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This study investigates the interactive effect of turnaround strategy and firm-specific factor on turnaround performance for firms in a turnaround situation.
Chih-Yuan Chen
1
, Hui-Hui Huang
2
, Shyh-Chyi Wey
3
INTERACTIVE EFFECT OF TURNAROUND STRATEGY
AND FIRM-SPECIFIC FACTOR ON TURNAROUND PERFORMANCE
This study investigates the interactive effect of turnaround strategy and firm-specific factor on
turnaround performance for firms in a turnaround situation. The empirical research indicated that
(1) among smaller firms, making greater use of a growth-oriented strategy resulted in higher prof-
itability of turnaround performances; (2) among firms with better prior performances, the increased
use of an efficiency-oriented strategy improved market-based turnaround performance; (3) among
firms whose prior performances were worse, adopting a growth-oriented strategy enhanced prof-
itability of turnaround performance; (4) for the firms with lower market positions, increased uti-
lization of a growth-oriented strategy improved market-based turnaround performance.
Keywords: turnaround situation; turnaround strategy; firm-specific factor; turnaround perform-
ance.
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©Chih-Yuan Chen, Hui-Hui Huang, Shyh-Chyi Wey, 2014
1
PhD, Professor. Department of Business Administration, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
(R.O.C.).
2
Corresponding author, PhD Candidate, Department of Business Administration, National 3 Yunlin University of
Science and Technology, Taiwan (R.O.C.).
3
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Foreign Language, National Yunlin University of Science and
Technology, Taiwan (R.O.C.).
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1. Introduction
Most firms inevitably experience deteriorating financial performance at some
point. Turnaround attempts should be conducted if a firm intends to recover from a
decline. Previous studies on firm turnaround have adopted diverse strategy focuses,
with some studies focusing on efficiency-oriented strategies (e.g., Robbins, Pearce,
1992; Pearce, Robbins, 1993), or focusing on growth-oriented strategies (e.g.,
Rasheed, 2005; Morrow, 2007), and others suggesting combined approaches (e.g.,
Hofer, 1980; O'Neill, 1986). To summarize, it is difficult to make conclusions regard-
ing a strategy certain to ensure strategic success.
Successful turnaround depends on numerous factors rather than on executing a
single strategy. Prior studies examined the effects of firm-specific factors on the capac-
ity for strategic change in a turnaround attempt (e.g, Boeker, 1989; Amburgey, 1991;
Barker, Duhaime, 1997). These studies investigated firm-specific factors, including
firm size, prior financial resource, culture, market position etc. Reviewing these prior
researches, although the conclusions regarding the relationship between firm-specific
factor and the likelihood of implementing strategic change are sometimes equivocal
and controversial, it is advisable for firms undergoing a turnaround to consider these
firm-specific factors when making their strategic decisions. However, few previous
studies have examined the effects of turnaround strategy on turnaround performance
in the context of firm factor. To understand how turnaround strategy and firm-specif-
ic factor interactively affect turnaround performance, this study thus considers 3 firm-
specific factors – firm size, prior performance and market position, and seeks to
respectively fit them into the efficiency-oriented and growth-oriented strategies.
2. Literature review and hypotheses
2.1. Turnaround strategy. Turnaround strategies are the processes by which firms
experiencing declining performance overcome their problems and recover their pre-
downturn performance (Pearce and Robbins, 1993). Reviewing the major researches
on turnaround strategies, this study concluded that turnaround strategies could be
two types: growth-oriented and efficiency-oriented. Growth-oriented strategies usu-
ally involve a new definition of core activities, either by increasing the dominance at
the existing markets or by diversifying into new markets or products. Turnaround can
be achieved through the strategies based on entrepreneurial reconfiguration of busi-
ness assets (Hambrick, Schecter, 1983; Pearce, Robbins, 1993). On the other hand,
efficiency-oriented strategies focus on reducing organizational scope or size and
emphasize cuts in unproductive and unprofitable parts of business to increase effi-
ciency. Efficiency-oriented strategies are primarily intended to stabilize firms' finan-
cial condition, and usually comprise a combination of cost cutting and asset reducing
activities (Hofer, 1980; Hambrick, Schecter, 1983).
2.2. Interactive effects of turnaround strategy and firm-specific factor on turn-
around performance. Larger firms are more likely to have complex procedures and
structure, and less likely to change, while smaller firms are more flexible and likely to
change (Barker, Duhaime, 1997). On the other hand, larger firms have more
resources and market power (Porter, 1980), expanding their strategic options and
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allowing them overcome market barriers that small firms could not easily conquer
(Barker, Duhaime, 1997). These researches demonstrate an equivocal relationship
between firm size and capacity to implement change. Rajagopalan and Spreitzer
(1996) argued that the equivocal effect for firm size can be attributed to different
strategic changes and organizational factors.
