• International Journal of Contents
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2012

Since MegaStudy started e-learning business for Korean high school students, the Korean e-learning industry began to expand and steadily gain attention. This paper focused on the analysis of the development of the Korean e-learning business for teens and the growth of MegaStudy. The three institutional mechanisms were used to examine the factors that aided the development of the business. The regulatory mechanism was the government policy to prevent the expansion of the offline private education sector, which greatly aided the growth of the e-learning business. The mimetic mechanism was the notion to mimic the characteristics of the Korean e-business initiatives. The normative mechanism involved the widespread social norm suggesting that every student should be given an equal opportunity of private education. This paper also examined the case of MegaStudy as a successful case of the e-learning companies. It analyzed the business model of MegaStudy, which is based on its advantage as the front-runner and its high-quality contents and services.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.399-409
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• 2021

The demographic characteristics of a leader are important for small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several researchers have proven that demographic characteristics affect business success. Unfortunately, business success has only been analyzed from a financial perspective and has not been compared to the owner's interests perspective. This study examines business success from both perspectives. This study aims to analyze the demographic characteristics of small entrepreneurs and their impact on business success. Demographics consist of age, experience, education, and gender. Meanwhile, business success is seen from two perspectives: financial performance and the owner's interest. The study used an explanatory survey method. The number of samples is 155 entrepreneurs who are also the leaders of their businesses. The research was conducted in Bandung City, Indonesia, in 2021. The data was processed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression. The study results found that age only affects financial performance. Experience is proven to affect financial performance and the interests of the owner. Gender only affects the interests of the owner. This study concludes that in difficult times such as the COVID-19 pandemic, having young leaders who are experienced will make it easier to achieve business success.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.101-114
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• 2019

E-business enables SMEs to reduce transaction costs and maintain export competitiveness in rapidly changing overseas markets. It is required to raise the entrepreneurial awareness of e-business of exporting SMEs. This study examines the characteristics of enterprises that play an important role in the introduction and utilization of e-business by domestic export SMEs. It explores the mechanisms that search and exploit these opportunities in an entrepreneurial way, and examines the process leading to export performance. We conducted a survey for empirical analysis and analyzed the data from 316 companies using e-business in Korea. As a result, both the international entrepreneurial orientation and the IT competence tended to be significant for the perception of e-business entrepreneurs and showed a different pattern in terms of size of influence. In addition, cooperation and operation among e-business entrepreneurs' perceptions have a direct impact on the export performance of SMEs.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2023

This study aims to find the better working environment for the start-ups by tracking and analyzing the data from the firms that have occupied in the business incubator and also the firm that already left the business incubator. To do so, a total of the sixteen firms were responded and ten out of the sixteen were the firm that have occupied in the business incubator and the rest six were the firm already left. Based on the response, the positive things that they earned from the business incubator were renting an office or higher levels of technical skills; however, the negative things were low operating profit can be negative. The results of this study can contribute to the development of the business incubator for the future. The further study regarding satisfaction survey might help to build more creative and constructive environment for the business incubator.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2023

This study aims to find satisfactory or unsatisfactory factors that startups either currently being occupied in or already left the business incubator made in a survey with a total of the sixteen firms responded. Among the sixteen, ten were the firms that have occupied in the business incubator and the six firms left the incubator. Mostly, the firms were satisfied with the incubator's roles with showing 4.4 satisfaction. The support for business facilities were the number one factor for the incubator has to do with the firms had positive answers from the firms. However, support for the production or sales showed less satisfaction compared to business facilities, a need that the incubator should improve the roles for the future. The results of this study can contribute to the development of medium and long-term plans for the business incubator.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.75-104
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• 2016

Purpose The business ecosystem perspective offers a new lens in which to view customers. Customers as the member of business ecosystems influence firms by participating in both the firm level activities and the business ecosystem level activities. For example, customers participate in the business ecosystems by forming interest groups, allowing their voice to be heard the within business ecosystems. Customers can also, turn public opinion around and foster the business ecosystems favorable to firms. On the other hand, as an extreme case of customer participation, customers can engage in community activities to boycott the purchase of products or services from certain firms or business ecosystems. Design/methodology/approach This study views content creation and feedback activities as customer participation in the firm level. On the other hand, word-of-mouth (WOM) and boycott activities are considered as customer participation in the business ecosystem level. This study presents a research model regarding the relationships among customer socialization, customer participation, and psychological ownership. The proposed model is validated through an empirical analysis on online platform business ecosystems. Findings When the two business ecosystems are compared, different results were drawn. In the Facebook ecosystem, boycott and psychological ownership did not have a significant relationship. However, in the Kakao ecosystem, the two had a significant positive relationship. The mediating effect of the business ecosystem type sheds a light on the mission, purpose, vision, and other values associated with the theory of the business on the customer-firm relationship. Further implications for theory and practice were discussed in this study.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.711-724
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• 2017

