• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.133-151
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• 2021

Purpose - This study examines the effects of expatriate transfer on foreign affiliate's labor productivity. Design/methodology - Using Korean-owned foreign affiliate-level data, we estimate the effect of expatriate transfer on foreign affiliate's labor productivity using the system generalized method of moments model. We also consider foreign affiliate- and host country-specific contingencies and test how they are associated with expatriates in enhancing foreign affiliate's labor productivity. Findings - We consider foreign production intensity and cultural distance between the home (i.e., South Korea) and host countries as key contingencies that influence the effect of expatriates on foreign affiliate's labor productivity. We find that expatriates are effective in enhancing the labor productivity of less production-intensive foreign affiliates. This effect is strengthened as expatriates are deployed to countries that share cultural similarities with the home country. Originality/value - Considering that previous studies provide mixed results on the effect of expatriates, our findings suggest that foreign affiliate-specific operational orientation and cultural distance should be considered jointly to understand the true effect of expatriate staffing on foreign affiliate performance.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.88-109
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• 2019

Purpose - This paper examines the effects of host country's non-economic factors on foreign affiliate's financial and operational performance. Design/Methodology - Using Korean-owned foreign affiliate-level data, we employ various measures that represent host country's non-economic factors and examine their effects on foreign affiliate's performance. We further investigate the effects of local top managers and local middle managers on the impact of country's non-economic factors on foreign affiliate's performance. Findings - We find that local top managers are effective in increasing foreign affiliate's financial performance by dealing with institutional and cultural factors, particularly in high-income countries, while local middle managers are effective in increasing affiliate's operational performance by responding to the changes in doing business factors, particularly in low-income countries. Originality/value - Considering that most of previous FDI studies focus on examining host country's economic factors on firm's FDI decision, our findings suggest that country's non-economic factors are strongly associated with actual business performance of foreign affiliates.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.5-10
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• 1983

Foreign direct investment is considered to be one of the important technology transfer channels from advanced countries to less developed countries. The purpose of the study is to find the answers for the problems: if there is any difference of technology absorption level between the foreign affiliate companies, and what are the major factors which explain the difference. It is shown that the technology absorption level of foreign affiliate company is negatively related to the management control level by foreigners, to the rate of exportation, but positively related to the number of competing company and to the nature of generality of the technology.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2014

Purpose - This study conducted empirical research on non-financial corporations listed on the stock exchange from 2001 to 2010, focusing on the effects of corporate governance on real earnings management of corporations. In particular, this study examined primarily the impact of the largest shareholder who could use earnings management to pursue his own self-interest, and foreign investors who played a checking role against the largest shareholders. The study also reviewed the relationship between corporate governance and earnings management while also considering corporate growth. Research design, data, and methodology - As for the measurements of real earnings management, abnormal operating cash flow and abnormal production cost were utilized. As for the independent variables, share ratio of the largest shareholder and affiliate person (M) and share ratio of foreign investors (FT) were leveraged. This study excluded those organizations that had changed their fiscal years, those that had not submitted an audit report, corporations under supervision, delisted corporations, corporations that had changed their business type, and so on, from the non-financial corporations out of the publicly traded corporations whose fiscal year ended in December from 2001 to 2010 in addition, KIS values were utilized for the corporate financial data in the study. To verify whether management structure and growth had an impact on real earnings management of a corporation through empirical analysis, a multiple regression analysis model was applied. Result - First, as a result of the analysis, the share ratio (M) of the largest shareholder and affiliate person was found to have a significant positive correlation with abnormal cash flow from operations(ACF) and abnormal production cost (APD). When controlling the growth, the share ratio (M) of the largest shareholder and affiliate person was found to have an insignificant correlation with abnormal cash flow from operations(ACF) but a significant correlation with abnormal production cost (APD). Second, foreign ownership (FT) was found to have a significant positive correlation with abnormal cash flow from operations(ACF) and abnormal production cost (APD) at the confidence level of 1 percent when not including the growth dummy. When controlling the growth, foreign ownership (FT) was found to have a significant negative correlation with abnormal cash flow from operations (ACF) and with abnormal production cost (APD). Conclusion - The results imply that the largest shareholder is closely related to earnings management through real activities regardless of corporate growth. It is also possible to determine from these results that foreign investors are related to earnings management through real activities when not considering corporate growth, but that they would reduce earnings management in the case of considering the growth. Thus, this study verified along with the existing studies that foreign investors were conducting the control function on controlling shareholders.

