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This study examines whether the experience characteristics and startup type of middle-aged entrepreneurs are associated with differences in startup motivation, capabilities, and performance, reframing middle-aged entrepreneurs as experience-based innovators in the local startup ecosystem in the era of digital transformation. While Korea has entered a super-aged society and early retirement is accelerating, research and policy support for middle-aged entrepreneurs remain limited compared with those for younger founders. Drawing on human capital theory, the resource-based view, social capital theory, the technology acceptance model, and self-determination theory, the study operationalizes entrepreneur type (number of prior startups, years since current startup, government support experience) and startup type (technology-based, small business). Survey data from 130 Korean entrepreneurs aged 40 and older were analyzed by MANOVA to test 28 sub-hypotheses, focusing on group differences rather than causal effects. Six sub-hypotheses were supported at p<.05 and three were marginal at p<.10. Startup motivation showed no significant difference across any grouping factor, suggesting it is rooted in entry-stage need structures. Startup type differentiated all four capability dimensions, and new technology acceptance capability emerged as a key digital-era differentiator. Startup performance differed by time-accumulated variables such as the number of prior startups and years since the current startup, rather than by structural or support-based variables. The study reframes middle-aged entrepreneurship as innovation within the local startup ecosystem under digital transformation and highlights new technology acceptance capability as a distinct construct bridging IT-management and entrepreneurship research. As the design is cross-sectional and self-reported, findings are interpreted as group differences and associations, not causal effects.

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Abstract
1. 서론
2. 이론적 배경
2.1 중장년 창업의 개념과 이론적 관점
2.2 창업자 유형
2.3 창업유형
2.4 창업동기
2.5 창업역량
2.6 창업성과
3. 연구방법
3.1 연구모형 및 가설
3.2 변수의 조작적 정의 및 측정도구
3.3 자료수집 및 분석방법
3.4 표본의 특성
4. 분석결과
4.1 타당성 및 신뢰도 분석
4.2 가설 검증
4.3 결과 해석 및 논의
5. 결론
5.1 연구결과 요약 및 시사점
5.2 연구의 한계 및 향후 연구 방향
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저자

• 김성춘 [ Sung Chun Kim | Administrative Director, Youil Housing Construction Management Inc. ] First Author
• 오승희 [ Seung Hee Oh | Research Professor, Beautiful Village Lab, Gyeongsang National University ] Co-Author
• 박상혁 [ Sang Hyeok Park | Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Gyeongsang National University ] Corresponding Author

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  JITAM [Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management]

• 간기

  격월간

• pISSN

  1598-6284

• eISSN

  2508-1209

• 수록기간

  1999~2026

• 십진분류

  KDC 005 DDC 005