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Relationship between Innovation Performance and R&D Investment: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation

과거 혁신성과와 R&D 투자 간의 관계와 기업가 지향성의 매개효과에 대한 연구

  • Han, Su-Kyeong (College of Business Administration, Konkuk University) ;
  • Yoo, Jae-Wook (College of Business Administration, Konkuk University) ;
  • Kim, Choo-Yeon (College of Business Administration, Konkuk University)
  • 한수경 (건국대학교 일반대학원 경영학과) ;
  • 유재욱 (건국대학교 경영대학 경영학과) ;
  • 김추연 (건국대학교 경영대학 경영학과)
  • Received : 2017.07.27
  • Accepted : 2017.09.20
  • Published : 2017.09.30
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Abstract

Looking into the top-five innovative sectors in Korea's manufacturing and service industries, this study empirically analyzes the effect of innovation performance on R&D investment, which is one of the most important strategic decisions for corporate management. In the midst of an uncertain business environment, R&D investment has been regarded as the most important strategic decision making in corporate management related to innovation. Corporate management, however, tend to be reluctant to make sufficient R&D investment due to the risk of an investment failure. Therefore, having R&D investment by offsetting this risk has been deemed as a key task for corporate management. However, prior studies have failed to identify which factors affect companies' strategic decision making on R&D investment. This study is to remedy this weakness of prior study. Relying on path dependency theory at organization-level and dominant logic at individual-level, this study empirically examines the multiple regression model, which sees entrepreneurial orientation as a positive mediator between innovation performance and R&D investment. The results found in the analysis of 242 local companies in the manufacturing and service sectors represent that innovation performance has a direct and positive effect on R&D investment, while it indirectly affects R&D investment through the mediating roles of entrepreneurial orientation. They also revealed that innovation performance had a meaningful impact on entrepreneurial orientation, which is an inclination to seek innovation, led to R&D investment. The founding of this study imply that innovation performance in the past affects innovation strategies in the future, and such a relationship could be strengthened by entrepreneurial orientation as the dominant logic of corporate management.

4차 산업혁명의 도래와 함께 급변하는 환경에 대응하기 위한 기업의 적극적인 연구개발(R&D) 투자의 중요성은 한층 더 강조되고 있다. 하지만 대리인이론의 주장에 따르면 성과창출을 위해 오랜 기간이 요구되고 마케팅, 공정개선 등의 다른 투자들과 비교할 때 상대적으로 높은 실패 위험을 내포하는 특성으로 인하여 경영자들은 R&D 투자를 소홀히 하는 경향을 나타내기 쉽다. 이를 극복하기 위해 R&D 투자에 대한 의사결정에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 조직과 개인 수준의 다차원적 요소들의 영향을 파악하고, 이를 적극적으로 기업운영에 반영하는 것이 지속가능한 경쟁우위 창출을 위한 핵심과제로 부각되고 있다. 하지만 어떠한 요소들이 이 같은 전략적 의사결정에 영향을 미치는지에 대한 선행연구는 매우 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기업의 과거 성과창출 방식의 경로 의존적 영향과 경영자 개인 수준의 지배적 논리가 R&D 투자에 대한 의사결정에 중대한 영향을 미치는 핵심요소들이 될 수 있다는 이론적 주장에 근거하여, 기업가 지향성이 기업의 과거 혁신성과와 R&D 투자 간의 관계를 부분 매개하는 연구모형을 제시하고, 이를 242개 국내 제조업과 서비스 기업들을 대상으로 한 실증연구를 통해 검증하였다. 분석결과에 따르면 연구 모델과 가설들에서 예상했던 바와 같이 국내 기업들의 과거 혁신성과는 R&D 투자에 직접적인 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 기업가 지향성은 혁신성과와 R&D 투자의 관계를 부분 매개하는 것으로 나타났는데, 이는 기업의 과거 성과가 경영자 개인 수준의 지배적 논리를 강화하고, 이는 다시 기업의 의사결정에 영향을 미칠 수 있다는 주장을 뒷받침하는 실증적 분석결과이다. 과거 혁신성과가 기업의 경로의존성에 의해 미래의 혁신전략에 영향을 미칠 수 있고, 이 같은 관계가 경영자의 지배적 논리를 통해 영향 받을 수 있다는 본 연구의 분석결과는 기업들이 환경변화에 부합하는 충분한 R&D투자를 이끌어내기 위하여 경영자의 지배적 논리라는 개인수준의 요소와 기업의 과거성과라는 조직수준의 요소를 조화롭게 활용해야 한다는 사실을 시사하고 있다.

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