• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2019

This paper examines how firm's investment has been affected by offshoring and financialization in Korea over the period 2000-2014 by using industry-level data collected from World Input Output Database (WIOD) and firm-level data collected from the KIS-Value Database. The findings are summarized as follows. First, offshoring index as expected shows a negative relationship with real investment. This negative impact is stronger in a large firm group. Second, there is a positive relationship between dividend payments and real investment. The positive relationship is greater in a small & medium-sized firm group. Third, the purchase of financial assets and the income generated from financial assets are positively related to real investment. The positive relationship is stronger in the small & medium-sized firm group. The empirical results show that firm size is a factor that effectively affects firm's real investment. This paper suggests that the influence of financialization and offshoring on firm's real investment should be assessed in various contexts rather than in a unilateral context.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제25권
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• pp.43-68
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• 2008

From intuitional viewpoint many researchers have been considering that information technology investment serves to increase the productivity and the profitability of firm. But the empirical studies that have examined the relationship between information technology investment and firm performance have reported mixed findings. In spite of that, recently there has been growing recognition of the importance of assessing information technology investment in determining future performance of firms. This study examines the relationship between investment in information technology and performance of securities companies in Korea. I use Tobin's Q, a financial market-based measure of firm performance and investigates the pure effect of information technology investment on firm performance after controlling for a variety of firm specific variables which may affect on firm performance. This study finds that information technology investment have a significantly positive association with Tobin's Q. This result implicates that information technology investment contributes to a firm's future performance potential.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.60-78
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• 2023

Purpose - The study analyzed 90 online firms worldwise and observed them for ten years to investigate their investments and firm performance variabilities. This study attemped to verify the existence of agency problems in online firms. Through this, the paper intends to expand the scope of research in the fields of investment and firm value both empirically and in theory. This study also attempted to supplement the insufficient logic of previous studies by analyzing the relationship between investment and profitability. Design/methodology - In this study, the investment is subdivided into over-, under-, and neutral investments, and an empirical analysis of the firm performance was conducted. As investment generally has long-term effects, the impact of a firm's investment on future firm performance and variabilities in firm performance was considered over the short-and medium-term period. Findings - It was found that there was a negative relationship between firms with an overinvestment and future firm performance. Underinvestment has no clear statistically significant results on firm performance. This implies that overinvestment causes more reduction in future firm performance than underinvestment. It was also found that underinvestment and overinvestment significantly increased the variability of firm performance. A positive significance was found between under- and over- investment with a variability of 3 years and overinvestment with a variability of 4 years in the future. A negative relationship was found between neutral investment propensity and future performance variabilities. Neutral investment has less effect on the future performance variability of a firm than a firm's overinvestment and underinvestment. For online firms, underinvestment and overinvestment have a greater effect on the firm's future performance variability than neutral investment. Originality/value - The agency theory predicts that information asymmetry and adverse selection problems exacerbate conflicts of interest among stakeholders, thus firm performance. The study contributed to accumulating research on online firms that are currently underexplored by analyzing the investment behavior of major firms in the online industry.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.61-81
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• 2015

Investment in research and development (R&D) is critical in the information technology (IT) firms, where newer and better technology is a quintessential goal that directly affects innovation and competitive advantage. This study investigates how R&D investment influences firm performance and value, and how the effect of R&D investment differs between IT hardware and software firms. We also analyze the relationship between firm age and R&D investment in order to identify learning effects on continuous R&D investment. The empirical investigation in this study, based on longitudinal archival data from 2001 to 2010, found a significant effect of R&D investment on firm performance in IT firms. Further, this study demonstrates causal relationship between firm age, and verifies that learning effects are present in R&D investment. Moreover, the results are found to differ between IT hardware and IT software firms.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.191-213
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• 2008

This study investigates the effect of technology import and R&D investment on the value of the firm in Korea. The result shows that the technology import announcement effect of firms with a low R&D investment is higher than that of firms with a high R&D investment. The evidence suggests that technology import can substitute the existing R&D capability of the firm. In addition, the result shows that there is an optimal level of technology import and R&D investment to maximize the value of the firm. In particular, firms with a low R&D investment and a large amount of technology import experience the highest announcement effect. The study concludes that an adequate allocation of fim's capital between R&D investment and technology import is needed for firm's optimal technology strategy.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.49-59
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• 2021