Love and Nohria (2005) found that large manufacturing firms could improve their
performance through the downsizing strategy in response to high slack. However, for
small manufacturing firms, Chowdhury and Lang (1996) suggested that a growth strat-
egy is a promising alternative to retrenchment. These prior researches indicate that
turnaround strategy and organization size are two contingent factors that simultane-
ously and interactively influence turnaround performance. To verify the interactive
effect of turnaround strategy and organization size, we hypothesize the following:
Hypothesis 1: Turnaround strategy and organization size interactively affect turn-
around performance.
Hofer (1980) argued that turnaround strategy selection depended on business
financial situation. According to Hofer, firms substantially below financial breakeven
may initiate asset reduction strategies; while firms near breakeven may implement
cost reduction strategies. Meanwhile, Rasheed (2005) investigated the influences on
firm choice between growth and retrenchment strategies, and found that firms were
likely to select a growth strategy when their perceptions of both resource availability
and past financial performance are high, and when both are low. These prior research
findings demonstrate that turnaround strategy and firm prior performance interac-
tively affect turnaround performance. To verify this interactive effect, we hypothesize
the following:
Hypothesis 2: Turnaround strategy and prior performance interactively affect turn-
around performance.
Hambrick and Schecter (1983) suggested that market share can affect strategic
choices and thus strategic success, and proposed that businesses with high market
share might rely on exerting their market power (Porter, 1980) by following entrepre-
neurial strategies, such as product/market refocusing. High market power allows
firms influence market environment and thus aggressively implement growth strate-
gies. However, O'Neil (1986) found that firms in weaker positions could achieve suc-
cess by adopting cutback strategies, rather than growth strategies. These prior
research findings show that firm market position might be a contingency that influ-
ences the relationship between turnaround strategy and turnaround performance. To
verify it, the following hypothesis is proposed:
Hypothesis 3: Turnaround strategy and market position interactively affect turn-
around performance.
3. Research methodology
3.1. Turnaround situation and sample. A turnaround situation was defined as at
least 3 consecutive years of return on investment below the risk-free rate of return
(Barker, Duhaime, 1997). The return rate for 6-month US Treasury notes was used as
a proxy for the risk-free rate. The sample firms were taken from the Standard and
Poor's COMPUSTAT North American database, and were limited to manufacturing
firms with NAICS codes ranging from 31 to 33. To be included in the sample, a firm
had to be actively traded at the US stock markets and had to have experienced a turn-
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around situation during the 15-year study period (fiscal years 1992–2006). Data after
2006 were not included to avoid the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) influencing the
results. GFC was triggered by the complex problems in the US banking system in
2008, as well as the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007. The number of firms that
match turnaround situation is 251. However, firms with extensive missing data were
removed, leaving the final sample of 164 firms.
3.2. Measurement of variables. In previous literature investigating turnaround
strategies, the research methods used are generally case studies (e.g., Schendel et al.,
1976; Hofer, 1980) and questionnaire surveys (e.g., Rasheed, 2005; Zhou et al.,
2006), which may be unsuitable for application here. Instead, this study adopted a
new method to measure turnaround strategies. The efficiency-oriented strategy was
assessed by observing the average fluctuation rate of "selling, general, and adminis-
trative expenses" during a three-year period following the third year of the turnaround
situation. Meanwhile, the growth-oriented strategy was measured by observing the
average fluctuation rate of sales per employee during a three-year period following the
third year of the turnaround situation. The higher the negative average fluctuation
rate of operating expenses is, the more efficiency-oriented the firm was. Meanwhile,
firm growth orientation increased with the positive average fluctuation rate of sales
per employee.
Turnaround performance was measured by the average return on investment
(ROI) and average return on assets (ROA) during a four-year period following the third
year of the turnaround situation (Barker, Duhaime, 1997; Zhou et al., 2006). As sug-
gested by Pearce and Robbins (1993), market performance measure of the troubled firm
should also be included. Accordingly, average market share growth rate (MSGR) is used
to measure market performance for turnaround outcome, also using a four-year period
following the third year of the turnaround situation. Firm size was measured as total
assets in the year prior to implementation of turnaround strategy (Kelly, Amburgey,
1991). Prior performance was measured as the average ROA during the four-year peri-
od before firms experienced turnaround (Hoffman et al., 2000). The common measures
of market position are market share (Hambrick, Schecter, 1983). Market position was
measured as sample firm sales divided by total sales for firms with the same NAICS
industry subsector code, measured in the year before implementation of the turnaround
strategy. Table 1 summarizes the measurements on research variables.
Table 1. Measurement of research variables, developed by the authors
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Research
variables
Measurement Y-4 Y-3 Y-2 Y-1 Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Turnaround
situation
ROI below the risk-free rat e
of return, from Y0 to Y2 year
• • •
Turnaround
Strategy
Growth-oriented, efficiency-
oriented, from Y3 to Y5 year
• • •
Firm size Total asset in Y2 year •
Prior
performance
Average ROA, from Y-4 to Y-
1 year
• • • •
Market
position
Market share in Y2 year •
Turnaround
performance
Average ROI, ROA, MSGR,
from Y3 to Y6 year
• • • •
*Y0 is the first year of turnaround situation.
