Many researchers have argued that nonfinancial performance measurement is crucial to achieve the competitive superiority at floor and market.
Firms could be flexibly making decision predicting the future performance and control operations confirming ...
Many researchers have argued that nonfinancial performance measurement is crucial to achieve the competitive superiority at floor and market.
Firms could be flexibly making decision predicting the future performance and control operations confirming the process of goals and strategies by identifying nonfinancial performance information for the low-level activities.
Although the performance measurement literature claims that predictive ability is one of the primary benefits of nonfinancial performance measurement, as a results of prior studies, the link between the use of nonfinancial performance measurement and finamcial performance appear to be affected by organizational strategies, structure and environmental factors confronting the organization. If nonfinancial performance measurement are not beneficial in all settings, an impotant research topic is identifying the circumstances under which these measures do improve financial performance.
Although many firms experienced a perceived shock to their operating environments that motivated management to find new way of managing, measuring and controlling operations, the majority of firms are making decision using the financial performance measures(traditional accounting measures).
It is not possible that firms look forward to improve substancial performance if they are only satisfied by measuring, but positively using the information produced from operating fields.
The purpose of this study is to empirically test these several hypotheses developed on the basis of those issues regarding the prior literatures.
1. There is significant relationship between the extent of use of nonfinancial performance measurement and the financial performance.
2. The environment uncertainty and the intensity of competition facing firms moderates the extent of use of nonfinancial performance measurement and the financial performance.
3. There will be significant interaction between the level which managers have percieved how important nonfinancial performance measures to be used at fields and the extent of use of nonfinancial performance measurement and the financial performance.
To analyze the data collected from 75 business units consist of labors more than 250 which are listed on the Korea Stock Exchange, the several statistical methods are used including factor analysis, reliability test, frequency, simple regression analysis, moderate regression analysis.
The empirical results and implication are as follows.
First, the extent of use of quality and resource management efficiency are significantly negative effect on the increasing rate of cost to sales and positive effect on the improving rate of sales and operating income to sales.
Second, Under the intensity of competition, the relationship between nonfinancial performance measurement and the financial performance appear positively to quality, negatively to resource management efficiency, and also flexibility.(the relationship of quality-financial performance to be stronger, while the relationship of resource management efficiency and flexibility-financial performance to be weaker)
Third, the relationship of quality and resource management efficiency-financial performance are to be weaker in the context of an environment uncertainty, but stronger to flexibility and customer satisfaction-financial performance.
Fourth, the level which managers have percieved how important nonfinancial performance measures appears positive interaction with the extent of use of resource management efficiency and flexibility.
To achieve their financial objectives, only if firms should emphasis the most competitive KSF(Key Sucess Factor) after identifying the current context and sufficiently communicate to manager and workers the specific performance measurement system, it is possible to control and manage the operating activities and efficiently use the predictability of nonfinancial performance measures to financial performance.