Recently, in order to adjust radical changes in business environment, many businesses put serious efforts to achieve successful performance based on the sustainable development management. This study is to identify effect factors for the performance o...
Recently, in order to adjust radical changes in business environment, many businesses put serious efforts to achieve successful performance based on the sustainable development management. This study is to identify effect factors for the performance of businesses that is incorporated with sustainable management efforts to react and to survive those changes.
The concept of the performance should be free from the traditionally financial concept of performance. Businesses will not be able to maintain a constant competitive advantage, by merely applying new technologies into physical assets and managing financial properties and debt.
The abilities to utilize company's tangible and intangible assets are considered to be more critical factor for success than those to invest in and manage physical tangible assets.
In this study, based on business performance in point of view of BSC which is the performance management introduced by Kaplan and Norton (1992), considering non-financial aspects(that is, the aspect of operational activities) such as customer satisfaction, task management efficiency, and the ability to change and improve. we identified effect factors for the performance of businesses that put incorporated efforts for sustainable development.
The factors and independent variable are composed of economic efforts(reconsideration of efficiency, ethic of accounting and fairness), environmental efforts(environmental management, energy control) and social efforts(consumer protection, employees, and contribution for local community), and the effect factors of incorporated business performance, which is the dependent variable.
For survey, a sample of 265 respondents is acquired from executives and staff members of businesses that introduced and are operating sustainable development.
Regression analysis using PASW 18.0 was employed for data analysis. As a result of reliability analysis for each variable, all turned out to be acceptable. As a result of validity analysis, except 2 items from reconsideration of efficiency and 1 item from energy control(both are independent variables), total 8 independent variables and 33 survey items were used for the final analysis.
As a result of hypothesis verification through regression analysis, 5 out of 6 hypothesis were adopted. Efforts for reconsideration of efficiency, moral management, energy control, consumer protection and contribution for local community show significant effect on incorporated business performance.
Moral management was the most affective variable among others that affects to business performance. And the order of level of significancy of other variables includes the contribution for local community, the consumer protection, the reconsideration of efficiency, and the energy control.
This result suggests that the efforts for sustainable development are the critical source of incorporated performance of businesses. And we could reconfirm an importance of moral management in relationship among business stakeholders.
The suggestion of the present study is as follow.
Efforts for contribution for local community and consumer protection in social efforts determine the competitiveness of business by pursuing the management of social responsibility and creation of value. The social activities and contributions are the major factors that determine the sustainable business performances.
The realization of the management of social responsibility and the contribution for local community and consumers is achieved by reinforcing the various communications. And as we learn from this, efforts for contribution for local community and for consumer protection are the driving force of the sustainable management of businesses.
Effort for reconsideration of efficiency in economic efforts determines the competitiveness of business, which will be the critical factors for determining sustainable business performances, such as productivity and profitability.
By identifying the constant chances for development and reinforcing the base for sustainable development through management analysis, the driving force for pursuing sustainable business performances can be obtained.
Effort for energy control in environmental efforts affects as a factor that allows the value creation for environment through cooperation and harmonization with nature to result in the sustainable business performances by vitalizing the practical establishments and operations.
This effort for sustainable management is recognized as a necessary factor for the success of incorporated business performances in the global competition. Thus, it should meet the international standards with proper cooperation and harmony that are mainly based on economic, environmental and social efforts. Businesses need to adopt the sustainable management efforts that are suitable for their own system and should constantly pursuing them.