법으로 경영 활동을 수행하는 기업 형태에 사회적 가치를 추구해야 하는 기업 형태를 결합한 조직이다. 소셜벤처는 창업 초기의 전략 수립과 이에 따른 비즈니스 모델 설정이 일반 벤처보다 더 어려울 수밖에 없는데 이는 소셜벤처들이 경제적 가치 추구와 함께 사회적 가치를 동시에 추구해야 하는 소셜벤처만의 이중적인 사업 목적을 가지고 있기 때문이다. 따라서, 소셜벤처만이 가지고 있는 이중적인 사업 목적을 달성하기 위한 새로운 또는 효과적인 사업 전략의 필요성이 대두되고 있으며, 관련 그룹들을 플랫폼에 모아 네트워크 효과를 창출하고 새로운 기업 생태계를 구축하는 플랫폼 전략(Platform Strategy)이 주목된다. 본 논문에서는 국내 소셜벤처 중에 '점프!' 라는 기업의 사례를 통해 이 회사가 2011년 5월에 창업한 이래 현재까지 사업의 내용과 규모를 확장하면서 지속적인 성장을 이루어 낼 수 있었던 것은 창업 초기에 플랫폼 전략을 도입하고, 플랫폼 전략의 성공을 위한 4가지 핵심요인인 핵심역량 보유, 가치창출능력, 효율성, 네트워크효과를 통해서 다양한 참여자 그룹이 플랫폼 안에서 새로운 혁신과 성장을 만들었기 때문이다. 본 논문은 소셜벤처에 있어서 창업 초기부터 플랫폼 전략을 도입하여 성공적으로 적용하는 것이 소셜벤처의 지속가능한 성장에 어떤 유의미한 효과를 발생시키는지를 사례를 통해 알아보고 실무적 유용성과 학문적 시사점을 제시하고자 한다.

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