최고경영진의 특성과 국제화 배경이 기업 국제화와 경영성과 간에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the impact of top management team(TMT)’s demographic characteristics and international background on the internationalization-performance relationship of firms. Based on the upper echelons theory, we consider that TMTs play an important role in the internationalization process of firms in that they have an influential decision-making power on key issues in business. Furthermore, we assume that specific demographic characteristics or international background of TMTs make them select internationalization among business strategies, and it results in different levels of performance attained based on their information processing capacities and international experience. For the empirical analysis, panel data was composed of 89 manufacturers in the automobile industry and electronics industry listed on the KOSPI for seven years from 2013 to 2019, and the statistical result was summarized as follows. (a) The younger the average age, (b) the longer the average tenure, (c) the higher the average education level of TMTs, the more significant positive moderating effect on the relations between firm internationalization-performance. Moreover, (d) the higher ratio of TMTs majoring in internationalization and (e) the higher ratio of TMT’s internationalization have positive moderating effects significantly as well. However, the ratio of TMT's educated or working abroad have no significant moderating effect contrary to expectations. These results imply that characteristics and background of TMTs must be considered when identifying the reason firms with similar levels of internationalization has difference in management performance.