• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.107-120
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• 2015

This study compares own-brand exporting SMEs' utilization of various government-run exporting service programs that provided support in searching for overseas distributors, in overseas market research, and in marketing support. Researchers measure how important firms found each of these components of the program, as well as firms' satisfaction with these services, based on the type of product exported (industrial vs. consumer goods) and the level of economic development of the host countries (developed, newly industrialized, and developing.) A total of 245 own-brand exporting SMEs were surveyed and analyzed in this study. Results indicated that KOTRA was the most frequently used organization by the sample SMEs, regardless of the product type and the economic level of host countries. Industrial-goods exporting SMEs found support in searching for overseas distributors more important than consumer-goods exporting SMEs. SMEs exporting to developed countries considered overseas market research and marketing support and searching for overseas distributor programs more important than SMEs exporting to NIE or developing countries. In addition, industrial-goods exporting SMEs were more satisfied with the overseas market research and marketing support and searching for overseas distributor programs than consumer-goods exporting SMEs. However, there were no differences in satisfaction among firms based on the level of economic development of host countries. Several cases of significant correlations between the importance of and satisfaction with the utilization of government exporting service programs were found.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.199-200
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• 2015

본 연구는 현재 중장년층 퇴직자를 대상으로 실시되고 있는 전직지원 프로그램의 현황을 분석하여 문제점을 확인하고 이를 효과적으로 개선하기 위한 방안을 제시하는 것이다. 전직지원 프로그램을 분석하기 위해서 CIPP 모형에 따른 상황평가, 투입평가, 과정평가, 산출평가를 분석틀로 삼아 전직지원 프로그램의 요구분석, 교육목표, 교육과정, 교육성과를 분석 준거로 설정하였다. 프로그램 대상으로 공공부문은 노사발전재단 전국경제인연합회 한국무역협회, 민간 부문은 A,B,C 전직지원 컨설팅회사, 기업부문은 D기업을 들었다. 그 결과 시사점으로는 첫 번째, 중장년층 퇴직자의 직무와 역량에 맞는 효과적인 전직을 위해서는 퇴직 전전직사전교육 프로그램이 전제되어야 하는 것이다. 두 번째, 장기적인 관점에서 정부 주도 하에 공공부문과 민간부문의 전문가가 협업하여 국가직무표준에 기반한 전직지원 프로그램이 개발되어야 하고 세 번째, 분야 직종별로 각각 운영되고 있는 전직 관련 정보와 구인 구직 사이트를 체계적으로 네트워크화 하여 퇴직자가 쉽게 접근할 수 있는 방안이 모색되어야 한다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.55-65
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to empirically analyze the factors that affect start-up activities at the national level. Unlike most existing research about entrepreneurship at the individual level, this empirical analysis makes use of the total early-stage entrepreneurial activity(TEA) index at national level. This was developed by the Global Entrepreneur Monitor (GEM) as the measure for the degree of entrepreneurship of the countries. Based on the previous studies, not only national income level and unemployment rate, but also other factors including the cultural characteristics of the countries were included in our regression model. Using GEM's panel data, we found that the effectiveness of the factors depends on the stage of economic development. In particular, we found 'U-shape' relationship between the level of per capita income and entrepreneurship activity by the panel regression analysis using quadratic function. This analysis result can explicitly confirm what the existing literature have explained descriptively. Furthermore, the governmental support programs are shown to have significantly positive effects on the entrepreneurship or start-up activities in the factor-driven and efficiency-driven economies. On the contrary, those programs were not very helpful in the innovative economies. Lastly, this research suggests that the 'education and training' and the 'entrepreneurial culture' be the supportive norm for new business regardless of the economic development level.