• 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.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.13
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• pp.247-262
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• 2000

This study proposes a conceptual framework that can help to investigate strategic alliances. Based on the framework, this study identifies the factors that affect longevity of strategic alliances, highlighting the network structure in which a firm is embedded as an important variable, along with other environmental-level and firm-level variables such as environmental volatility, nationality, and previous experience with strategic alliances. In this study, the network structure of existing alliances in which a firm is embedded constitutes a form of social capital and is hypothesized to partially explain the longevity of a strategic alliance. In addition, the significance of other factors is appreciated.

• 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.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.95-99
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• 2004

장기수명특성 분포를 나타내는 제품의 유효수명 예측은 경험적인 Data와 현장정보만으로는 한계가 있으며, 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위해서는 초가속수명시험을 근거로 하는 유효수명예측이 반드시 필요한 상황이다. 그러나, 현장의 문제점은 이러한 사실을 바탕으로 하더라도 MTTF 혹은 MTBF, 심지어 Br수명분포까지도 제품 유효수명과의 상관관계가 어떻게 분포하는지에 관해 정확한 GUIDE LINE없이 적용하는 문제로 인하여 기업의 COPQ 부담이 증대하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기업의 COPQ부담을 경감시키고, 제품의 유효수명예측의 정밀도를 향상하기 위한 대안으로서 HALT와 제품유효수명간의 상관관계를 규명하는데 주력하였다.

• 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.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.

• 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.