4. Analysis and results
Hierarchical regression was used to test the interactive effect of turnaround strat-
egy and firm-specific factor on turnaround performance, with a mean-centering pro-
cedure for the firm-specific and strategic variables to minimize multicollinearity.
Table 2 lists the results.
Table 2. Results of the hierarchical regression analysis, developed by the authors
The first step entered the main effects of firm-specific factors, which together
explained a significant share of the variance in performance (Model 1: R
2
= 0.130,
p < 0.001; Model 4: R
2
= 0.172, p < 0.001; Model 7: R
2
= 0.049, p < 0.10). The
second step entered the main effects of the firm-specific factor and turnaround strat-
egy, which also together significantly explained the variance (Models 2, 5, 8).
In the third step, interaction terms were entered to test the contingency hypothe-
ses. This addition increased the explained variance in ROI performance (Model 3:
?R
2
= 0.143, p < 0.001), ROA performance (Model 6: ?R
2
= 0.084, p < 0.05), and
MSGR performance (Model 9: ?R
2
= 0.104, p < 0.01).
First, the interaction between growth-oriented strategy and firm size significant-
ly and negatively affected both ROI performance (Model 3: ? = -0.236, p < 0.01)
and ROA performance (Model 6: ? = -0.222, p < 0.05). Hypothesis1, proposing the
interaction effect of turnaround strategy and firm size on turnaround performance,
was thus supported.
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ROI performance ROA performance MSGR performance
Model
1
Model
2
Model
3
Model
4
Model
5
Model
6
Model
7
Model
8
Model
9
Independent
variables
Firm-specific
factor
Size . 016 .012 -.030 . 101 . 100 .053 -. 090 -.091 -. 072
Prior
performance
(PP)
. 338*** .347*** . 269** . 384*** . 383*** .347*** -.195* -. 182* -. 193*
Market
position (MP)
. 107 .101 . 105 . 078 . 082 .078 -. 002 -.024 -. 118
Turnaround
strategy
Efficiency-
orient ed (EO)
.029 . 056 . 053 .083 -. 218* -. 287**
Growt h-
orient ed (GO)
-. 077 -.031 . 014 .037 -.144 -. 285*
Int eraction
terms
EO × Size . 036 -. 047 -. 059
GO × Size -.236** -. 222* . 094
EO × PP -.054 -. 096 . 261*
GO × PP -.232* -. 105 -. 046
EO × MP -.012 -. 046 . 153
GO × MP . 032 .038 -. 310**
R
2
. 130*** .138*** . 281*** . 172*** . 175*** .259*** . 049† . 097* . 201**
ÄR
2
. 130*** .008 . 143*** . 172*** . 003 . 084* . 091† . 048* . 104**
a
Standardized coefficients are report ed. ***p < 0. 001, ** p < 0. 01, * p < 0. 05, † p < 0. 10
Furthermore, the interaction between efficiency-oriented strategy and prior per-
formance positively affected MSGR performance (Model 9: ? = 0.261, p < 0.05).
Additionally, the interaction between growth-oriented strategy and prior perform-
ance had a significant and negative effect on ROI performance (Model 3: ? = -0.232,
p < 0.05). Accordingly, Hypothesis 2, stipulating that turnaround strategy and prior
performance interactively affect turnaround performance, was supported.
Finally, the interaction between growth-oriented strategy and market position
significantly and negatively affected MSGR performance (Model 9: ? = -0.310,
p < 0.01). Hypothesis 3, proposing an interaction effect of turnaround strategy and
market position on turnaround performance, was thus supported.
5. Discussion
5.1. Discussion of results. Testing the main effects of firm-specific factor and
turnaround strategy on turnaround performance, only prior performance was posi-
tively related to both ROI performance (Model 2: ? = 0.347, p < 0.001) and ROA
performance (Model 5, ? = 0.383, p < 0.001). This result is similar to the finding of
Hoffman et al. (2000), indicating that financial resources are an important part of
firm resource profile to achieve turnaround success. This study failed to find a signif-
icant impact of turnaround strategy on both ROI performance (Model2) and ROA
performance (Model5), whereas both efficiency-oriented strategy and growth-ori-
ented strategy were negatively related to MSGR performance (Model8). These find-
ings showed that simply adopting an efficiency-oriented or a growth-oriented strate-
gy wouldn't be effective in improving turnaround performance for general unspecified
firms in a turnaround situation. In some respects, this result seems close to the find-
ings of Morrow et al. (2007). Morrow et al. (2007) noted that simply taking a strate-
gic action, regardless its value, either does not affect or negatively affects the recovery
performance.
