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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.1.52

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

Park, Kyoungmi (Dept. of Cooperative Management, Agricultural Cooperative University)
Hwang, Jaewon (Dept. of Business Administration, Korea National University of Transportation)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.1, 2019 , pp. 52-63 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
competitive strategy; innovativeness; long-term orientation; risk taking; venture business;
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