This is an empirical study on the effect of the internet on small & medium sized firms in Korea. The major objective of this study is to find out how to use internet for small & medium sized firm effectively based on the survey from Korean managers in small & medium sized firms.
Recently the importance of internet has been emphasizing on the companies in order for increasing their competitiveness in terms of managing and operating their companies efficiently. However, distorted usage and application of the internet by many of traditional firms have been approved based on developed cases.
How to adopt the internet onto the companies’ value chain, especially small & medium sized firms, are relatively weaken in terms of managing and operating the companies.
Accordingly, this research finds valuable correlation between internet and company performance by surveying managers’ perceptions in small & medium sized firms in Korea. The results form the research would be proper solutions for small & medium seized firms introduce internet to their firms in order to have strong competitiveness in information era.