Accordingly, this study proposed including firm-specific factors in forming a
turnaround strategy to maximize the value of the adopted strategy. The empirical
results identified certain interactive effects of turnaround strategy and firm-specific
factor on turnaround performance.
1) First, this empirical finding indicated that the interaction between growth-
oriented strategy and firm size negatively affected profitability turnaround perform-
ances. This shows that, among smaller firms, making greater use of a growth-orient-
ed strategy resulted in higher profitability turnaround performance. This result
appears consistent with the finding reported by Chowdhury and Lang (1996).
Chowdhury and Lang (1996) suggested that small manufacturing firms experiencing
declining performance could consider growth strategies rather than retrenchment. To
achieve successful turnaround, firms may need to change their organizational proce-
dures and structures, to match the implementation of growth strategy. Meanwhile,
smaller firms are more flexible and likely to change as a result of turnaround attempts
(Barker, Duhaime, 1997).
2) Second, the empirical result identified the interaction between efficiency-
oriented strategy and prior performance as positively affecting turnaround market-
based performance. This means that, among firms with better prior performances, the
increased use of an efficiency-oriented strategy improved market-based turnaround
performance. Financial resources are important to firm resource profile, which help
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support firm strategic planning for successful turnaround (Hoffman et al., 2000).
Adopting efficiency-oriented strategies can improve manufacturing and operational
efficiency. Meanwhile, sufficient financial resources allow a firm further invest in
improving cost infrastructure, for example, replacing old equipments to enhance pro-
ductivity. Combining an efficiency-oriented strategy with sufficient financial
resources, a firm can effectively implement the cost leadership strategy (Porter, 1980)
to become a low cost manufacturer relative to its competitors, and thus increase its
market share.
3) Furthermore, the empirical result indicated that the interaction between
growth-oriented strategy and prior performance negatively affected profitability turn-
around performance. This means that, among firms with worse prior performances,
adopting a growth-oriented strategy enhanced profitability turnaround performance.
This research finding seems consistent with the conclusion of Rasheed (2005).
Rasheed (2005) found that firms are likely to choose a growth strategy when they per-
ceive a low combination of past financial performance and resources availability. This
finding also supports the contention of Burgelman (1983) that deteriorating perform-
ance stimulates efforts to create new ventures. Zhou et al. (2007) suggested that poor
performance could widen the gap between managerial aspirations and achievement,
thereby providing a strong incentive for firms to seek new ways to improve.
Accordingly, firms experiencing decline should remain aggressive to choose growth
strategies even when prior performance and resources are poor.
4) Finally, the result identified that the interaction between growth strategy and
market position negatively affected market-based turnaround performance meas-
ured. Hambrick and Schecter (1983) suggested firms with stronger market positions
should leverage their advantage and adopt growth strategy. O'Neil (1986) proposed
that firms in weaker positions can achieve success through adopting efficiency strate-
gies. Meanwhile, this study showed a different result: for firms with weaker market
positions, greater use of a growth-oriented strategy increased market-based turn-
around performance. Robbins and Pearce (1992) found that firms tend to adopt
entrepreneurial turnaround strategies when they perceive their decline problems to be
primarily external in origin. Market position can reflect firm condition in external
market competition. Accordingly, weak market position can be regarded as the moti-
vating factor for a firm to take more aggressive actions to change its market position
and thus improve turnaround performance.
5.2. Managerial implications. This study provides empirical evidence that helps
to identify how turnaround strategy and firm-specific factor interactively affect turn-
around performance. The practical implications are that for the firms experiencing a
turnaround situation, the challenges in implementing their turnaround strategies on
improving firm performance are four-fold: (1) Smaller firms are portrayed as more
flexible to changes intended to achieve the success of turnaround attempts (Barker,
Duhaime, 1997). Accordingly, owners/managers of small firms should exploit the
flexibility of their firms and change organizational procedures and structures to fit the
implementation of a growth strategy and thus achieve higher profitability turnaround
performance. (2) Financial resources are important to firm resource profile, and are
helpful in supporting firm strategic plan for successful turnaround effort. For firms
with better historical performances, they should take advantage of sufficient financial
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resources to thoroughly improve their cost infrastructure and become low cost man-
ufacturers relative to their competitors, thus increasing market share. (3) Firms
should maintain an aggressive strategy choice when their prior performances and
resources are worse. Owners/managers of firms should convert the deteriorating per-
formance into a motivating force that stimulates efforts to recover from decline, and
undertake more entrepreneurial moves, thus improving the profitability turnaround
performance.(4) Firms experiencing a turnaround situation must endeavor to imple-
ment growth strategies to increase market share when their current market positions.
Market position reflects firm condition in external market competition. Accordingly,
firm owners/managers should treat low market position as the motivation for change
that promotes attempts to take more aggressive actions to recover from decline and
thus improve market position.
