• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.123-143
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• 2007

The world has become the most globalize in the new millenium since the beginning of the human being history. In proportion to female economic activity has increased, we have seen many women CEO. Top class sociologists have already started to study female Cooperation. Gradually, they are using highly advanced statistical methods and scientific tools to demonstrate their theory. As survey, this study of relations between CEO characteristics and performance of Woman's Enterprise, we are looking forward to provide a implication about between strengthen the competitiveness and improvement in outcome theoretically and practically. This study executed to woman establishment enterprise among national woman enterprise and to collect achieved data. Analysis result, Woman founder's characteristic and enterprise have been shown to influence school ability among demographic characteristic. Also, management ability, entrepreneurship, technological ability have been shown to influence sales, market share, profitability. According to research, it IS important for business women to know management, improving of technology ability and entrepreneurship.

• Korean small business review
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.77-100
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• 2020

In commemoration of 40 years of the foundation of the Korean Association of Small Business Studies, this paper reviewed the academic literature investigating female entrepreneurship and women-owned businesses in the Asia Pacific Journal of Small Business. During past 40 years, only 10 studies shed light on women entrepreneurship/businesses. Since the number of research papers is very few, this paper reviewed foreign research trends based on the topics in accordance with the stages of entrepreneurship. Based on the reviews, this paper aims to suggest important topics and directions for future research and to draw attention to female entrepreneurship/enterprises in Korean academia.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.527-548
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• 2008

It is said that there exist trouble factors of female-owned businesses and they disturb the growth of female-owned businesses. This paper, focusing on the balancing of work and family roles and discontinuance of career, examines whether trouble factors of female-owned businesses can explain the characteristics of female-owned businesses in Kwangju-Cheonnam region. The results show that these disturbing factors effect the accumulation of capitals for start-ups of femaleowned businesses and careers of female business owners, so that female-owned businesses enter disproportionately on service industry and their sizes are small. These support existing study results.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.133-150
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to develop a female entrepreneurial competency model. For the purpose, two Focus Group Interviews (FGI) were conducted with seven outstanding female entrepreneurs, and three expert reviews were conducted. In addition, in order to verify the validity of the provisional female entrepreneur competency model derived from the FGI and competency modeling expert review, the female entrepreneur competency model was finally confirmed through a survey of 442 female entrepreneurs. The results were as follows. First, a female entrepreneur competency model consisting of 6 competency groups and 25 competencies of entrepreneurship, emotion, business management, relationship management, strategic management, and multitasking, and 75 behavioral indicators describing each competency was developed. Second, sensibility and multitasking are competencies that reflect the characteristics of female entrepreneurs. In particular, 'social sense', which is the ability to be considerate of others in the emotional competency group and the ability to respond well to subtle nuances, and the multitasking competency group's unique strengths are women's ability to perform various tasks at the same time. The 'work-family control ability' of a female entrepreneur who maintains a balance between 'multi-tasking' and work and family is a representative competency of only female entrepreneurs. Third, the developed female entrepreneurship competency model is meaningful in that it not only increases female entrepreneurial competency so that prospective female entrepreneurs can successfully run a business through entrepreneurship education, but it also makes it easy for existing female entrepreneurs to reflect and improve their competencies. If we provide appropriate training programs to female entrepreneurs based on their competency, it will be possible to effectively enhance the entrepreneurial competency, which is the key to strengthening the competitiveness of female entrepreneurs. The female entrepreneur competency model developed through this study can provide a basis for future research on competency diagnosis and education needs analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.84-90
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• 2010

국내 여성벤처기업의 수는 지속적으로 증가하고 있으며, 우리 경제와 벤처업계에서 여성벤처기업의 역할과 중요성도 증대되고 있다. 그러나 여성벤처기업의 경영애로요인과 경영성과 간의 관계가 기업의 유형에 따라 어떻게 달라지는지에 대한 체계적인 연구는 수행되지 않고 있는 실정이다. 이에 따라 여선벤처기업에 대한 지원도 이러한 기업 유형을 고려하지 않은 채 이루어지는 경우가 많아 지원의 효율성에 문제점을 내포하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 여성벤처기업에 대한 효율적인 지원에 필요한 기초자료를 제시하기 위하여, 여성벤처기업의 경영애로요인과 경영성과 간의 관계가 기업의 유형 및 지원형태에 따라 어떻게 달라지는지를 실증적으로 분석할 연구모형을 제시하였다.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.96
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• pp.4-7
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• 2006

