Recently, ESG management has become a global trend, receiving increasing attention from stakeholders such as consumers, investors, and governments, as regulations related to ESG disclosure and supply chain due diligence have been strengthened since the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (UN PRI) was announced in 2006. ESG is an acronym for the environment (E), social (S), and governance (G) and is accepted as a key factor for the continuous survival and growth of a company. As a result, there are over 600 ESG management evaluation indicators operated domestically and internationally, and numerous global initiatives have emerged. Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy also announced “K-ESG Guidelines (December 2011)” and “K-ESG Guidelines for Supply Chain Response (December 22)” to help SMEs introduce ESG management and respond to supply chain due diligence. However, small-scale manufacturing companies with poor financial, human resources, and technological capabilities face significant challenges in introducing ESG management. Accordingly, this study aims to examine the current status of ESG management adoption in small-scale manufacturing companies with less than 150 people in Korea and propose activation plan ESG management based on the diagnostic requirements of the “Supply Chain Response K-ESG Guidelines.”

The growth and employment effects of R&D investment were analyzed according to business size, export value and manufacturing sectors so as to suggest improvement directions for effective industry policies. The effect of R&D investment was considered simultaneously from the two perspectives of growth and employment effect, and the causality analysis was carried out by using a path analysis. The result of the path analysis confirmed significant differences in the growth effect of R&D investment depending on business size. However, the effect of increasing employment was difficult to obtain statistically significant results for any various combinations of business size and export value. This is a mixture of directions for the effects of R&D investment on employment, which could be due to the failure to consider appropriate time lags between investment and effect. Efficiency analysis by industry sectors confirmed significant differences in efficiency depending on business size, but differences depending on export value were difficult to identify. In order to derive improvement policy by industry sector according to business size and export value, the direction of selective support policy and universal support policy was derived for six industry groups by combining the return to scale in the efficiency analysis and R&D concentration. Hirschman-Herfindahl index is used for calculating R&D concentration.

본 연구는 기업이 보유한 브랜드 강화역량, 최고경영자 역량, 글로벌 학습역량이 수출규모에 어떤 영향을 미치 는지를 한국패션의류기업들을 대상으로 분석하고 있다. 2007년부터 2014년까지 한국 패션기업들의 기업-연도 패널 데이터를 대상으로 연구한 결과, 브랜드 강화 역량 측면에서 디자인특허 역량이 높고 해외 제품상 수상 경 험이 있으면 기업의 수출규모가 높게 나타났다. 또한 최고경영자 역량 측면에서 최고경영자가 패션관련 전공자이 거나, 해외경험이 있는 경우 수출규모가 높게 나타났고, 글로벌 학습역량 측면에서 해외 제휴 수가 많은 경우 수 출규모가 높게 나타났다. 본 연구는 패션의류산업의 산업적 특성을 고려하여 성공적인 수출규모증대 전략을 도출 하기 위해 필요한 기업 내부역량을 중점으로 의미 있는 이론적, 실무적 시사점을 제시하고 있다.

Most Korean companies in the fashion industry are SMEs, and the role of the CEO and management ownership is important for enhancing the firm’s competence and developing strategies. The study aims to examine the effect of management ownership on company financial growth. In particular, the study focuses on the moderating effect of company age and size on Korean fashion SMEs’ financial outcomes. Financial data based on company financial statements from 2012 to 2014 was collected by the Data Analysis, Retrieval and Transfer System of Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service. A total of 295 companies’ (domestic fashion businesses) data was analyzed by the bootstrap method. The median sales value in the financial year 2014 was 47,492,403,958 KRW, and the company size was divided by it. The companies were in business for an average of 20 years. According to the results, the management ownership had a negative effect on Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) for the three-years, and the relationship between the two variables was moderated by company age. Additionally, the interaction effect of management ownership and company age on 3-CAGR was also moderated by company size. When the companies had spent only a few years in business, a negative effect of management ownership for small firms and a positive effect of management ownership on financial growth for medium firms were found. These results suggest that small companies starting business need to manage their company governance structure to make flexible decisions, and after retaining financial growth, the companies can expand their businesses based on strong ownership.

The Purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of various internal and external innovation activities of SMEs on their innovation performances in the field of electronics and communication industry. Drawing upon the literature review, internal and external innovation activities are defined and conceptualized, and independent, dependent and moderator variables are developed. We have used survey-based data for this study from the survey of technology innovation activities in manufacturing industry, which was conducted by the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) in 2010. The main result of this study shows that there were no significant differences in the impact of innovation activities on market performance according to the size of SMEs. On the other hands, we found that there were significant differences in the impact of innovation activities on technological innovation performance according to the size of SMEs. Therefore, in order to make high technological innovation performance, companies in the field of electronics and communication industry need to properly implement the internal and external innovation activities by considering their size.

