• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.145-155
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• 2020

The purpose of this study investigates the relationship between business strategy and cost behavior according to the corporate life cycle. To do so, I first examine the relationship between cost behavior and business strategy. And then, I analyze the effect of the business strategy on cost behavior conditional upon corporate life cycle based on listed Korean firms from 2000 to 2019. Specifically, the business strategy index is calculated by using the six continuous financial factors and the Prospector and Defender was defined on the score. Also, the corporate life cycle is distinguished based on the cash flow pattern. I find the evidence that the Prospector firms are likely to strengthen the asymmetry of cost behavior (cost stickiness), and examined that such a relationship was most strongly represented in the Introduction. This study is meaningful in that this is a more comprehensive analysis by examining business strategy and cost strategy according to the corporate life cycle and expand the application of financial information by using financial indicators to distinguish business strategies.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.217-223
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the restructuring strategies that are selected according to the corporate life cycle and to provide evidence that restructuring strategies that are chosen when firms face financial difficulties can have a positive impact on corporate restructuring. This study is logistic regression analysis of 3,593 samples of companies listed on Korea Exchange from 2001 to 2016. The results of this study show that a company that is growing through the expansion of its size and investment can overcome the financial difficulties of the company. And this study finds evidence that the declining firms use the capital increase or debt issuance to revive the corporate regeneration. The results of this study suggest that it is important to consider the life cycle at the time of corporate restructuring and select the appropriate strategy accordingly.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.85-96
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• 2017

The purpose of this study investigates the relation between corporate life cycle and management compensation. The analysis is performed by comparing the compensation level and pay-performance-sensitivity (PPS) at each life cycle based on Korean data from 2003 to 2014. The results show that regarding compensation level, mature stage has the highest mean value of compensation and compensation level drops after mature stage. In introduction stage, growth and decline stages, compensation is not sensitive to accounting performance. In a while, in mature stage, management compensation varies with accounting performance more significantly than stock performance. In additional analysis, the results indicate that the finding is not designated from growth opportunities and the relation differs when the firm is included in a conglomerate. These findings contribute to the literature by providing additional evidence to understand for compensation and the corporate life cycle studies.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.165-175
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• 2015

This study is focusing on the needs to introduce policy decision making based on identification of the definition for 'business life cycle' and 'public enterprises' for proper public enterprises management. For this purpose, the study is planning to define categorical variables for enterprise life cycle and provide basic data for public enterprises management policy. This study explored 'Korea Expressway Corporation', 'K-water', 'Korea Railroad', 'Korea Land and Housing Corporations', because of they are the public institutions recently underwent 'management normalization policy' due to rapidly increasing debt. First, there follows the analysis on priority and standard of categorical variables for quasi-market oriented SOC public enterprise life cycle by using AHP and frequency study on expert survey. Next, this study investigated and analyzed the enterprises management plan for expected 'declining period' through forecasting 'declining period' by conducting 2nd expert survey.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.77-83
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to find out what impact the accural has on the each stage of corporate life cycle. In order to meet that purpose, we collect the financial information from 2001 to 2010 of listed companies and then the regression analysis was carried out to verify the hypothesis. The finding shows that the accural of maturity stage is significantly bigger than those of introductrory, growth stage and smaller than those of shake-out, decline stage.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.177-189
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• 2018

Business environment is always full of challenges. Despite various strategic efforts, there are so many failure cases of misfit. With the weaker resource base and institutional foundation, startup firms find it more difficult to find the right spot in the stiff competition. In the middle of evolutionary process, the startup firms need proper strategies meeting the differential challenges along the multiple stages of growth. Following the idea of product life cycle, this study applies the four stages of growth-startup, initial growth, accelerated growth, matured, and decliing. The next step for the startup manager is meeting each stage of growth with proper strategic efforts, including strategy, structure, decision-making pattern, and control method. When the knowledge factor is introduced, there is a potential for higher performance. Based on the 'Detailed Survey on Startup Ventures in 2017,' this study explores the impact of the government subsidy program on the firm competitiveness and performance-along the four stages of growth. In each stage, the strategy factors showed differential impact.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.23-44
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• 2010