미래를 움직이는 힘 Woman Venture 21세기에는 우리 사회에서 소비를 주도하는 소비자로서의 여성의 파워가 확장될 뿐만아니라, 여성의 삶, 나아가 건강한 사회의 생활을 선도하는 여성 벤처기업이 성장할 것이라는 전망이 나오고 있다. 앞으로 여성 벤처는 우리 생활과 밀접한 곳에서부터 미래를 움직이는 힘을 발휘해 나갈 것이다. 여성벤처 Over the Woman Venture 지난해 5월, 우리나라의 여성 경제활동인구가 천만 명을 넘어섰다. 가사를 병행해야 하는 현실과 사회적 편견, 전문 인력의 부족 등 넘어야 할 산들은 여전하지만 특유의 열정과 전문성으로 무장해 뚜렷한 질적 성장을 보이고 있는 여성 벤처 기업. 일하는 여성의 안타까운 조건들 속에서 불굴의 뚝심으로 값진 성공의 가치를 일구어내는 성공 여성 벤처 기업들을 살펴본다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.300-308
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• 2016

Research on OECD and Korea have shown that high-growth startups are the keys to job creation and that these companies are very important for economic growth. Given that the large-scale entry of women into the labor force accelerates economic growth and women have far lower levels of participation in growth-oriented entrepreneurship than men do, accelerating female entrepreneurship could have positive effects on the Korean economy. This paper uses data from several databases to do a comparison analysis between women's and men's start-ups to explore the factors that explain the lag in building high-growth firms among women. Women startups make up nearly 34% of startups(defined as less than 7 years of establishment), but only 6% of high-growth startups. Women rarely own large businesses, reflecting their low levels of initial capital and outside financing. Regardless of gender, entrepreneurs face many of the same challenges in starting businesses, but this study shows three primary factors for female entrepreneurs that lead to a less high-growth startup: a greater financing gap than for men(this gap is more apparent for high-growth firms), a lack of ideas, knowledge, and experience(related to the lack of mentorship), and lastly the difficulty maintaining a work-life balance. The findings are very similar with those found in studie's in the US(financing gap, work-life balance, and lack of mentorship). Further studies are required to identify more specific factors behind the gender gap in ideas, knowledge, and experience.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.53-79
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• 2013

Social enterprises can be identified roughly as social purpose-oriented business ventures. They often fill the gaps left by governmental and commercial ventures in providing for certain vulnerable sectors of society. Though social enterprises often adopt market mechanisms in their organizational structures, their emphasis on particular social outcomes means that they intentionally pursue double/triple-bottom lines, thus distinguishing them from many traditional for-profit businesses. Among the Korean laborers, women have been hardest hit by the global economic crisis. As the movements have substantially been taken to strengthen women's economic activities in the recent years, many policies are formulated with these trends, connecting women's employment with social enterprises. This study focused on analyzing social enterprises to be friendly and to provide decent work to women. Data were collected from 491 social enterprises and 830 workers. The main results are as follows. First, the women's employment in social enterprises has accounted for a relatively high rate and the women's wage also is similar to men's one. Second, as for work conditions and types, most women have preferred irregular and non-managerial work. Thus, social enterprises have showed a positive response for the women's job opportunities, while social enterprises have had a negative one for enhancing the women's status at the labor market. In conclusion, social enterprises should institutionalize how to provide more stable working condition to women and to improve their's capacity.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.97-107
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• 2024

Although female entrepreneurship has started to receive scholarly attention, existing literature narrowly focus on firms founded by women or female founders thereby causing a lack of understanding about the antecedents of female entrepreneurship at a general level. To address this gap in the literature, the aim of our study is to explore the impact of organizational culture on female entrepreneurship. Specifically, we examine whether the horizontal nature of firms' organizational culture enhances female entrepreneurship. Futhermore, the moderating role of career self-management behavior is examined. Our empirical analysis is based on the third survey of 2022 Korea Women Manager Panel (KWMP) conducted by the Korea Women's Development Institute. All hypotheses were supported. We find that when companies have more horizontal organizational culture in place, the level of female entrepreneurship increases. Moreover, the positive relationship between horizontal organizational culture and female entrepreneurship is stronger when female employees are more proactive in career self-management behavior in order to achieve their individually set career goals. Overall, our study contributes to the literature on female entrepreneurship by providing implications for its antecendents.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.337-344
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• 2024

This paper is a study on the "Development of Assessment Index for Women's Entrepreneurship support programs." This research highlights the absence of specific assessment indicators for selecting women-led enterprises in women's entrepreneurship support programs, thereby illuminating the limitations of current evaluation methods. It emphasizes the necessity for effective indicators to more successfully select women entrepreneurs and enterprises. The study derives numerous success factors for women's entrepreneurial ventures from prior research and develops a more likely to succeed assessment index for women-led enterprises using the Delphi methodology and collaboration with expert panels. The result is a new assessment index reflecting the characteristics of women entrepreneurs, expected to overcome the limitations of existing selection methods and contribute to enhancing social support and policy development for women-led enterprises.