• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.221-234
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• 2015

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences between successful SMEs in Korea and German hidden champions, with respect to both strategic importance and performance of major competitive dimensions, and mode of technology development. Data were collected through survey and public databases, and the sample comprises successful SMEs located in regional area in Korea. The results show that Korean hidden champions are relatively low regarding specialization of business domain and globalization while German hidden champions have positioned in global niche market. It is also found that local firms utilize technology alliances actively for technology development while German hidden champions rely heavily on internal R&D as a primary source of innovation. Based upon these results, policy directions for fostering local hidden champions were suggested.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.235-242
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• 2024

This study analyzes the development process of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies in Korea and corporate response strategies, comparing them with cases from major countries. The results show that while Korea has established a basic framework for ESG policies through the K-ESG guidelines and plans for mandatory ESG disclosure, these policies lack the specificity and enforceability seen in major countries. In terms of corporate response, large companies are actively formulating ESG strategies, but strengthening ESG capabilities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remains an urgent task. Industry-specific ESG strategies reflect the characteristics of each sector, such as carbon neutrality in manufacturing, expansion of responsible investment in finance, and enhanced data security in IT. This study suggests improving Korean ESG policies by enhancing the alignment of ESG disclosure standards with international norms, strengthening tailored support for SMEs, and developing industry-specific policies. For effective corporate ESG response, the study proposes strategic integration of ESG, enhanced communication with stakeholders, and improved ESG data management capabilities.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.27-52
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• 2019

This research studied the determinants of private R&D investment by examining the innovation strategies of 481 small and medium enterprises (SMEs, their employee size is 5 or more and less than 300) in Busan, South Korea. The data is derived from the Technology Survey of Small and Medium Enterprises in 2001 and 2003. Three explanatory variables for the innovation strategies are the R&D portfolio, the organization (personnel) for R&D, and the strategic role of CEO for innovation. The technological levels of industries are controlled in the linear regression model. The dependent variable is the total private R&D investment of a firm in the given fiscal year. The empirical results indicate that the private R&D investment positively correlates with the complexity of the R&D portfolio, the formal organization for R&D team, and the increase of R&D personnel. The formal organization for R&D team and the number of R&D personnel are correlated with the increase of private R&D investment across the four groups in the manufacturing sector but not in the service sector. These findings suggest that the innovation policy needs to target firms who have complex R&D portfolios, the formal organization of R&D teams, and sufficient R&D personnel in order to increase the private R&D investment of SMEs in regions, with consideration of industrial characteristics.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.125-140
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• 2018

Technology cooperation is a necessary factor for small and medium sized firms to be survived and developed because small and medium sized firms can make economy scale and economy scope by new advanced technologies obtained from technology cooperation. Therefore, the technology cooperation of small and medium sized firms can be thought as their specific resource. Due to the importance of technology cooperation, many previous studies paid an attention on its positive effect. Unlike the related studies, this study examined the link among uncertainty of technology environment, relationship characteristics(such as degree of technology cooperation and influential strategy), and relationship tie. The empirical results are reported as follows: Firstly, uncertainty of technology environment positively affected on degree of technology cooperation. Secondly, degree of technology cooperation positively affected on uncoercive influential strategies of both own firm and partner firm. Thirdly, degree of technology cooperation and uncoercive influential strategy of own firm have positive effects on relationship tie while uncoercive influential strategy of partner firm does not. The positive effect of uncoercive influential strategy of own firm means the importance of strategic countermeasures to promote relationship tie in technology cooperation of both own firm and partner firm.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.15-32
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• 2020

Increasing uncertainties in the technological innovation environment and increasing technology competition also present new challenges in terms of industrial technology security. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the direction of policy change necessary for the improvement of related policies in the future by examining the importance and implementation of the government's industrial technology security support policies for small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in industrial technology innovation activities. As a result of the analysis, first of all, small and medium-sized enterprises that responded to the government's industrial technology security support policy were perceived to be less performing than the importance of the program. These results can be said to mean that selective budget expansion for related policy programs may be necessary, along with efforts to improve the quality of each program. Second, an analysis of the differences in group recognition between new technology certification firms and industrial technology verification(certification) companies showed that significant differences exist between groups for the program. These results suggest that more effective operation of the relevant policies may require policy enforcement in consideration of the level of security and will of each company in industrial technology, as much as the quantitative characteristics of the entity. This study is meaningful in providing the necessary policy directional basic information for the design and execution of more specific and effective industrial technology security policies by presenting empirical research results that domestic small and medium-sized enterprises are aware of about the government's industrial technology security policies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.989-1018
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 내 외부 환경, 혁신활동이 기업성과에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 파악하기 위해 탐색적 요인분석(Exploratory Factor Analysis), 군집분석(Cluster Analysis), 구조방정식모형(Structural Equation Modeling)을 이용하여 실증분석을 실시하였다. 탐색적 요인분석을 통해 7개의 요인이 추출하였으며, 추출된 요인을 기반으로 군집분석을 시도하였더니 총 4개의 군집(n=1,022)이 형성되었다. 군집 4개의 대해 구조방정식 모형을 활용하여 실증분석을 한 결과, 기술 경쟁 환경에 민감하며, 혁신적인 성향을 가진 군집1은 자체기술개발만이 기업성과에 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 시장 환경에 민감하며, 내향적인 성향을 가진 군집2는 자체기술개발과 공동연구를 통해서만 기업성과에 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 경쟁적인 환경에 민감하며, 혁신적이고 정부/관련기관과의 협력적 성향을 가진 군집3은 공동연구 그리고 매개변수인 정부지원프로그램 활용을 통해 기업성과에 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 기술도입은 기업성과에 부정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 개방적이고 외부협력적 성향이 강한 군집4는 자체기술개발과 매개변수인 네트워크 활용 및 정부지원프로그램 활용이 기업성과에 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.141-158
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• 2019

