본 연구의 목적은 피부미용 종사자의 그릿이 자기효능감과 직무성과에 미치는 영향을 관계 에서 자기관리의 매개효과를 실증적으로 분석하는데 있다. 본 연구의 연구참여자는 서울·경기 스킨케어 샵과 병원 종사자 344명을 대상으로 구조화된 설문지를 통하여 자료를 수집하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 와 AMOS 26.0 통계 프로그램을 이용하여 기술통계, 확인적 요인분석, 상관관계, 구조방정식모델, bootstrapping기법을 이용한 매개효과 분석을 통하여 자료를 분석하였다. 일련의 연구절차를 통하여 도 출된 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 피부미용 종사자의 그릿은 자기관리, 자기효능감, 직무성과에 유의미한 정의(+)영향 관계를 나타내 었다. 둘째, 피부미용 종사자의 자기관리는 자기효능감과 직무성과에 유의미한 정의(+) 영향 관계를 나 타내었다. 셋째, 피부미용 종사자의 그릿과 직무성과와의 관계에서 자기관는 유의미한 매개효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 뷰티 산업 종사자들의 그릿 함양을 통해 자기관리, 자기효능감 및 직무성과를 높일 수 있는 인적관리와 교육 프로그램의 적용이 절실히 필요하다고 판단된다..

본 연구는 치유농업 산업의 분류체계 구축을 통해 치유농업 산업의 범위에 근거한 현황을 분석하여 향후 치유농업 정책수립에 활용하고자 수행하였다. 분류체계는 한국표준산업분류체계를 기반으로 하였으며, 치유농업 산업의 개념과 특징을 반영하여 특수분류체계를 구성하였다. 이러한 분류체계를 통해 치유농장을 대상으로 운영 및 경영 현황을 조사함으로써 국내 치유농업의 산업적 구성과 비중을 분석하였다. 국내 치유농장의 사업 비중은 전체 매출액 중 치유농업 산업이 47.8%, 투입재 산업 40.4%, 파생 산업은 11.9%를 차지하였다. 소분류기준 매출액이 가장 많은 분야는 공동체 서비스 교육, 정신적 재활치료, 치유농업 농산물 재배업 순이었다. 치유농장의 81.1%가 치유농업 운영을 위해 시설을 건설하였는데 그 종류로는 조경 및 공원, 녹지 조성이 77.9%로 가장 많았다. 한편 매출액이나 종사자 규모로 살펴본 결과, 국내 치유농장은 매우 영세하게 운영되는 것으로 나타났다. 본 조사 결과, 현재까지 치유농업 산업이 정부 주도의 사업으로써 도입되고 있는 수준이라는 점에서 산업 현황자료로서 한계점을 가지고 있다고 본다. 그러나 향후 치유농업의 효율적인 사업경영을 위한 정책 마련의 기초자료로서 유용하게 활용될 수 있으리라 여겨지며, 한편 치유농업법에 따른 정기적 실태조사 추진의 방법적 기반을 마련했다고 평가된다.

This research was undertaken to examine Masan’s regional food service industry, which experienced drastic changes due to liberation and the Korean war. Analysis of restaurant advertisements in ‘Masanilbo’ revealed a total of 92 restaurants during this period. The numbers of restaurants classified by the time periods are 18 (1946 to 1950), 27 (1951 to 1955), 17 (1956 to 1960), and 30 (1961 to 1966). ‘Gomguk’ gained popularity in the early 1900s and became a speciality of Masan, resulting in the appearance of numerous Gomguk restaurant advertisements. After independence, Japanese foods were predominant in Masan since the population was used to eating Japanese dishes during the colonial era. Moreover, there was a major influence of the people who returned to the homeland. Masan was the place for refugees during the 6.25 war, resulting in the popularity of ‘Naengmyeon’; advertisements largely displayed ‘Pyeongyangnaengmyeon’ during the early 1950s, and ‘Hamheungnaengmyeon’ during the early 1960s. Western food advertisements usually introduced ‘Dongaseu’ and ‘Kareraiseu’, which were deeply influenced by Japanese culture. These various contributions resulted in alterations in the food menu, such as the rise of fusion food which is not bound to any nation, spread of Japanese food culture, and popularity of ‘Naengmyeon’.

