scholarly journals Cost Leadership Strategy and Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence from Textile Sector Listed Companies of Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
MUHAMMAD ILYAS ◽  
IHTESHAM KHAN ◽  
MUHAMMAD NISAR KHAN

Organizations concentrate to maximize their value. Therefore, their management are interested in their financial performance. However, management is also interested in minimization of the operational cost. This study examines the cost leadership strategy (CLS) and financial performance in a sample of 132 textile sector firms listed on the Pakistan stock exchange (PSX) during 2008-2016. For analyses used panel data random effect model and the results demonstrate that CLS significantly and positively affect the financial performance of textile sector listed firms of Pakistan. Moreover, control variables such as leverage and dividend payout ratio are significantly affect organizational performance. Finally reveals that study supports the theoretical association of return on assets with independent and control variables. Hence, recommended to follow the CLS to reduce operational costs further and to perform efficiently in the competitive market.

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Antonius Singgih Setiawan

Penelitian ini bertujuan menguji apakah strategi deferensiasi akan memberikan kinerja keuangan yang lebih baik dari pada strategi cost leadership. Menggunakan 85 sampel pengamatan dari 17 perusahaan manufaktur Food & Beverages terdaftar di BEI 2009–2013, hipotesis penelitian diuji menggunakan analisis regreasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perusahaan yang memilih strategi defensiasi akan menghasilkan kinerja keuangan yang lebih baik dari pada perusahaan yang menerapkan strategi cost leadership.This study aims to test whether differentiation strategy will deliver a better financial performance than cost leadership strategy. Using a sample of 85 observations of 17 Food & Beverages manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange from 2009 to 2013, research hypotheses are tested using regresion analysis. The result shows that companies that choose differentiation strategy will produce better financial performance than companies that implement the cost leadership strategy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ahmed Imran Hunjra ◽  
Farida Faisal ◽  
Faiza Gulshion

This study gauges the impact of cost leadership strategy and financial management controls on financial performance of firms in Pakistan’s services sector. Drawing on a sample of banking, insurance and investment firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange, we find that cost leadership strategy and financial management control systems have a significant and positive impact on financial performance. This implies that both factors should be aligned in the long term.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-76
Author(s):  
Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad ◽  
Memoona Kanwal

This research work is based on the relationship that exists between the capital structure and performance of different sector's firms currently operating in the Pakistan. Capital structure decisions can be considered as the most important financial performance and risk management tools which are available to the companies' management. Capital structure can also play an important role in performance assessment, in performance management and in effective handling of ownership claims. The extensive use and heavy dependence on debt has exposed many companies to potential risk of declined performance and also to the risk of insolvency. This study analyzes the relationship between various capital structure indicators and dependence of financial performance of companies on these indicators using a broad sample covering 202 non-financial firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) over the period of 1999-2012. The sample firms are divided into five sectors i.e. Textile, Chemical, Cement, Food and Fuel & Energy. Financial performance of firms is quantified by Return on Assets (ROE), Return on Equity (ROE), Price-Earnings ratio (PE) and Tobin's Q (TQ). The relationship between financial performance measures and capital structure measures i.e. total debt, short term debt and long term debt is estimated using GLS fixed and random effect model. Sector wise comparison shows that majority of the sectors have similar capital structure. The impact of capital structure on the financial performance is also similar across sectors with few variations. Overall the relationship is found to be negative among capital structure and firm performance measured by ROA, ROE and PE except TQ which is positively related to Long Term Debt to total Assets (LTDA). The result of industry wise comparison contributes significantly to the existing stream of knowledge. The results indicate that lower reliance on the debt financing improves the performance of the firm whereas dependence and exposure of debt financing reduce performance. The research can be useful for the management of companies in different sectors that want to improve their performance.


Author(s):  
Nedal Fareed Abdallah

The research aimed to investigate the applicability of environmental financial accounting practices in the industrial listed companies in Palestine Exchange and to examine the relationship between the disclosure level of environmental financial accounting practices on the company’s financial performance. The research adopted the descriptive-analytical approach, and the analysis method involved a content analysis of the annual financial reports data which were collected from Industrial listed firms on the Palestine Stock Exchange for the period from 2015 to 2019, including the firms disclosed and not disclose EFAP. Ordinary least square (OLS), fixed effect model (FEM), and random effect model (REM) were employed for processing the data. The results reveal that there is a relationship between the EFAP and financial performance. In addition, there is a difference in financial performance between the group of firms disclosed and not disclosed EFAP. Based on the findings, some recommendations are given for motivating EFAP in the listed firms for improving financial performance.


