Under competitive business environment and globalization, many manufacturing companies know that using information technology is the best way to get competitiveness. Therefore, lots of these companies are getting under way of making good use of information and telecommunication technology. But the thing is that they are having trouble using information technology because of many difficult factors such as funds, information strategies, user training, information specialists, and information technology development programs.
Currently much attention in businesses is being aimed at making good use of information technology. Using information technology has a potential for getting competitiveness through increasing productivity and enhancing customer service level. Recently, the importance of information technology to be a high and competitive company in the world has been recognized by firms facing difficult business situation. Many studies have shown that using information technology was a key to competitiveness regardless of the size of companies.
Many business firms are short of money, strategies, and manpower to get and use information and telecommunication technology. Regard to the difficulties of these companies, organizations supporting them will be able to play an important role to suggest guidelines to the successful use of information technology. Many supporting organizations have instituted schemes in which companies can get valuable information related to the use of information technology.
This study is focusing on where the difficulties of local small firms getting under way of informatization come from and suggesting the ways to make local small firm successful in driving informatization.

This article is concerned with the importance of organization management and its business performance in manufacturing SMEs, and tested by two main aspects: managerial strategy and R&D activity. The relationships were tested with questionnaire data form a random sample of 189 firms. Results from statistics on the issue showed not only significant relationships between the two variables but also differences in R&D activities according to any level of strategic status.

Main concerns of this study are to compare Behavioral Corporate Culture with Conscious Corporate Culture through Corporate Culture Gap Analysis and to analyze organizational performance. Therefore, this study focuses on the establishment course of Ideal Corporate Culture.
The major reference on which this study is based on is Park's(1994) Strategic Corporate Culture Model, which proved that the main instrument of Corporate Culture Gap Analysis is useful. 619 questionnaire papers were adopted to small and medium manufacture business in Kwangju and Chunnam Area. Major hypotheses to be tested in this study are based on the Park's(1994) Strategic Corporate Culture Model. Statistical Analysis System was used for data analyses. To verify hypotheses, various statistical method (t-test, regression analysis) were used.
The results of this study are as follows. First, In the empirical study, I verified Behavioral Corporate Culture and Conscious Corporate Culture differential according to type of enterprise. Second, a smaller Gap Group of Behavioral Corporate Culture and Conscious Corporate Culture showed a better organizational performance. Third, organizational factor and environmental factor have a great influence on the organizational Performance. Finally, this study focuses on suggesting a desirable change direction of corporate culture through the cultural gap analysis of Behavioral Corporate Culture and Conscious Corporate Culture HBR. May-June.

The purposes of this study were 1) to diagnose problems in operating TBI(Technology Business Incubators), 2) to present some methods for activating TBI which were supported by KITECH(Korea Institute of Industrial Technology) under the umbrella of Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.
Major problems found from the research were lack of an efficient funding system, no provision of unified supporting system of TBI's, lack of the provision of integrated supporting services, lack of sufficient expertise on management and law, and needs for characterized operations of TBIs reflecting cultural and industrial properties, etc.
It is suggested that the following strategies need to be used in order to operate TBI's efficiently :
1) unified operating center is needed to be introduced in order to solve problems of intermingled TBI supporting agencies,
2) integrated supporting center is needed to be established for each TBI's to collect and distribute information through computer networking.
3) establishment and operation of characterized TBIs is needed in consideration for cultural properties and kinds of business,
4) capital network system is needs to be included in the integrated TBI supporting center for efficient fund-raising and management.

Case Study Methods are discussed with a focus on entrepreneurship research to help facilitate accumulation of the stock of entrepreneurship knowledge in Korea for educational purposes. The paper stresses that the most appropriate research strategy for new venture startups will be the case study methods at this stage of entrepreneurship research. The paper discusses the important components to consider when designing the case study research as applied to the entrepreneurship subject. And it continues to discuss about how useful and valid research questions could be formed from sources that are relevant to the subject matter of entrepreneurship. And it illustrates how case study research questions can be developed and it finally show ten important research questions generated in the course of discussion of questions development..

The purposes of this paper are: to introduce the important role of family business to Korean academe and exe cutives; to describe the prominent characteristics of a sample of Korean immigrant family businesses and their owners/managers; and to identify key success factors of Korean immigrant family businesses. Survey and interview data were collected from Korean immigrant businesses in metro-Atlanta. Most businesses didn't have a board of directors. Only a small number of respondents had formal written succession plans and fewer held regular family meetings. The Korean immigrant family businesses were located in Korea-town, complex areas, and white areas. Target customers were white, Korean, and African-American. The main competitors are Korean and White.
Korean immigrant businesses are owned and/or managed primarily by family members. A Family business is a business that includes two or more members of a family than owns and controls the company. Strong family ties were significant contributors to the success of these businesses. The key success factors of this sample were sincerity, diligence, effort, and honesty. Net income was greater when they had a target customer in a good area and a goal. Unpaid family labor was invaluable human capital while the spouse was the most important source of family labor. Strategic and succession planning also correlated to net income.
More studies are needed to gain a better perspective on the scope of this research, including identifying other variables for examination.