본 연구는 2016년부터 2019년까지 3년에 걸쳐 수행 된 파라과이 KOPIA 센터의 참깨 시범마을 사업의 경영성과와 투자타당성을 분석하기 위한 목적으로 수행되었다. 시범사업 참여농가는 1,172천~2,928천Gs/ha의 수익이 증가하는 것으로 나타났으며, 가구 기준으로 산출할 경우 연간 760$ 이상의 소득 증가가 발생하는 것으로 분석되었다. 시범사업 투자의 타당성에 대한 평가지표로 활용된 B/C Ratio는 1.52로 분석되어 경제적 타당성이 있는 것으로 평가되었다. 시범사업에 참여한 농가들의 만족도를 7점 척도로 분석한 결과 시범사업의 전반적인 만족도, 소득증가에 대한 만족도, 수량증가에 대한 만족도 모든 항목에 대해서 만족함, 매우 만족함에 응답하였다. 계속 참여의향 역시 매우 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 종자의 균일성에 대한 만족도가 6.9점으로 가장 높았다. 성공적으로 평가되는 파라과이 KOPIA센터의 참깨 시범마을 사업의 성공요인은 첫째, 적합품목의 선택, 둘째, 현지 적응 신품종의 선발 및 보급, 셋째, 수동파종기, 배무식 분무기, 공동경운을 도입하여 생산성을 향상하고, 노동력을 절감, 넷째, 적정시비량, 윤작체계, 친환경 엽면시비 등의 재배교육을 통해 농약과 비료비는 절감하고, 수확량 증가와 품질향상을 도모한 것 등이다. 특히, 수익성이 떨어지고 있는 목화의 대체품목이며, 생산 증가에도 가격하락 위험이 적은 수출품목인 참깨를 선발한 부분과, 단기간에 이루어지기 어려운 현지적합 품종을 선발했다는 점, 수동파종기와 배무식 분무기, 녹비작물, 지렁이액비 등 저소득 농업인이 지속적으로 수용 가능한 기술이 보급되었다는 점을 높이 평가할 수 있다.

A sharing economy has emerged through today’s trust-building mechanisms, and a sharing economy is called a future economic model through a positive future market prospect. In this context, while the overseas sharing economic business is becoming a global trend, the domestic sharing economic business is busy following the global trend. The purpose of this study is to investigate the development direction of sharing economic business in Korea. First, the sharing economic cases of 50 oversea and domestic businesses were analyzed by time series analysis. Next, a cross-country analysis to analyze the business distribution and KCERN's sharing economic model through sharing economic cube model was conducted. Finally, profit model analysis through business case study and the relationship between the derived factors were investigated. As a result of the analysis, this study found comparative trends between overseas and domestic including differences in cultural and institutional environments and profit models. This study suggested directions for domestic sharing economy business.

한·중 수교 이래 경제교류가 날로 늘어남에 따라 비즈니스 중국어 학습에 대한 수요가 대두되기 시작하였으나 이에 대한 연구나 분석이 아직 많지 않은 실정이다. 본고는 한국 내의 비즈니스 중국어 수업현황, 학습현황, 비즈니스 교재현황에 대해 검토하였고, 학습자 수요를 파악하기 위해 수요분석 이론과 기존 연구를 바탕으로 학습수요를 물질적 수요, 심리적 수요, 비즈니스 중국어에 대한 수요, 교육과정과 평가에 대한 수요 등 네 가지로 재분류 하였다.이러한 분류에 따라 중국어 학습자 총 302명을 대상으로 3년의 시간간격을 두고 온라인 설문조사를 실시하였고 그 결과 직업별, 중국어 수준 별 학습자 수요는 상이하게 나타났다. 위와 같은 분석결과를 토대로 효과적인 비즈니스 중국어 교육을 위해 교재편찬, 수업설계, 평가에 대해 간략하게 제언을 하였다.

우리나라의 조선해양플랜트 산업은 2011~2015년 기간에 우리나라 품목별 수출기여도에서 1~4위를 차지할 정도로 대한민국 경제성장을 견인하는 중요한 산업이다. 이 연구는 과거 건조에만 치중했던 우리나라 해양플랜트 시추설비의 산업구조에서 통합시운전의 서비스 공급이 가능한 비즈니스 모델을 검토함으로써 시추설비 시장에서 우리나라 조선소의 국가경쟁력을 향상시킬 수 있는 방안을 제안 하고자 하였다. 2014년에 시도된 주작-1 폐공을 활용한 시운전 서비스 모델과 이의 한계 사항을 극복하고 사업을 활성화하기 위한 새로운 제안 비즈니스모델인 수심 150미터급 시운전 전용 모델의 경제성을 검토하였다. 경제성 평가 결과, 수심 150미터급 모델이 경제적으로 더 효과적인 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 통합시추설비의 시운전이 연간 2회에서 3,4,5회로 늘어남에 따라 NPV와 IRR 및 B/C 비율이 모두 증가 하였으며, 1회당 사용료는 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 해양시추설비의 통합시운전 사업은 우리나라에서 건조되어 인도되는 설비를 대상으로 시추 시운전을 적극적으로 유치하는 노력이 필요하다.

