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This study is to examine how entrepreneurs’ social status, networking environment, and personal demographics affect start-up intention. The results follow. First, entrepreneurs’ social status had a positive influence on start-up intention. Second, networking environment also had a positive effect on start-up intention. Third, some demographics including age, gender, and foundation experience had a statistically significant effect on start-up. In short, older age groups had more start-up intention, and start-up experience had a positive influence on start-up intention. By gender, men had stronger start-up intention than did women. As permanent employment of an individual that is guaranteed throughout the employee's working life has been becoming rare, social issues such as unemployment of young people, preparation for aging society are also serious. At a time when in terms of policy-making, job creation through start-ups is needed, this research is meaningful from academic and practical perspectives in that it is an empirical study that attempted to find out factors that have impact on start-up intention.

In this study, we focus on the faculty and staff in the college and examined the relationships among their participation to the creative suggestion system, organizational commitment, and performance. Results revealed positive effects of a suggestion system satisfaction on faculty/staff participation, organizational commitment, and individual performance. Those who were satisfied with the creative suggestion system were likely to participate more in the system, exhibit greater organizational commitment, and evaluate more positively on performance. Academic and practical implications were discussed.

With the effect of SSM Regulation Law looking bleak, this study aims to investigate promotion strategies for a consumer’s adoption of SSM Regulation Law. For this, we verified the effect of perceived risk of traditional market/small neighborhood shops and practical buying tendency on the consumer attitude toward the SSM regulation law. And in this process, the present study examined the moderating role of a perceived fairness of the SSM Regulation Law and the attitude toward the large discount chain. The main findings of this study were as follows. First, all the moderating effect hypotheses on a perceived risk were supported. This means we can manage consumer attitude toward the SSM regulation law by managing the degree of perceived fairness. On the otherhand, the moderating effect hypotheses on an attitude toward the large discount chain were rejected. So, we see the consumer attitude toward the large discount chain was irrelevant to the relations between the perceived risk/practical buying tendency and consumer attitude toward the SSM regulation law.

Based on theoretical perspectives of entrepreneurial intention, this study was conducted to find out which factors influence on social entrepreneurial intention and to examine whether the suggested model of entrepreneurial intention is suitable for social enterprise. Research hypotheses were empirically tested with data collected from 118 prep entrepreneurs participating in the social entrepreneurship education and incubating program in Cheongju city of Korea.. The results show that entrepreneur's characteristics variable which was measured by innovativeness of entrepreneurial orientation and education variable have significant influences on social entrepreneurial intention. But prep entrepreneur's perception of social value creation was analysed to have no relation to social entrepreneurial intention. In addition, economic environment with negative terms, supporting policy of government and business resources available as situational factors also were revealed to significantly affect on social entrepreneurial intention. This study suggests that entrepreneurial intention model for social enterprise requires to be used with more attention.

Apple Inc. released the Smartphone, iPhone, and the iPhone App used in the application in 2007. The App Store, a trading market emerged. One after another of Google's Smartphone OS, Android and associated apps and Google Play, trading market emerged. The App Stores led by the Telco emerged. Many start-ups and venture firms for app development and distribution have been founded. App economy moves the economic resources, especially, lead to employment, but cannot measure the economic effects of app-related policies. The purpose of this study is to estimate the employment effects of the app economy in Korea. In order to do so, we collected many opinions and ideas from experts, and tried to estimate the direct and indirect employment effects using our model that we created. The contribution of this study are as the following:(1) This study estimated the employment effect of the App economy using real data that passed through the strict test. (2) This study introduces the investigative concept for the employment effect of the App economy in order to estimate economic values. (3) This study tries to collect more realistic data comparing with the previous studies.