The purpose of this research is to go beyond the policy support of the traditional sixth industry and to build a business model of the farmers' business by establishing the business model of the establishment of the sixth industry utilizing agricultural products of individual farmers. First, we defined the business model of the 6th agricultural industry, and secondly set up two models via FGI based on the 9 block model of BMC (Business Model Canvas), and applied feasibility, cost appropriate, differentiation point Through the establishment of hard-working business, sales consolidation, consumer-centric model set. Third, using the Delphi method in each area of 9 Block, the final 21 components were set. Through this BMC model, it was shown that discrimination and accessibility are important factors in the 6th agricultural field foundation business model.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.1-38
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• 2019

Given capital market imperfections, an entrepreneur can alleviate financial frictions by creating a pyramidal business group in which a parent firm offers its subsidiary firm internal finance. This endogenous creation of pyramidal business groups can beget asymmetric financial frictions between business-group firms and stand-alone firms. I build a model to show that these asymmetric financial frictions can have sizable effects on resource allocation. On one hand, the financial advantage of pyramidal business groups can foster productive firms by incorporating them as subsidiaries. On the other hand, the asymmetrically large amount of external capital controlled by pyramidal business groups can be expended by unproductive business-group firms and push up the equilibrium price of capital. The model suggests that with fine investor protection or low financial frictions, the benefits of pyramidal business groups can be dominated by their costs because the probability of fostering productive subsidiaries diminishes as the efficiency of external capital markets improves, while the prevalence of pyramidal business groups is not attenuated due to their continuing asymmetric financial advantage.

• 정보학연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.41-53
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• 2006

E-business managers must make a profit on the goods and services they sell. But e-business retailers are still searching for strategies that work. To test current practices, we became 'phantom shoppers' and bought a randomly chosen set of CDs from a variety of E-business manager. Our findings suggest that order management and logistics skills are pivotal for selling profitably on the Website. In this article, we show how e-business managers can deploy resources creatively to attract the right shoppers, convert these shoppers into buyers, and improve the chances of repeat purchase while maintaining profit margins.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2024

우리는 현대 사회에서 중요한 역할을 하는 소상공인의 성공 요인을 깊이 있게 조사하고 분석하여, 그들의 경영 성과에 미치는 요인들을 명확하게 이해하려는 노력을 기울였다. 우리는 소상공인의 경영 역량, 정부 지원 서비스, 그리고 정책 지원 자금의 이용 여부를 주요 변수로 설정하였다. 우리의 연구 결과, 소상공인의 경영 역량과 정부 지원 서비스는 그들의 경영 성과에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다는 사실을 발견하였다. 이는 소상공인들이 자신의 역량을 강화하고, 정부의 지원 서비스를 효율적으로 활용함으로써 경영 성과를 향상시킬 수 있음을 의미한다. 정책 지원 자금의 이용 여부는 정부 지원 서비스가 재무 성과에 미치는 영향에만 조절 효과를 보일 뿐, 다른 경영 성과에는 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 정책 지원 자금의 이용이 필요하긴 하지만, 그 자체만으로는 충분하지 않으며, 다른 변수들과 복합적으로 작용해야 효과를 볼 수 있음을 시사한다. 우리의 연구는 소상공인의 성공을 위한 새로운 방향성을 제시하였다. 이 연구를 통해 소상공인 및 관련 정책 결정자들은 어떤 요인들이 소상공인의 경영 성과에 영향을 미치는지, 그리고 어떻게 이러한 요인들을 효과적으로 관리하고 활용할 수 있는지에 대해 깊은 통찰을 얻을 수 있을 것이다. 이 연구는 기업 경영 및 소상공인에 대한 학문적 연구에 중요한 기여를 하였다. 소상공인의 성공 요인에 대한 깊은 이해를 통해, 이들의 경영 성과를 향상시키는 데 도움이 될 수 있는 새로운 연구 방향성과 전략을 제시하였다. 이러한 노력은 소상공인의 사회적, 경제적 가치를 높이는 데 한걸음 더 나아가는 계기가 될 것이다.