This study is to investigate the effects of support program satisfaction in the organizational trust and the management performance for the start-up business to suggest institutes and working-level officials with an theoretical and practical implication. For this, we performed empirical analysis, in particular we examined mediation effects of the organizational trust. We surveyed a questionnaire for 247 start-up companies of incubation center. We performed reliability and correlation analyses etc. through SPSS 23 and performed structural equation model analysis etc. through Amos 23. As a result, first, pilot product, marketing, financial account, education and consulting appeared effective effects in management performance but law did not appear effective. Second, education and consulting appeared positive by mediation of the organizational trust. This means the organizational trust factor has to be considered in support programs like education and consulting.

As the competitiveness of SMEs (small and medium enterprises) is getting more and more improved and globalized, the government provides various consulting services to secure the competitiveness of small and medium firms and support stable growth. However, the assessment of the result from the government’s support is generally focused on non-financial factors, such as customer satisfaction and analysis of improvement effect. This paper is in regards to the statistical analysis of how much the government’s support in the form of providing consulting services contributes to financial outcomes in terms of profitability and growth. ROA (return on asset) and ROS (return on sales), which are investment profitability and sales profitability respectively, are chosen as an indicator of profitability. For analysis of growth, sales revenue and total asset growth are used. The samples are 44 corporations which are supported by government, and 150 corporations which are selected for comparison, with corporate growth support center program by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy chosen as the consulting model. After gathering the yearly balance sheets and income statements of the samples from CRETOP, Korea Enterprise Data, the analysis is conducted in the way of identifying the statistical significance of financial difference in the same period between corporates taking consulting services and corporates which have not, and the difference of financial outcomes from the corporates taking consulting services before and after consulting services. As a result, in terms of business growth, it is turned out to have positive difference both in growth ratio and profitability compared to the compared corporations at the significant level. Therefore, it is obvious that the consulting program which government provides to SMEs have direct influence practically to the corporates’ management performance.

As the competitiveness of small and medium businesses is getting more and more improved and globalized, the government provides various consulting services to secure the competitiveness of small and medium firms and support stable growth. However, the assessment of the result from the government’s support is generally focused on non-financial factors, such as customer satisfaction afterwards and analysis of improvement effect. This paper is in regards to the analysis of how much the government’s support in the form of providing consulting services contributes to financial outcomes and to the analysis of the gap of performances among the types of consulting services. We verified the statistical significance of our hypothesis through SAS9.4 and SPSS 22, conducting comparative analysis of the business growth and profitability based on the yearly balance sheets and income statements of 44 corporations which government supports and 150 corporations which are for comparison. The data is gained from CRETOP, Korea Enterprise Data, and the testing model is chosen as the business of support center for corporate growth, which is a customized supporting business of the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy. As a result, in terms of business growth, it turned out to have positive difference in growth ratio compared to the industrial average and compared corporations and to have significant difference in terms of profitability as well. Since, this paper shows that the different supporting ways have significant difference, we would say that this paper is meaningful in that it may propose a guidance for government to set strategies of government-supporting businesses.