This study examines the value-relevance of accruals and discretionary accruals. Also, by examining the effects of the corporate life-cycle on these relationship, this study is able to provide evidence of the value-relevance of accruals and discretionary accruals measures in the economic context of life-cycle theory. This study uses results based on life-cycle classification methods developed by Anthony and Ramesh(1992), adjust Jones model and Dechow Dechev(2002) model. We classify firms using individuals variables(sales growth, capital expenditure growth, employee growth) and then use a composite score obtained from all variables for classification. Our sample consists of 272 firms listed in the Korean Stock Exchange during 14 years(1996-2009). Our final sample for regression variables consists of 2,448 firm-year observations. This evidence implies that the value-relevance of accruals and discretionary accruals in the growth and mature stage can have positive impact on the price but in the decline the value-relevance of accruals and discretionary accruals can have negative impact on the price. The results mean that discretionary accruals communicate managements' private information in the growth stage, but. earnings management in the decline stage. The results of this study suggest that corporate life cycle stages influence the value-relevance of accruals and discretionary accruals measures.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.25-33
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• 2000

제조업 분야에서는 오랫동안 표준화를 통해서 정보교환의 문제를 줄이고자 노력해왔다. 대표적인 예로 도면을 통한 제품정보의 교환을 들 수 있나. 그러나, 제품수명주기의 단축, 소비자 욕구의 다양화, 기업 경쟁의 격화, 가상기업의 출현 등으로 도면을 포함한 문서에 의한 제품정보의 교환은 데이터의 부정확, 과다한 문서의 보관, 린 정보 교환 속도 등 많은 문제를 야기하고 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.43-49
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• 2019

The study divided the life cycle of Chinese companies into three stages from 2011 to 2017, 3,750 small and medium-sized enterprises(SME) used disclosure data to analyze the intensity of R&D investment by company life cycle. The analysis showed that the impact of wealth(ROA) on the performance of R&D investment(RDS) and the next(t) business performance, and research and development investments had a different impact on the company's performance depending on the life cycle of the company. The results of this study are expected to help determine the amount of expenditure related to R&D investment and the time of input of resources in consideration of industrial characteristics and corporate characteristics when making strategic decisions related to R&D investment of companies.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.187-192
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• 2018

현재 급변하는 정보기술, 다양성을 추구하는 시장의 니즈, 미리 예측하지 못한 다양한 형태의 경쟁자 등의 출현으로 인해 경영환경이 급변하고 있는 것은 더 이상 새로운 현상이라고 보기는 어렵다. 이와 같이 급변하는 경영 환경은 기업 간 경쟁 심화를 불러일으키고 있으며, 경쟁 심화는 생존 및 발전을 위해 기업 특성에 맞지 않는 무분별한 전략을 활용하면서 오히려 역효과를 내고 있다는 문제를 야기하고 있다. 특히 변화하고 있는 환경 내 벤처기업 및 창업기업들의 경우 창업 후 생존율이 점차 낮아지면서 일반 기업들에 비해 경쟁력을 갖춘 기업을 찾아보기 어려운 것이 현실이다. 이에 벤처기업들은 도태되지 않고 생존하기 위해경쟁력을 강화시킬 수 있는 다양한 전략을 구사하고 있다. 벤처기업은 하나의 비즈니스 생태계 내 유기적 생명체로서 진화하기 위해 제품이나 산업의 수명주기와 마찬가지로 창업기, 초기 성장기, 고도 성장기, 성숙기, 쇠퇴기 등의 정형화된 단계를 거친다. 따라서 벤처기업은 무차별적인 전략을 통해 기업의 생존 및 성장을 도모 하는 것이 아니라 해당 기업이 놓인 수명주기 단계별로 전략, 조직 구조, 의사결정방식, 통제유형 등을 상이하게 판단하고 이에 적절한 전략을 수행해야 한다. 예를 들어, 동일 생산요소를 투입하더라도 이를 적용할 수 있는 지식이 있는 경우 더 높은 가치 창출이 가능(Aghion & Howitt, 1992) 하지만 창업 초창기의 기업은 고도 성장기의 기업보다 보유한 지식 수준 및 경험이 상대적으로 낮기 때문에 다양한 협력을 필요로 한다. 그러나 현재의 여러 선행연구들은 기업이 처한 상황을 고려하지 않은 단편적인 대처 방안이거나 혹은 부분적인 방법론을 제공하는 수준에 그치고 있다는 한계가 있다(이병헌 외, 2014). 따라서 본 연구에서는 '2016년 벤처기업정밀실태조사' 데이터를 기반으로 기업의 외부 협력 정도 및 벤처기업 지원제도 활용 정도가 경쟁력과 성과에 미치는 영향이 기업의 수명주기별로 상이하다고 보고 관련 전략 프레임워크를 제시하고자 한다.