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This study investigates the interactive effect of turnaround strategy and firm-specific factor on turnaround performance for firms in a turnaround situation.
Chih-Yuan Chen
1
, Hui-Hui Huang
2
, Shyh-Chyi Wey
3
INTERACTIVE EFFECT OF TURNAROUND STRATEGY
AND FIRM-SPECIFIC FACTOR ON TURNAROUND PERFORMANCE
This study investigates the interactive effect of turnaround strategy and firm-specific factor on
turnaround performance for firms in a turnaround situation. The empirical research indicated that
(1) among smaller firms, making greater use of a growth-oriented strategy resulted in higher prof-
itability of turnaround performances; (2) among firms with better prior performances, the increased
use of an efficiency-oriented strategy improved market-based turnaround performance; (3) among
firms whose prior performances were worse, adopting a growth-oriented strategy enhanced prof-
itability of turnaround performance; (4) for the firms with lower market positions, increased uti-
lization of a growth-oriented strategy improved market-based turnaround performance.
Keywords: turnaround situation; turnaround strategy; firm-specific factor; turnaround perform-
ance.
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1
PhD, Professor. Department of Business Administration, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
(R.O.C.).
2
Corresponding author, PhD Candidate, Department of Business Administration, National 3 Yunlin University of
Science and Technology, Taiwan (R.O.C.).
3
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Foreign Language, National Yunlin University of Science and
Technology, Taiwan (R.O.C.).
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1. Introduction
Most firms inevitably experience deteriorating financial performance at some
point. Turnaround attempts should be conducted if a firm intends to recover from a
decline. Previous studies on firm turnaround have adopted diverse strategy focuses,
with some studies focusing on efficiency-oriented strategies (e.g., Robbins, Pearce,
1992; Pearce, Robbins, 1993), or focusing on growth-oriented strategies (e.g.,
Rasheed, 2005; Morrow, 2007), and others suggesting combined approaches (e.g.,
Hofer, 1980; O'Neill, 1986). To summarize, it is difficult to make conclusions regard-
ing a strategy certain to ensure strategic success.
Successful turnaround depends on numerous factors rather than on executing a
single strategy. Prior studies examined the effects of firm-specific factors on the capac-
ity for strategic change in a turnaround attempt (e.g, Boeker, 1989; Amburgey, 1991;
Barker, Duhaime, 1997). These studies investigated firm-specific factors, including
firm size, prior financial resource, culture, market position etc. Reviewing these prior
researches, although the conclusions regarding the relationship between firm-specific
factor and the likelihood of implementing strategic change are sometimes equivocal
and controversial, it is advisable for firms undergoing a turnaround to consider these
firm-specific factors when making their strategic decisions. However, few previous
studies have examined the effects of turnaround strategy on turnaround performance
in the context of firm factor. To understand how turnaround strategy and firm-specif-
ic factor interactively affect turnaround performance, this study thus considers 3 firm-
specific factors – firm size, prior performance and market position, and seeks to
respectively fit them into the efficiency-oriented and growth-oriented strategies.
2. Literature review and hypotheses
2.1. Turnaround strategy. Turnaround strategies are the processes by which firms
experiencing declining performance overcome their problems and recover their pre-
downturn performance (Pearce and Robbins, 1993). Reviewing the major researches
on turnaround strategies, this study concluded that turnaround strategies could be
two types: growth-oriented and efficiency-oriented. Growth-oriented strategies usu-
ally involve a new definition of core activities, either by increasing the dominance at
the existing markets or by diversifying into new markets or products. Turnaround can
be achieved through the strategies based on entrepreneurial reconfiguration of busi-
ness assets (Hambrick, Schecter, 1983; Pearce, Robbins, 1993). On the other hand,
efficiency-oriented strategies focus on reducing organizational scope or size and
emphasize cuts in unproductive and unprofitable parts of business to increase effi-
ciency. Efficiency-oriented strategies are primarily intended to stabilize firms' finan-
cial condition, and usually comprise a combination of cost cutting and asset reducing
activities (Hofer, 1980; Hambrick, Schecter, 1983).
2.2. Interactive effects of turnaround strategy and firm-specific factor on turn-
around performance. Larger firms are more likely to have complex procedures and
structure, and less likely to change, while smaller firms are more flexible and likely to
change (Barker, Duhaime, 1997). On the other hand, larger firms have more
resources and market power (Porter, 1980), expanding their strategic options and
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allowing them overcome market barriers that small firms could not easily conquer
(Barker, Duhaime, 1997). These researches demonstrate an equivocal relationship
between firm size and capacity to implement change. Rajagopalan and Spreitzer
(1996) argued that the equivocal effect for firm size can be attributed to different
strategic changes and organizational factors.