This study investigated the current status and characteristics of University Business Incubators(UTBIs) in Information and Telecommunication Industry. From the questionnaire survey, some obstacles of managing UTBI were revealed. To loosen them, we suggested a kind of UTBIs' managing model in the industry. The industry's and university's characteristics were took into account in developing the model. In addition, this model reflected some other characteristics; i.e. the setting up purpose, the original promoter, and so forth.
We suggested six constituencies at the model. Among of the constituencies, the government have to play a major role for the managing effectiveness of UTBIs. To drive the UTBIs' financial independence plan, the roles of each constituency were proposed from the model. It was also proposed that government had to establish the infrastructure of UTBIs and to play a significant role to improve the effectiveness of UTBIs.

This paper shows an empirical estimation of the national information infrastructure's impact on the employment of small and medium enterprises in U.S.A.
The main findings are as follows. First, the performance of employment of SMEs depends on the degree of the national information infrastructure by region. The national information capital stock has contradictory influence on labor market; information technology has been working on reducing labor demand by substitution effect, but it also can create new labor demand in other way by creating new niche markets. Technical substitution between information infrastructure and labor was promoted in the higher information investment region, while not shown in the lower information investment region. In addition, job creation effect dominated over the job destruction in the higher information infrastructure region. Second, 'the product innovation effect' dominated over 'the process innovation effect' in the higher information regions but the reverse held in the lower information region. Third, there was strong relations between new start-ups and the regional information infrastructure, which provides us an important implication for promoting employment in the information technology era.

The purpose of this paper is to compare the Small Business Development Center of the United States established in 1980 with its Korean counterpart established in 1999. In particular, they are compared in terms of background, function, organizational structure, and operational characteristics. The result of the study indicates that the two centers are similar in some respects, but they are different in other respects. Implications of these similarities and differences are discussed. Information produced in this research would be useful for successful operation of Korean Small Business Development Center.

This study explored the current status of Internet Commerce in Korean small and medium sized exporting firms(SME). Based on literature review and empirical survey of sample Korean SMEs, influence of external, internal and export-related factors to the implementation level of Internet Commerce and its benefits in Korean SMEs were analyzed. Implications of the empirical survey results to the efforts promoting Internet Commerce in Korean SMEs and directions for future research were discussed as well.

Under the borderless competition of the WTO, Internet, the unified world of cyberspace, is going to change the way we conduct all our business. Due to the rapid growth of the needs for the Internet Business, Internet is no more an option for the international trade. Rather, it became the necessary media of the export marketing.
The purpose of this study is to compare the role of export marketing with and without internet, and find the best strategies for the cyber trade by means of a cyber trading company.
For the efficient role of a cyber trading company, it is required for the change of role from the simple trade advertisement into the real meaning of the trade organizer, arranger and monitor for overall process of the export marketing.
Especially, for the small and medium enterprises, a cyber trading company should provide more specialized, integrated, and reliable measures for promoting the small amount of the exports. In order to provide these services, a cyber trading company should integrate its role with other trade related partners by means of outsourcing and/or strategic alliances.

There is no cost accounting standards for Evaluation of Software Security System in Korea. Therefore the evaluators use "Security Evaluation Criteria for Firewall Systems and guidelines' established by Korea Information Security Agency for determining the evaluation fee. But the standards and guidelines have several problems. One of the major problems is that it does not show the base for calculating the evaluation fee. Thus we need the costing method for the fee determination to agree between the evaluator(seller) and client(buyer). The purpose of this article is to show a costing method for determining evaluation fee.
The results of this study are as follow :
1. Job order costing method should be used for the fee determination, because the fee is notified by grades and evaluated by products.
2. Standard costing system should be used to calculate the evaluation costs, because the fee is paid in advance.
3. We divided the evaluating costs to 3 major categories; direct labor charge-evaluator's labor, tool usage costs, other expense (including indirect labor charge and tool maintenance costs, overhead costs).
As a starting point, we recommend the cost plus pricing system for determining evaluation fee, which is calculated by adding a pre-determined target profit to the evaluation costs.
Further research in this area should enlarge the scope of study, not only the firewall system evaluation but also the overall information security systems evaluation.
Finally, we hope that this study will help stimulate the application of costing theory to determining evaluation fee of software security system.