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Competitive Strategy and Resource Sharing: Moderating Effects of Strategic Contexts

경쟁전략이 자원공유에 미치는 영향: 전략적 상황의 조절효과를 중심으로

  • Hwang, Jaewon (Dept. of Business Administration, Korea National University of Transportation) ;
  • Park, Kyoungmi (Dept. of Cooperative Management, Agricultural Cooperative University)
  • 황재원 (한국교통대학교 경영학과) ;
  • 박경미 (농협대학교 협동조합경영과)
  • Received : 2020.08.12
  • Accepted : 2021.01.08
  • Published : 2021.01.31
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Abstract

This study explores the factors that moderate the impact of competitive strategy on resource sharing in order to explain why existing empirical research has not shown statistically significant results. We test the hypothesis that competitive strategy pursuing low-cost rather than differentiation increases resource sharing and analyze how the relationship between competitive strategy and resource sharing changes when diversification, interconnectedness, centralization of authority, and resource level are entered into the equation as moderating variables. According to the results, competitive strategy doesn't affect resource sharing alone, but it has significant effects on resource sharing when it is combined with interconnectedness, centralization of authority, and resource level, except for diversification. This means that low-cost strategy increases resource sharing under the conditions of high interconnectedness, more centralized authority, and low resource level. The prior discussions have focused on the willingness or intentions of resource sharing without considering the abilities or possibilities. Our findings indicate that resource sharing could be better predicted by using moderating variables reflecting the abilities or possibilities. The contribution of the study is that we discover and complement the vulnerability in the logic of resource sharing.

본 연구는 경쟁전략이 자원공유에 미치는 영향을 조절하는 요인이 무엇인지를 살펴봄으로써 기존 실증연구에서 경쟁전략과 자원공유 간의 관계가 유의미한 결과를 도출하지 못했던 이유를 찾아내고자 하였다. 이를 위해 경쟁전략이 차별화보다는 저원가를 추구할수록 자원공유의 정도가 높아질 것이라는 가설을 먼저 검증하고, 이후 다각화전략, 상호연결성, 집권화, 자원보유수준을 조절변수로 투입했을 때 경쟁전략과 자원공유의 관계가 어떻게 달라지는지를 분석하였다. 통계결과에 의하면 경쟁전략은 자원공유에 단독으로 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않았으나, 다각화전략을 제외한 상호연결성, 집권화, 자원보유수준과 결합될 때 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 즉 저원가 전략은 높은 상호연결성, 높은 집권화, 낮은 자원보유수준의 조건 하에서 자원공유를 증가시킨다는 것이다. 이는 경쟁전략과 자원공유의 관계에 대한 기존 논의가 자원공유의 의지나 의도에만 초점을 맞추었던 반면, 능력이나 가능성에 대한 고려가 부족했기 때문인 것으로 설명될 수 있다. 따라서 능력이나 가능성을 반영하는 조절변수의 투입을 통해 자원공유를 보다 잘 예측할 수 있게 되었던 것으로 보인다. 본 연구는 자원공유에 대한 기존 논의의 취약성을 발견하고 보완논리를 제시했다는 점에서 의의를 찾을 수 있다.

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