Love and Nohria (2005) found that large manufacturing firms could improve their
performance through the downsizing strategy in response to high slack. However, for
small manufacturing firms, Chowdhury and Lang (1996) suggested that a growth strat-
egy is a promising alternative to retrenchment. These prior researches indicate that
turnaround strategy and organization size are two contingent factors that simultane-
ously and interactively influence turnaround performance. To verify the interactive
effect of turnaround strategy and organization size, we hypothesize the following:
Hypothesis 1: Turnaround strategy and organization size interactively affect turn-
around performance.
Hofer (1980) argued that turnaround strategy selection depended on business
financial situation. According to Hofer, firms substantially below financial breakeven
may initiate asset reduction strategies; while firms near breakeven may implement
cost reduction strategies. Meanwhile, Rasheed (2005) investigated the influences on
firm choice between growth and retrenchment strategies, and found that firms were
likely to select a growth strategy when their perceptions of both resource availability
and past financial performance are high, and when both are low. These prior research
findings demonstrate that turnaround strategy and firm prior performance interac-
tively affect turnaround performance. To verify this interactive effect, we hypothesize
the following:
Hypothesis 2: Turnaround strategy and prior performance interactively affect turn-
around performance.
Hambrick and Schecter (1983) suggested that market share can affect strategic
choices and thus strategic success, and proposed that businesses with high market
share might rely on exerting their market power (Porter, 1980) by following entrepre-
neurial strategies, such as product/market refocusing. High market power allows
firms influence market environment and thus aggressively implement growth strate-
gies. However, O'Neil (1986) found that firms in weaker positions could achieve suc-
cess by adopting cutback strategies, rather than growth strategies. These prior
research findings show that firm market position might be a contingency that influ-
ences the relationship between turnaround strategy and turnaround performance. To
verify it, the following hypothesis is proposed:
Hypothesis 3: Turnaround strategy and market position interactively affect turn-
around performance.
3. Research methodology
3.1. Turnaround situation and sample. A turnaround situation was defined as at
least 3 consecutive years of return on investment below the risk-free rate of return
(Barker, Duhaime, 1997). The return rate for 6-month US Treasury notes was used as
a proxy for the risk-free rate. The sample firms were taken from the Standard and
Poor's COMPUSTAT North American database, and were limited to manufacturing
firms with NAICS codes ranging from 31 to 33. To be included in the sample, a firm
had to be actively traded at the US stock markets and had to have experienced a turn-
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around situation during the 15-year study period (fiscal years 1992–2006). Data after
2006 were not included to avoid the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) influencing the
results. GFC was triggered by the complex problems in the US banking system in
2008, as well as the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007. The number of firms that
match turnaround situation is 251. However, firms with extensive missing data were
removed, leaving the final sample of 164 firms.
3.2. Measurement of variables. In previous literature investigating turnaround
strategies, the research methods used are generally case studies (e.g., Schendel et al.,
1976; Hofer, 1980) and questionnaire surveys (e.g., Rasheed, 2005; Zhou et al.,
2006), which may be unsuitable for application here. Instead, this study adopted a
new method to measure turnaround strategies. The efficiency-oriented strategy was
assessed by observing the average fluctuation rate of "selling, general, and adminis-
trative expenses" during a three-year period following the third year of the turnaround
situation. Meanwhile, the growth-oriented strategy was measured by observing the
average fluctuation rate of sales per employee during a three-year period following the
third year of the turnaround situation. The higher the negative average fluctuation
rate of operating expenses is, the more efficiency-oriented the firm was. Meanwhile,
firm growth orientation increased with the positive average fluctuation rate of sales
per employee.
Turnaround performance was measured by the average return on investment
(ROI) and average return on assets (ROA) during a four-year period following the third
year of the turnaround situation (Barker, Duhaime, 1997; Zhou et al., 2006). As sug-
gested by Pearce and Robbins (1993), market performance measure of the troubled firm
should also be included. Accordingly, average market share growth rate (MSGR) is used
to measure market performance for turnaround outcome, also using a four-year period
following the third year of the turnaround situation. Firm size was measured as total
assets in the year prior to implementation of turnaround strategy (Kelly, Amburgey,
1991). Prior performance was measured as the average ROA during the four-year peri-
od before firms experienced turnaround (Hoffman et al., 2000). The common measures
of market position are market share (Hambrick, Schecter, 1983). Market position was
measured as sample firm sales divided by total sales for firms with the same NAICS
industry subsector code, measured in the year before implementation of the turnaround
strategy. Table 1 summarizes the measurements on research variables.
Table 1. Measurement of research variables, developed by the authors
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Research
variables
Measurement Y-4 Y-3 Y-2 Y-1 Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Turnaround
situation
ROI below the risk-free rat e
of return, from Y0 to Y2 year
• • •
Turnaround
Strategy
Growth-oriented, efficiency-
oriented, from Y3 to Y5 year
• • •
Firm size Total asset in Y2 year •
Prior
performance
Average ROA, from Y-4 to Y-
1 year
• • • •
Market
position
Market share in Y2 year •
Turnaround
performance
Average ROI, ROA, MSGR,
from Y3 to Y6 year
• • • •
*Y0 is the first year of turnaround situation.
