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

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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Determinants of High-Tech Companies' Export: Centering on a Resource-Based Perspective

하이테크 기업의 수출 결정요인: 자원기반관점을 중심으로

  • Received : 2017.06.06
  • Accepted : 2017.08.25
  • Published : 2017.08.31
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Abstract

As advancement into global markets becomes increasingly important, there are increasing interests in high-tech companies' export. This study is an empirical investigation of the determinants of high-tech companies' export in the Daegu region seen from a resource-based perspective with focuses on organizational resources and innovative capabilities. The empirical analysis revealed that the export determinants hold truer for high-tech companies compared to companies overall, and that high-tech companies' key export determinants include organizational age as a organizational resource and international intellectual property rights (IPRs) as an innovative capability. In this sense, policies to promote high-tech companies' export should be designed to support high-tech companies that have a relatively longer history and international IPRs. The results also suggest that in the working level high-tech companies should establish their internal capabilities from a resource-based perspective, for example history and experience in their fields and international IPRs, rather than trying to target global markets from the beginning as born-global companies do.

글로벌 시장 진출의 중요성과 더불어 하이테크 기업의 수출에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 본 연구는 자원기반관점에서 조직자원과 혁신능력을 중심으로 대구지역 하이테크 기업을 대상으로 수출 결정요인을 규명하였다. 실증분석 결과 조직연령과 해외IPR이 하이테크 기업의 핵심 수출 결정요인으로 규명되었다. 이는 정책적인 차원에서 하이테크 기업의 해외 수출을 강하하기 위해서는 상대적으로 창업 업력이 길며, 해외IPR을 획득하고 있는 기업을 중점적으로 지원할 필요성에 대한 시사점을 준다. 또한 하이테크 기업 실무 차원에서는 본(born) 글로벌 기업처럼 창업 초기부터 글로벌 시장을 대상으로 하기보다 자원기반관점에서 조직 업력과 해외IPR과 같은 내적 역량을 우선적으로 구축할 필요성을 시사하고 있다.

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