• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.113-125
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• 2017

In today's highly competitive environment, the importance of technology protection cannot be overemphasized. To evaluate technology protection competency of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises(SMEs), Government has conducted surveys every year but its effectiveness is still in question. To enhance the effectiveness of technology protection for SMEs, a customized evaluation model of technology protection competency has been suggested in this study. Surveys are conducted to measure the relative importance of evaluation areas that can be influenced by the size and type of business. The analysis shows that there exists significant differences between evaluation areas. This study suggests that the effectiveness of technology protection can be enhanced by utilizing a customized evaluation model depending on the size and type of business. Also, the proposed model can be used for SMEs to identify and enhance their weakness in technology protection. Overall, it is expected that the proposed model can be effectively used to protect valuable technologies in various SMEs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1309-1318
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• 2014

In the past few years, data leakage of information assets has become a prominent social issue. According to the National Industrial Security Center in South Korea, 71 percent who suffer from technology leakage are small and medium sized enterprises. Hence, establishment and operation of ISMS (Information Security Management System) for small and medium sized enterprises become an important issue. Since it is not easy to obtain ISMS certification for a small or medium sized enterprise by itself, consultation with an expert firm in information security is necessary before the security implementation. However, how to select a proper security consulting company for a small or medium sized firm has not been studied yet. In this study, we analyze empirically the selection factors of ISMS certification consulting company for a small or medium sized firm through exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Our study identified the following four important factors in selecting a security consulting company: expertise of the staffs and human resource management proficiency, market leading capability, competence to make progress during the consultation, and the performance and the size of the physical assets and human resources.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.73-82
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of financial structure on management performance for financial consulting through 562 small and medium sized enterprises in GyeongIn area. Meanwhile, the independent variables are non current assets ratio, total assets turnover ratio and debt ratio, the dependent variables are operating profit on sale and net profit on equity. Generally speaking, the financial structure have a positive effects on management performance.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.7-12
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• 2012

The objectivity of this study is to analyze why revocation of certification of Information Management System(IMS) increase in small and medium-sized enterprises. In this study, the main causes of revocation is the correlation between customers and enterprises. In other words, the decreases of request of customer to IMS bring about the decreases of interest of enterprises. As a result, enterprises don't feel the need of IMS, which cause revocation of IMS. This study will be helpful in improving IMS for small and medium-sized enterprises to avail themselves of the system.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.1244-1257
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• 2016

Recently, the export for SMEs is the main issue as the successful key for enterprises. For this reason, Many SMEs want to try the export and the supports are provided by government. This phenomenon reflects that the export should be necessary to SMEs, even other enterprises. This study analyzes 6 enterprises (Enterprise of middle standing: 2, SMEs:4) to research the main factors for export using the interview and survey. The result provides 5 implications for the export of SMEs in Busan Region. In summary, we can provide 3 main proposes for the export of SMEs. 1) The differentiation of various support that can be a real help to SMEs, 2) The differentiation of education on exports. 3) The simplification for the complex administrative procedures about export.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.19-40
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• 2024

This study was conducted to empirically analyze the impact of environmental factors on small and medium-sized enterprises' intention to adopt digital transformation. A research model was derived for empirical analysis. Environmental factors were subdivided into independent variables, including industrial competitive pressure, labor shortage, government support, and lack of financial resources, with CEO's perception serving as a moderating variable. A survey targeted executives and employees of small and medium-sized enterprises, and 240 valid responses were selected for analysis. The structural equation method using Amos 24 was employed for the empirical analysis. The findings indicated that industrial competitive pressure and government support had a significant positive influence on the intention to adopt digital transformation, while lack of financial resources had a significant negative effect. The significance of labor shortage was not tested. The order of influence on the intention to adopt was government support, industrial competitive pressure, and lack of financial resources. In terms of the impact of industrial competitive pressure and lack of financial resources on the intention of small and medium enterprises to adopt digital transformation, it was found that in groups with low CEO perception, the lack of financial resources had a negative effect. On the other hand, in the case of the group with high perception, industrial competitive pressure was found to have a significant positive effect. These research results were academically meaningful as they produced significant findings by focusing on environmental factors among the various factors that affect the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. Practically, it can be said that the importance of the role of top management in small and medium-sized enterprises was emphasized anew

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.347-376
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• 2023

This study empirically examines the impacts of policy funds from three different aspects using data on Daegu city's local government loans. First, we estimate the influence of policy funds on mitigating financial constraints affecting the investment decisions of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), yielding inconclusive results indicating no significant discernible effects of policy funds. Second, we scrutinize the ramifications of policy funds on enterprise's management stability, revealing that these funds contribute to stabilizing the operations of small-scale enterprises. Third, we explore whether policy funds engender an unintended consequence of bolstering distressed enterprises, presenting empirical evidence that suggests a delayed exit of such enterprises.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.351-362
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• 2014

A prerequisite for improving the quality of a product is to enhance the quality of its parts supplied from outsourced enterprises. An enterprise certified by ISO 9001 Quality Management System is expected to develop their effective quality assurance system and maintain it through continuous control and improvement, thereby ensuring the good quality of products that they produce. However, it is reported that small and medium-sized enterprises certified by ISO 9001 have difficulty establishing an effective quality assurance system. This study aims to propose a new method of improving a quality assurance system that can be more effective in small and medium-sized enterprises. This study collectively considered requirements specified in several international standards on quality system and the results of expert group brainstorming to identify evaluation areas and items for assessing a quality assurance system. Based on these evaluation areas and items, a set of checklists for diagnosing and improving a quality assurance system was developed. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed method, this study applied it to ten small and medium-sized enterprises and could identify four approaches for improving their current quality assurance system. The presented improvement method, which consists of establishment of quality goals and quality innovation plan, defective products corrective activities, 4M and design change process, improvement of customer quality information management, is expected to be utilized as a useful tool for the enhancement of the quality assurance system of small and medium-sized enterprises.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.606-610
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• 1991

A relay is the one of small electrical components for automobiles and used for industry widely. We have developed the automation system for relay assembly and test to make it improve the productivity and decrease the man power. In order to determine the objective process of automation, we investigated 6 small and medium sized-enterprises and 1 greate sized-enterprise producing relays. And, we selected 2 model enterprises of them. One of the two is the system to develop. The scope of our study is the analyse of the conventional workcell, the determination of the system specification, the design of the system layout, the determination of the system cycle time, the design of the system mechanism, and the development of the controller for the system. We think that the developed system may be solve the technical and the economical problems interrupted efficiential automation of domastic small and medium sized-enterprises, and improve the international competitive power.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.289-292
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• 2003

SME's (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) have limited resources to build information systems on their own. We suggest what government need to do to support SME's, which includes establishing a one-stop service center, outsourcing of public service, and triggering strategy In order for the government support to be effective, it should serve SME's needs continuously and professionally.