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Does the Rapid Internationalization of Companies affect BGF's Financial Performance? - Focused on the Korean BGF Cases

신속한 국제화 전략이 기업의 성과에 어떤 영향을 미치는가? - 한국의 BGF를 중심으로

  • Jang, Yeaji (School of Business, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Hyung Jun (School of Business, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2020.01.30
  • Accepted : 2020.07.10
  • Published : 2020.09.30
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Abstract

This study attempt to use secondary data from KIS-Value to understand how rapid globalization strategy affects BGF's performance defined five categories such as sales volume, return on investment, net profit per employee, increase in sales, and increase in net profit per employee. In particular, this research defines the BGF based on the export ratio within five years after the establishment and classifies BGF into three levels according to 25%, 50%, and 75% concentration of exports. The main results of this study were first, the rapid internationalization strategy was proven to have a sales effect in the short and long term, and in particular, the short term effect was more significantly compared to the long term effect. However, the impact on the return on investment(ROI) of BGF was found that the more stringent the BGF level, the more short-term effect on ROI, but the longer-term effect was diluted according to time. Third, the sales growth rate is significant in the short-term depending on the BGF level, but do not have long-term effects same as ROI. On the other hand, the growth rate of net profit has shown that the BGF strategy has a negative (-) effect over the long term. In particular, the higher the BGF level, the greater the negative impact on the increase in net profit.

기술 기반 신생기업들은 창업 초기부터 세계화를 추구함으로써 경쟁력을 확보하려는 BGF전략을 추구하는 현상은 기존 국제화 이론으로는 설명하기 어려운 현상으로 태생적 글로벌 기업(BGF 또는 BGV)에 대한 새로운 접근법이 적용되고 있다. 그러나 BGF에 대한 대부분의 연구는 세계화 전략의 선행 요소)에 초점을 맞추고 있어 기업 재무성과에 어떤 영향을 미치는가에 대한 연구는 적으며 기존의 연구 결과의 일관성도 없는 상황이다. 이러한 차이는 BGF에 대한 정의의 문제와 연구 방법과 연구 대상에 의한 결과이며 특히 기업의 재무적 성과에 대한 측정의 타당성 부족에 기인한 것이다. 본 연구는 기존 연구의 한계를 극복하고 신속한 세계화 전략이 BGF의 성과(매출량, 투자수익률, 직원당 순이익, 매출증가율, 종업원당 순이익 증가율)에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 이해하기 위해 KIS-Value의 2차 자료를 활용하여 연구를 시도 하였다. 특히, BGF에 대한 정의를 기업이 설립 후 5년 내에 수출 집중도가 25%, 50%, 75%에 따른 수준별 구분에 따라 분석을 시도하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 첫째, 신속한 국제화 전략은 장·단기적으로 매출 효과는 있는 것으로 검증되었고 특히, 단기적인 효과가 장기적인 효과에 비하여 크게 나타났다. 그러나 BGF의 투자 수익률(ROI)에 대한 영향은 BGF수준이 엄격할수록 ROI에 대한 단기적인 영향은 있지만 장기적인 영향은 사라지는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 매출 성장률 성과는 BGF수준에 따라 단기적 효과가 있으나 ROI와 같이 장기적인 효과는 나타나지 않는다. 반면에 순이익 증가율은 BGF전략이 장기적으로는 부정적인(-) 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 특히, 기업의 BGF 수준이 높을수록 순이익 증가율에 미치는 부정적인 영향은 더 크게 나타났다.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2018S1A5A2A01037123)

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