• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.727-736
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• 2020

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship power distribution among several blockholders (contestability) and firm performance. We use a sample of 646 firms listed in the security markets of Korea from 2005 to 2007. Using different measures of contestability, we verify advance research literature by examining that, when power dispersion among several blockholders (contestability) increases, firm performance is enhanced. The results show that, when the possibility of a controlling coalition being formed among several blocks increases, the corporate value decreases. We also find that this relationship is even more significant in KOSDAQ. However, the smaller the competition of voting rights among blockholders, the higher the corporate performance in KOSPI. The reason for this seems to be that the two markets are different in terms of ownership and governance. This suggests that the effects of contestability among blockholders on firm performance depend on the type of the stock market. The results of this study expand the existing governance literature by analyzing the relationship between contestability among blockholders and firm performance in emerging markets such as Korea. Our findings contribute to policymakers and investors who are interested in the relationship between contestability of control and firm performance in the Korea stock market.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.93-112
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• 2019

Purpose - First, this study contextually examines the governance codes of South Africa and South Korea. Second, it analyzes board features of South African (JSE) Mainboard and South Korean (KRX) KOSPI-listed companies. Design/methodology - This review is qualitative and uses data from the annual reports of the selected markets' companies, respective exchanges' official web sites and corporate governance-related web sites in order to examine the corporate governance practices in the two markets. In addition, Nvivo is employed in analyzing the content of the corporate governance codes of the selected countries. Findings - Our analysis indicates that the corporate governance codes of the two countries are evolving to keep up with the international trend of principles-based approach. The composition of the board of directors (BODs) of non-financial companies of both South Africa and South Korea shows no significant variation between the companies with regards to the executive (inside) and nonexecutive (outside) directors. On the contrary, there is a significant variation between South African and South Korean listed companies with respect to diversity. Originality/value - While previous studies are centered on the impact of governance codes on performance, this study intends to contextually evaluate the codes and features of South Africa and South Korea listed companies. This is essential and timely for regulators and policy makers given the importance of corporate governance features such as board independence and diversity in recent times.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2020

Purpose - This study investigates whether a listing effect exists in cross-border M&As and whether the effect can be attributed to the uncertainty of the GDP growth rate in the target firm's home country. We apply a joint variable analysis using M&A announcement data from the Korea Exchange (KRX), Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), and the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) from 2004 to 2013. We also conduct an event study using the measure of the uncertainty of the GDP growth rate (based on IMF statistics) in 55 target countries. Design/methodology - We measure the abnormal return (AR) using the market-adjusted model. We test the significance of the AR and the cumulative abnormal return (CAR) using a one-sample t-test. We examine the characteristics of the CARs depending on whether the target company is listed by applying a difference analysis using CAR as a test variable. In addition, we set CAR (-5, +5) as a dependent variable to identify the cause of the listing effect, and test both the financial characteristic variables of the acquirer and the collective characteristic variables of the merger as independent variables in the multiple regression analysis. Findings - First, we find the listing effect of cross-border M&As in the KRX, SSE, and TWSE, which represent the capital markets in Korea, China, and Taiwan, respectively. This listing effect persists during the global financial crisis and has a negative effect on the wealth of acquiring shareholders, especially when the target countries are emerging markets. Second, greater uncertainty regarding the target countries' economic growth in cross-border M&As has a negative effect on the wealth of acquiring firms' shareholders. Third, our empirical analysis demonstrates that the listing effect is attributable to the fact that firms listed in a target country with greater uncertainty of economic growth are more directly and greatly exposed to uncertain capital markets through stock markets, than are unlisted firms. Originality/value - This study is significant in that it presents a new strategic perspective in the study of cross-border M&As by demonstrating empirically that the listing effect is attributable to the uncertainty regarding the economic development of the target firms' home countries.

• 기술사
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.42-46
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• 2004

Automobile industry with history of more than 100 years is totally influencing all the economic environments and has very important wellbeing role in the World in every country of the world. Korean Automotive industry in production has only about 40 years but ranked remarkably 6th biggist in the world in the year of 2003. Nowadays The auto, industry has changed into buyer's market in competitively global battle fields and also is changing industry paradigm in product, sales, production, colarboration & emerging, etc. BRICs(Especially China)are rapidly emerging as main producers and customers in new big markets. Korea Auto. Industry faces crictical problems such as higher salary, furious labor union's striking lack of raw material, evasion of 3D works with studying engineering by students which are the key pending agenda that should be overcome for prosperous growth and development of achieving US20,000 GNP.