The core ingredient of traditional Korean style soy sauce is soy bean without any wheat or rice incorporated. National brands as well as regional micro-brewed companies constitute the soy sauce market in Korea. The present study investigated the physico-chemical and sensory properties of soy sauces produced by small-scale or mass-production. Additionally, the key physico-chemical parameters sufficiently representing the critical sensory characteristics have been identified. Ten types of soy sauce brewed by the Korean traditional method were selected for the study. Among these samples, seven types were brewed in small-scales in the Gyeonggi-do region whereas the other 3 types were mass-production products of major national brands. The total solid, reducing sugar, salinity, sugar content, amino nitrogen, CIELAB, acidity, and pH of soy sauce samples were measured for the physico-chemical analysis. A generic descriptive analysis was conducted to analyze the sensory characteristics of the samples using six trained panelists. The descriptive panel developed 21 sensory attributes. The data were statistically analyzed using ANOVA, PCA and PLSR. Overall, the micro-brewed products showed significantly higher value of salinity and acidity but lower content of reducing sugar than the mass-production products. The micro-brewed soy sauces elicited stronger fermented flavor, sourness, and bitterness whereas the national brand products elicited stronger alcoholic odor, sweetness and umami taste. Sugar content, acidity, and amino nitrogen showed strong relationships with fish sauce flavor, umami taste, and rich flavor. Salinity was closely related to the overall flavor intensity.

기업의 기술혁신활동에 관한 연구는 그 동안 제조업을 중심으로 상당부분 축적되어 왔지만, 서비스업에 관한 연구는 아직까지 충분하지 못하다. 이에 본 연구는 2001～ 2010년 동안의 서비스업을 대상으로 내생성 통제에 효과적인 GMM방법을 이용하여 슘페터가설 중 하나인 기업규모가 기술혁신활동에 미치는 영향에 대해 심층적으로 살펴보았다. 분석결과 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 첫째, 세부업종에 따라 기술혁신활동이 활발한 업종과 활발하지 못한 업종이 구분되었다. 이는 서비스업 전체를 공급자 지배형으로 취급하여 서비스업에서는 기술혁신활동이 거의 없다는 Pavitt(1984)의 견해와는 다른 결과이다. 둘째, 기업규모와 기술혁신활동 간의 관계는 업종에 따라 U자형 모형이 일부 지지되기도, 지지되지 않기도 하였다. 셋째, 업종에 따라서 무형자산이 많을수록, 부채규모가 적을수록, 수출비중이 클수록 기술혁신활동을 더욱 촉진되는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 기업규모의 대리변수에 따라 기술혁신활동 간의 관계가 민감하게 반응하여, 기업규모 변수를 어떻게 사용할지에 따라 기업규모와 기술혁신활동 간의 관계성이 변화가 있음을 확인 하였다. 본 연구는 기존의 연구들과 비교하여 두 가지 차별점을 갖는다. 첫째는 슘페터 가설과 관련된 기존 연구 대부분이 제조업을 대상으로 이루어진 것과 달리 본 연구는 기술혁신의 필요성이 높아져가고 있는 서비스업을 대상으로 했다는 점이다. 둘째, 슘페터 가설 및 서비스업의 기술혁신 요인분석 등의 기존 연구 대다수가 오슬로매뉴얼에 따른 국가별 기술혁신조사를 기반으로 횡단면 분석으로 추정한데 반해, 본 연구는 10여년 기간의 기업 재무데이터를 수집하여 패널자료를 구성한 후 내생성 문제를 통제하여 추정했다는 점에서 연구의 차별성을 찾아 볼 수 있다.

The purpose of this study is to observe effect on a result of a business performance depending on the business scale and the success factors of quality. Verified hypothesis of the quality of success factors and business performance are conducted in order

The purpose of this study is to examine the actual condition of environment conscious logistics system which is essential to make material recycling economic society. Environment conscious logistics management which means simple recycling tends to promote material reduction, reuse and recycling. We have made some case studies about advanced environment conscious logistics system. To examine Korean companies,' environment-conscious logistics practices we made a survey form which contains 81 questions and asked companies to respond. Thus we have the analysis from the survey responses. As a result of this study, we propose the way of constructing environment conscious logistics system in Korea.

The purpose of this study is to examine the actual condition of environment conscious logistics system which is essential to make material recycling economic society. Environment conscious logistics management which meant simply recycle is tend to promote material reduction, reuse and recycling. We have made case studies about advanced environment conscious logistics system. To examine korean companies' environment conscious logistics system, we made survey form which is consist of 81 questionnaires in Korea between 2003 and 2005. And we have analyzed the survey responses. As a result of this study, we propose the way of constructing environment conscious logistics system in Korea.

디자인산업은 매출액의 1%를 디자인과 제품개발에 투자할 경우 매년 매출 및 이윤이 3-4% 증가하는 매력적인 산업으로 평가받고 있다. 그러나 우리나라 디자인산업은 그 규모가 영세하여 2012년 정부추산 80,304개 업체 중 상용 근로자 수가 5인 이하인 소규모기업이 전체의 76%를 차지하고 있으며, 매출액 10억원 미만의 소규모 업체가 전체의 87.8%를 차지하고 있다. 그러나 이들 기업을 지원하고 지도할 정부의 디자인전담부서 예산이 2012년 21억원에서 2013년에는 18억원으로 감 축되는 등 정부 정책은 역행하고 있다. 디자인 산업의 발전을 위해서 정부는 현재 산업통상자원부, 문화체육관광부, 기획재 정부, 중소기업청 등으로 분산되어 있는 업무를 기능별로 통합하고 소기업 중심으로 지원규모를 점차로 확대해 나가는 정 책이 필요하다. 특히 디자인의 세계화를 통한 해외 비즈니스 기회 확대 차원에서 우리니라 소규모 디자인기업들이 신흥 디 자인시장에 진출거점을 확대하고 시장개척이 가능하도록 금융지원을 포함한 컨설팅지원에도 정부가 앞장서야 할 것이다.