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

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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How Entrepreneur Competency Impacted Startup Survival During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Business Performance

코로나19 팬데믹 기간 창업자 역량이 창업기업의 생존에 미치는 영향: 경영 성과의 매개 역할

  • Kim, Bongkeun (KOTEC HRD Institute) ;
  • Yoo, Bumjoon (Korea University) ;
  • Hwangbo, Yun (Kookmin University) ;
  • Kim, YoungJun (Korea University)
  • 김봉근 (기술보증기금 인재개발원) ;
  • 유범준 (고려대학교 기술경영전문대학원) ;
  • 황보윤 (국민대학교 글로벌창업벤처대학원) ;
  • 김영준 (고려대학교 기술경영전문대학원)
  • Received : 2024.04.15
  • Accepted : 2024.06.13
  • Published : 2024.06.30
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic not only posed an enormous human crisis, but also had a profound impact on firms' survival. Social distancing and global lockdown measures designed to protect human lives have paradoxically impaired the business environment. As a result, firms that sought to gain competitive advantage by leveraging external resources were cut off from the external world and faced unexpected challenges. Under these circumstances, researches were conducted in the early stage of the pandemic to explore how certain firms survived while others fell, but they were limited to re-examining business performance using traditional financial factors. However, this study aims to investigate the role of entrepreneurs' competency in crisis situations from the Resource-Based View (RBV), as such competency plays an important role in improving business performance and subsequently the probability of startups' survival. Specifically, we evaluated the performance as of end of 2019 of 1,127 startups evaluated by the Korea Technology Finance Corporation (KOTEC), which provides policy financing based on technology assessment, in 2016. We then conducted an empirical study to determine the mediating role of business performance in the relationship between entrepreneurial competencies and firm survival by verifying how many of the sample firms were still in operation at the end of June 2023, when the Korean government declared COVID-19 as an endemic. For this purpose, we defined technological, financial, and marketing competencies as the sub-factors of entrepreneurial competency, and sales growth rate and employment growth rate as the sub-factors of business performance. The results of the empirical analysis showed that technological and financial competencies of the entrepreneur had a positive impact on both business performance and firm survival, and that sales growth rate and employment growth rate mediated the relationship between technological competence and firm survival. However, the positive influence of entrepreneurs' financial competence of the survival of startups was only evident through the growth of employment. This study is the first study in South Korea to define the survival factors of startups in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is expected to contribute to the theoretical and practical discussions on the importance of entrepreneurs' competency as a firms' survival factor based on RVB.

COVID-19 팬데믹은 인류에게 막대한 위기를 안겨준 것은 물론, 기업 생존에 중대한 영향을 미쳤다. 인간 생명을 보호하기 위한 사회적 거리두기와 글로벌 봉쇄 정책이 역설적으로 기업 생존 환경을 악화시킨 것이다. 이에 따라 외부 자원을 통해 경쟁 우위를 확보하려던 기업들은 외부와의 단절로 예기치 못한 도전에 직면하게 되었다. 이러한 상황에서 COVID-19 팬데믹 초기의 선행연구들은 전통적인 재무 요인을 통해 경영 성과를 재차 진단하는 데 그쳤다. 이에 본 연구는 자원기반관점에서 위기 상황에서 창업자의 역량이 경영 성과를 향상하고 이를 통해 창업기업의 생존 가능성을 높이는 중요한 요인임을 규명하고자 하였다. 구체적으로, 기술평가를 통해 정책금융을 제공하는 기술보증기금(KOTEC)이 2016년에 평가한 1,127개 창업기업을 대상으로 2019년 말의 경영 성과를 측정하였다. 그 이후 엔데믹을 선언한 시점인 2023년 6월 말 연구 대상 기업의 생존 상태를 확인하여 창업자 역량과 기업생존과의 관계에서 경영 성과의 매개 역할을 규명하는 실증 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 창업자 역량의 하위요인으로는 기술적, 재무적, 마케팅 역량으로 정의하였고, 매출액 증가율과 고용 증가율을 경영 성과의 하위요인으로 보았다. 실증분석 결과, 창업자의 기술적, 재무적 역량이 창업기업의 경영 성과와 생존에 모두 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤으며, 매출액 증가율과 고용 증가율이 기술적 역량과 기업 생존 사이를 매개하였다. 하지만, 창업자의 재무적 역량은 고용 증가율을 통해서만 창업기업의 생존에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 COVID-19 팬데믹 상황에서 창업기업의 생존요인을 규명한 국내 최초의 연구로서, 자원기반관점에서 창업자의 역량이 중요한 생존요인이라는 이론적, 실무적 논의 확대에 기여할 것으로 기대한다.

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