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Competitive strategies, CEO characteristics, and firm performance in venture businesses

경영전략과 최고경영자 특성이 기업성과에 미치는 영향: 벤처기업을 중심으로

  • Park, Kyoungmi (Dept. of Cooperative Management, Agricultural Cooperative University) ;
  • Hwang, Jaewon (Dept. of Business Administration, Korea National University of Transportation)
  • 박경미 (농협대학교 협동조합경영과) ;
  • 황재원 (한국교통대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2018.09.27
  • Accepted : 2019.01.04
  • Published : 2019.01.31
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Abstract

Biased performance implications are common in conducting empirical analysis on leading firms in strategic management field. Venture businesses in which successful and failing firms in the future are mixed in the present could provide a better discriminative result for examining the determinants of performance. We suggest hypotheses on how competitive strategy, CEO characteristics, and their interactions affect firm performance. We examine these hypotheses through empirical analyses on the basis of a survey collected from 387 venture businesses in order to assure the validity of strategic management theories by using more deviated data. Empirical results show that innovative differentiation from competitive strategies affects firm performance and innovativeness and long-term orientation from CEO characteristics affect firm performance. According to the results of the interaction analyses between competitive strategies and CEO characteristics, cost-leadership and marketing differentiation strategies have combination effects with risk taking, innovativeness, and long-term orientation, while innovative differentiation strategy has no combination effects with risk taking, innovativeness, and long-term orientation. We conclude that cost-leadership and marketing differentiation strategies have no direct effect on firm performance but have combination effects with CEO characteristics, while innovative differentiation strategy has direct effect on firm performance but has no combination effect. Our primary contribution is that we test and confirm that the fit between competitive strategies and CEO characteristics are an important consideration to increase firm performance in venture businesses.

전략분야의 연구들은 일정 수준 이상 성공한 대기업을 대상으로 실증분석을 실시함으로써 제대로 된 성과함의를 도출하지 못할 여지가 있다. 이러한 측면에서 미래 시점에 성공할 기업과 실패할 기업이 현재 시점에 혼재되어 있는 벤처기업을 대상으로 논의의 타당성을 검증함으로써 보다 변별력 있는 연구결과를 획득할 가능성은 높아질 수 있다. 본 연구는 경영전략과 최고경영자의 특성, 그리고 이들 간의 상호작용효과가 기업성과에 미치는 영향에 대한 가설을 제시하고, 387개 벤처기업으로부터 회수된 설문에 근거하여 실증분석을 실시함으로써 전략분야의 논의들이 어떤 타당성을 가지는지를 벤처기업을 대상으로 검증하고자 하였다. 분석결과에 따르면 경영전략 중에서는 기술혁신 차별화 전략이, 최고경영자의 특성 중에서는 혁신성과 장기지향성이 기업성과에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 경영전략과 최고경영자의 특성 간의 상호작용효과의 경우 원가우위 전략과 마케팅 차별화 전략은 위험감수성향, 혁신성, 장기지향성 모두에 대해 유의한 결합효과를 보여주었다. 반면에 기술혁신 차별화 전략은 최고경영자의 특성 중 어느 것과도 유의한 결합효과를 보여주지 않았다. 이를 통해 원가우위 전략과 마케팅 차별화 전략은 기업성과에 단독으로 영향을 미치지 않고 최고경영자의 특성과 결합될 때 영향을 미치는 반면. 기술혁신 차별화 전략은 기업성과에 단독으로 영향을 미치지만 최고경영자의 특성과는 결합효과가 존재하지 않는다는 결론에 도달하였다. 본 연구는 벤처기업의 성과제고를 위해서는 경영전략과 최고경영자의 특성 간에 적합성을 추구하는 것이 중요하다는 사실을 실증분석을 통해 확인했다는 점에서 의의를 가진다.

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Table 1. Descriptive Statistics & Correlations

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Table 2. Regression Analysis Results

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