• 무역학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.69-88
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• 2018

본 연구는 2009~2015 기간의 19개 제조업 패널 자료를 사용해 산업 특성이 한국 기업의 해외시장 진출 방식에 미치는 영향을 분석했다. 산업 수준에서 수출과 현지법인 매출 간의 비중을 계산해 종속변수로 사용했고, 산업 내 기업 이질성 변수를 통해 생산성 효과를, 기업체 및 사업체 수준의 규모의 경제 변수를 통해 비용 효과를 검증했다. 다양한 대용치를 사용한 대부분의 추정 모형에서 기업 이질성이 클수록, 사업체 수준 규모의 경제가 작을수록, 기업체 전반의 규모의 경제가 클수록 해외 총매출 대비 수출 비중이 감소했다. 이는 생산성이 높을수록, 사업 집중에 따른 효율보다는 기업 전반에 적용되는 고유 자산이 클수록 수출보다 현지 생산이 선호된다는 이론적 예측과 부합한다. 이 결과는 한국의 해외직접투자에서 시장 접근 동기가 중요해졌다는 점과 그 과정에서 산업 특성이 통계적으로 의미 있는 역할을 할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.261-279
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• 2013

Using firm-level panel data for Korean multinational enterprises (MNEs), we make a distinction between being the only affiliate of a parent firm and being one of the multiple affiliates of a parent firm. In particular, we attempt to find a correlation between the sales of foreign affiliates and the productivity of multinational firms. Our main empirical results in this paper suggest that productive Korean MNEs would enlarge the number of affiliates in the host country.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.113-134
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• 2018

This study examines the roles of intangible and tangible resources of Korean business groups on internationalization by their member firms. Specifically, we argue that not all affiliates receive same benefit from group-level resource sharing. Instead, the effect of group-level knowledge sharing on affiliates' internationalization depends on individual affiliates' relative financial positions within a business group. Using samples of business groups in Korea, chaebols, hereafter chaebols, we find that foreign market knowledge at the group level has a positive impact on the internationalization of affiliated firms while the product knowledge has no impact. Furthermore, we also find evidences that an affiliate with high level of financial capacity receives internal pressures to stay in domestic market to secure internal capital market and support other sister affiliates' international activities.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.115-137
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• 2012

해외진출 기업은 시장에서 경쟁력을 확보하기 위해 현지의 환경적 특성에 따른 전략을 수립하여 최적의 성과를 도출한다. 본 연구에서는 몽골에 진출한 한국 기업들의 진출환경을 기업 특성, 현지관리 특성, 문화 특성, 산업 환경 특성으로 구분하여 각 특성이 진출성과에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여, 실증분석을 하였다. 본 연구에서는 몽골에 투자 진출한 한국 기업들의 진출환경을 기업 특성, 현지관리 특성, 문화 특성, 산업 환경 특성으로 구분하여 각각의 특성이 전략에 미치는 영향을 분석하여 기업의 성과를 제고할 수 있는 방안을 모색하였다. 분석 결과, 기업 환경과 전략 간의 관계에서 각각의 환경특성은 전략에 통계적으로 유의미한 영향을 미치고 있다. 특히, 기업전략과 성과 간의 관계와 산업 환경과 성과 간의 관계에서, 산업 환경 특성은 성과에 정의 영향을 미치고 있어서 몽골에 진출한 한국 기업의 환경, 전략 및 성과 간의 관계를 입체적으로 분석하였다.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2020

Purpose: This paper examines the theoretical grounds for the disclosure of the Korea Fair Trade Commission. Three central measures of the disclosure are scrutinized: The interconnected status of affiliate companies, the important matters of private affiliates, and the large internal transactions. Contemplating on three measures, respectively, we review the rationale and derive policy implications. Research design, data, and methodology: Collecting the data of violation rates and remedial measures, we analyze the intensity of the disclosure enforcement. These statistics are critically reviewed by the economic literature of mandatory disclosure. Results: Statistics evince that the Korea Fair Trade Commission has enforced the regulatory disclosure quite successfully. Violation rates of the disclosure has declined from the outset. It demonstrates that the Korea Fair Trade Commission has enforced those measures satisfactorily for about a decade. But we cannot ascertain empirically whether the regulatory disclosures are socially and economically beneficial. To evaluate the effect of the regulatory disclosures precisely, we need a further empirical investigation. Conclusions: Despite the lack of policy evaluation, this study suggests complementary measures for current disclosures. First, disclosure of executive compensation in privately held subsidiaries must be introduced. Second, the controlling shareholder/manager should be responsible for information disclosure on foreign subsidiaries.