최근 기술융합의 핵심현상으로 사물인터넷이 대두되면서 사물인터넷의 기술트 렌드 및 기술융합에 관해 많은 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 그러나 기존 연구들의 대부분이 사물인터넷 기술 동향에 대한 정성적 연구에 그치고 있어 기술융합의 구체적 양상을 파악하기 어려운 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 특허 데이터를 기술의 대용데이터로 간주하고, 동시 분류분석과 텍스트마이닝을 바탕으로 사물인터넷 융합 네트워크를 구축하고 융합의 특성을 분석하였다. 본 연구에서는 먼저 문헌연구를 통해 사물인터넷의 융합을 일으키는 주요 기술 군을 디바이스, 네트워크, 플랫폼, 서비스 네 가지로 정의한 후, “Internet of Things” 키워드 를 중심으로 미국 특허청에서 수집된 923개 특허의 클래스를 네 가지 기술군에 할당하여 이 들 간 관계를 파악하였다. 대부분의 클래스 및 키워드가 디바이스에 관련되어 있으므로, 본 연구에서는 융합 현상을 디바이스 융합과 전체 융합으로 나누어 기술융합 양상을 파악하였다. 디바이스 중심의 사물인터넷 기술을 분석한 결과 센서 디바이스를 비롯한 헬스케어 디바 이스, 냉장 및 냉동 장치, 에너지관리 디바이스, 로봇, 임베디드 등이 주요 융합 그룹으로 도 출되었다. 전체 기술을 대상으로 분석한 결과 사물인터넷 요소기술을 중심으로 스마트 헬스 케어, 스마트 홈, 무인자동차 등 사물인터넷의 다양한 응용영역들이 기술융합을 이루고 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 본 연구 결과는 사물인터넷 기술융합 활성화를 위한 정책 및 전략 수립 에 효과적으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

The objective of this study was to compare business management indicators among textiles and fashion companies. Business management indicators of 356 textiles and fashion companies for the year 2015 were analyzed, using income statements showing their management results. The results were as follows. First, there were statistically significant differences between the operating income ratios of textiles and fashion companies for the term, but there were none when it came to net income ratio. Second, the differences between cost of goods sold, cost of finished goods sold, and cost of merchandise sold to sales ratios among textiles and fashion companies were all statistically significant. The cost of goods sold, cost of finished goods sold, and cost of merchandise sold to sales ratios were higher for fiber and thread companies, fabric companies, and dyeing and finishing companies than for clothing and fashion accessories companies. Third, there were statistically significant differences between the ratio of salaries and the ratio of advertising expenses among textiles and fashion companies. The salaries ratios and advertising expenses ratios for clothing companies were higher than those of fiber and yarn companies, fabric companies, and dyeing and finishing companies. This study is meaningful as it has identified the business characteristics of textiles and fashion companies using the management indicators of those companies, which have not been sufficiently explored by previous studies. It has also helped to improve understanding of the industrial structure of the upstream and midstream sectors of the textiles and fashion industries.

This study is investigated the process of calculating the support service cost for the oversea plants which are rapidly increasing from domestic automobile companies and removing the corresponding value from the cost of the domestic production products. In order to calculate the service cost for oversea support cost, survey methods was used among various options and The rate of contribution to individual work was obtained through revision works. We conclude that about 25% of the indirect processing costs of domestic production products should be eliminated and replaced with the cost of overseas support services.

Common Words List in Business Chinese is an appendix of business Chinese test outline, which contains a total of 2457 words. Verified by the author, the number of vocabulary is in fact 2455. 1038 characters species included in Common Words List in Business Chinese. 1016 characters and 1022 words are shared with Chinese Proficiency Test and Chinese character outline. To improve Common Words List in Business Chinese must select appropriate corpus, a better algorithms and excellent expert with intervention ability on choosing words.

현행 여신전문금융업법 제19조 제1항 및 제4항은, 신용카드가맹점으 로 하여금 ‘신용카드 결제를 거절하는 행위’, ‘신용카드회원을 불리하게 대우하는 행위’, ‘가맹점수수료를 신용카드회원에게 부담시키는 행위’를 금지하고 있다. 동 조항은, 국민의 금융편의를 도모하고, 거래의 투명화 및 이를 통한 탈세방지를 위하여 도입된 것으로 그간 충분한 효과를 보 여주었으나, 동 조항의 남용을 통한 가맹점 피해, 신용카드를 발급받지 못하는 저신용자에게 비용이 전가되는 등 경제적 정의에 반한다는 점, 사회전체의 거래비용이 증가한다는 점 등의 부작용이 발생하고 있다. 이 러한 부작용을 최소화하며 입법목적을 달성할 수 있도록 입법적 보완작 업이 필요하다. 예를 들어, 거액 결제와 같은 경우에는 동 조항의 적용을 배제하는 방안, 가맹점수수료 정도의 합리적인 범위내의 차별을 허용하 는 방안, 현금결제와의 차별만 금지하고 다른 전자지급결제수단과의 차 별은 허용하는 방안 등을 논의해 볼 필요가 있다. IT산업의 발달과 더불어, 과거 전통적 결제수단이었던, 현금, 어음, 수 표, 계좌이체, 신용카드 외에, 계좌이체지급결제대행, 신용카드지급결제대 행, 직불카드(직불전자지급수단), 선불카드(선불전자지급수단), 전자화폐 의 방법이 등장하였다. 이들 결제수단 중 최근 서민을 위한 결제방식으 로 부상하고 있는 계좌이체지급결제대행의 경우, 신용카드를 발급받을 수 없는 저신용자도 이용이 가능할 뿐 아니라, 탈세방지 목적에도 부합 하고, 간편결제 방식의 적용에 따라 그 이용도 매우 편리하게 되었다. 그 러나 계좌이체지급결제대행의 경우에도 제19조 제1항 및 제4항을 적용 하게 되면, 신용카드(혹은 신용카드지급결제대행 방식)에 비하여 회원 유치 경쟁력이 떨어지게 되어, 그 확산에 어려움이 있다. 현금결제 고객 과는 달리 지급결제대행업체에 의한 별도의 용역제공 행위가 있음을 감 안하여 현행 여신전문금융업법 하에서도 제19조 제1항 및 제4항의 형식 적 적용을 배제하는 적극적 해석이 필요하다.

