• 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.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.119-123
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• 2021

통계청의 '인구주택총조사' 결과(2019년 11월 1일)를 기준으로 발표한 '2019 지방자치단체 외국인 주민 현황'을 보면, 국내 체류 외국인은 2,216,612명으로 지난해인 2018년 2,054,621명에 비해 161,991명(7.9%) 증가했다. 이러한 결과는 우리나라 전체 인구(51,850,705명) 중 4.3%에 해당하며, 외국인 주민 최초 조사 연도인 2006년 536,627명과 비교했을 때 4배 이상 증가한 것을 확인할 수 있다. 국내 이민자들의 수가 증가함에 따라, 우리가 생각해야 할 점은 그동안 다문화 관련 정책적 환경이 급변하였을 뿐 아니라, 환경적 변화에 맞게 정책의 변화도 지속해서 이루어졌다는 것이다. 또한, 다문화가족의 양적 증가뿐 아니라, 거주 기간도 장기화되면서 초기 적응이라는 정책보다 구체적이고 포괄적인 새로운 정책 요구를 파악할 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 따라서 다문화가정 결혼이주여성들의 창업 의지에 미치는 요인들을 연구하는 것은 향후 다양한 다문화 정책 수립 및 창업, 경제활동 활성화에 있어 큰 의미가 있다. 다문화가정 결혼이주여성에 대한 창업 의지에 영향을 주는 요인에 관한 연구는 학문적으로 중요한 의미를 갖는데, 선행연구는 주로 북한이탈주민 및 다문화 이민자의 문화지능 또는 사회체제 등이 창업 의지에 영향을 미치는지 초점을 두어왔다. 본 연구의 목적은 다문화 이주민의 창업 의지에 관한 기존 선행연구들을 바탕으로 다문화가정 결혼이주여성들의 창업 의지에 영향을 미치는 요인을 실증분석해 보는 데 있는데, 해당 요인들을 파악함으로써 앞으로 다문화가정 결혼이주여성들의 창업 활성화를 위한 정부와 대학의 역할을 논의해 보고자 한다. 다문화가정 결혼이주여성들의 창업 의지에 영향을 미치는 영향은 개인적 특성(기업가정신)인 '진취성', '혁신성', '위험감수성', '기회 인식'과 긍정심리자본 특성인 '자기효능감', '희망', '회복력', '낙관주의' 등을 선정하였다. 해당 요인들을 바탕으로 수도권에 거주 중인 다문화가정 결혼이주여성들에게 설문조사를 진행하였으며, 설문조사 결과로 신뢰성 분석과 요인분석, 다중회귀 분석, 상관관계 분석 등을 통하여 본 연구에서 설계한 가설들을 검증해 보고자 한다.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2019.04a
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• pp.75-78
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• 2019

통계청의 '2018년 경력단절여성 현황'을 보면, 지난해 4월 기준으로 15~54세 기혼여성 가운데 경력단절여성은 184만7000명으로 전년 대비 1만5000명(0.8％) 늘었다. 경력단절여성의 비중도 20.5％로 1년 전보다 0.5％포인트 상승했다. 2015년 21.7％, 2016년 20.5％, 2017년 20.0％로 점차 떨어지다가 다시 반등세로 돌아섰다. 경력단절여성의 경우 재취업 성공도 힘들었다. 지난해 경력단절 후 다시 취업한 기혼여성은 1년 전보다 50만7000명(19.6％) 줄어든 208만3000명으로 2014년 통계작성 이후 가장 적었다. 경력단절 후 다시 취업한 이들의 비중도 지난해 23.1％로 최저였다. 경제활동을 시작하는 20대부터 경력을 쌓아가는 30대, 40대는 노동자의 생산성이 증폭되는 시기인데, 정작 여성은 이 연령대에 결혼 임신 출산 육아로 인해 경력이 단절되는 현실이다. 본 연구는 우리나라 경력단절여성의 자기지각, 사회적지지 및 대처행동이 취창업의지와 삶의 질에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구로 최근의 정부정책에 있어서 이슈가 되고 있는 사항들을 연구할 예정이다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.1-20
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• 2011

Although it is a limited and exploratory study, it is focused on figuring out correlations between characteristics of female CEOs who founded a company and their managerial achievements. Toward this end, the study is focused on generating such determinants as background characteristics, behavioral features and competence traits that characterize female CEOs based on previous studies and existing literature while suggesting study models and assumptions on correlations between these factors and managerial achievements and conducting empirical analyses. Results of the empirical analyses are as follows. First, regression analyses that verified relationships between background characteristics of female corporate founders and managerial achievements have found that major subjects had a significant effect, but that their experiences in corporate foundation and careers did not. Second, regression analyses that verified behavioral characteristics of female corporate CEOs and their managerial achievements have found that credibility and the motive for corporation foundation had a significant impact, but that efforts to counter risks factors did not. Third, regression analyses that verified relationships between competence features of female corporate CEOs and managerial achievements have found that managerial control capability had a significant impact, but that entrepreneurial capability and technical capability.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.129-143
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• 2020