4. Analysis and results
Hierarchical regression was used to test the interactive effect of turnaround strat-
egy and firm-specific factor on turnaround performance, with a mean-centering pro-
cedure for the firm-specific and strategic variables to minimize multicollinearity.
Table 2 lists the results.
Table 2. Results of the hierarchical regression analysis, developed by the authors
The first step entered the main effects of firm-specific factors, which together
explained a significant share of the variance in performance (Model 1: R
2
= 0.130,
p < 0.001; Model 4: R
2
= 0.172, p < 0.001; Model 7: R
2
= 0.049, p < 0.10). The
second step entered the main effects of the firm-specific factor and turnaround strat-
egy, which also together significantly explained the variance (Models 2, 5, 8).
In the third step, interaction terms were entered to test the contingency hypothe-
ses. This addition increased the explained variance in ROI performance (Model 3:
?R
2
= 0.143, p < 0.001), ROA performance (Model 6: ?R
2
= 0.084, p < 0.05), and
MSGR performance (Model 9: ?R
2
= 0.104, p < 0.01).
First, the interaction between growth-oriented strategy and firm size significant-
ly and negatively affected both ROI performance (Model 3: ? = -0.236, p < 0.01)
and ROA performance (Model 6: ? = -0.222, p < 0.05). Hypothesis1, proposing the
interaction effect of turnaround strategy and firm size on turnaround performance,
was thus supported.
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ROI performance ROA performance MSGR performance
Model
1
Model
2
Model
3
Model
4
Model
5
Model
6
Model
7
Model
8
Model
9
Independent
variables
Firm-specific
factor
Size . 016 .012 -.030 . 101 . 100 .053 -. 090 -.091 -. 072
Prior
performance
(PP)
. 338*** .347*** . 269** . 384*** . 383*** .347*** -.195* -. 182* -. 193*
Market
position (MP)
. 107 .101 . 105 . 078 . 082 .078 -. 002 -.024 -. 118
Turnaround
strategy
Efficiency-
orient ed (EO)
.029 . 056 . 053 .083 -. 218* -. 287**
Growt h-
orient ed (GO)
-. 077 -.031 . 014 .037 -.144 -. 285*
Int eraction
terms
EO × Size . 036 -. 047 -. 059
GO × Size -.236** -. 222* . 094
EO × PP -.054 -. 096 . 261*
GO × PP -.232* -. 105 -. 046
EO × MP -.012 -. 046 . 153
GO × MP . 032 .038 -. 310**
R
2
. 130*** .138*** . 281*** . 172*** . 175*** .259*** . 049† . 097* . 201**
ÄR
2
. 130*** .008 . 143*** . 172*** . 003 . 084* . 091† . 048* . 104**
a
Standardized coefficients are report ed. ***p < 0. 001, ** p < 0. 01, * p < 0. 05, † p < 0. 10
Furthermore, the interaction between efficiency-oriented strategy and prior per-
formance positively affected MSGR performance (Model 9: ? = 0.261, p < 0.05).
Additionally, the interaction between growth-oriented strategy and prior perform-
ance had a significant and negative effect on ROI performance (Model 3: ? = -0.232,
p < 0.05). Accordingly, Hypothesis 2, stipulating that turnaround strategy and prior
performance interactively affect turnaround performance, was supported.
Finally, the interaction between growth-oriented strategy and market position
significantly and negatively affected MSGR performance (Model 9: ? = -0.310,
p < 0.01). Hypothesis 3, proposing an interaction effect of turnaround strategy and
market position on turnaround performance, was thus supported.
5. Discussion
5.1. Discussion of results. Testing the main effects of firm-specific factor and
turnaround strategy on turnaround performance, only prior performance was posi-
tively related to both ROI performance (Model 2: ? = 0.347, p < 0.001) and ROA
performance (Model 5, ? = 0.383, p < 0.001). This result is similar to the finding of
Hoffman et al. (2000), indicating that financial resources are an important part of
firm resource profile to achieve turnaround success. This study failed to find a signif-
icant impact of turnaround strategy on both ROI performance (Model2) and ROA
performance (Model5), whereas both efficiency-oriented strategy and growth-ori-
ented strategy were negatively related to MSGR performance (Model8). These find-
ings showed that simply adopting an efficiency-oriented or a growth-oriented strate-
gy wouldn't be effective in improving turnaround performance for general unspecified
firms in a turnaround situation. In some respects, this result seems close to the find-
ings of Morrow et al. (2007). Morrow et al. (2007) noted that simply taking a strate-
gic action, regardless its value, either does not affect or negatively affects the recovery
performance.