This study aims to analyze the performance of the beneficiaries of the SMEs(Small and Medium Enterprises) support project that has been handled online on the 'BizOK System', which is the integrated support system for SMEs in Incheon, by comparing before and after receiving support. Various performance indicators can be used, but this study used the rate of increase in sales, exports and employed manpower collected by the 'BizOK System'. Moreover, to analyze the trend of business performance by corporate feature, this study grouped the businesses into 7 categories including sales, business history, number of employees and capital. The results of this study are expected to be used in drawing implications for business support policies by utilizing them as basic data for enhancing efficiency of the support project and establishing corporate policies.

최근 전 세계적으로 오픈소스 소프트웨어에 대한 관심이 증가함에 따라 다양한 분야에 오픈소스 소프트웨어가 도입되고 있으며 그 활용도 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 이러한 현상은 공간정보 분야에도 유사하여, 전 세계적으로 오픈소스 공간정보 소프트웨어에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있고, 국내에서도 최근 들어 관심이 급증하고 있는 실정이다. 그러나 국내 공간정보산업 사업체 중에서 오픈소스 소프트웨어 관련 기업의 수는 매우 적을 뿐만 아니라 오픈소스를 통한 비즈니스 모델의 발달도 미약한 수준이다. 본 연구에서는 오픈소스 소프트웨어 비즈니스 모델 선행연구 분석을 통해 오픈소스 공간정보 소프트웨어와 관련하여 어떠한 비즈니스 모델이 가능한지를 살펴보고, 국내 오픈소스 공간정보 소프트웨어 관련 기업의 오픈소스 활용현황과 비즈니스를 분석한 후 기업의 유형별로 어떠한 오픈소스 소프트웨어 비즈니스 모델이 가능한 지를 전략적으로 제시함으로써 오픈소스 공간정보 소프트웨어 관련 기업의 활성화를 도모하고, 나아가 국내 오픈소스 공간정보 소프트웨어 생태계를 활성화하는 기반을 마련하고자 한다.

Higher education institutions are facing increased national and international competition for research talent and research funds (OECD, 2009). The best way for a university to react to this situation is to foster its reputation. Not only for firms (Raithel & Schwaiger, 2015), but also for universities, reputation is one of the most valuable intangible assets (Albers, 2015). Therefore, this study investigates the drivers of business school reputation as perceived by academics. The impact of the following potential drivers is analyzed in this study: research performance, third-party research funds and standing of professors within the academic community. We used the variable research reputation from the business school ranking of the Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE) as a proxy for reputation. In addition, also the variable sum of third-party funds was available from the CHE dataset. Furthermore, we measured professors’ standing in the academic community by considering if they are outstanding members in the two major German research communities and if they are in the editorial board of one of the A+ or A ranked journals according to the vhb-jourqual ranking. Moreover, we measured research performance by means of the score of the faculty achieved in the Handelsblatt Rankings Faculties as well by means of the publication output per faculty member. Besides, the previous score of the CHE ranking was included to control for path dependency of reputation (Gray & Balmer, 1998). As additional control variables, the size of the business school, the research reputation of the host university (measured as the number of Nobel-price winners from the university) and the size of the city (measured by the number of inhabitants) were used. Research performance as measured by the Handelsblatt Ranking accounts for 31% of current reputational assessment. The influence of third-party funds as well as professors’ standing within the academic community could not be confirmed. Moreover, city size was found to be correlated to reputation. The obvious explanation would be that large cities are able to attract better researchers (be it for quality of life or because universities in large cities offer more attractive compensation schemes), which in turn leads to a higher research productivity – an important driver for academics’ reputational assessments of a business school.