Recently, Start-ups has been emphasized as part of a career-breaking women returning to society policy. To this Policy, the relationship between the planned happenstance skills and the entrepreneurial intentions of a career-breaking woman was investigated, and the successful role model as an individual environmental factor and the moderating effect of social support forces was verified. The results of the survey analysis of 139 women who have experienced career cut-offs in the metropolitan area and Dae-gu and Gyeong-buk are as follows; First, the planned happenstance skills of career-breaking women affect a positive effect on the entrepreneurial intentions. Second, it was found that the moderating effect of the successful role model does not appear in the relationship between the planned happenstance skills of a career-breaking woman and the entrepreneurial intentions. Third, it was found that there was no moderating effect of the social support forces in the relationship between the planned happenstance skills and the entrepreneurial intentions of a career-breaking woman. Last, It was found that the entrepreneurial intentions, which is a personal psychological characteristic for career-breaking women is more directly affected than personal environments. In order to increase career-breaking women's the entrepreneurial intentions, it is necessary to develop psychological skill-building programs which can enhance the accessibility of start-ups and raise the perception of Start-ups. In addition, it is necessary to continuously expand exposure opportunities such as role models and success stories which succeeded in starting a business after a career break and to expand social support forces that can help with courage, advice, and change management to discover opportunities of start-ups.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.61-84
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to deeply analyze the career transition experience and the essence of the entrepreneurial process of women who experienced a career break in middle age, to understand the career transition experience of women who experienced a career break in middle age, and to present a theoretical framework for the entrepreneurial settlement process. The research participants were 17 women who got a job in middle age after a career break or started a business through a career change during their career. Based on this, data were collected through in-depth interviews, and a qualitative analysis was conducted by applying the grounded theory research method proposed by Strauss and Corbin (2008, 2001). The results are as follows. First, 220 concepts, 58 subcategories, and 23 categories were derived. Second, the paradigm of the entrepreneurship process through the career transition experience of middle-aged women with a career gap was derived by setting the exhaustion of work and career identity due to decreased autonomy in uncertain jobs, and the limitations of the immediate jobs and job roles in middle age as the causal situations, and setting the employment barriers after the career gap, re-employment attempts, and job changes in middle age as the contextual situations, setting entrepreneurial efficacy and job maintenance awareness as the mediating conditions of middle-aged entrepreneurial transition, and setting entrepreneurial challenges as actions/interactions in the process of executing career transition behaviors, and setting the process of realizing entrepreneurial vision and business vision through career development. Third, the entrepreneurial decision-making process model through the career transition experience of middle-aged female entrepreneurs with a career gap was implemented in six stages: 'career gap and job maintenance stage', 'mid-aged career limitation recognition stage', 'subjective career and independent life accompanying stage', 'career transition and entrepreneurship execution stage', 'entrepreneurial career capacity building stage', and 'entrepreneurial career growth and change stage'. Fourth, the core category through the story outline was found to be 'career development and career development efforts and entrepreneurship tasks for overcoming adversity through career transition experience'. Through each category of the core category and paradigm model, the career transition experience and entrepreneurship competency performance in the entrepreneurship process of middle-aged female entrepreneurs were classified into three entrepreneurship types: entrepreneurship career development expansion type, entrepreneurship career meaning pursuit type, and entrepreneurship career stability maintenance type. This study presented what middle-aged start-up women with career interruptions actually experience in the entrepreneurship process through career transition experience. The significance of this study lies in revealing the entrepreneurship path of middle-aged women who recognize entrepreneurial efficacy by utilizing their strengths and competencies through career transition and work life after career interruption and pursue career development through the process of entrepreneurial challenge and settlement. Based on these results, the career transition experience and entrepreneurship path of middle-aged women who start a business after career interruption were discussed, and suggestions for the significance of this study and follow-up research were made.

• 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.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.113-132
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• 2019

The degree of females' participation in corporate activity has been recently increased over the world and females' participation in economic activity may be new dynamic fuel for the Korean economy that falls into the vicious cycle of low growth. Start-up, therefore, has increasingly taken attention as an opportunity for females whose careers were interrupted to re-enter the labor market. The need for studies that examine factors influencing the decision of start-up is also increased along with the increase of the ratio of females' start-up. This study aims to verify effects of the women's characteristics(women discrimination, women's role conflict) and the human networks of females whose careers were interrupted, with the intention for entrepreneurial intention, which are mediated by personal attitudes and subjective norm suggested by Ajzen's Theory of Reasoned Action, based on an empirical research. The findings show that the human networks of females have an effect on attitudes toward start-up activity and subjective norm and the woman discrimination influence the personal attitudes. In contrast, the women's role conflict have no effect on both personal attitude toward start-up activity and subjective norm. This can be supposed as an outcome resulted from the subjects' low level of conflict caused by their sex roles, on their age distribution. The relation between subjective norm and entrepreneurial Intention seemed to be moderated by their perceived strong entrepreneurial supporting policy. Their attitudes toward start-up activity were found to have a mediating effect on the relation between the women discrimination, human networks and entrepreneurial Intention, while the subjective norm only mediated the relation between human networks and entrepreneurial Intention. Based on such results, this study attempts to suggest theoretical suggestions and the direction of various entrepreneurial supporting policy for the increase and the growth of start-up of females whose careers were interrupted, in Korea.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.239-251
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• 2018