Pravaha ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhundi Bhattarai

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between firm strategy and sustainability of financial performance of Nepalese Enterprises. The research design adopted in this study consists of descriptive and causal-comparative research designs to deal with the various issues raised in this study. Secondary data has been used for this study which was collected from annual audit report of concerned organization of manufacturing and hotel industrities from fiscal year 2000/01 to 2014/15. Factor analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and regression analysis are different statistical tool that has been used for this study. Cost leadership and differentiation strategies has been constructed from selling, general, and administrative expenses divided by sales; sales divided by cost of goods sold; capital expenditure on property, plant, and equipment divided by sales, and net book value of plant and equipment; divided by sales variables through factor analysis. By regressing return on assets of future period against on return on assets, interaction of cost leadership strategy with return on assets, interaction of differentiation strategy with return on assets variables. The analysis shows that the enterprises adopting higher selling, general and administrative expenses in association with higher gross profit margin are pursuing differentiation strategy whereas, higher investment on property, plant and equipment along with their existing higher book value of plant and equipment indicates that they are following cost leadership strategy. When organization is following cost leadership and differentiation strategy both positive effect on sustainability of financial performance of Nepalese enterprises. Out of cost leadership and differentiation strategy, cost leadership is better than differentiation strategy to increase financial performance of Nepalese enterprises. Pravaha Vol. 24, No. 1, 2018, page: 39-49


2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 872-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv D. Banker ◽  
Raj Mashruwala ◽  
Arindam Tripathy

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the strategic positioning of firms and the sustainability of firm performance. The paper argues that pursuing a differentiation strategy leads to more sustainable financial performance compared to following a cost leadership strategy. However, a differentiation strategy may also be associated with greater risk. Design/methodology/approach – To investigate the research questions, the authors utilize publicly available archival data consisting of 12,849 firm-year observations for the period 1989-2003. In the first stage of the analysis, factor analysis is used to determine firms’ strategic positioning. The resulting factor scores are subsequently used in regression analysis to investigate the sustainability of performance based on the strategic positioning of firms. Findings – The results indicate that both cost leadership and differentiation strategies have a positive impact on contemporaneous performance. However, the differentiation strategy allows a firm to sustain its current performance in the future to a greater extent than a cost leadership strategy. The differentiation strategy, though, is also associated with greater systematic risk and more unstable performance. Originality/value – Sustainability of performance refers to how much a firm's current profitability can be sustained in future periods. The main contribution of this study is the comparison of generic strategies based on the sustainability of firm performance. This aspect of the strategy-performance link has not been considered in prior work. Another contribution of the study is that it considers multiple dimensions of firm performance in order to evaluate the trade-offs involved with pursuing different strategies. In particular, the authors contribute to the literature by documenting that while differentiation leads to more sustainable earnings, it also leads to riskier and more unstable earnings.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Syyeda Ghazia Neelofer Kazi ◽  
Kashif Arif

The objective of the study is to examine the impact of CSR activities by the organization on their financial performance. This study employs a quantitative and deductive approach. This research has been carried out with the secondary data which has been taken from the CSR reports of the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) and the annual reports of the listed companies of Pakistan Stock Exchange. In addition to that, the annual reports or sustainability reports of some companies have also been used to collect information about their CSR performance. The sample panel of this study consists of 55 companies having available data for at least a period of 3 years (2014-2016), hence consisting the data of 165 firm years. Random effect linear regression has been run for the two dependent variables for the measure of financial performance. The results indicated that CSR activities in education, community development, health, and infrastructure have a significant impact on organizational performance. The implications and recommendations were also made from the results.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-333
Author(s):  
Elsa Vieira ◽  
João Ferreira

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the strategies that private fitness centres implement and to evaluate their impact on financial performance.Design/methodology/approachBased upon a sample of 151 private fitness centres in Portugal, multivariate statistics report the implemented strategies and their effect on financial performance. We applied exploratory factorial analysis as our methodology to identify the types of strategy and the ANOVA in order to verify if there are differences of financial performance in the strategies.FindingsThe results obtained demonstrate how private fitness centres implement different strategies, including: cost leadership, differentiation, focus, quality of service, combined and stuck in the middle approaches. The relationship between strategies and financial performance, private fitness centres adopting a cost leadership strategy obtain the best financial performance levels in terms of the sales variable relative to any other strategy but with the combined strategy returning a better performance in terms of the return on assets when compared with the cost leadership strategy.Originality/valueThe originality of this paper stems from its identification of the strategies implemented by private fitness centres, thus, just what type of strategies are in effect across the fitness industry: leadership through cost, differentiation or a focused strategy. However, in addition to ascertaining just which strategies undergo implementation, it is also pertinent in determining just which strategy drives the best financial performance for private fitness centres given that private centres may only remain in the market when achieving financial sustainability. Therefore, this paper seeks to provide information for managers as regards the strategies implemented and their impacts on the financial performance of private fitness centres.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Adam Zakaria ◽  
Suherman Suherman ◽  
Agung Dharmawan Buchdadi ◽  
Sukma Andika Rahmayanti ◽  
Muhammad Edo Suryawan Siregar

This research is aimed to investigate the influence of gender diversity and educational level in board of commissioner on the performance of non-financial company listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2013-2017 period. Gender diversity as the first research variable was measured by female existence as the head of commissioner, female existence on board of commissioner and its proportion. Meanwhile, education level of female in board of commissioner as the second variable was measured with dummy 1 for master and doctoral graduate and 0 for other levels. Next, the company performance variable is proxied with a return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), and Tobin’s Q. The model employed in this research was an unbalanced data panel using fixed and random effect model approach. The results show that gender diversity has a significant impact on ROA, but an insignificant impact on ROE and Tobin’s Q. Further, education does not have a significant impact on financial performance. In general, board characteristics do not have an important role in determining financial performance.


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