• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1-18
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• 2011

Local assemblers of agricultural products perform important distribution functions such as providing sales outlets, labor forces, market information, and financing, forward contracting, farming, physical distribution, and etc. However, their business activities are not transparent and producers are not effectively protected from unfair practices done by local assemblers. In order to enhance transparency and to increase effectiveness of governmental policies, local assemblers, which are mostly private management, should be organized as corporations. In order to organize corporations, the government should emphasize the importance of education and should provide corporations with governmental funds for improvement of agricultural distribution. Corporations should be developed to marketing cooperatives in the long run, and are requested to form their federations. It is also necessary to have transparent forward contracting system by local assemblers. In order to have transparent system, producers and local assemblers are guided to use standard contract forms and to operate offices handling unfair trade practices by local assemblers. We also need a place to exchange forward contracts, which can be developed to a futures market in the long run. In summary, local assemblers of agricultural products, which are mostly private management, should be developed to corporations and be operated by a transparent manner in order to protect agricultural producers and increase efficiency of trading.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.129-129
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• 2016

기후변화의 영향으로 인한 자연재해의 대규모화에 따라 가뭄재해가 농촌지역에 중대한 피해를 끼칠 수 있는 여지가 확대되고 있다. 그러나 4대강 살리기 사업으로 인하여 대하천의 정비가 강화되었지만 농촌지역 주변의 중소하천은 여전히 기후변화에 취약한 현실이다. 농촌지역의 가뭄재해에 대하여 국가 및 지방자치단체, 공공기관이 효과적으로 대처하기 위해서는 농촌의 특성을 충분히 고려한 대응책을 마련하는 것이 중요하며, 이에 본 연구에서는 "자연재해대책법 시행규칙" 및 "재난 및 안전관리 기본법 시행령", 그리고 "농어업재해대책법 시행규칙"에 있어서 가뭄관련 조항의 개정을 제안하였다. "자연재해대책법" 제2장(자연재해의 예방 및 대비)에서는 풍수해(제2절), 설해(제4절) 에 이어 가뭄에 대한 예방 및 대비를 규정(제5절 29조-33조)하고 있다. 제29조는 가뭄방재를 위하여 필요한 조사 및 연구를 수행하여야 함을 규정하고 있는데, 여기서 '필요한' 조사 및 연구는 시행령 혹은 시행규칙 등을 통해 명확히 할 필요가 있으며, 제30조는 가뭄재해 극복을 위해 제한 급수 및 제한 발전 등의 조치를 취할 수 있다고 규정하고 있으나, 조치를 취함으로써 발생하는 손해 배상 규정의 삽입이 필요하다. "재난 및 안전관리 기본법" 제8조(다른 법률과의 관계 등) 2호에서 제3조1호 가목의 규정에 해당하는 재난(가뭄 포함)의 예방 복구 등에 관해서는 '자연재해대책법'이 정한 바에 따르도록 규정하고 있기는 하지만, 자연재해로 인한 재난에 대해서는 소극적 규정으로 판단된다. 그리고, 제4장(재난의 예방)에 있어서 재난은 제3조1호의 가목(자연현상으로 발생하는 재해), 나목(사회적 재해), 다목(국가기반체계와 관련된 재해) 각각의 경우에 따른 예방대책의 수립이 필요하다. 각 조항의 개정은 농촌지역 가뭄재해에 대한 정책활용을 염두에 두고 개정안을 제시하지만, 법령 자체의 목적 및 타법과의 정합성 등 대한민국 법체제의 통일성 및 안정성을 최대한 반영하였다. 해당 조항의 개정으로 농촌 및 농업지역의 특성을 반영한 다양한 가뭄대응 정책의 활용을 도모하고 가뭄재해로부터 안전한 영농환경이 구축될 수 있을 것이 기대된다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.85-106
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• 2023

This study reviewed and derived the success factors of overseas agricultural startups and studied their integrated research model. Agricultural startups and general startups have in common that poor resources and infrastructure exist from a resource-based perspective after startup, but a differentiated approach from general startups is required due to the nature of the primary industry of agriculture. In this study, we approach the company internal factors (human resources/vision/distribution network capacity/capital capacity/cultivated crops/physical resources/farming technology, etc.) and external factors (agricultural infrastructure/laws/regulations/relationship with surrounding society, etc.) We tried to build a research model that can be integrated by focusing on various existing research models, success factors, and entrepreneurship. Through this, it is intended to present an integrated model that is practically helpful to business performance to entrepreneurs, business-related persons, and researchers who need an integrated understanding of agricultural startups at home and abroad. made for purpose In this paper, a standard model was established through three types (existing agricultural startup, small and medium-sized business startup, multinational company, and comprehensive approach) according to size and characteristics for modeling agricultural startup success factors. Through this, a total of 9 success factors (agricultural management, external environment, manager/founder characteristics, corporate identity, business management, organizational culture, infrastructure, commercialization capability, and sustainable growth) were derived. The implication of this study is that the success factors of agricultural startups were comprehensively presented based on 'entrepreneurship' for various domestic and foreign agricultural startup cases. By confirming the systematic categorization, a standard model for future agricultural startup success factors was presented, and as a result, a foundation was presented for systematic research and practical effectiveness of related research in the future.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.61-79
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• 2023

This study is a case study of overseas banana farms as a global agricultural startup that has hardly been attempted so far in terms of paradigm shift in the industry, beyond regional limitations. It was researched for the purpose of revealing the success factors of 'global agricultural startup' in terms of business process, entrepreneurship, and management dimensions learned through direct participation and observation at the local level. In order to study global agricultural startups, this study also conducted a comparative analysis of global startups (global startups) and global agricultural startups(global agricultural startups). In fact, the analysis consists of 'definition', 'components', and 'success factors', and we want to confirm the difference between the two concepts that can be distinguished. The case analysis tried to maximize the advantages of 'participatory action research' by directly observing and experiencing banana farms. In the case of banana farm cases, by dividing them into preparation process for farm development and farm development and management process, various variables considered in farm management were explained through the whole process of farm management. Through the process of overcoming and responding to specific failure cases, we tried to secure the reliability and validity of the research, and the case studies related to entrepreneurship, management, and organization analyzed by applying them by subdividing them into theoretical areas belonging to components and management that were theorized in existing preceding studies. This study is almost the first study on the process of creating a local entry business by directly moving the head office overseas rather than entering overseas agriculture as a subsidiary, joint venture or overseas corporation. In particular, it is a unique case that corresponds to agriculture in terms of region(Africa), scale(startup), and industry that have not been introduced so far as a global agricultural startup. In terms of entrepreneurship, it also concretely exemplified how entrepreneurship components such as innovativeness, risk-taking propensity, proactiveness, vision sharing, social contribution, leadership, etc., which have not been attempted so far in agricultural cases, are manifested and effective. The management and cultural aspects also went beyond the argument that only cultural aspects are important in overseas business, and also confirmed individual failure cases and their responses in recruitment, job, wage, retirement, development, organizational structure management, etc. As a result, there is significance and implications of this study in that it provides theoretical confirmation as well as practical and responsive basis for 'entrepreneurship', 'farming management', and 'management' aspects in overseas agricultural startup business operation.