The present study focuses on the construct of entrepreneurial alertness, investigating the external antecedents of the construct, responding to the call for more research pledged by Tang, Kacmar, and Busenitz (2012). Namely, we examine how receiving feedback, awards and collaboration offers in relation to an individual’s hobby activity influences the development of entrepreneurial alertness dimensions. Additionally, we make a contribution by testing the effect of these external factors in a non-entrepreneurial context of homebrewing communities, that is individuals producing beer at home as a hobby. In line with other form of craft activities, this context has demonstrated a high potential for business start-up development due to the increasing number of new small brewing businesses in North America run by entrepreneurs that were previously homebrewers (Carroll & Swaminathan, 2000). We test our tenets within the complexity theory, where configurations of antecedents are examined in order to gain deeper understanding of the possible outcome (Woodside, 2014), using 213 completed questionnaires. We apply fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA, Ragin 2000; 2008) to achieve a holistic overview of the examined interrelationships (Ordanini, Parasuraman & Rubera, 2015). We find that high feedback is a sufficient condition for high scanning and search, association and connection, as well as evaluation and judgement activities of entrepreneurial alertness. Without feedback, people at the hobby stage engage in their leisure activities solely because they like it. However, receiving feedback in relation to their hobby outcomes provides an opportunity for individuals to develop and experience additional motivations beyond enjoyment, where they understand that the hobby could be commercialized and bring monetary rewards. Moreover, we find that an individual receiving low amount of awards but high amount of collaboration offers may also have high entrepreneurial alertness. Since individuals receive rewards related to the excellent performance in their leisure activity, it may not provide any cue for a potential transformation into a business. However, the more collaboration offers people receive, the more likely they get involved in scanning and search, association and connection, and evaluation and judgement activities of entrepreneurial alertness. Therefore, they are likely to conduct additional search, connect bits of available information and evaluate this business opportunity (Gaglio & Winter, 2009). The findings of this study could help entrepreneurs reflect on their decisions and behaviours during the business start-up planning process, and measure their entrepreneurial alertness and the extent of readiness to engage in business venturing.

In the business market, prices are typically subject to negotiation between exchange partners and buyers’ perceptions of the relationships with suppliers have a central role for supplier success and for establishing profitable prices (Hinterhuber & Liozu, 2015). Suppliers that seek to achieve price levels above the average market prices of offerings need to convince buyers of a favorable price/quality ratio (Töytäri, Rajala, & Alejandro, 2015). To date, however, research on absolute prices paid by buyers to suppliers, relative prices paid as compared to the average price level in a product category, or exchange partners’ perceptions of prices charged in business relationships remains limited. Extant work on buyer-supplier relationships has most commonly focused on costs rather than prices as economic outcomes of interest (e.g., Cannon & Homburg, 2001; Kalwani & Narayandas, 1995). The purpose of this research is to deepen the understanding of buyers’ price assessments in business relationships. Specifically, this research seeks to further illuminate how relationship inputs provided by suppliers influence buyers’ assessments of the price level charged and their satisfaction with the price/quality ratio provided by the suppliers. The relationship inputs examined include buyers’ perceptions of supplier relationship-specific investments, long-term orientation, and relationship planning. In addition, this research considers two relationship parameters, that is, buyers’ commitment to the supplier and dependence from the supplier. Based on a sample of executives of different buyer firms, this research examines net effects and combinatory effects of the relationship factors on buyers’ evaluations of economic outlay. While the study of net effects offers insights into the effects of single antecedents on the outcomes across a sample of cases, the analysis of combinatory effects delineates (configurations of) antecedents sufficient for bringing about the outcomes of interest (e.g., Leischnig, Henneberg, & Thornton, 2016). Knowledge of these effects helps assess what relationship inputs and what combinations thereof may act as potential remedies for buyers’ price-related resentment in business The findings of this research show alternative configurations of relationship inputs and relationship characteristics sufficient for the two outcomes of interest. In addition, this research shows that individual relationship inputs and characteristics can have opposite effects on the outcomes, depending on how they combine with other antecedent conditions. Moreover, the results of this research reveal that specific antecedent factors differ in terms of causal coreness for the two outcomes of interest. In summary, these findings add to the net effect analysis and provide a more detailed and nuanced understanding of how relationship attributes impact buyers’ price assessments in business relationships.