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

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises' Entrepreneurial Performance: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Knowledge Position

기업가지향성이 중소기업의 기업가적 성과에 미치는 영향: 기업가정신 지식역량의 매개효과 분석

  • Received : 2019.02.13
  • Accepted : 2019.04.22
  • Published : 2019.04.30
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Abstract

Responding to the prior studies' call for further investigating the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance, this study proposes a partially mediated model of entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial knowledge position, and firm performance. Survey responses from 3,324 small- and medium-enterprises in South Korea are analyzed to identify a partially mediating role of an organization's entrepreneurial knowledge position. A firm's innovativeness both directly affects its innovation performance and knowledge position in positive ways. On the other hand, risk-taking firms only positively affects knowledge position, whereas a firm's proactiveness positively affects its performance while negatively affecting its entrepreneurial knowledge position. Neither autonomy nor competitiveness show any statistically significant relationships to either entrepreneurial knowledge position or firm performance. A firm's knowledge position is strongly and positively related to its performance. The findings of this study contributes to the research stream of entrepreneurial orientation by delineating the partially mediating role of a firm's knowledge position.

본 연구에서는 기업가지향성이 조직의 기업가적 성과에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 조직의 기업가정신 지식역량의 매개효과를 통해 분석하였다. 국내 3,324개의 중소기업을 대상으로 한 2017년 기업가정신실태조사 기업편의 설문조사 응답 자료를 토대로 분석한 결과, 기업의 혁신성은 기업가적 성과에 직접적인 정(+)의 영향을 미침과 동시에 기업가정신 지식역량에도 긍정적인 영향을 미친다. 위험감수는 지식역량에만 긍정적인 영향을 미치고, 진취성은 기업가적 성과에는 직접적인 정(+)의 영향을 미치는데 반해 기업가정신 지식역량에는 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 자주성과 경쟁성은 기업가정신 지식역량과 조직의 기업가적 성과에 모두 통계적으로 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 분석되었다. 기업가정신 지식역량은 조직의 기업가적 성과에 강한 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 분석 결과는 기업가지향성과 조직 성과의 상관관계 모형을 보다 구체화할 필요가 있다는 선행연구의 제언에 응답한 것으로, 기업가지향성은 조직의 지식역량, 즉, 기업가정신을 추구하기 위한 관련 전문 지식을 보유한 인력 및 지원 프로그램과 이러한 지식자원을 종합하고 재조합하여 활용하는 역량의 선행요인으로, 기업의 혁신성, 위험감수, 그리고 진취성을 통해 조직의 지식역량이 향상되어 결과적으로 기업이 보다 우월한 기업가적 성과를 도출하는 데 이바지하는 것으로 이해할 수 있다.

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