최근 들어 기업가적 활동을 촉진하는 데 있어 무엇보다도 여성의 경제활동 참여와 사회안전망 구축의 필요성이 제기되고 있는바, 본 연구에서는 사회화경험과 기업가 활동의도의 관계에 대한 맥락적 차이 규명에 초점을 두고, 이들 관계에 대한 성별의 조절 효과와 사회안전망의 삼원조절효과에 대해 규명하고자 한다. 본 연구 목적은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 사회화경험(창업경험, 기업가정신 교육경험)이 기업가 활동의도에 미치는 효과를 규명하고, 이들 관계에 대한 성별의 조절효과를 검증한다. 둘째, 사회화경험 및 기업가정신 교육과 기업가 활동의도의 관계에 대한 성별 조절효과가 사회안전망과 같은 국가 맥락적 차이가 존재하는지에 대해 삼원상호작용 분석을 통해 검증한다. 상기 연구목적을 달성하기 위해 본 연구는 (재)한국청년기업가정신재단에서 제공한 글로벌 기업가정신 추세 리포트(GETR) 자료를 활용하였다. GETR자료는 한국을 포함한 총 20개국(한국, 일본, 중국, 인도네시아, 인도, 싱가포르, 런던, 독일, 러시아, 덴마크, 핀란드, 영국, UAE, 이스라엘, 남아공, 터키, 이집트, 미국, 브라질, 칠레, 호주)을 대상으로 국가별 최소 2,000명을 표본으로 선정해 설문조사가 이루어진 자료이며, 유효 응답자 기준 총 40,388명이 설문에 응답하였다. 그러나 자료 검증과정에서 전체 응답자 중 2,506명이 불성실 응답자 및 이상치로 확인되어 최종 분석과정에서 삭제되었다. 따라서 37,882개의 표본이 최종 분석에 활용되었으며, 여성 17,997명 (47.5%), 남성 19,885명(52.5%)으로 확인되었다. 분석 도구는 Hayes의 Process를 활용하여 사회화 및 교육, 성별, 성별 격차의 삼원상호작용 효과에 대한 분석이 이루어졌다. 분석 결과, 첫째, 창업경험 및 기업가정신 교육경험은 기업가 활동의도에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 이들 관계에 대한 성별 조절효과를 살펴본 결과, 성별 조절효과는 기업가정신 교육경험과 기업가 활동의도의 관계에 대해서만 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 구체적으로, 기업가정신 교육경험이 기업가 활동의도에 미치는 긍정적 효과는 여성이 남성보다 더 강한 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로, 사회안전망의 삼원조절효과를 분석한 결과, 창업경험과 기업가 활동의도의 긍정적 관계는 여성이 남성보다 더 강한 것으로 나타났는데, 이러한 효과는 사회안전망이 높은 집단에서 더 높게 나타나는 것으로 확인되었다. 즉, 과거 창업경험이 있는 여성은 사회안전망이 높다고 인식할 경우 과거 창업경험이 있는 남성보다 기업가 활동의도가 더 많이 증가하는 것이다. 이와 관련된 논의는 본문에 제시하였다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.65-76
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• 2020

This study analyzed the impact of women's self-preservation on their intention to start a business by using self-efficacy as a mediation, reflecting the importance of women's self-preservation to adapt to the new environment of start-up. In particular, in addition to the overall self-preservation, the sub-factors of behavioral delay, compensatory natural strategy, and constructive thinking strategy were also validated. As a research method, 198 people who responded to the online survey were analyzed using Model 4 of the PROCESS macro proposed by Hayes(2018), and indirect effects were analyzed by designating 5,000 bootstrapping samples. The findings were as follows. First, self-efficacy has been shown to have a mediating effect in which women's self-preservation influences their intention to start a business. At this time, the medium effect was shown as a partial medium. Second, the sense of self-efficacy was found to have a mediating effect on women's behavior-oriented strategies affecting their intention to start a business. At this time, the medium effect was shown as a partial medium. Third, self-efficacy was found to have a mediating effect in which women's natural compensatory strategies affect their intention to start a business. At this time, the medium effect was shown as a partial medium. Fourth, self-efficacy was found to have a mediating effect in which women's constructive thinking strategies affect their intention to start a business. At this time, the medium effect was shown as a complete medium. This shows that the higher a woman's self-preservation, the higher her self-efficacy and willingness to start a business. Based on the results of these studies, he made a developed proposal for women's start-ups.