경력단절여성의 기업가정신이 창업의도에 미치는 영향

Abstract

A decrease in the economically active population is expected in South Korea due to the aging population and low birth rate. The importance of women's economic activities should be emphasized because of the positive economic effects the women's workforce can bring to the whole country and society. Hence, more policies that can actively introduce economically inactive women into the labor market should be implemented. Creating new businesses should be considered as an alternative solution for career-interrupted women. The Act on Support for Women's Enterprises was enacted to help women improve their economic activities and status by helping them to create a business and supporting women's enterprises. However, despite the government's various policies, the number of career-interrupted women entrepreneurs is lower than that of other developed countries. Therefore, more active support methods seem to be required.
 In this study, the subject of the study was specified to be career-interrupted women since the focus of this thesis is to find ways to increase women's economic activities and revitalize women's entrepreneurship. Through this, this thesis aims to find implications for creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem for career-interrupted women. Firstly, the research verifies whether the entrepreneurship of female entrepreneurs affects business intention. Secondly, the research portrays how the relationship between entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention is influenced by social support. Thirdly, the research examines if and how the government and local government’s policy to support women’s entrepreneurship influences the relationship between entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention.
 As a result of the research the thesis shows that the innovation initiative factor was significant in the effect of entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial intention. Second, as to whether there was a moderating effect of social support in the relationship between entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention, emotional support showed a moderating effect on innovation initiative and evaluation support on risk sensitivity. Third, looking at the moderating effect of government support projects between entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention, both funding and physical infrastructure support showed a moderating effect.
 The implications of the research are to develop educational programs that take into account women's characteristics, effective and diverse government support policies, and continuous research on women's entrepreneurship in order to increase the economic activity of career interrupted women and lay the foundation for finding ways to promote entrepreneurship.