Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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Effects in Response to on the Innovation Activities of SMEs to Dynamic Core Competencies and Business Performance

중소기업의 혁신활동이 핵심역량과 기업성과에 미치는 영향

  • Ahn, Jung-Ki (The Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University) ;
  • Kim, beom-seok (The Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University)
  • 안중기 (호서대학교 정보경영학과) ;
  • 김범석 (호서대학교 정보경영학과)
  • Received : 2018.11.15
  • Accepted : 2018.04.17
  • Published : 2018.04.30
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Abstract

In the rapidly to change global market in recent years, as the era of merging and integrating industries and the evolution of technology have come to an era in which everything can not be solved as a single company, it is evolving into competition for the enterprise network rather than the competition for the enterprise unit. In a competitive business environment, it is necessary to provide not only for the efforts as an individual companies but also the mutual development efforts to enhance output through the innovation activities based on the interrelationship with the business partners. In spite of the recent efforts and research through core competencies and innovation activities, some of business activities were unable to achieve enough progress in business performance and this study mainly focused to improve business performance for those companies. This study targeted CEOs and Directors who participates in "manufacturing performance innovation partnership project" carried by The foundation of Large, SMEs, Agriculture, Fisheries cooperation Korea and studied the influences of innovation activities to the core competencies and business performance. Detailed variables in this study were extracted from the previous research and used for verification. The study is designed to determine the influence of individual innovation activities to the core competencies and business performance. Innovation activities as a parameter, the relationship between core competencies and business performance was examined. In the examination of the innovation activities as a meditated effect, those activities carried by SMEs (Collaboration in Technology, Manufacturing, and Management innovations with Large Scale Business) through partnership in manufacturing innovation is significantly related business performance. Therefore, the result reveals that the individual SMEs are having own limitation in the achievement of significant progress in business performance with their own capabilities, and using the innovation activities act as catalyst through the collaboration with large scale businesses would result significant progress in business performance. Mutual effort in collaborative innovation activities between large scale businesses and SMEs is one of the most critical issues in recent years in Korea and the main focus of this study is to provide analysis which demonstrates where the SMEs are required to focus in their innovation activities.

최근 급변하는 글로벌 시장에서 융복합 산업의 시대와 기술의 진보가 모든 기업을 단일 기업으로 해결할 수 없는 시대로 접어들면서 기업 단위의 경쟁보다는 네트워크 경쟁으로 변화하고 있다. 경쟁적 기업 환경에서는 기업의 개별적 노력뿐만 아니라 파트너들과의 발전적인 상호 혁신활동을 통해 서로의 성과를 높이는 노력이 절실하다. 최근 핵심 역량이나 혁신활동을 통해 기업의 연구와 운용에 활용 했음에도 불구하고 기업성과에 도출하지 못하는 기업들이 존재함에 주목하여 연구를 시작하였다. 본 연구는 대 중소기업농어업협력재단에서 수행하는 "생산성혁신파트너십사업"에 참여하는 경영자 또는 책임자를 대상으로 혁신활동이 핵심역량과 기업성과에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 변수의 세부 요인별로 기존 연구에서 검증된 항목을 발췌하여 검정하였으며, 중소기업의 혁신활동이 핵심역량과 기업성과에 미치는 영향을 규명하였다. 혁신활동을 매개변수로 핵심역량과 기업성과 간의 관계를 검정하였다. 혁신활동의 매개 효과에 대한 검정에서 이러한 중소기업의 혁신활동(대기업과의 기술, 제조, 경영혁신 활동)이 생산성혁신 파트너십을 통해서 핵심역량이 기업성과에 유의한 영향을 있는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 중소기업 스스로의 역량으로는 기업성과를 이루기가 어려우며, 대기업과 협력관계를 활용한 혁신활동의 매개적인 역할이 기업성과가 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 대기업과 중소기업 간 상생협력 혁신활동은 무엇보다 중요한 이슈이며, 실증분석을 통해 이를 검정했다는 것이 본 논문의 의의라고 말할 수 있다.

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