Accordingly, this study proposed including firm-specific factors in forming a
turnaround strategy to maximize the value of the adopted strategy. The empirical
results identified certain interactive effects of turnaround strategy and firm-specific
factor on turnaround performance.
1) First, this empirical finding indicated that the interaction between growth-
oriented strategy and firm size negatively affected profitability turnaround perform-
ances. This shows that, among smaller firms, making greater use of a growth-orient-
ed strategy resulted in higher profitability turnaround performance. This result
appears consistent with the finding reported by Chowdhury and Lang (1996).
Chowdhury and Lang (1996) suggested that small manufacturing firms experiencing
declining performance could consider growth strategies rather than retrenchment. To
achieve successful turnaround, firms may need to change their organizational proce-
dures and structures, to match the implementation of growth strategy. Meanwhile,
smaller firms are more flexible and likely to change as a result of turnaround attempts
(Barker, Duhaime, 1997).
2) Second, the empirical result identified the interaction between efficiency-
oriented strategy and prior performance as positively affecting turnaround market-
based performance. This means that, among firms with better prior performances, the
increased use of an efficiency-oriented strategy improved market-based turnaround
performance. Financial resources are important to firm resource profile, which help
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support firm strategic planning for successful turnaround (Hoffman et al., 2000).
Adopting efficiency-oriented strategies can improve manufacturing and operational
efficiency. Meanwhile, sufficient financial resources allow a firm further invest in
improving cost infrastructure, for example, replacing old equipments to enhance pro-
ductivity. Combining an efficiency-oriented strategy with sufficient financial
resources, a firm can effectively implement the cost leadership strategy (Porter, 1980)
to become a low cost manufacturer relative to its competitors, and thus increase its
market share.
3) Furthermore, the empirical result indicated that the interaction between
growth-oriented strategy and prior performance negatively affected profitability turn-
around performance. This means that, among firms with worse prior performances,
adopting a growth-oriented strategy enhanced profitability turnaround performance.
This research finding seems consistent with the conclusion of Rasheed (2005).
Rasheed (2005) found that firms are likely to choose a growth strategy when they per-
ceive a low combination of past financial performance and resources availability. This
finding also supports the contention of Burgelman (1983) that deteriorating perform-
ance stimulates efforts to create new ventures. Zhou et al. (2007) suggested that poor
performance could widen the gap between managerial aspirations and achievement,
thereby providing a strong incentive for firms to seek new ways to improve.
Accordingly, firms experiencing decline should remain aggressive to choose growth
strategies even when prior performance and resources are poor.
4) Finally, the result identified that the interaction between growth strategy and
market position negatively affected market-based turnaround performance meas-
ured. Hambrick and Schecter (1983) suggested firms with stronger market positions
should leverage their advantage and adopt growth strategy. O'Neil (1986) proposed
that firms in weaker positions can achieve success through adopting efficiency strate-
gies. Meanwhile, this study showed a different result: for firms with weaker market
positions, greater use of a growth-oriented strategy increased market-based turn-
around performance. Robbins and Pearce (1992) found that firms tend to adopt
entrepreneurial turnaround strategies when they perceive their decline problems to be
primarily external in origin. Market position can reflect firm condition in external
market competition. Accordingly, weak market position can be regarded as the moti-
vating factor for a firm to take more aggressive actions to change its market position
and thus improve turnaround performance.
5.2. Managerial implications. This study provides empirical evidence that helps
to identify how turnaround strategy and firm-specific factor interactively affect turn-
around performance. The practical implications are that for the firms experiencing a
turnaround situation, the challenges in implementing their turnaround strategies on
improving firm performance are four-fold: (1) Smaller firms are portrayed as more
flexible to changes intended to achieve the success of turnaround attempts (Barker,
Duhaime, 1997). Accordingly, owners/managers of small firms should exploit the
flexibility of their firms and change organizational procedures and structures to fit the
implementation of a growth strategy and thus achieve higher profitability turnaround
performance. (2) Financial resources are important to firm resource profile, and are
helpful in supporting firm strategic plan for successful turnaround effort. For firms
with better historical performances, they should take advantage of sufficient financial
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resources to thoroughly improve their cost infrastructure and become low cost man-
ufacturers relative to their competitors, thus increasing market share. (3) Firms
should maintain an aggressive strategy choice when their prior performances and
resources are worse. Owners/managers of firms should convert the deteriorating per-
formance into a motivating force that stimulates efforts to recover from decline, and
undertake more entrepreneurial moves, thus improving the profitability turnaround
performance.(4) Firms experiencing a turnaround situation must endeavor to imple-
ment growth strategies to increase market share when their current market positions.
Market position reflects firm condition in external market competition. Accordingly,
firm owners/managers should treat low market position as the motivation for change
that promotes attempts to take more aggressive actions to recover from decline and
thus improve market position.
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