This study empirically analyzes the effect of firm overinvestment propensity on the value relevance of capital investment. In order to verify this point, this study attempts to analyze the value relevance of overinvestment firms' capital investments. The analysis was performed according to the model of Biddle et al. (2009) and McNichols and Stubben (2008) on overinvestment propensity for analysis, and the results are as follows. First, in terms of overinvestment, corporate capital investment shows negative value relevance, so the excessive investments above reasonable levels have reduced firm's value. In contrast, the value relevance for capital investment showed a positive value for firms whose managerial propensity changed, that is, from under-investment in the previous year, it shifted to overinvestment in the current year. Second, as a result of analyzing the value relevance of the investment increase according to the investment propensity, the overinvestment firms showed negative values and the underinvested firms showed positive values; thus, the value relevance of the increase in investment was opposite to the investment propensity of the firm. These findings confirm that the stock market differentially evaluates investment efficiency according to investment propensity, continuity, and investment alterations, and reflects it appropriately in the firm's value.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.177-187
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 경영자의 투자의사결정을 중심으로 하여 조세전략과 투자효율성 간의 관계를 분석하고자 한다. 구체적으로, 경영자의 조세회피 행태가 기업의 투자수준에 미치는 효과를 살펴보고자 한다. 분석 결과, 경영자의 조세회피 수준이 높아질수록 기업의 과잉투자가 증가하는 결과를 보였다. 이는 조세회피로 인하여 증가한 기업의 가용자금이 과잉투자로 이어진다는 것을 의미하며, 조세회피를 통한 가용자금의 증가분이 경영자의 기회주의적인 목적을 위해 이용되어지는 것으로 해석된다. 지금까지의 선행연구를 살펴보면, 기업의 조세전략이 기업가치에 미치는 영향에 대한 분석에 앞서 그 메커니즘에 대한 연구가 선행되어야 함에도 불구하고 기업가치에 영향을 주는 경영자의 의사결정들과 조세전략과의 관련성을 본 연구는 드물다. 따라서 본 연구는 경영자의 핵심적인 행태 중 하나인 조세전략이 기업의 실제 투자의사결정에 미치는 영향에 대한 구체적인 결과를 제시하였다는 점에서 공헌점이 존재한다. 즉, 투자자와 세수를 확보하고자 하는 정부는 경영자의 조세회피 행태가 투자행태에 미치는 영향을 감안하고, 경영자의 조세회피 행위에 보다 경각심을 기울이게 할 것이라고 기대된다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.564-579
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• 2022

The use of on-premises technology in the business environment to create a competitive advantage is ushering in a new era known as digital transformation. As the foundation of digital transformation of enterprises, information technology still has a paradoxical effect on enterprises. This paper documents the effect of investments in IT on a firm's long-term profitability performance measures as return on assets (ROA), as well as tests whether the earlier entrant and the later entrant are different in IT investment performance. Using a sample of China's public firms IT investment data between 2016 and 2019, the result indicates that IT investment in firms have a positive effect on firm performance in full sample, but not in the financial industry firms. When it comes to the different investment time, the result shows no significant difference between the earlier entrant firm and the later entrant firm in the full sample, but not in the case of software industry sample. This should help alleviate the concerns that some have expressed about the viability of digital transformation given the highly publicized IT investment and implementation problems at some firms.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.89-94
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• 2019

Purpose - In recent digital information society, the most important factor of to increase the firm value of the distribution company is not the activity to increase the sales through the general advertisement of the unspecified majority by purchasing the finished product, but to grasp the needs of the consumers and to develop a new distribution platform that connects producers and consumers directly through consumer-tailored advertisements centering on e-commerce. Therefore each company in the distribution industry is spending a lot on research and development investment to innovate the distribution technology and distribution system, and the research and development investment expenditures can affect firm value. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of research and development investment expenditures in the distribution industry on market value of the firm. Research design, data, and methodology - As a research method, the sample firms are those which are listed on korea stock exchange market from 2011 to 2017 and the research model is Ohlson(1995) model, which is a representative valuation model using accounting information. This study analyzes the effect of distribution company's research and development investment expenditures and advertising expenditures on market value of the firm Results - The results of empirical analysis show that research and development investment expenditures for developing new distribution technology and advertising expenditures for promoting sales in the distribution company are all positively related to the market value of firm. Therefore, in describing market value of the distribution company, it is shown that the research and development investment expenditures and advertising expenditures together with the net asset and net profit are the important accounting information that explains the market value of firm. This result show that investment expenditures on research and development for the innovation of distribution technology of distribution company creates intangible intellectual assets and increases market value of the firm. Conclusions - The result of this study shows that research and development investment expenditures for the new distribution technology as well as the spending for the advertisement in the future is a very important investment expenditures that can increase the market value of the distribution company.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.19-38
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• 2013

해운기업의 경우 선박과 같은 설비자산에 대한 타인자본의존도가 높아 자본구조를 포함한 재무건전성에 대한 관리가 여타 산업에 비해 높은 특징을 가지고 있다. 아울러 선박과 같은 자산의 확보에 거대 자본이 소요되는 만큼 조달비용을 포함한 자본비용과 장기지불능력을 동시에 고려해야 하는 특징도 가지고 있다. 즉, 투자에 따라 창출될 미래현금흐름이 자본비용뿐만 아니라 장기부채비용까지 보존되어야하는 것이다. 이를 바탕으로 본 연구는 타인자본조달이 중요한 해운기업들을 대상으로 부채 및 기업특성변수와 기업의 투자활동과의 관련성을 알아보고자 하였으며, 자산대비 부채비율, 부채만기, 금융비용 부담률이 해운기업의 투자활동 현금흐름과 관련성이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 아울러 부채가 증가할수록 투자활동현금흐름이 위축되는 결과를 보여주었으며, 기업규모가 작고 경기가 불황일수록 자본의 조달비용측면에 더욱 민감한 것으로 분석되었다. 반면 기업규모가 크고 상대적으로 호황일수록 자본조달비용측면보다는 자본구조에 더 민감한 나타났다. 결국 해운기업의 경우 부채관련 요인이 주요한 투자활동 변수임과 동시에 기업규모와 경기변화에 따라 투자의사결정요인이 다른 양상을 가짐을 시사해주고 있다.