Based on RBV(Resource Based View), IT of SMEs classified into IT resource and capabilities. And We confirmed that capabilities and resources affected each performance. In other words, based on the questionnaire of SMEs and IT professionals, divides capability from the overall IT resource that are possessed by SMEs. Among the four attributes (value, rare, non-substitutability, imperfect imitability) presented by Barney (1991), this study targeted at value and imperfect imitability and investigated how SMEs recognize IT resource and capability. Furthermore, this study tests how IT resource and capability influence corporate performance. The result of this study finds that resources that are needed on "Knowledge-based" are classified into IT capability, otherwise classified into IT resource. Analysis shows that server, DB(database), system administrators, programmers, CIO, BA were capabilities, Desktop PC, PC software, software for salary and accounting management, e-commerce, Homepage, and network inside th enterprise were resources. Secondly, this study reveals that both IT resource and IT capability affected company performance (employee satisfaction, CEO satisfaction). IT is certainly having an impact on corporate performance. In conclusion, resource can be either IT resource or IT capability based on they way of utilization. And both IT resource and IT capability have an influence on corporate performance (employee job satisfaction, CEO satisfaction). Therefore, when considering IT investment, a company can purchase necessary IT resource and actively utilize it to be IT capability, which can have an influence on corporate performance in return.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.673-679
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• 2007

인터넷 기술과 전자상거래는 기업이 특성과 목표에 따라 각 기업별로 다른 정도와 수준으로 사용이 된다. 즉, 기업별로 전자상거래를 활용하는 수준이 다르다. 하지만 전자상거래에 관한 기존의 많은 연구들은 주로 기업의 정보기술 또는 전자상거래 도입(adoption) 및 확산(diffusion) 자체에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 초점을 두고 있다. 전자상거래가 기업에 필수적 사항이 되고 있기 때문에 단순한 채택 여부를 떠나서 어떠한 정도와 수준으로 활용이 되고 있는지 분석할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 전자상거래 활용 수준 및 그 영향 요인과 수준별 장애요인을 분석하여 보았다. 결과에 따르면 대기업에 비해 중소기업의 전자상거래 활용 수준이 상대적으로 저조하며, 목표 및 전략, 기업의 규모는 전자상거래 활용수준에 영향을 미치지만 산업유형은 그렇지 않은 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.219-227
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• 2020

Smart Factory is one of the fastest developing and changing fourth industrial revolution fields. In particular, the degree of introduction and maturity level in the smart factory is an important part. In this paper, a cluster analysis of companies introduced smart factory was performed based on a new maturity assessment model. The 68% of 193 companies surveyed were at the basic level, with only 21% being the middle one. Most SMEs cited lack of funds as the main reason for not entering the middle one. As a result of the cluster analysis, it was found that all clusters had similar patterns but grouped into one of three levels of high, middle, and low depending on maturity level of smart factory operation, and process domain had the highest maturity and data domain was lowest among the 6 domains. Through this, analysis of more specific and quantified maturity levels can be performed using 6-domain smart factory maturity evaluation model.

• 산업혁신연구
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.55-89
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• 2018

This study analyzed the determinants of employment of regular workers by firm size by merging statistical office survey(2006~2015), The results are as follows. First, as a result of the panel regression analysis, the labor income distribution, operating profit, sales, and R & D variables significantly increase employment, while the outsourcing cost, wage, capital intensity, and temporary employment decrease. However, wage variables of firms with minimum wage did not have a significant effect. Second, as a result of estimating the determinants of employment for regular workers by firm size, the variables of labor income distribution as a key variable had a significant positive impact only on SMEs, and the outsourcing cost ratio had a significant negative impact on both SMEs and large corporations. Third, as a result of estimating employment decision factors of SMEs and large enterprises by industry classification, both labor share(+) and outsourcing expense(-) are significant only in manufacturing industry, The higher the distribution ratio, the higher the employment rate, and the higher the cost of outsourcing, the lower the employment of regular workers. Employment impacts were greater for both SMEs. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen policies on labor income distribution, operating profit, sales, R & D investment, etc., which are analyzed as having a positive influence in order to constantly employ regular job positions at the enterprise level. As the impact on employment varies depending on the size of industry and type of industry, it is necessary to adopt a job policy for each characteristic.