중소기업 경영자의 기업가정신이 경영성과에 미치는 영향 관계 연구 : 임파워먼트의 매개효과

The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) led the economic growth in Korea in coexistence with the conglomerates and are continuing to impart significant influence on economic growth such as an increase in export, technology innovation and creation of job opportunities, etc. in order to become the driving force for national development until now. However, SMEs are confronted with environment in which they lack competitiveness in comparison to conglomerates. In spite of such circumstances, small and medium entrepreneurs are striving to put utmost efforts to realize social values with the members of their organizations by generating business performances such as improvement of productivity through capturing of business opportunities and accumulating know-how in technology development. In addition, changes in the viewpoints and strategic decision making of the business administrator are required in accordance with the rapid changes in our current era. Accordingly, the decision on the responsibilities and roles to be assigned to their employees to induce their creativity for the purpose of enhancing the performances of the enterprises has become the most important task for the entrepreneurs. This study is aimed to introduce a new business administration paradigm for sustainable management under the rapidly changing management environment by analyzing the effects of entrepreneurship of small and medium entrepreneurs on the management performances based on the 5 subordinate factors of entrepreneurship including risk sensitivity, innovation, proactiveness, need for achievement and autonomy, and by empirically analyzing whether empowerment by small and medium entrepreneurs imparts influence on and plays mediating role in management performances. Data obtained from 311 questionnaires filled by and collected from small and medium entrepreneurs were analyzed with a statistical program, SPSS 27.0 for Windows. Study results can be summarized as follows. First, it was found that innovation and need for achievement among the subordinate factors of entrepreneurship have significant positive effect on non-economic performances and empowerment of the enterprise. Second, regarding the effects of empowerment on management performances, empowerment is found to have significant positive effects on the economic performances and non-economic performances of the enterprises. Third, in the analysis of the mediating role of empowerment through simultaneous application of independent and medicating variables, it was confirmed that the empowerment plays a mediating role only on non-economic performances of the enterprises specifically in terms of innovation and need for achievement. In summary of the aforementioned analysis results, it was possible to confirm that inspiring of ownership mindset for the given tasks as well as voluntary motivation by empowering the members of the organization aimed at the enhancement of innovative actions such as development and execution of ideas of the members of the organization within the SMEs can lead to enhanced performances.