• 한국시스템다이내믹스연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.41-62
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• 2001

Perhaps, one of the typical emerging markets drawing tremendous attention from not only business professionals but also policy-makers would be the mobile Internet services. In recent years many research institutes reported their predictions on the growth of the mobile Internet services market, announcing that the market would show explosive growth and replace the wired Internet service market rapidly. Unfortunately, however, the reality we are facing at present is quite different from their expectations. The realized share of the mobile services in Korea last year has turned out remaining only about one percent of the total network service revenue. What are the reasons for the gap between the prospects and the reality? Starting from this question, this paper attempts to explore the generic pitfalls of the traditional number-crunching methods adopted thus far for the forecast of newly emerging market trends, and present an alternative by introducing systems thinking to the mobile Internet service market as an example, followed by its rationale as a new tool for forecasting and some reasoning about why traditional methods are no longer appropriate.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.79-104
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 2007~2008년 및 2010~2012년의 글로벌 금융위기 기간에 외국인 투자자의 아시아 신흥국 주식시장에 대한 투자행태를 살펴보고, 주가 수익률 및 변동성 측면에서 외국인 투자자가 아시아 신흥국 주식시장에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 분석결과 아시아 신흥국가에서 글로벌 금융위기 기간에 외국인 투자자들은 양(+)의 피드백 거래를 나타내었다. 그리고 전 아시아 신흥국가 샘플에서 수익률 상승기보다는 하락기에 시장의 변동성이 더욱 증가하는 비대칭성을 보였다. 또한 금융위기 기간의 외국인 투자자의 순매도 행위는 대부분의 국가에서 시장의 변동성을 유의적으로 증가시킨 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 글로벌 금융위기 기간에 외국인 주식 투자자는 아시아 신흥국에서 양(+)의 피드백 거래 행태를 보였고 외국인 투자자의 매도 행위는 수익률을 하락시키고 시장의 변동성을 증대시키는 유의적 작용을 했다는 함의를 제공한다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.61-73
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• 2022

The article examines the ownership structure and dividend payout behavior of India-listed firms using a panel regression approach. It focuses on family ownership and examines why dividend payouts of family firms differ from non-family firms. The study finds that family firms dominate and have concentrated ownership using data from the NSE-listed regular dividend-paying firms. Although family ownership concentration is high among Indian firms, these firms are not concerned about distributing cash as dividends. Instead, these firms focus on retaining and passing on control from one generation to the next. The evidence shows that family firms pay low dividends and have higher leverage than non-family counterparts. The results support the entrenchment of minority shareholders and the proposition that a high payout signals a reduction in the information asymmetry and level of risk. The study further illustrates that cash dividends tend to reduce the level of risk perceived; however, (cash dividend) leads to the deterioration firm's liquidity and aid in the shrinking of cash among emerging market firms. The originality of the paper lies in factoring ownership concentration while explaining the dividend behaviour from an emerging markets perspective, characterized by high private benefits and weak protection for external minority shareholders.

• 무역학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.177-191
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• 2021

Based on the existing OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) literature, this study endeavored to verify how the corruption of host countries affects the partner strategy of EMNEs (emerging multinational enterprises) when EMNEs enter global markets through joint ventures. Following the existing literature, this study classified corruption and partner strategies into two categories, respectively. First, the corruption of host country was divided into grand corruption and petty corruption. Second, EMNEs' joint venture partner strategy was divided into home country partner joint venture and host country (i.e., local) partner joint venture. Our hypothesis suggested that the greater the host country's grand corruption, the more EMNEs would choose the host country partner, while the strong petty corruption leads to the preference of home country partner in host country. The hypotheses were verified with a sample of 890 foreign direct investment cases of Chinese multinational companies from 2005 to 2015. As a result of the study, regardless of the degree of corruption, it was found that they prefer joint ventures with home country partners when EMNEs enter the global market through joint ventures.

• 정보학연구
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.65-80
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• 2007

The development of social enterprise is rapidly emerging trend in Europe. Social enterprises are businesses with a social purpose working. There is no single legal model for social enterprise. There are many social enterprises operating in a wide range of industries from farmers markets and recycling companies to transport providers and childcare. Common characteristics of Social enterprise are Enterprise Orientation, Social aims, Social ownership.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.504-513
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• 2017

본 논문은 기존의 국내자본시장 기업들 대상 현금보유수준에 대한 재무적 결정요인 분석에 대한 확장적 연구이다. 국내 KOSPI 상장기업들과 이에 상응하는 미국의 대기업들에 대한 상호 비교가 실증적으로 검정되었다. 구체적으로는, 동 기업별 현금 보유수준의 적정성을 탐구하기 위하여, 다수의 계량경제적인 모델들을 활용하여 국제금융위기 이후부터 최근까지의 분석기간 (2010년-2015년)동안, 동 현금유동성 수준에 영향을 줄 수 있는 재무적 대용변수들을 활용되었다. 재무적 설명변수들의 선정과 관련하여, 현금유동성 수준의 국제적 기업재무 이론의 근간이 되는 상충관계이론, 자금조달순서이론, 그리고 대리인비용이론을 기준으로 동 변수들이 선별되었다. 각 자본시장별, 현금유동성을 측정하는 종속변수와 동 설명변수들의 계량경제적 관계 분석과 이에 대한 재무이론적 해석 등이 본문 내용 중에 서술되었다. 결론적으로, 동 실증적 결과들은 향후에도 활발히 진행될 것으로 예상되는 국가 간 투자협정들, 특히, 금융서비스 분야에서 자금의 유,출입에도 선순환적인 영향을 줄 수 있을 것으로 판단되며, 미시적으로는 동 결과를 응용한 최적 현금 보유수준의 접근을 통하여 기업의 최종 목표인 주주 부의 극대화에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.