As the new economy emerged in1990s, intangible assets such as knowledge capital and information have become a major element to determine the market value(Webber 2000). According to Dunning's classification, we have entered in the early knowledge based...
As the new economy emerged in1990s, intangible assets such as knowledge capital and information have become a major element to determine the market value(Webber 2000). According to Dunning's classification, we have entered in the early knowledge based economy following the feudal land based economy and industrial economy after the Industrial Revolution. Since then financial capital and knowledge capital have become the new basis of the economy. This signifies that intangible assets that have not been reflected in past financial statement have become more important to the corporate value.
The economic crisis in 1997 provided a window of opportunity of causing an extensive changes in all areas of economy and society in Korea. In particular, companies went through extreme changes such as hostile M&A, liquidation, workout and restructuring. Accordingly, companies pursued long-term innovative projects to develop a substantial growth and development and through these innovations, companies promoted to survive in the competitive market and also enable continuous growth and development. For example, after the introduction of BSC, foreign companies starting from US started to implement BSC in their companies and reported to have achieved remarkable results.
Balanced Scorecard (BSC), is a corporate management innovation tools and plays a centripetal role in operation of strategy with its positive influence on revitalization of communication between members. In addition, it plays a vital role in increasing management outcome by indicating and conveying selection of important measuring indicator connected to strategy and method of achieving the measuring indicator clearly.
However there are insufficient empirical studies on the success factors of BSC even though 10 years have passed since the initial introduction. BSC, as a tool of management innovation, goes through the introduction stage of general project as is in other projects. A typical project introduction stage, includes 5 stages such as initialization, planning, designing, realization and operation.
In this study, I have analyzed major operation factors in initialization, planning and designing stage of project based on the trend of projects and howthe relation between elements to be considered in the operation process influences the management outcome of an enterprise. To this end, I have utilized the moderated regression analysis.
The results of research can be summarized as follows :
First, sharing of information including corporate strategy, vision and objective regardless of the governance structure, competitiveness level and work relativity throughout the company had a large impact to the business performance.
Second, establishing an appropriate performance indicator influenced the business performance.
Third, establishing goals through bottom-up approach by reflecting as much as possible the opinions of the corporate members had a positive impact to the business performance.
Fourth, during the implementation process of BSC, goals established through top-down approach or KPI were more effective to the achievement of business performance by linking with budget.
In addition, diversity of numbers of KPI had a more positive effect on the business performance, which is reported to be contrary to the research of Brown(1996). The higher the proportion of leading indicator and sharing of information between top-down departments was, the more positive impact there were to the business performance.
These results have verified with empirical figures on the success factors to be taken account during the introduction of BSC and it is significant in the sense that it has clarified which elements need to be considered for the success of BSC project. At the same time, the result of analysis will provide useful implications to companies implementing BSC and consultants providing consultation service related to BSC.